This event will take place from Friday 17 August to Monday 20 August 2012. Competitors will arrive on 16 August and depart on 21 August (five nights’ stay). The event will be run under the auspices of the English Chess Federation. The prize fund total is £7,500. There are main two categories: a) open to [...]

The rounds are getting ever-bloodier at Dortmund, as round 3 saw four decisive games out of five. Even the one and only draw, between Sergey Karjakin and Arkadij Naiditisch, went 59 moves before Karjakin admitted that Naiditsch's Berlin "Wall" could not be breached. Meanwhile, "Mr. Dortmund", Vladimir Kramik, continued on his merrily successful way, defeating Mateusz Bartel in a nice technical...

Ξεκίνησε το τουρνουά του Κράμνικ, εεεχμ του Dortmund ήθελα να πω, με αρκετές ισχυρές συμμετοχές. Παίζει ο Κράμνικ, ο άνθρωπος που έχει κερδίσει το συγκεκριμένο τουρνουά πιο πολλές φορές από κάθε άλλον παίχτη, ο Karjakin, Caruana, Leko...

Vassily Ivanchuk won again in round 2 of the ACP Golden Classic, defeating Le Quang Liem with the black pieces. Krishnan Sasikiran also won with Black, against Baadur Jobava, and Emil Sutovsky drew with White against his sometime employer Gata Kamsky. (Anna Muzychuk had the bye.) Thus the leaders are Ivanchuk with 2/2, Kamsky with 1.5/2 and Muzychuk with 1/1.

For the 22nd time in a row the town of Jyväskylä organised the most important chess tournament of its country, the Heart of Finland Open. The 9-round swiss event was held from 9th to 15th July, attracting 145 participants from seven countries, including 8 Grandmasters and 7 International Masters. The dates coincided with the town’s [...]

The New Zealand Junior Chess Championships were held from 2nd July to 7th July at St. Paul’s School, Auckland. The tournament was organised by Waitakere Chess Club. The Championships included a rapid tournament conducted on the first day in which forty nine players from across New Zealand participated. The title for the NZ Junior Rapid [...]

The International Championship of Slovakia took place from 7th to 15th July 2012 in Banská Štiavnica for the third year in succession. The Championship was managed by SSZ, Town and SK Banska Stiavnica, and was played as Open A and Open B. The playing venue was the Cultural and public centre, Street Kammerhofská 1, Banská [...]

Μπυραρία σε λαϊκή γειτονιά της Κολωνίας με όνομα πολύ οικείο για τους σκακιστές. Grünfeld στα γερμανικά μπορεί να σημαίνει “πράσινο τετράγωνο” , αλλά για το σκάκι η λέξη είναι ταυτισμένη με την “άμυνα...

Θεσμός τείνει να γίνει ο Διαγωνισμός Λύσης Προβλημάτων, στο πλαίσιο των εκδηλώσεων «Ίκαρος». Τον φετινό Διαγωνισμό, με προβλήματα δύο και τεσσάρων κινήσεων, επιμελήθηκε ο Δημήτρης Σκυριανόγλου. Πρώτευσε με άνεση ο...

Συνεργασία του Βασίλη Τσαρουχά Μια από τις πλέον μαζικές εκδηλώσεις της ΕΣΟ έχει τελειώσει και παραθέτοντας κάποια στατιστικά στοιχεία θα θέσω παράλληλα και κάποιους εύλογους προβληματισμούς. Συμμετοχές Αγόρια:  κ8...

An interesting postscript to Vishwanathan Anand’s recent lecture is this article describing some recent research on autistic traits and prodigies. The memory aspect certainly rings true, most Grandmasters have a phenomenal memory for chess games, for example Lev Psakhis once knew all of Bobby Fischer’s games by heart. As far as the autism angle is [...]

The 2nd round of the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting on Saturday saw a number of surprises. Vladimir Kramnik shocked everyone including no doubt his opponent Jan Gustafsson by playing the King's Indian Defence as black. Known as a killer of the opening as white he produced a spectacular effort with one blow after another following his excellent 17...Nc6. There has been no more active player in the elite...

The 2nd round of the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting on Saturday saw a number of surprises. Vladimir Kramnik shocked everyone including no doubt his opponent Jan Gustafsson by playing the King's Indian Defence as black. Known as a killer of the opening as white he produced a spectacular effort with one blow after another following his excellent 17...Nc6. There has been no more active player in the elite...

The ACP Golden Chess Classic started with three decisive games but no adjournments in the first round on 14th July 2012. Gata Kamsky seemed to catch out Le Quang Liem out in the opening and was already winning by move 22 and he finished things quickly. Vassily Ivanchuk won as white against Baadur Jobava in a King's Indian where all the minor pieces came off but Ivanchuk won the heavy...

The ACP Golden Chess Classic started with three decisive games but no adjournments in the first round on 14th July 2012. Gata Kamsky seemed to catch out Le Quang Liem out in the opening and was already winning by move 22 and he finished things quickly. Vassily Ivanchuk won as white against Baadur Jobava in a King's Indian where all the minor pieces came off but Ivanchuk won the heavy...