Η Ε.Σ.Σ.Π. προκηρύσσει το Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Παίδων - Κορασίδων του 2012. Οι αγώνες θα διεξάγονται κάθε Κυριακή το διάστημα 14/10 - 11/11.Οι δηλώσεις συμμετοχής γίνονται μέχρι την Δευτέρα 8 Οκτωβρίου 2012 και ώρα 21.00 εγγράφως στα...

Magnus Carlsen will also challenge "The World" for a game of chess

The book Secrets of a Grandpatzer (How to beat most people and computers at chess)  is a strange and wonderful bird of chess literature. First, it is literate, smoothly readable and consistently humorous, which we might agree is not universal in chess books. Second, it was written by Dr. Kenneth Mark Colby, a psychiatrist and [...]

The players maintained the status quo in the Sao Paulo/Bilbao Final Masters, but not for a want of trying. Fabiano Caruana had Viswanathan Anand on the ropes for a long time. The champion hasn't won a classical tournament in four and a half years(!!) and over the past year or two rarely defeats his peers and near-peers, but he's still a resilient defender. Maybe Caruana could have gotten more...

Round 9 of the FIDE Women Grand Prix in Ankara saw the key game of the whole Grand Prix Series between Humpy Koneru and Anna Muzyhcuk, the two players with the best chances for the overall second place behind Hou Yifan. Koneru, leader of the tournament before today’s round, chose a bit passive strategy and [...]

The Final of the 72nd Ukrainian Women Chess Championship is taking place from 24th September to 3rd October at the Students’ Palace of National University “Law Academy Yaroslav the Wise” in Kharkiv. The second round was quite opposite to the previous one, in the term of players’ fighting attitude. If yesterday we saw a lot [...]

Just a quick update on yesterday's action at the two super-events, the London Grand Prix and the Sao Paulo/Bilbao Final Masters. In London, all the games were drawn, so Gelfand maintains his half point lead over his closest competitors, Grischuk and Leko. As sometimes happens before a rest day, the players seemed ready for a full two-day weekend and played low energy chess, with the usual notable...

ΤΟΠΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣΙΑΣΕΝΩΣΗΣ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ Θέμα «ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΕΞΑΣΚΗΣΗ ΕΠΙ ΘΕΜΑΤΩΝ ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣΙΑΣ, ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣΙΑΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΩΝ ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΕΩΝ & ΚΛΗΡΩΣΕΩΝ – ΡΟΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ Τ.Ε.Δ...

ΤΟΠΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣΙΑΣΕΝΩΣΗΣ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ Θέμα «ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΗ ΕΞΑΣΚΗΣΗ ΕΠΙ ΘΕΜΑΤΩΝ ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣΙΑΣ, ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣΙΑΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΩΝ ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΕΩΝ & ΚΛΗΡΩΣΕΩΝ – ΡΟΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ Τ.Ε.Δ...

Russian Chess Federation, Tatarstan Ministry of Sport and Tatarstan Chess Federation are organizing the 34th Rashid Nezhmetdinov Cup from 25th September to 4th October in Kazan. The tournament is also marking the centenary of Nezhmetdinov’s birth. The tournament will be played over 9 rounds of Swiss system and is valid for the Russian Cup. Draw [...]

  On the other side of the world at the moment (Brazil to be exact) the Chess Masters Finals is happening. With a massive FIDE event happening in London at the moment it’s easy to forget what other chess is happening especially if we are sleeping while they are playing. I’ve never been to Brazil [...]

Ο Πολιτιστικός Σύλλογος της Δολίχης “Η Τριπολίτιδα” με τον Σκακιστικό Σύλλογο Ελασσόνας “Ο Πολυποίτης” συνδιοργανώνουν το 3ο Τουρνουά Σκάκι (rapid) το Σάββατο 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012. Τόπος: Αίθουσα “Τάκη Τσιόγκα”...

Λίγες εβδομάδες έχουν μείνει για να ξεκινήσει το δεύτερο Τουρνουά Σκάκι «Πύρρος». Ήδη 16 παίχτες έχουν δηλώσει συμμετοχή. Μπορείτε να δείτε τη λίστα των συμμετοχών πατώντας εδώ. Μπορείτε να δηλώσετε συμμετοχή...

After the surprising victory obtained yesterday by Fabiano Caruana over number 1 in the world rankings, the Italian continued his winning streak on day two of the Chess Grand Slam Masters Final after beating Sergey Karjakin, thereby placing himself at the top of the provisional leaderboard in Sao Paulo. Caruana’s lead has been favoured by [...]

Ένα ωραίο κουίζ με δυο φωτογραφίες που τράβηξε ο Βαγγέλης Βιδάλης σε ταξίδι του, και τον οποίο ευχαριστώ πολύ.  Το κτίριο  χτίστηκε το 1850 και ανακαινίστηκε-επεκτάθηκε το 1931. Μεταξύ των επισκεπτών του ήταν και οι Άρθουρ...