The 1st international open chess tournament “Paleros 2012″ will be organised in the 4-star Paleros Resort Beach Hotel, on the coast of the Ionian Sea, opposite the island of Lefkada and the celebrity island Skorpios of the famous Aristotelis Onassis. Paleros is an excellent summer location in western Greece, surrounded by pure natural beauty and [...]

Mateusz Bartel is having himself quite the month! First he wins Aeroflot, thereby gaining entry into the Dortmund super-tournament this summer, and now he has won the Polish Championship. Bartel tied for first with Bartlomiej Macieja with 7/9, and then won the first rapid playoff game to win the title. (The second was unnecessary, according to Chess Today, as Bartel would have won based on a...

The Vietnam Chess Federation, on behalf of the Asian Chess Federation and FIDE, invites your Federation to participate in the 11th Asian Continental/Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships scheduled 4th to 14th May 2012 in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. The Championships will be played in accordance with the following rules and regulations: 1. ELIGIBILITY [...]

Απρίλιος 2001, στα βουνά του βόρειου Αφγανιστάν: ο ηγέτης της Βόρειας Συμμαχίας Αχμέντ Σαχ Μασούντ (δεξιά) παίζει σκάκι. Λίγους μήνες αργότερα, στις 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2001, δυο μέρες πριν το χτύπημα στο World Trade Center, ο Μασούντ...

Το "Σκακιστικό Καφενείο" εύχεται καλή Σαρακοστή σε όλους!Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky (1866 - 1942)Ένα σκακιστικό πρόβλημα του Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky θα λύσουμε σήμερα. Το πρόβλημα δημοσιεύθηκε στο Novoye Vremja το 1895.Παίζει ο λευκός και κερδίζει.

Εδώ βλέπετε μια όμορφη φωτογραφία που βρήκα στο διαδίκτυο.Με ταχυδακτυλουργικά κόλπα τα μαύρα περικυκλώνουν τα λευκά!

My son Sam beat an opponent last Sunday who he’d previously found a bit scary. The boy has a very confident and outgoing demeanour whilst Sam is sensitive, introspective and easily put off his game. So to successfully face a kind of Nemesis was quite an achievement. This episode rather reminded me of one of [...]

Sportswriter Michael Weinreb offers high praise of both Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer and screenwriter Steven Zaillian's better-known film adaptation of the work in this essay, and it's worth your time to read it - if only to encourage other writers to favorably discuss our game. I imagine that most of my U.S. audience is familiar with those works, but those of you who aren't may...

Poland Chess Championships for men and women were held concurrently from 18th to 26th February at the Hotel Novotel Centrum in Warsaw. Grandmaster Mateusz Bartel, winner of the recent Aeroflot Open, rounded up a trifecta in the Polish Championships as he won his third consecutive national title (and 4th overall). Bartel was also champion in [...]

The 19th Annual Western Class Championships will take place from March 9-11, 2012, at the Sheraton Agoura Hills Hotel (formerly Renaissance), 30100 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, California. The event has a $20,000 projected prize fund with $16,000 guaranteed. The event has 7 sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class [...]

Ο πρώην παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής Γκάρι Κασπάροβ (σε σημερινή φωτογραφία των διεθνών πρακτορείων) μετέχει στην ανθρώπινη αλυσίδα 16 χιλιομέτρων που δημιούργησαν 35.000 κάτοικοι της Μόσχας. Περικυκλώθηκε  το παλιό κέντρο...

Ένα πολύ όμορφο σκιτσάκι που βρήκαστο διαδίκτυο… Μια αράχνη έχει διαμορφώσει τον ιστό της σε σκακιέρα και προσπαθείλύσει σκακιστικά προβλήματα από ένα βιβλίο!

Το σημερινό πρόβλημα είναι από το περίφημο βιβλίο του Τζοακίνο Γκρέκο The Royall Game of Chesse-play (Το βασιλικό παιχνίδι του σκακιού), γραμμένο γύρω στα 1620 από τον διάσημο παίχτη από την Καλαβρία της Ιταλίας (πιθανότατα ελληνικής...

Here’s a really great chess documentary pointed out to me by Mark McCready. Enjoy!    

The 2nd International Chess Memorial of Ferdynand Dziedzic will be held on 4th March at Żeromskiego St. 28 (sports hall) in Trzcianka, Poland. The tournament is organized to commemorate Ferdynand Dziedzic, teacher, chess player, successful trainer, chess arbiter and creator of chess groups in Trzcianka. The tournament will be played over 9 rounds of Swiss [...]