Turkey presents its Olympiad hopes and the future stars

Με την διοργάνωση ενός τουρνουά σκάκι έκλεισε ο φετινός κύκλος μαθημάτων σκάκι που πραγματοποιήθηκαν στο Σκακιστικό Όμιλο Θεσπρωτίας. Το Σάββατο το πρωί στις 9 Ιουνίου περισσότερα από 20 παιδιά έπαιξαν μερικές...

Larry Kaufman's opening repertoire book "The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White" aims to provide a comprehensive opening repertoire for the club player based on the strongest GM lines. It may have proved an inspiration for Morozevich's choice of opening gambit against Carlsen in round 2 of the Tal Memorial. Carlsen would certainly have been warned against playing what he did. Kaufman...

Larry Kaufman's opening repertoire book "The Kaufman Repertoire for Black and White" aims to provide a comprehensive opening repertoire for the club player based on the strongest GM lines. It may have proved an inspiration for Morozevich's choice of opening gambit against Carlsen in round 2 of the Tal Memorial. Carlsen would certainly have been warned against playing what he did. Kaufman...

The 7th Tal Memorial returned after Monday's day off with four draws and just one win, for Fabiano Caruana over Evgeny Tomashevsky. The most exciting game was between Magnus Carlsen and Alexander Grischuk which rather got out of hand on the board and the clock for both players. Round 4 Tues June 12th 3pm Moscow...

People often think that children should start chess early, and in some cases (for example the Polgar sisters, Samuel Reshevsky and Arturo Pomar) they’ve progressed quickly as a result. On the other hand it does seem as if the majority of kids find it too difficult before the ages of 9 or 10, so they [...]

List of all the pairings for the 7th Tal Memorial on one page. Games start at 3pm Moscow time, 12pm BST. Final day 1pm Moscow / 10am BST

List of all the pairings for the 7th Tal Memorial on one page. Games start at 3pm Moscow time, 12pm BST. Final day 1pm Moscow / 10am BST

Those of you who have been following the Tal Memorial will recall that the main event was preceded by a blitz tournament used to determine pairing numbers. The level of play was obviously lower than in the ongoing classical rounds, but there were still exciting, instructive and well-played games that merited a look; and so those games are the subject of this week's ChessVideos show. Magnus...

Today Mssrs. Anatoly Karpov and Yasser Seirawan sped things up a bit in their St. Louis match, following the previous days' classical games with a pair of rapid contests today. All the same, the play was similar, as were the results. So far, defense has triumphed in the match, but tomorrow they'll finish things up with 10 blitz games.

Which is not to say that today's Tal Memorial games were uninteresting. The day's one decisive game was Caruana-Tomashevsky, which got the young Italian (send him back!) back to 50%. Tomashevsky found an interesting pawn sac in an anti-Marshall, hoping to keep White's bishop entombed on b1 (and thereby the rook on a1 as well). It was an ingenious idea, but it didn't work out - or at least Black...

Teimour Radjabov defeated Luke McShane and leads the Tal Memorial in Moscow on 2/2. McShane and Magnus Carlsen continue to struggle, the difference being Carlsen has scored two draws while McShane has yet to open his account. McShane followed in Anand's footsteps and countered the Sicilian with 3.Bb5 and Radjabov defended like Gelfand. Rather like the games in this line at the WCC...

Teimour Radjabov defeated Luke McShane and leads the Tal Memorial in Moscow on 2/2. McShane and Magnus Carlsen continue to struggle, the difference being Carlsen has scored two draws while McShane has yet to open his account. McShane followed in Anand's footsteps and countered the Sicilian with 3.Bb5 and Radjabov defended like Gelfand. Rather like the games in this line at the WCC...

The clash between the top two seeds and overnight joint leaders GM Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus and GM Andrei Deviatkin of Russia was an intense struggle with both fighting all out, but in the end they had to settle for a peaceful result in the 8th round of the Mumbai Mayor’s Cup International Chess tournament [...]

1ο Τουρνουά Σκάκι ο Πύρρος της Ηπείρου. Το τουρνουά θα πραγματοποιηθεί σε δύο σαββατοκύριακα. Το πρώτο σ.κ. στην Ηγουμενίτσα, στην αίθουσα του Σ.Ο.Θ., στις 30/6 και 1/7. Το δεύτερο συνεχόμενο σ.κ. θα πραγματοποιηθεί στα...