Το πιο αγριο, σκληροτραχηλο και αμφιλεγομενο τουρνουα της χωρας μολις ξεκινησε στα Γιαννενα! Το τουρνουα δεν εχει να ζηλεψει σε τιποτα τα top τουρνουα του εξωτερικου, ουτε απο αποψη αστερων, ουτε απο αποψη...

IM Malcolm Pein takes a look at Nigel Short's crushing win against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and talks about the early rounds of the event where the English stars Nigel Short and Michael Adams started with 3/3.

I must admit that I find K9 to be much less annoying than Fritz though I recommend playing chess in silence. And not just for computer opponents, humans should be silent too. The main reason for this is that practiced habits can become internalized aspects of someone’s chess persona, so if you play casual games [...]

Hi all, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  If we have any Chinese readers ?????Now that we are getting married, I don’t receive any ang pau anymore and now will have to give but oh well. I’m in Malaysia and borrowing my cousins laptop. The ipad is [...]

We're making progress! This week's show finally brings part of our series on the Ruy Lopez to a close (but not the whole!). Our coverage of the Open Ruy finishes with a look at the variations starting with 9.c3 Nc5 and 9...Be7. There are a ridiculously large number of transpositional options there, but I hope to have brought some order to the chaos while giving a useful presentation of the...

The 74th Tata Steel tournament saw many surprise results in the 11th of 13 rounds. Levon Aronian who had looked well in control in the event went down to David Navara when he mishandled the opening badly. Game annotations from the Navara press conference recorded by Michiel Abeln in PGN file. Magnus Carlsen also miscalculated and was lost against Veselin Topalov but the position was very...

Today's round at Wijk aan Zee was simply remarkable! Starting from the top: Tournament leader Levon Aronian came into the round not just doing well on the scoreboard but playing very good chess. His round 11 opponent was David Navara, who was having an absolutely terrible event. Better still, Aronian had White. Did it matter? Not a bit. Aronian was outplayed by Navara, and though he put up heroic...

IM Malcolm Pein looks at Levon Aronian's win against Anish Giri that leaves him a point clear of the field with 3 rounds to go of the 74th Tata Steel tournament.

Kappa-56 Tournament                           Round 3 on 2012/01/30 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 1 Kostouros Alexandros 2   2 Sienczewski Zbigniew 3 2 2 Kesoglou [...]

Kappa-56 Tournament                           Round 2 on 2012/01/27 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 4 Vazelakis Dimitrios 1 0  -  1 1 Kostouros Alexandros 1 2 [...]

Ο Αθλητικός Σκακιστικός Ομιλος Ναυπάκτου (ΑΣΟΝ) ΈΠΑΧΤΟΣ΄ το Σάββατο 28/01/2012 και ωρα 18.00 στην αιθουσα ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΙΑ (ΛΙΜΑΝΙ ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟΥ) θα κόψει την πρωτοχρονιάτικη πιτα του΄. Ο ΑΣΟΝ Προσκαλεί τα μελη του ΔΣ της ΕΣΣΠ, τους...

Οι ημερομηνίες περνάνε, ο χρόνος κυλάει και οι παίχτες πιέζουν! Ο λόγος για τις σκακιστικές διοργανώσεις που χαιρόμαστε να κάνουμε κάθε χρόνο. Για να γίνονται πιο οργανωμένες, πιο επιτυχημένες και για να μένουν όλοι...

A couple of weeks back my son asked me if we could go through some normal games rather than those with sacrifices. I thought this was interesting, he’d realized that queen sacrifices and the like don’t often happen and was doubting their relevance. Thinking about it I find that I agree with him. I’ve come [...]

Το τριήμερο 27 – 29 Ιανουαρίου 2012 θα διεξαχθεί ο Π.Ο.Α’ Εθνικής ΕΣΣΠΕΠ. Οι αγώνες θα διεξαχθούν στο ξενοδοχείο ΟΝΑΡ (Κοκώνι Κορινθίας) από τη ΣΑΚ Αργοναύτης και θα μεταδοθούν ζωντανά μέσω ίντερνετ (www.korinthiachess.gr)...

IM Malcolm Pein reports on the opening of the Gibraltar Chess Festival. Michael Adams was held to a draw by Natalia Zhukova in 2010 but he did not let the advantage slip this time.