One of the strongest Grandmasters of the world, the triumph participant of the Moscow Blitz Championship Alexander Morozevich answered the questions of the Moscow Chess Federation official site editor Eldar Muhametov. Muhametov: Alexander, my congratulations with your victory. What impressions do you have after the Championship? Morozevich: First of all this tournament is a holiday [...]

“Draw offer” issue proposal by Susan Polgar

The 3rd Oliver González Memorial is taking place on 1-9th September at the “Daóiz y Velarde” Sport Pavilion in downtown Madrid, Spain. 98 players from 13 countries compete in Group A and 144 compete in Group B (U2100 elo). There are 8 Grandmasters, 13 International Masters and 21 FIDE Masters in the field. Three players [...]

4.1 Furtner – Bian, USA 2008 Μια πολύ εύκολη θέση για αρχή, τα επόμενα διαγράμματα προέρχονται από παρτίδες  GM και περιέχουν αρκετά δυσκολότερες ιδέες. Η 10χρονη που παίζει με τα μαύρα επέλεξε το 1…Πγ3? και έχασε την ευκαιρία να...

Another rout on the way to the national championship! 2012 Record so far: 2-0. (10 victims to go, plus the bowl game.) Next week's victim: Michigan State (road game) And now, for your celebratory pleasure:

It's a late summer Saturday, and so that means...right! - time for another Notre Dame football victory! This week's victim will be the Purdue Boilermakers, and the thrashing will start in about 30 minutes, at 3:30 ET. The carnage will be shown on NBC, and to whet your appetite there's good pre-game material on the ND Nation site. Enjoy! (With apologies to Purdue fans.)

The FIDE General Assembly has awarded the 2016 World Chess Olympiad to the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. The other two application by Albena (Bulgaria) and Tallin (Estonia) did not make presentations before the voting and were not approved. The Chess Federation of Azerbaijan came up with a rich offer to host the 2016 Chess Olympiad [...]

Pakistan women team may not be among top 100 rated chess playing nations. But they made their mark on the annuals of Chess Olympiad when mother daughter pair of Ghazala Shabbir and Fatima Shabbir made their debut here at Expo Centre in Turkey. 38-year-old Karachi-born Ghazala finished third behind National Champion Zenobia Wasif and runner [...]

Μια παρέα νεαρών κουβανών παίζει σκάκι στο Πάρκο Κεσπέδες που βρίσκεται στη Σαντιάγο δε Κούμπα, τη δεύτερη μεγαλύτερη πόλη του νησιού. Στο μεταξύ, στις 13 Αυγούστου, με διακριτικότητα και απλά μηνύματα από τους φίλους...

Karlovich: Let me introduce you our new guest of the press conference, first board of the Uzbekistan team, Ex World Chess Championship who today outplayed another Ex World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria quite quickly. Tell us about today’s game. What actually happened? Kasimdzhanov: Basically Topalov is an extremely strong player. I did not [...]

Πρόγραμμα μαθημάτωνΣ.Ι.Σ. 2012-2013Ο Σύλλογος Ιωαννιτών Σκακιστών ανακοινώνει το πρόγραμμα μαθημάτων της νέας χρονιάς. Καθημερινά λοιπόν στην οδό Δωδώνης 21 (στην στοά και στον ημιώροφο) μπορείτε να μας επισκεφθείτε από...

Απορώ πόσοι ακόμη είναι οι φανατικοί της Ινδικής άμυνας του βασιλιά (βλέπετε διάγραμμα) όταν βλέπουν το ίνδαλμα τους, τον T. Radjabov, να καταστρέφεται σε ένα μονόπλευρο παιχνίδι.             Wojtaszek –...

Ποιος θα μπορούσε να αναμένει ένα μεγαλύτερο φινάλε από αυτό που συμβαίνει τώρα στην Ολυμπιάδα σκακιού; Μετά το δέκατο γύρω η Κίνα, η Αρμενία και η Ρωσία βρίσκονται στη κορυφή της βαθμολογίας με 8 νίκες, μία ισοπαλία και...

The 40th Chess Olympiad Istanbul Round 10 took place on Friday 7th September 2012. After 10 rounds 1st China, 2nd Armenia and 3rd Russia are all tied on 17 points. In the final round UKR-CHN, HUN-ARM, RUS-GER, POL-USA. England play the Czech Republic. Ukraine is a very tough assignment for the leaders so it is all to play for in these pairings. I don't understand the tie-breaks and I'm sure I'm...

It's not the game of the day in my opinion, as its significance for the medal standings at the Olympiad was nil, but Rustam Kasimdzhanov's quick and overpowering win over Veselin Topalov was an impressive and noteworthy game. So consider it noted, and have a look at IM Andrew Martin's quick presentation (it's mostly a theoretical overview of the variation, with bonus coverage of a game...