The 7th Tal Memorial resumes after Friday's rest day with almost every game having a role in the fight for the event. Leaders Alexander Morozevich and Vladimir Kramnik both have black against tail-enders and both will be ambitious to win. Hikaru Nakamura against Magnus Carlsen will see both players wanting to win. Radjabov-Caruana sees two players tied for 3rd half a point off the lead. Round...

Open Teplice 2012 is being organized by the SK Teplice on 16-24th June at the House of Culture in Teplice, Czech Republic. The 9-round Swiss tournament features 139 players and among them 12 Grandmasters. The players cannot agree on a draw before the 30th move. The total prize fund is 4200 EUR with 1200 EUR [...]

The Croatian Chess Federation and Chess Club “Pula” held the 26th International Open Tournament Pula 2012 from 9th to 16th June at the Hotel Histria in Pula, Croatia. 294 players from 24 federations competed in the 9-rounds Swiss event. GM Ognjen Jovanic won the tournament by collecting an impressive sum of 8 points and leaving [...]

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Δεν θα μπορούσε να μην τραβήξει τα φώτα της δημοσιότητας ένα ματς ανάμεσα σε δύο ισχυρούς τοπικούς σκακιστές. Αγωνίζονται οι M. Pappas με ΕΛΟ 1928 και ο κ. G. Vovas με ΕΛΟ 1708.            Γράφω τα ονόματά...

The highest rated players started showing consistency in the round 4 of the European School Chess Championship 2012. In the U17 group CM Cankut Emiroglu and Agil Pirverdiyev are sharing now the lead with 3,5/4, a full point ahead of competition. The U15 section is in a similar situation with CM Sanal Vahap and FM [...]

Here’s a question that many busy chess players might be interested in, how to maximize use of one’s study time. The temptation of course is to want to do ‘more’ as efficiently as possible, for example a worthy goal might seem to be to read more books on chess. But is this the right way? [...]

Teimour Radjabov and Alexander Morozevich retained the lead on 3/4 at the Tal Memorial in Moscow after drawing their individual game. Radjabov countered the Ruy Lopez with a slightly unorthodox defence and kept his disadvanatge within manageable limits. Luke McShane drew with Hikarua Nakamura but he had a wonderful looking position at one stage even if the US number one's position was...

Teimour Radjabov and Alexander Morozevich retained the lead on 3/4 at the Tal Memorial in Moscow after drawing their individual game. Radjabov countered the Ruy Lopez with a slightly unorthodox defence and kept his disadvanatge within manageable limits. Luke McShane drew with Hikarua Nakamura but he had a wonderful looking position at one stage even if the US number one's position was...

Many chessplayers opt out of studying openings, believing the task to be largely one of memorization. It can't be denied that some memorization is important, but an awful lot of opening theory has very little to do with the brute force memorization of long strings of incomprehensible moves. Instead, understanding key plans and motifs in the lines you play, and even just having a good grasp...

Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus justified the top billing given to him by winning the Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Chess tournament conducted by Venus Chess Academy and co sponsored by LIC of Inida. In the final 11th round played at the Chetana College, Aleksandrov fought grittily to defeat Mark Paragua of Philippines to total 9.5 points [...]

Με την ομάδα της Κατερίνης αναμετρήθηκε η ομάδα των Ιωαννίνων στο Κύπελλο Ελλάδας. Η Γιαννιώτικη ομάδα δεν τα κατάφερε και ηττήθηκε 3,1/2 – 1/2 . Ομάδα που κερδίζει δεν αλλάζει λένε και δεν κατανοώ γιατί άλλαξαν την ομάδα...

Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov defeated four-time U.S. Champion Yasser Seirawan in a match held from June 10-13 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. In the first three days of play, two classical and two rapid games were drawn, increasing the tension as the players headed into a 10-game blitz match [...]

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted an International Master norm round robin tournament from June 6th to June 10th, 2012. This tournament was the 19th 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 and [...]

The English version of Gaguik Oganessian’s Aronian vs. Kramnik book has been published (color printing) in Yerevan, by Chess in Armenia. The book is dedicated to the match held in Zurich, in 2012 between the famous grandmasters and to all the battles between them. The most interesting episodes of the match, photos taken by the [...]