Έπειτα από τέσσερις γύρους, στην κορυφή της βαθμολογίας βλέπουμε τον Γ,. Παπαγεωργίου, με 4 στα 4!Ακολουθεί ένα τρενάκι ισόβαθμων παιχτών με τρεις πόντους το οποίο αποτελείται από τους: Γεωργιάδη Κ., Καίσαρη Α...

Valery Beim, How To Play Dynamic Chess (2004). Gambit Publications http://www.gambitbooks.com/books/dynchess.html Ένα βιβλίο που έχει αποσπάσει πολύ θετικές κριτικές, όπως άλλωστε και το Lessons in Chess Strategy του ίδιου συγγραφέα. Οι ευνοϊκές κριτικές, τόσο στο σκάκι όσο και σε...

The 50th National Premier Chess Championship was held from 1st to 14th October, 2012, in Kolkata. The Championship was organized by the Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy & Allsport Management, on behalf of All India Chess Federation and under the aegis of West Bengal Chess Adhoc Committee. The Championship was played under FIDE Laws of Chess [...]

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted an International Master norm round robin tournament from October 10th to October 14th, 2012. This tournament was the 22nd in its series and was held in Suite C855 of the California Market Center on 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles 90079. The tournament was organized by Ankit Gupta, FA, IO. The [...]

Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time being my son’s second so I thought I’d offer a few guidelines for the less experienced. I think I’m quite good at the job because my son likes me to go to tournaments with him. And he tends to do a bit better when I’m there. The [...]

For readers who weren’t aware of our history you can check out this article from 2009. The actual journalism quality was not fantastic as at times they misquoted us but in general it was all good publicity for chess. We were actually front page news for The Dominon which is the regional paper for Wellington, [...]

The Grand Slam Chess Masters Final was held in Sao Paulo and Bilbao on September 24-29 and October 8-13 as a six-player double round-robin event. After all three games of the last 10th round ended in draws, the last year winner Magnus Carlsen and Italian star Fabiano Caruana shared the first place with 17 points [...]

Videos and interviews from the first two rounds of the event

Defending champion of the Indonesia Open Chess Championship, GM Li Chao of China, is back for IOCC 2012 which is this year being held at the Sahid Hotel in Jakarta from 10-17 October. Although he is one of the favourites as well as the second seed, the 23-year old is quick to play down his [...]

Saturday was the second of the three days with double rounds in the Indonesia Open Chess Championship but there was little letup by the players with the majority of games going all the way. We now have a sole leader on 4.5/5 in China’s Yu Yangyi who beat the Russian GM Dimitri Bocharov with the [...]

9.1 Martens – Piket, Eindhoven 1993 Μια ωραία κίνηση του μαύρου που αποφασίζει αμέσως την έκβαση της παρτίδας. 9.2 Papuadzinski – Luoma, cor. 1989-90 Πώς κέρδισαν τα μαύρα; 9.3 Zehser – Iotov, cor. 1992 Ο μαύρος υπερέχει πολύ, και τελειώνει αμέσως την...

Iran’s long time No. 1 GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami is seeded sixteen in the Indonesia Open Chess Championship (IOCC) 2012 but the thirty second ranked Asian chessplayer (according to the FiDE website) does not believe that means anything in such a strong tournament. Currently this football fanatic is in 29th position but the target of [...]

You know what you call a close win? A win! Notre Dame and Stanford are similar teams: physical, excellent on defense with good running backs and young quarterbacks who are works in progress. Today, ND rose to the occasion and pulled out a squeaker with a goal-line stand in overtime. The result: ND is 6-0, with six victims to go, not counting the win in the bowl game. (Next week's victim: BYU.) As...

Όλα είναι έτοιμα για την αυριανή συνάντηση του τρίτου γύρου. Τα ρολόγια έχουν ρυθμιστεί, τα ταμπελάκια με τα ονόματα είναι έτοιμα και οι σκακιέρες στημένες. Ο Γύρος ξεκινάει στις 10:30! Καλή επιτυχία σε όλους! Στις...

The #7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish will whup the #17 Stanford Cardinal starting in about ten minutes; the festivities (at least that's what they'll be for Notre Dame fans!) can be seen on NBC. As usual, I offer a link to those interested in reading some pregame material.