My second video of the series “How to Play Queen vs Two Rooks Endgame?” is presented below. In this second video Grandmaster Tomasz Markowski shows us how to take advantage of the favorable circumstances for the rooks in this type of endgame to finally beat Grandmaster Jacek Gdanski. The game was played in the fifth [...]

A continuación presento mi segundo video de la serie “¿Cómo Jugar los Finales de Dama contra Dos Torres?”. En este segundo video, el Gran Maestro Tomasz Markowski nos muestra cómo aprovechar las circunstancias favorables para las torres en este tipo de finales para terminar imponiéndose contra el Gran Maestro Jacek Gdanski. La partida se jugó [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the World Chess Olympiad 2012 held in Istanbul, Turkey, on its DD Sports Channel. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 29th Oct 2012 from 23:00 hrs IST / 18:30 [...]

The 40th Carroll Capps Memorial will be held on 3-4th November as a 6-round Swiss at the Chess Club Mechanics Institute, 57 Post St., San Francisco. Carroll Mather Capps (1917-1971) was an American science fiction author. He was also a long-time benefactor of San Francisco chess. He was a former president of the San Francisco [...]

Την Παρασκευή 9 Νοεμβρίου στις 18:00μ.μ. ξεκινάει το τουρνουά Κάππα-63, με εθνική και διεθνή αξιολόγηση έλο. Θα είναι ανοιχτό τουρνουά με ελβετικό σύστημα επτά γύρων και παράβολο 15 ευρώ. Οι αγώνες θα συνεχιστούν με το εξής...

Δήλωση του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου της 15ης Μαρτίου 2012 που καλεί την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή και τα κράτη μέλη να ενθαρρύνουν την καθιέρωση του προγράμματος «Σκάκι στο σχολείο» στα εκπαιδευτικά συστήματα των κρατών μελών...

The second cycle of the Unive Crown Group in Hoogeveen got underway today, and round 4 just finished. In the first cycle Hikaru Nakamura defeated Anish Giri in their game (as he had in the London Grand Prix), but this time Giri "held" with White. It was a pretty interesting Catalan, and those of you shopping for an anti-Catalan line with Black may wish to consider Nakamura's approach. Meanwhile...

As several readers have pointed out, the United States Chess League had a (possible) cheating incident several days ago. As in the Bundesliga case this past weekend, there wasn't direct proof; indeed, the USCL announcement states that the investigators did not find compelling evidence of cheating. Still, the circumstantial evidence mattered, and there was a (severe) rules breach in any...

GM Le Quang Liem, SPICE Cup 2011 champion, 2-time winner of the Aeroflot Open, the #1 player in Vietnam, and former #1 junior in the world, will join the SPICE program at Webster University in St. Louis in the Fall of 2013. VietNamNet Bridge – Grandmaster Le Quang Liem has been awarded a four-year scholarship [...]

Το μέλος του Δ.Σ της ΕΣΣΠ και εκπαιδευτικός κ. Νικόλας Μακροδήμος ετοίμασε ένα πολύ όμορφο βίντεο που περιγράφει μέσα σε δύο λεπτά τους κύριους λόγους για τους οποίους αξίζει κάποιος να ασχοληθεί με το σκάκι. Σκοπός του...

Για το Ομαδικό Κύπελλο "Σπύρος Μπίκος" 2012 -με στόχο τη μεγαλύτερη συμμετοχή ομάδων στον Α' όμιλο- τροποποιείται η αρχική προκήρυξη ως εξής: 5.2.    Στον Α΄ όμιλο, οι αγωνιζόμενοι στις ΤΡΕΙΣ (3) πρώτες σκακιέρες πρέπει να...

Those of you who don’t grok the reference to Gurdjieff, seriously consider getting the book. But back to the precise subject at hand: Tim Hanke published his fascinating Conversations With Rustam  a couple of days ago, and the piece reminded me of my own encounters with NMs, FMs, IMs and GMs, though I have never [...]

The 16th Corsican Circuit, including the Corsica Masters, Orange Blitz and BNP Paribas Youth Trophy, will take place on 27-31st October in Bastia and Ajaccio. This year the Corsican Circuit is part of the FFE Grand Prix Final. The Festival will start on Saturday, 27th, at 11h with the 60-player simul by Grandmasters Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, [...]

The Bahamas International and Amateur will take place on 24-28th October at the Wyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace Casino, West Bay Street, Cable Beach, Nassau, Bahamas. All sections are USCF rated. The International Section is also FIDE rated and it is possible to win IM & GM norms. The total prize fund is $12,000 [...]

New Zealand company e+books has brought a new dimension to electronic chess publishing with its unique interactive books for the Apple iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. e+books released its first books late last year, including an enhanced version of Jeremy Silman’s popular Silman’s Complete Endgame Course, which has been updated to include more than ninety [...]