Ο Αλ Πατσίνο και μια σκακιέρα με κόκκινα και μαύρα κομμάτια στην ταινία “Σέρπικο”. Ταινία καταγγελίας, με θέμα τη διαφθορά στους κόλπους των αστυνομικών της Νέας Υόρκης και την ανοχή του φαινομένου από τους υψηλά...

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. The opening ceremony will be held on 7th June at 18:00. Instead of the usual drawing of lots there will be a blitz tournament to determine the starting numbers in the main event. The numbers will be assigned [...]

The 4th Odisha International GM Open Chess Tournament took place from 29th May to 5th June at the Banquet Hall, Campus 6, KIIT University Campus, Bhubaneswar – 24, Odisha, India. The tournament is organized by the All Orissa Chess Association, KIIT University Bhubaneswar and under the guidance of All India Chess Federation. 249 players from [...]

The Women’s World Blitz Championship 2012 took place on 4-5th June at the Sheraton Hotel in Batumi, Georgia. The 15-round Swiss tournament was held with the time control of 4 mins + 2 sec per move and participation of 50 top female players. The reigning European Champion Valentina Gunina took the gold medal by convincingly [...]

Top Grandmasters from 10 countries will fight it out for the honors in the 5th Mayor’s Cup International Chess Tournament starting on 7th June 2012, which is hosted by esteemed Chetna College Bandra. The Tournament carries a total prize money of Rs. 15,25000/-, which is the highest of the country, with a first prize of [...]

The 1st ASEAN International Youth Championships will be incorporated in the 9th Singapore International Chess Festival 2012 and take place from 6th to 12th August in Singapore. This event is organized by Singapore Chess Federation under the auspices of Singapore Sports Council. The playing venue is Nanyang Primary School, 52 King’s Road Singapore 268097, while [...]

From 21 to 27 May 2012 the 16th Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held, organized by the Commission for Women’s Chess, under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer of the seminar was IA Panagiotis Nikolopoulos (GRE), FIDE Arbiters’ Commission’s Chairman and FIDE Lecturer. The Technical Organizer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Mihail Prevenios (GRE). [...]

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. is hosting an International Master norm round robin tournament from June 6th to June 10th of 2012. This tournament is the 19th in its series and is being held in Suite C855 of the California Market Center on 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles 90079. The tournament is organized by Ankit Gupta, [...]

The European School Chess Championships 2012 will take place in the Conference Center of Athos Palace****, a member of the G Hotels Group in Kallithea, located on the Kassandra peninsula of Halkidiki. The G Hotels Group holds a dynamic presence for over thirty years within the hotel business, maintaining a leading role in the tourism [...]

Teams announced with a few changes

Live games with analysis

Live games with analysis

Στην φωτογραφία απεικονίζονται η αμοιβή που είχε ζητήσει ο Σίσα από τον Βασιλιά, επειδή ανακάλυψε το σκάκι.

Ένας κρατούμενος, με τατουάζ στο χέρι, κατασκευάζει ξυλόγλυπτο σετ σκακιού στο εργαστήριο που βρίσκεται στη φυλακή υψίστης ασφαλείας του Κρασνογιάρσκ, στη Σιβηρία. Φωτογραφία του Reuters, 4 Ιουνίου 2012. Σύμφωνα με...

I liked this story a lot about how Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Nathan Sharansky several times to discuss Boris Gelfand’s performance. Of even greater interest, in my view, was how Sharansky kept his sanity during solitary confinement by playing chess against himself in his mind. This recall’s Stefan Zweig’s story, The Royal Game, in which Dr. [...]