Δυο άνδρες παίζουν σκάκι στην ταινία του Ρίτσαρντ Σέπαρντ «The Matador» (ο ταυρομάχος, παραγωγής 2005). Ξεκίνησε με αφορμή ένα σενάριο που θα αποτελούσε τη συνέχεια του «Υπόθεση Τόμας Κράουν» και άρεσε τόσο πολύ στους...

Έπαιζε σε ένα τουρνουά ο Κράμνικ… Ποιο ήταν το αποτέλεσμα;;; Ισοπαλία! Να το αφού πάει το μυαλό σας από μόνο του. Είναι η πρώτη σκέψη που θα σας έρθει!Εντάξει πέρα από την πλάκα παρακολουθήσαμε ένα εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρον...

Tuco is one of my all time favorite film characters, not least because of his personal approach to technology. In the following clip he takes parts he likes from several pistols in order to construct one that he likes: I’d advise a similar approach to chess technology. There’s no need to use it the way [...]

The final game of the Zuerich Chess Challenge match between Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik finished in an interesting draw in a Berlin Defence, which left the final score at 3-3. Aronian repeated 1.e4 which was one of his clear goals for the match ("I haven't played e4 seriously for such a long time. I think I learned a lot.) and after Kramnik repeated the Berlin Defence Aronian played the...

The finale of the Aronian-Kramnik match was an exciting draw that was generally in balance until, where both sides had some chances (especially perhaps Kramnik). Levon Aronian stuck to his great 1.e4 experiment, and Vladimir Kramnik stuck to his trusty Berlin Defense. Rather than banging his head against the Wall endgame a third time, though, Aronian switched to 4.d3. For a while it was a calm...

GM Kamil Miton will comment live round 6 of the “2800 match” Kramnik – Aronian live at 13:00 CET (note, 2 hours earlier than the other games). Replay game 1 / Replay game 2 / Replay game 3 / Replay game 4 / Replay game 5 Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom

Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik were tied 2-2 at their Classical Chess training match at Zurich. Aronian won game one with black and Kramnik hit back with white in a complex third game we will try and unravel a little below. Kramnik was solid with black, Aronian could make no progress against the Berlin Defence to the Ruy Lopez which Kasparov could not overcome in 2000.

Κορίτσια παίζουν σκάκι στο παραθαλάσσιο θέρετρο Βίνα ντελ Μαρ, στη Χιλή. Την ίδια ώρα, χιλιάδες φοιτητές διαδήλωσαν σε διάφορες πόλεις της Χιλής, με βασικό αίτημα τη μεταρρύθμιση του εκπαιδευτικού συστήματος.  Στο...

 Ξεκινούν αύριο Κυριακή 29 Απριλίου οι παρακάτω ομαδικές διοργανώσεις της ΕΣΣΝΑ: Διασυλλογικό Κύπελλο Παίδων -14 ετών (4μελείς ομάδες) Διασυλλογικό Κύπελλο Παμπαίδων -10 ετών (4μελείς ομάδες) Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Γυναικών...

Από την ταινία «Ο Βασιλιάς» του Νίκου Γραμματικού. Στις σκακιστικές σκηνές στη θέση του βασιλιά υπάρχει ένας αναπτήρας. «Δεν είναι καθόλου εύκολο να πηγαίνεις – από φύση, όχι για να προκαλέσεις – κόντρα στο ρεύμα...

I think there are some profound lessons here for the way we teach and learn to play chess. What’s not mentioned in this article is that the kids only get to play with a ball after three months! What should be the chess version of this? Well kids probably shouldn’t start with a full set [...]

The Icelandic Chess Federation, in co-operation with the Reykjavik Chess Academy, welcomes you to the 28th edition of the Reykjavik Chess Festival which is scheduled to take place from March 5 to March 13, 2013. New in the 2013 edition is an additional 10th round, the double day will be early in the tournament, two [...]

The Angolan Chess Federation hosted the Cuca International Tournament 2012 from 18th to 26th April at the country’s capital Luanda. There were three separate events – Open, Women Open and Blitz. The Open tournament had 30 participants competing over nine rounds of Swiss system. Top seed GM Viktor Bologan from Moldova won seven games and [...]

The Zuerich Chess Challenge goes into Saturday's final game tied at 2.5-2.5. In game 5 Levon Aronian varied from game one playing the quieter 8...Qd8 in the Moscow Variation. The game transposed to an Exchange Slav pawn structure where Aronian showed instructive precision in getting close to equality ("It's slightly more equal for white." - Kramnik). Having got his equality Aronian expected the...

Magnus Carlsen made an appearance of the US satirical show 'The Colbert Report' and took on the host in a high class game of Rock Paper Scissors. Unfortunately the full video is unavailable to UK internet users but there are some amusing snippets (no pun intended) on YouTube.