It seems a bit late to write much about the European team championship held in Greece, so instead I will make some comments on the ECU decision to introduce some new rules for the future bringing in a dress code of staggering complexity and dubious enforceability (will the arbiter’s exam in future contain sections on [...]

After a couple days off desperately writing my Chesspublishing update and annotating a couple of games for Chessbase I headed to Warsaw for the annual European Blitz and Rapid Championships. This year David Howell, Loz Cooper and Malcolm Armstrong also played which made it more of a social event than last year. The trip started [...]

IM Malcolm Pein looks at David Howell's performance in the European Blitz and Rapid tournaments in Warsaw and at his win against Judit Polgar.

Το Σκακιστικό Καφενείο από καρδιάς εύχεται Καλά Χριστούγεννα και Χρόνια Πολλά και Καλά σε όλους!

ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΑ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΑ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΕΦΗΒΩΝ-ΝΕΑΝΙΔΩΝ 2012(ΜΕΧΡΙ 18 ΕΤΩΝ)1.  Συμπληρωματική ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΑΓΩΝΩΝ Η Τ.Ε.Σ.Σ.Δ.Ε προκηρύσσει τα προκριματικά του 15ου Πανελλήνιο Ατομικό  Πρωτάθλημα Εφήβων-Νεανίδων για σκακιστές...

1ο ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΝΕΑΝΙΚΟ OPEN ΕΟΣ ΑΧΑΡΝΩΝ1.         ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗ Ο Ε.Ο.Σ. Αχαρνώνπροκηρύσσει το 1ο ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟΝΕΑΝΙΚΟ OPEN ΕΟΣ ΑΧΑΡΝΩΝ. 2.         ΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΙΚΟΣΧΩΡΟΣ Οι αγώνες θα...

Χριστουγεννιάτικο σκάκι στο νότιο ημισφαίριο, στη Νέα Ζηλανδία, που καλωσορίζει το καλοκαίρι.  Θερμές ευχές σε όλους κι όλες τους φίλους του site για χαρούμενα Χριστούγεννα!

A couple of days ago my son and I went through a Rubinstein – Heath game from DuMont’s 200 Miniature Games Of Chess. This piqued my interest because the game was played in Southport, where I was born and currently reside. It turns out that Rubinstein was here for the Major Open section of the [...]

ChessBase is releasing new products all the time, and one worthy of consideration is the 2012 edition of their premier product, the Mega database. The latest edition includes 5.1 million games, 66,000 with commentary, which makes it an excellent value when you compare it with the number of games and annotated games in a book. You'll find many opening surveys included and opening analysis...

KAPPA-55 TOURNAMENT                         Final Ranking                           Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts Fide 1 3 Poulos Georgios 2026 GRE S.O.KALLITHEAS 5½ 25 2 1 Kostouros Alexandros 2191 GRE PANELLINIOS G.S 5 [...]

KAPPA-55 TOURNAMENT                         Round 7 on 2011/12/23 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 7 Syfantos Nikolaos 3 1  -  0 5½ Poulos Georgios 3 2 9 [...]

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Hi guys, As I wrote earlier I forgot to do the Game at the start of the month but here’s my game against Slavin as promised. I finished it a couple of days ago but was waiting for Sue to fix the pgn problem. I hope you enjoy and an update about the European Blitz [...]

Here's a longish interview with world champion Viswanathan Anand, covering his recent bad form, his pending world championship match with Boris Gelfand, his thoughts on Vladimir Kramnik, Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian, and more. Definitely worth a read. (HT: Brian Karen)