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Το Σαββατοκύριακο που μας πέρασε ολοκληρώθηκαν τα νεανικά πρωταθλήματα Δυτικής Ελλάδας για το 2012, στην Κέρκυρα. Συγχαρητήρια στο Σκακιστικό Σύλλογο Κέρκυρας για τη διοργάνωση.Η επίσημη σελίδα των αγώνων βρίσκεται...

            Με τη συμμετοχή δεκατεσσάρων αθλητών ολοκληρώθηκε το πρωτάθλημα γρήγορου σκακιού την Κυριακή 20 Μαΐου, στο Σύλλογο Ιωαννιτών Σκακιστών. Συμμετείχαν παίχτες με τίτλο, αρκετοί...

This weekend the Moscow Central Chess Club was the host of an extraordinary team event in which the blondes took on brunettes in blitz chess. A similar match took place in March last year when brunettes won with a huge score. But this time the blondes, headed by the European champion Valentina Gunina, won convincingly [...]

Two top 100 chess players, GM Arkadij Naiditsch and GM Csaba Balogh, are working weekly for the chess fans, producing the CEWN magazine. It contains not only openings or middlegames, but rather full details on the best fresh games from the chess world, a look back at historical matches, practice endgames sections, studies, puzzles, and [...]

Boris Gelfand drew first blood in the World Championship yesterday with a shock victory in game 7. Adopting a different approach against Vishwanathan Anand’s habitual 5…a6 he held an advantage in the early middle game. The exchange of queens did nothing to ease Black’s troubles and White capped the game off by setting up a [...]

IM Irina Krush won both games of today's rapid playoff match to become the 2012 U.S. Women's Champion.

ChessDom have daily videos by Henrik Danielsen on the World Chess Championship. Here is his of game 7 which saw the first decisive game.

ChessDom have daily videos by Henrik Danielsen on the World Chess Championship. Here is his of game 7 which saw the first decisive game.

Boris Gelfand won the 7th game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow against Viswanathan Anand finally breaking the deadlock after 6 draws. This is his first win against Anand at a classical time control since a 29 move game at the Biel Interzonal of 1993. Gelfand played 6.c5 against Anand's Semi-Slav and got a small positional advantage. Anand soon didn't much like his position and he said...

Boris Gelfand won the 7th game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow against Viswanathan Anand finally breaking the deadlock after 6 draws. This is his first win against Anand at a classical time control since a 29 move game at the Biel Interzonal of 1993. Gelfand played 6.c5 against Anand's Semi-Slav and got a small positional advantage. Anand soon didn't much like his position and he said...

The 6th Wunsiedel Schach-Festival took place from 17th to 20th May at the Fichtelgebirgshalle, 95632 Wunsiedel, Germany. The event is organized by the Festspielstadt Wunsiedel – Stadtsportverband in cooperation with the family Zier and Klaus Steffan. The Masters Tournament, for players rated over 1800, featured 106 participants. After seven rounds of play, Grandmasters Vitaly Teterev [...]

Three players including World Under-18 bronze medalist International Master Debashis Das of Orissa share the lead with four points from as many rounds.

Anna Zatonskih and Irina Krush were tied at the end of the U.S. Women's Championship round-robin, so today they played a tiebreaker. It would go to an Armageddon game if necessary, but first they played a pair of G/25 (plus 5 second increments per move) rapid games. In the first, Zatonskih got nothing with White, pressed anyway, and lost. In the rematch, however, she played very well and obtained...

Garry Kasparov attended the World Chess Championship on May 18th 2012 during game 6. After the well reported press appearances he gave a simultaneous exhibition against some Russian and European Juniors. He drew two games. Three of the games and some photos below.