KAPPA-57 tournament                           Round 7 on 2012/03/09 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 5 Vazelakis Dimitrios 4½   4½ Kostouros Alexandros 1 2 3 Kesoglou [...]

KAPPA-57 tournament                           Rank after round 6                           Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts Fide 1 6 Poulos Georgios 1979 GRE S.O.KALLITHEAS 4½ 18½ 2 5 Vazelakis Dimitrios 2010 GRE [...]

KAPPA-57 tournament                           Round 6 on 2012/03/05 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 4 Sienczewski Zbigniew 3½ 1  -  0 4½ Poulos Georgios 6 2 [...]

The Vietnam Chess Federation held the 2nd HDBank Cup Open Chess tournament 2012 on 1-8th March in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Former Asian champion GM Ni Hua drew the 2nd seed GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son in the final round and secured the overall tournament victory with the exceptional score of 8 points from [...]

The 2nd International Tournament Split Chess Open 2012 is set to take place from 11th to 19th August in the Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia. The 9-round Swiss event is organized by the Chess Club “Brda” and City of Split. The prize fund amounts to 8.000 EUR. Top prizes are: 1.600; 1.000; 700; 500; 400; [...]

Ένα αντίτυπο του αριστουργήματος του Μπόμπι Φίσερ «οι 60 αξέχαστες παρτίδες μου» περνάει από το φακό της ταινίας “το κορίτσι με το τατουάζ”.  Όταν στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 2000, ο Σουηδός Στιγκ Λάρσον παρέδιδε...

The 10th Khazar International Chess Open Tournaments A (+2100), B (-2100), C (Women) & D (Youth U 14) were held from 29th February to 7th March in Rasht, Iran. 103 players from eight countries, including 12 Grandmasters, competed in the 11-round Swiss in Open A. IM Pouya Idani had a furious finish by defeating three [...]

Στο μικρό τουρνουά blitz, δηλαδή γρήγορο σκάκι,που πραγματοποιήθηκε χθες στο Σκακιστικό Σύλλογο Ιωαννίνων, με την συμμετοχή έξιατόμων ο Διονύσης επικράτησε εύκολα με πέντε νίκες σε πέντε αγώνες!Συγχαρητήρια στον...

Δείτε στους παρακάτω συνδέσμους τις τελικές βαθμολογίες ανά τάξη από τα προκριματικά  Περιφερειακά Σχολικά Πρωταθλήματα   Π.Ε. Κεντρικού Τομέα Αθήνας (Πατήσια 3/3) Π.Ε. Βόρειου Τομέα Αθήνας (Νέα Ιωνία 3/3) Π.Ε. Νότιου Τομέα...

The 2nd International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra will take place from June 16th to 23rd, 2012, in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps. Following the tremendous success of the inaugural event in 2011, which was won by GM Carlos Matamoros, [...]

Οριακή ήττα γνώρισε η ομάδα της ΕΣ Αιγιαλείας από την ΝΕΠ με σκορ 5.5 –  4.5 στα πλαίσια της έκτης αγωνιστικής του Προκριματικού Ομίλου της Α Εθνικής, αφού η ομάδα του Αιγίου αγωνίστηκε με τρεις σημαντικές απουσίες...

A few days ago my son was playing an online game in which his opponent suddenly stopped moving. He then waited 15(!) minutes for the guy’s time to run out before gleefully claiming the win. I pointed out that this wasn’t a ‘real’ win because it wasn’t actually achieved with chess moves and that maybe [...]

Chess historian par excellence Edward Winter has translated a 1939 interview with Jose Raul Capablanca. (HT: Brian Karen) In it he speaks very favorably about Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Alexander Alekhine (though only in passing) and Paul Keres (but with some relatively minor and insightful reservations). To the surprise of no one who is familiar with Capablanca's autobiographical...

The 2012 European Individual Women Chess Championship is taking place from 2nd to 13th March at the Anatolian Hotel in Gaziantep, Turkey. European Rapid Championship and European Blitz Championship will follow in the same venue on 15-18th March. In the 5th round Marie Sebag from France, until then with a perfect score, conceded the first [...]

The 130th Varsity Match was staged at the RAC Club on Pall Mall and was again supported by Henry Mutkin. After a tense fight, Cambridge triumphed 4.5-3.5 to record their 57th win, to Oxford's 5,3 with 20 draws in the series that began in 1873.