The General Madariaga Chess Federation and Beaches of Atlantida Argentina with the support of the Argentina Chess Federation and FIDE have organized the Magistral Apart Hotel Cariló Village on 23-29th October. The tournament was a 10-player round robin with the possibility of winning GM and IM norms. The average elo was 2412 points. International Masters [...]

Argentine Grandmaster Fernando Peralta won brilliantly the 4th Master Duchamp, which took place in the historic halls of the Argentine Chess Club as part of the Festival Marcel Duchamp 2012. Peralta totaled seven out of ten possible points, with 5 wins, 4 draws and only one defeat. The IV Magistral Duchamp reached FIDE’s Category XIV. [...]

The Four Nations Chess League started this weekend. This season I’m playing for Guildford and we had a good start, winning the first match 7-1 against Warwickshire Select and the second 6.5-1.5 against Barbican’s second team. In round one I had Black against IM Ameet Ghasi. Ameet is the same age as me and was [...]

As a side event of the upcoming London Chess Classic, English Grandmaster John Emms will be taking on all-comers at blitz chess in the foyer at Olympia on Saturday 1st December and Saturday 8th December between 1pm and 7pm. John Emms has twice captained the English team at Olympiads. As well as a top player, [...]

Το παρακάτω κείμενο στάλθηκε στο skakistiko από το Σπύρο Ιλαντζή υποψήφιο για το ΔΣ της ΕΣΟ και υπεύθυνο επικοινωνίας της “Κίνησης για την Αλλαγή”, e-m: ilandzis@ath.forthnet.gr, ilandzis@yahoo.com, τηλ. 697-2721507. Η Κίνηση για την Αλλαγή δεν έχει...

Ήταν μια κοπέλα που ο αδελφός μου ήθελε να την μάθει σκάκι. Αλλά επειδή το σπίτι μας ήταν πολύ μικρό, ήταν ένα δωμάτιο μόνο όλο όλο, στα Χανιά, μια μέρα βλέπω τους γονείς μου απέναντι από το σπίτι, να είναι με ομπρέλα, με...

The 10th Open International d’Echecs du Jura will take place on 16-18th November at the Sociét’halle in Moutier, Switzerland. The tournament will be played over 5 rounds of Swiss system with the Fischer time control 90′+30”. The entry fee is 70 CHF, while titled players can enroll for free. The prizes are CHF 1’500.-, 1’000.-, [...]

Once upon a time, nearly twenty years ago now, there was a boy who lived on an island. His name was Sam: the hero of my book Chess for Kids is named after him. He must have been six, getting on for seven, when I started teaching him: a couple of years younger than any [...]

The International chess tournament Golden Island Krk 2013 will be organized by the Chess club “Draga” Rijeka and Chess club “Krk” on 6-12th April, 2013, at the Hotel Malin in Malinska, Island Krk, Croatia. Tournament System: Swiss, FIDE variant, 9 rounds, 90 minutes + 30 sec increment for every move (from the beginning of the [...]

This is almost as big a "miracle" as Notre Dame's win. It's not that Anatoly Karpov has forgotten how to move the pieces or anything, but his salad days pretty much came to an end after the mid-90s, with a few nice results thrown in the early 2000s. At the age of 61 and semi-retired for over a decade, one wouldn't expect him to defeat Vassily Ivanchuk. I don't think Ivanchuk's best is better than...

What did I tell you! If the Notre Dame football team was a cat, it would have spent at least three of its nine lives surviving that game. Down 14 at the start of the fourth quarter and regularly shooting itself in the foot in that quarter and in overtime too, it put together enough good offense while holding very firm on defense to escape with a victory. If that doesn't teach them not to be...

The 5th Duncan Oxley Collegiate Tournament will be taking place on ICC on Sunday, November 4th. This is the individual online tournament that takes place every Fall. All the rounds will take place in one day. There will be 5 rounds and the time control will be 15 minutes, with a 5 second increment. The [...]

Alas, I was out earlier today and couldn't give a proper post before the game! Still, there's enough time for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to recover and beat the Pittsburgh Panthers. (They'd better! It would be insane to beat all the strong teams they've faced this year, only to throw away their national championship hopes against a good and solid but far from elite team like Pitt, especially...

Vizag Grandmasters International Open Chess Tournament was held from 25th October to 4th November at the Swarna Bharathi AC Indoor Stadium in Visakhapatnam, state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The tournament was played over 11 rounds of Swiss system and for the prize fund of 14,700 EUR. Grandmasters Enamul Hossain (Bandgladesh), B Adhiban (India) and Davit [...]

We are now in Sunningdale, England playing in the first weekend for the Four Nationals Chess League, otherwise known as the 4ncl. The Four Nations refer to England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (or maybe Northern Ireland) but there has never been a team from Ireland (ROI/Northern Ireland) or Scotland. Gawain is playing for Guildford 1 [...]