Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted an International Master norm round robin tournament from March 28th to April 1st 2012. This tournament was the 17th in its series and was held in Suite C1002 of the California Market Center on 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles 90079. The tournament was organized by Ankit Gupta, FA, IO and [...]

The ECU and Slovenian Chess Federation are holding the 11th European Senior Teams Championship, from March 26th to April 5th, 2012, in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia. Entitled to participate are men from the ECU Chess Federations who shall have reached the age of 60 and women who shall have reached the age of 50 years, by [...]

In New in Chess Magazine 2012/1, Mihail Marin talks about the 1972 Soviet film Grossmejster. It seems like a pretty good chess movie in its own right, and features such players as Viktor Korchnoi (in a major and apparently very well-acted role as the hero's second), and - in cameos - Mikhail Tal, Alexander Kotov, and Mark Taimanov. Pretty impressive. The culmination of the movie occurs in a...

Believe it or not, Vas Rajlich of Rybka fame claims to have solved the King's Gambit, and the alleged result is that after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 only (the utterly unprincipled) 3.Be2 even allows White to draw; 3.Nf3 will eventually lose to 3...d6 4.Bc4 h6 5.d4 g5 (but not 3...g5, when White again escapes with 4.h4) while 3.Bc4 is refuted (eventually) with 3...Nf6. Shortly after I started reading this...

Τοπική ΕπιτροπήΣκακιστικώνΣωματείων ΑιγαίουΑρ. πρωτ. 189 / 2.4.2012Προς: 1) Σκακιστικά Σωματεία Αιγαίου2) Ελληνική Σκακιστική Ομοσπονδία3) Τοπική Επιτροπή Διαιτησίας ΑιγαίουΑιγαιοπελαγίτικοι Αγώνες 2012Γενική ΠροκήρυξηΟι...

This week's show really belongs to last week, but it took a little longer than usual to get posted. Hopefully it will prove worth the wait, as I take a very deep look into the theory of the variation that starts 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 a6 6.0-0 c5 7.Bb3 Nc6 8.Nc3 cxd4 9.cxd4 Be7 10.Bg5 0-0 11.Qd2. That might seem pretty specialized, but even if the shadows from 1.d4 d5 never...

Ένας φίλο μου είπε «Άγγελε γιατί δεν κάνεις ένα slideshow” με τις φωτογραφίες; Έτσι λοιπόν το έκανα και εσείςμπορείτε να το απολαύσετε! Απλά αν θέλετε να κρατήσετε τις φωτογραφίες θαμπορέσετε να το κάνετε από την ανάρτηση 1...

Τελικά σε αυτό το f.b. βρίσκεις πολλά ενδιαφέροντα πράγματα…Δηλαδή οι άνθρωποι που το χρησιμοποιούν ανεβάζουν πολλά ενδιαφέροντα πράγματα!

Gawain Jones has qualified for the FIDE World Cup KO after a fine performance at the European Individual at Plovdiv was crowned with a last round win and a final score of 7.5/11. Jones had such a tough tournament that he had the best tie break on his score group and finished 15th.

Gawain Jones has qualified for the FIDE World Cup KO after a fine performance at the European Individual at Plovdiv was crowned with a last round win and a final score of 7.5/11. Jones had such a tough tournament that he had the best tie break on his score group and finished 15th.

The TTU SPICE Knight Raiders, led by Susan Polgar, have captured their second consecutive Final Four title. The team won the cup in a nail biter, finishing just 0,5 points ahead of UTD and UMBC. Final four standings 1. TTU – SPICE 8.0 2-3. UTD and UMBC 7.5 4. NYU 1.0 The winning team consisted [...]

Vladimir Kramnik is one of the most insightful of Grandmasters and it’s worth listening to everything that he says. Here’s a very interesting interview with him in which he provides some great insights into the inner motivations of top Grandmaster chess. And here’s some more for the Kramnik fans, a Youtube clip of Kramnik just [...]

Μια σκακιέρα περνάει φευγαλέα στην ταινία “η πόλις των καταραμένων” (1960). Στην κωμόπολη του Μίντγουιστ συμβαίνει ένα ανεξήγητο φαινόμενο, που παραλύει προσωρινά τους κάτοικους. Μετά από αυτό το συμβάν θα...

Vladimir Tukmakov is not a household name among today's chess fans, but he was one of the strongest players of the late Soviet era. He came in second in the 1965 World Junior Championship, finished second in three Soviet championships, nearly qualified from the 1982 Interzonal in Las Palmas for the Candidates' matches, and participated in the 1984 USSR vs. the Rest of the World match. Maybe he's...

The chess fans remain for yet another year without the Chess Wimbledon – Linares. The 2012 edition of the tournament has been officially canceled for second year in a roll. The idea of sharing the venue with another country has failed, as the organizers could not reach an agreement with Universidad Autónoma de México. Francisco [...]