The Women’s World Rapid Championship 2012 took place from 30th May to 3rd June at the Sheraton Hotel in Batumi, Georgia. The 11-rounds Swiss tournament was held with the time control of 25 mins + 10 sec per move and participation of 50 top female players. Former world champion Antoaneta Stefanova preserved the lead from [...]

The International Open Chess Tournament Albena 2012 was held from 26th May to 3rd June at the Albena Sports Hall, in Albena, Bulgaria. The 9-round Swiss open is organized by the Bulgarian Chess Federation, Chess Club “Dobrich – Albena” and Albena JSCo. The Armenian players enjoy a notable success as three of them, GM Vladimir [...]

The world champion was received by his family members, friends, fans and chess association officials at the airport.

Vishwanathan Anand put his critics firmly in their place when interviewed about his match with Boris Gelfand. It echoes my own thoughts that it would be a very tough event and that the predictions for an easy Anand victory were simply wrong. The players have also come in for a lot of criticism for not [...]

Whatever we might want to say that's positive about the just-completed World Chess Championship, that it showed two players giving their all in every game, pushing until there was nothing left to do isn't among them. Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand are great players, but they aren't infallible, and on those occasions when they did press the fight there were mistakes aplenty. Pressing brings...

Women’s World Rapid Championship 2012 is under way in Sheraton Hotel, Batumi, Georgia. The event is organized by the ACP and the Georgian Chess Federation and approved by FIDE. Five former world champions – Nona Gaprindashvili, Maia Chiburdanidze, Zhu Chen, Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra Kosteniuk participate in the event. The current European champion Valentina Gunina and [...]

The 4th tournament of the FIDE Women Grand Prix 2011-2012 is scheduled to take place from 9th to 23rd June in Kazan, Russia. 12 players will compete in the round robin event. The reigning World Champion Yifan Hou was the convincing winner of the first two GP tournaments in Rostov and Shenzhen. She skipped the [...]

A rather unique online chess event will take place June to August of this year – an open Online Blitz Grand Prix. This chess competition will be held on the Internet and it will truly be a Grand Prix with a prize fund of more than 30 000 euro! This is the first time such [...]

Τελικά δεν παίζουν μόνο καράτε εκεί στην Κίνα… Για τρίτη φορά πραγματοποιήθηκε το πρωτάθλημα Danzhou GM Chess Tournament, στο οποίο συμμετέχουν οι καλύτεροι παίχτες τις κίνας. Ο πρωταθλητής θα κερδίσει μια θέση στην Ολυμπιακή...

Εντάξει ο τίτλος είναι λίγο υπερβολικός. Και φυσικά δεν είναι ο μόνος τρόπος για να λύσουν τις διαφορές τους οι γυναίκες…Το Παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημαΓυναικών Rapid και Blitz ξεκίνησαν στο Μπατούμι της Γεωργίας. Αν και λείπει η...

Εύκολα επικράτησε ο Jobava στο πρωτάθλημα γεωργίας με 2,5 βαθμούς διαφθοράς από τους υπόλοιπους συμμετέχοντες. Όμως για τις υπόλοιπες θέσεις χρειάσθηκαν αγώνες μπαράζ και σκληρές μάχες. 1.      Jobava Baadur 10...

Η ΕΣΟ δημοσίευσε την προκήρυξη για την τελική φάση του φετινού πανελλήνιου ομαδικού πρωταθλήματος Α’ εθνικής κατηγορίας. Για να τη διαβάσετε πατήστε εδώ. Οι αγώνες θα γίνουν στην Πάτρα  (περιοχή Ρίου) στο χρονικό...

With the World Championship over it’s worth considering who might finally topple the remarkable Vishwanathan Anand. The obvious candidates might seem to be Levon Aronian or Magnus Carlsen, but history doesn’t usually fall into neat or predictable patterns. Will a young player intervene, perhaps someone who is currently unknown? Very possibly, and they might well [...]

David Navara won the Czech championship for the fourth time recently. The Czech number one scored 7/9 and was the declared the winner on tie break. Later this month he will play a four-game challenge match in Prague against Peter Svidler for the Cez Chess Trophy. The Czech postal service will issue a special commemorative stamp. See if you can find Navara's winning move.

GM Throstur Thorhallsson was crowned the Icelandic Champion in chess after beating IM Bragi Thorfinnsson in an extraordinarily close and exciting match. Thorhallsson and Thorfinnsson were joint winners of the Icelandic Chess Champion in April this year, the strongest Icelandic Championship so far during this century. They first played a four-game match, which ended 2-2 [...]