Η προθεσμία δηλώσεων συμμετοχής για το Κύπελλο Αττικής Φιλίας 2012 παρατείνεται έως το μεσημέρι της Κυριακής 8 Ιανουαρίου.

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IM Malcolm Pein reports on three rounds of games from the 54th Reggio Emilia tournament where all the games were decisive and Hikaru Nakamura moved clear of the field.

If this gets any "quicker" today's teenagers will be grandparents by the time I finish. Nevertheless, the "Quick" Ruy series marches on, and in this week's installment I complete my look at 9.Nbd2 against the Open Ruy - at least when it doesn't transpose into a 9.c3 variation - which is what we'll look at next time. If you play the Open Ruy with either side, I'd recommend having a look! The show...

Life is good for Anish Giri, just 17 and a half years old and winning elite tournaments! Reggio Emilia 2011/12 is his first major success, but it's not going to be his last. After a bumpy -2 start, Giri scored four wins and a draw in rounds 5-9 to enter the last round tied for first with Hikaru Nakamura and Alexander Morozevich. With White against Fabiano Caruana in the last round, he played very...

The Donostia tournament in San Sebastian, Spain commemorates the centennial of the famous 1911 and slightly less famous 1912 tournaments held in that city. 1911 was Jose Capablanca's brilliant European debut, and he won the event over Akiba Rubinstein and many other notable players of the day; while 1912 saw Rubinstein take first place, half a point ahead of Aron Nimzowitsch and Rudolf...

The Northern California International is an impressive open event (by U.S. standards) that's underway, primarily intended for titled players and norm seekers. The early star of the show was IM Greg Shahade, who started out with a pair of wins over FMs and then continued with wins over GMs Alejandro Ramirez and Axel Bachmann. That put him in clear first, and he maintained his half-point edge over...

Την Τετάρτη 4 Ιανουαρίου διεξήχθη στα Κάτω Πατήσια το Ατομικό Πρωτάθλημα Blitz Αττικής 2011 στα Κάτω Πατήσια με τη συμμετοχή 54 σκακιστών. Πρώτος Νικητής ο Γεώργιος Δημητρίου (ΣΟ Αμπελοκήπων) δέυτερος ο Ιωάννης...

Την Τετάρτη 4 Ιανουαρίου το Πολιτιστικό Κέντρο του Δήμου Θέρμης τίμησε τον πρόωρα αδικοχαμένο προπονητή των σκακιστικών τμημάτων του Σταύρο Ψωμιάδη. Η εκδήλωση πραγματοποιήθηκε στο χώρο της βιβλιοθήκης του...

Σε άρθρο τα Χριστούγεννα είχατε δει τις χριστουγεννιάτικες ασκήσεις. Τώρα λοιπόν έχει έρθει η ώρα να δείτε και τις απαντήσεις! Είχαν προηγηθεί 15 ερωτήσεις και θα ακολουθήσουν 15 διαγράμματα με τις σωστές...

Another game with The Master Game team of presenters, Jeremy James and Bill Hartston. This one actually says a lot about the origin of chess ‘strength’, which is mainly a question of seeing moves like Ra6!. Over the years I’ve met some incredibly deep chess thinkers who massively under performed when it came to practical play. [...]

For those interested in the seeing the remainder of Dr. Søren Riis's apologia for Vasik Rajlich, Rybka's programmer, part 3 and the conclusion, part 4, have been published on the ChessBase site.

Hikaru Nakamura lost his second game in a row to allow his opponent Anish Giri and Alexander Morozevich to catch him on 15 points with one round to go of the 54th Reggio Emilia tournament in Italy. Giri beat Nakamura on the black side of a Petroff. Nakamura was never better and eventually drifted into a lost position. Vassily Ivanchuk seemed to know the line of the Chebanenko Slav in their...

It's hard to tell if everyone's trying to win or no one is, but with one round to go in the 2011/12 edition of Reggio Emilia there's a three-way tie for first, and it's at least conceivable that no member of the troika finishes first! Hikaru Nakamura lost again - again with the white pieces - and his lead is no more. Gnash your teeth, Petroff-haters, as Anish Giri used that little-loved opening...

IM Malcolm Pein looks at a couple of games from Hastings and reports on David Howell's defeat to Wang Yue.