On 14th July during the meeting of the TCF board current President of TCF Ali Nihat Yazici announced that he is not going to be a candidate in the new elections of TCF President. “I was a President of TCF for 12 years and I believe it’s time to propose a new candidate for this [...]

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted an International Master norm round robin tournament from July 11th to July 15th, 2012. This tournament was the 20th 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 [...]

St. Louis, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Webster University will host the Ninth Annual Susan Polgar Girls’ Invitational, the most prestigious all-girls chess event in the United States, July 22 through July 27. The tournament, which is a partnership between the Susan Polgar Foundation and Webster University, will showcase some of the top young (under [...]

"Horwitz bishops", as many of you probably know, refer to the same player's bishops when they're on adjacent diagonals, generally when they're pointing at the enemy king. (For example, White bishops on b2 and c4 or b2 and d3 pointing at Black's king on the kingside.) They can be terrifically powerful, and I've culled some examples here (most but not all well-known) for your edification and...

After seven rounds İstanbul Beşiktaş Jimnastik Club became the sole leader of the Turkish Isbank Chess League with fourteen points. The team won all seven matches. The toughest match happened in the seventh round when Besiktas played against Ankara Gazi University Sport Club and won with minimal score 5,5:4,5. The nearest chaser is another team [...]

We've been keeping a slight eye on this strong but unrated event. Round 3 today saw Vassily Ivanchuk take his first draw - a quick one with White against Emil Sutovsky. Le Quang Liem got on the scoreboard, defeating Krishnan Sasikiran on the black side of a Semi-Slav, and Anna Muzychuk's game with Baadur Jobava finished with a...well, who knows what it finished with; it was adjourned! There won't...

A post-mortem in two parts, between Garry Kasparov and Jonathan Speelman, after a rapid game played in London in 1989. (Part 1 is here, part 2 here.) It's an interesting, somewhat weird game (characteristic of a lot of Speelman's games!), and fun to have a look back to when Kasparov was on top and Speelman - a two-time Candidate and #4 in the world at the start of the year - was playing some of...

Today's fourth round at Dortmund wasn't as interesting as its predecessors, but although all five games were drawn there were some interesting moments. The game of the day, by a large margin, was the wild Winawer between Peter Leko and Fabiano Caruana. Leko was doing a beautiful job of negotiating the complications, but missed his chance on move 31: 31.Ba6+ Kd8 32.Qf1 would have won on the spot...

Like Viktor Korchnoi in his pomp, Vladimir Kramnik has been the scourge of King's Indian players for many a year now. I readily recall him dismantling Kasparov's KID at the PCA Intel Grand Prix in 1994, held at the Kremlin and the crowd giving him a standing ovation. Just last month we saw him dismantle Grischuk's defences in just 29 moves. I had always thought there was about as much...

Like Viktor Korchnoi in his pomp, Vladimir Kramnik has been the scourge of King's Indian players for many a year now. I readily recall him dismantling Kasparov's KID at the PCA Intel Grand Prix in 1994, held at the Kremlin and the crowd giving him a standing ovation. Just last month we saw him dismantle Grischuk's defences in just 29 moves. I had always thought there was about as much...

The FIDE Grand Prix series 2012-13 starts in London 20th September with Teimour Rajdabov, Hikaru Nakamura and Veselin Topalov as the top seeds. As expected Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand are not in the series but most of the rest of the leading players are. After London Tashkent in November 2012, Lisbon April 2013, Madrid May 2013, Berlin July 2013 and Paris...

(φωτ. η παγκόσμια πρωταθλήτρια Χου Γιφάν). Αρχίζει στις 2 το μεσημέρι ώρα Ελλάδας το Γκραν Πρι Γυναικών της FIDE (5ο τουρνουά) στο θέρετρο Γερμούκ της Αρμενίας. Συμμετέχουν: Χου Γιφάν, Κονερού, Ζάο Ξου, Λάχνο, Ζου Βενζούν, Ν...

FIDE Women Grand Prix will take place in Jermuk 16-28 July, 2012. Participants will be Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru, Zhao Xue, Kateryna Lahno, Ju Wenjun, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Ruan Lufei, Elina Danielian, Nino Khurtsidze, Lilit Mkrtchian, Munguntuul Batkhuyag, and Ekaterina Kovalevskaya. This is the fifth leg in the Women Grand Prix 2012-2013. The first leg in [...]

Live games with analyis

Για τέταρτη συνεχόμενη φορά ο Σκακιστικός Σύλλογος της Πρέβεζας οργανώνει εκδηλώσεις με κύριο σύνθημα «Ελάτε να παίξουμε Σκάκι»!            Ο φετινός προσκεκλημένος ήταν ο κ. Στέλιος Χαλκιάς...