Μια παρατημένη σκακιέρα σε σκηνή της ταινίας Le Feu Follet (Η φλόγα που τρεμοσβήνει), του Λουί Μαλ, παραγωγής 1963.  Ταινία λυρική, πλημμυρισμένη με την έξοχη μελαγχολική μουσική του Ερίκ  Σατί, βασισμένη στο μυθιστόρημα του...

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The German Individual Chess Championship (Deutsche Einzelmeisterschaft 2012) with the participation of Daniel Fridman, Igor Khenkin, Rainer Buhmann, Niclas Huschenbeth, Melanie Ohme, etc will be daily live on Chessdom.com. First round is on Friday at 14:00 CET, the tournament follows the same schedule every day except last round which starts at 11:00 CET. Live chess [...]

Analyzing a line of the Scotch Four Knights made me realize just how much undiscovered territory there is as long as you go far enough back in history. The reference sources I used were all as bad as each other, probably because authors’ views had been copied without checking things with a GM/chess engine partnership. [...]

The 4th Odisha International GM Open Chess Tournament is scheduled to take place from 29th May to 5th June at the Banquet Hall, Campus 6, KIIT University Campus, Bhubaneswar – 24, Odisha, India. The tournament is organized the All Orissa Chess Association, KIIT University Bhubaneswar and under the guidance of All India Chess Federation. Last [...]

The Long Island Open is set to take place on 16-18th March at the Holiday Inn Islip Airport in Ronkonkoma, USA. The event will have a prize fund of $12,000 based on 150 paid entries, with a minimum of $8,000 guaranteed. There will be four tournament sections, with prizes as follows: Open Section: $1500-800-500-300, clear [...]

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted an International Master norm round robin tournament on February 22nd to 26th 2012. This tournament is the 16th 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 a 10 player round-robin organized by Ankit Gupta, [...]

In last week's show I took a look back at my first three games from last month's US Amateur Team Championship (Northern division), and this week I finish with a look at the last two games. After showing some interesting moments from the last game I take a pretty deep look at my round 4 battle, an entertaining game with lots of content from the opening through the ending. I hope and think viewers...

Η Τελική Φάση των Ατομικών Σχολικών Πρωταθλημάτων Αττικής θα πραγματοποιηθεί τo Σάββατο 10 Μαρτίου και ώρα 10:00 (Ώρα Προσέλευσης 08:30-09:30) στην Ιωνίδειο Σχολή Πειραιά (Σωτήρος Διός 17 και Ηρώων Πολυτεχνείου, Πειραιάς) με...

Rounds 10 and 11 of the Bundesliga were played last weekend and English players were involved in several matches. Luke McShane and Gawain Jones, who live just a few miles from each other in London, were paired together.

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Radjabov Teimour, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana have confirmed the participation. Three more players will be announced later, while the RCF has opened a two-week voting process on their website for the [...]

It's an odd-numbered month, and that means that FIDE has released its latest official rating list. You can find their top 100 (or rather, 103, since there's a tie for the last spot) here, and on the right sidebar of that page you'll find links to other rating information. If you want to look up particular players, this is the link you want. Two other links of possible interest: Mark Crowther of...

Chessdom.com is pleased to announce the start of the CE Weekly Newsletter. Released every Friday of the week, the newsletter will contain 20 pages of great chess material written by the contemporary top Grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh. The CEWN weekly edition will contain not only openings or middlegames, but rather full details on [...]

Η φωτογραφία προέρχεται από το τεύχος Αυγούστου 1962 του αμερικανικού σκακιστικού περιοδικού Chess Review και αναδημοσιεύτηκε πρόσφατα στο chesshistory του Έντουαρντ Γουίντερ. Ο Μπόμπι Φίσερ μιλάει στο Radio Liberty λίγο πριν την...

Following up my post on whether blitz chess is good or bad I think it’s worth addressing one of the main issues people have with longer games, which is that it’s difficult to get them. But now there also seems to be quite a reasonable solution. I’ve found that the Chess.com server now has so [...]