CL και EUROPA LEAGUEΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ CHAMPIONS LEAGUEΣτο Τουρνουά CL έχουν δικαίωμα συμμετοχής σκακιστές με Διεθνές Ελο. Το παράβολο συμμετοχής ορίζεται στα 15 ευρώ. ΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ EUROPALEAGUEΣτο τουρνουά EUROPALEAGUE...

Τρόπος διεξαγωγής Champions LeagueΣΕΝΑΡΙΟ 1 Α ΦΑΣΗΑν οι σκακιστές που δηλώσουν συμμετοχή είναι  32 τότε σχηματίζονται 4 όμιλοι των τεσσάρων σκακιστών. Οι 32 σκακιστές θα είναι χωρισμένοι σε 4 γρουπ δυναμικότητας  ανάλογα...

The 75th Russian Championship went to a six way Rapid play off as Peter Svidler supplanted Alexnader Grischuk as a joint leader by defeating him with black in their last round game.

The 75th Russian Championship went to a six way Rapid play off as Peter Svidler supplanted Alexnader Grischuk as a joint leader by defeating him with black in their last round game.

The 75th Russian Championship was perfectly poised with two to play at Moscow as six of the ten players shared the lead on 4/7.

Svetozar Gligoric has died in his home city of Belgrade at the age of 89 as a result of a stroke. Gligoric was a three time World Championship Candidate in 1953, 1959 and 1968 but did find these events rather tough going. His professional career was delayed by the war but he became an IM in 1950, GM in 1953. A 12 time national champion he won many international tournaments remaining...

The Lund Chess Academy supports young players to develop their chess talent in southern Sweden. 8 players are currently being supported. The auction should be of interest to bibliophiles. Steve Giddins gives some background and you can read about the Ken Whyld Association an association that brings together the information scattered worldwide from collectors of chess literature. ChessLund...

News comes of the passing of one of the world's greatest players of the post-WWII era, the Yugoslav/Serbian GM Svetozar Gligoric. Gligoric won the Yugoslavian championship 12 times and was a world championship candidate on three occasions (1953, 1959 and 1968). He was a brilliant theoretician who made serious contributions to the Nimzo-Indian, the Sicilian and the King's Indian (in the latter an...

Με μεγάλη επιτυχία ολοκληρώθηκε το 2ο Ανοιχτό Καλοκαιρινό Τουρνουά Σκάκι “Καστοριά 2012″ που διοργάνωσε ο Σκακιστικός Σύλλογος Καστοριάς στο διάστημα από 4 έως 12 Αυγούστου 2012. Οι αγώνες, που φιλοξενήθηκαν από το...

Η Ε.Σ.Σ.Π. προκηρύσσει το Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Β' Εθνικής για το 2012. Προϋπόθεση διεξαγωγής του Πρωταθλήματος είναι η συμμετοχή 4 τουλάχιστον ομάδων.Οι αγώνες θα διεξάγονται κάθε Κυριακή και ώρα 11.00 στις έδρες των...

H ΕΣΣΠ τιμώντας την μνήμη του αξέχαστου Νίκου Καραπάνου διοργανώνει τουρνουά ράπιντ με διεθνή αξιολόγηση στις 7, 8 και 9 Σεπτεμβρίου στο ξενοδοχείο Patra Palace στο κέντρο της Πάτρας. Τα έσοδα από τα παράβολα θα διατεθούν...

This year’s World Junior Chess Championship continues to amaze with quality games and fighting spirit. A fierce battle for first place and the medals is going on in the boys section. So far the WJCC has had only two players in sole first – GM Ipatov (round 6 and round 7) and GM Rapport (round [...]

The Sommer-Open 2012 was held on 6-10th August at the Crystal Hall of Chess Center LA8, Lichtentaler Allee 8, D-76530 Baden-Baden, Germany. The Open A was available for all players while Open B was reserved for the players rated U1700 DWZ. The playing system in both groups was 7 round Swiss, with time control 40 [...]

The 11th Annual Manhattan Open will be held from August 17-19, 2012, at the New Yorker Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave at 34th St. across from Penn Station, New York, NY. The event has a $35,000 prize fund, unconditionally guaranteed. The event has 10 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300, [...]

Here’s a nice Youtube video featuring Efim Geller. It touches on one of the great paradoxes of the so-called Soviet School of Chess, which I personally think was just propaganda rather than a real entity. People became good at chess in the USSR thanks to powerful incentives, much higher status and a better life than [...]