The official website of Anand Gelfand 2012 World Chess Championship match is now available. It is at address http://moscow2012.fide.com/ and contains full details about the accreditation before the match, the rules of the championship, the schedule, players presentation, and more. There is also interesting statistics data from the Anand Gelfand official website here. You can [...]

Interestingly as well, I discovered, he was good friends with Grand Master Cheng Man-Ching, and that they met daily and ‘practiced Chinese chess’ together over a period of 3 years. That two of the greatest exponents of Taiji in the world managed to met daily and only play chess, I find a little hard to [...]

With four points Gawain Jones was the clear leader after round 4 of the European Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and was one of just three co-leaders after drawing in round 5. After a second straight draw, however, he finds himself in a ten-way tie going into the 11-round event's first and only rest day on Monday. In tiebreak order, the leaders are Arkadij Naiditsch, Laurent Fressinet, Yuriy...

There's a nice page on the ChessBase website with YouTube footage of Akiva Rubinstein, Jose Capablanca, the Botvinnik-Flohr matches, the 1946 USSR-USA match, Botvinnik-Bronstein in 1951, Geller-Smyslov in 1955, the end of the famous 1962 game between Botvinnik and Fischer (and Botvinnik sure looked happy to save the draw), Petrosian-Botvinnik from 1963, some Tal footage and then it's Karpov's...

Garry Kasparov was in South Africa to launch his Kasparov Chess Foundation Africa. Kasparov met with RSA President Jacob Zuma on March 23rd 2012. Kasparov gave a simul on the 22nd March where he was held to a draw by Daniel Barrish. Here are a couple of stories about that. Story in the local press about Barrish's draw and a really quite weird UK Daily Mail article. Below is the game with...

The 13th European Individual Championship takes place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from Tuesday 20th March - Saturday 31st March 2012. (Rest day 26th, play at 13:00 UK time apart from the final round at 11am). Leading players: Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Dmitry Jakovenko, Anish Giri, Alexander Riazantsev, Nikita Vitiugov, Etienne Bacrot, Baadur Jobava, Boris Grachev, 15 players 2700 and...

Garry Kasparov was in South Africa to launch his Kasparov Chess Foundation Africa. Kasparov met with RSA President Jacob Zuma on March 23rd 2012. Kasparov gave a simul on the 22nd March where he was held to a draw by Daniel Barrish. Here are a couple of stories about that. Story in the local press about Barrish's draw and a really quite weird UK Daily Mail article. Below is the game with...

Ten players share the lead at the European Chess Championship 2012, all of them with equal 5,0/6. These are GM Arkadij Naiditsch, GM Laurent Fressinet, GM Yuriy Kuzubov, GM Gawain Jones, GM Ernesto Inarkiev, GM Denis Khismatullin, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Maxim Matlakov, GM Anton Korobov, and GM Sergei Azarov. They are closely followed by [...]

Pairings R7 of the European Chess Championship

The 2012 Doeberl Cup, 50th in a row, will be held from 4th to 9th April at the Hellenic Club of Canberra in Australia. The Olympus Room provides the main playing hall for the event. An $17,850 prize money pool is on offer. The event will consist of five tournaments: - Premier Tournament to be [...]

Today is Round 6 and again Gawain is on the top board facing with the white pieces, French GM Laurent Fressinet. Laurent is actually married to pro poker player and IM Almira Skripchenko.You can watch the live games here.  Here they are together with their young daughter. So far there has been many upsets in [...]

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Ένα σκακιστικό κομμάτι στην ταινία επιστημονικής φαντασίας Inception (παραγωγής 2010), σε σκηνοθεσία και σενάριο του Κρίστοφερ Νόλαν. Ο Ντι Κάπριο ερμηνεύει τον Ντομ Κομπ, έναν εξειδικευμένο κατάσκοπο – κλέφτη ιδεών που...

…παίχτηκε το 1975, όταν ο Ανατόλι Κάρποβ ήταν 24 ετών και ο Γκάρι Κασπάροβ είχε τα μισά χρόνια του αντιπάλου του, ήταν 12 ετών. Η φωτογραφία προέρχεται από εκείνο το ματς σεβενίγκεν μεταξύ μιας ομάδας κορυφαίων...