On 5th May the central city square in Ćuprija, Serbia, was the locale of the outdoor simultaneous exhibition with the purpose of promoting chess among children. WGM Andjelija Stojanović, three-times champion of Serbia, WIM Ljilja Drljević, national player at the European Team Championships 2011, and WIM Sandra Djukić, 2009 Serbian champion, have supported the motion [...]

Την Παρασκευή 18 Μαΐου στις 18:00μ.μ. ξεκινάει το τουρνουά Κάππα-60, με εθνική και διεθνή αξιολόγηση έλο. Θα είναι ανοιχτό τουρνουά με ελβετικό σύστημα επτά γύρων και παράβολο 15 ευρώ. Οι αγώνες θα συνεχιστούν με το εξής...

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This is more of interest to readers in my area, but many readers might enjoy a browse. Bob Banta has (legally!) uploaded some old issues of Chess In Indiana and its predecessors, the Indiana Chess Quarterly. Readers might find the lead article in the March 2004 issue of Chess In Indiana of interest, but I'll let you dig in to see why!

I tuned into the first Anand – Gelfand match yesterday and wondered if White could sacrifice the exchange with 14.c4!?. Probably it isn’t good enough but it does offer some compensation for the exchange. Gelfand made a clever opening choice, adopting the Gruenfeld was certainly an unexpected openings choice and Anand’s innocuous 8.Bb5+ left him [...]

Lest I stay up all night, here's a quick survey of the day's other chess results. 1. U.S. Championship: Hikaru Nakamura continued the professional pattern of winning with White and drawing with Black. Today it was the draw's turn, as he split the point with third seed Alexander Onischuk. He had been tied for first with Gata Kamsky, but Kamsky lost with Black to Gregory Kaidanov, and now it's...

Live commentary and computer analysis of game 2 of Anand – Gelfand match. Starting at 13:00 CET. Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom Information: Anand Gelfand 2012 / World Chess Championship all news Ананд – Гельфанд (руский) / Anand – Gelfand (Español) Videos: All videos / Preview / Game 1 Newsletter: Anand Gelfand [...]

There's probably little that's new for my readers in this article from The Atlantic (HT: Ross Hytnen) but it's worth a minute or two just in case. (Maybe less.) One hypothesis not considered in the article is that the USCF promotes scholastic chess heavily - which is good - but then does virtually nothing to encourage young adults to keep at it. The college situation is rather bleak as well...

GM Henrik Danielsen makes video analysis of the first game of the World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand. Video

Okay, let's give it a go! I'm going to charge $12 for the series (coming to a buck a game), in part to compensate for PayPal's taking a "tip" from most accounts. After each game, I'll send an email with my analysis in both PGN and PDF formats, along with a link to download my video of that game. The video won't include every single variation in the analysis (if it did, it would go for a long...

Defending Champion Gata Kamsky and top seed Hikaru Nakamura both won. Hikaru Nakamura was over an hour ahead of Ray Robson in the Dragon. Robson was down to 7 minutes after about 26 moves and Nakamura was an hour ahead on the clock. Needless to say he didn't survive. (Nakamura was an hour ahead and still playing very fast in an unclear position, it worked today but not in round 2 where he had...

Europe-Echecs are on the spot. Their Video report number 1, has interviews with Nigel Short and Sergey Karjakin, including sound-bites from the press conference.

Boris Gelfand obtained an easy draw with black against World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the first game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow. No-one could recall the last time, if at all, Gelfand had chosen this opening. Although Anand was ready for the choice, as surprises of this nature were inevitable. Anand headed straight to a very unusual sideline but after Gelfand captured the pawn...

Game one of the World Chess Championship between Vishy Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand begins at midday today UK time. I will be tweeting regularly with updates via #telegraphchess. The match is the best of twelve games with possible tie breaks scheduled for May 30th.

Σε μία χώρα που πτωχεύει τους πολίτες της γιά να συντηρεί τους στατιστικούς αριθμούς και στόχους των αποτυχημένων και καταστροφικών μνημονίων σε ισχύ, σε μία κοινωνία που εξαθλιώνεται κάθε ημέρα και περισσότερο, μία...