O Luke Surl είναι ένας νέος σχεδιαστής, σκιτσογράφος, γελοιογράφος και δημιουργός κόμικς από την Αγγλία. Ακολουθεί το έξυπνο και ευχάριστο έργο του με τίτλο: Blessed are the pawn in spirit.Περισσότερα γιά τον Luke Surl στον ακόλουθο...

This was a big day for India with Vishwanathan Anand beating Nigel Short and Virender Sehwag notching up a record innings versus the West Indies. The opening was kind of interesting (a 3.Bb5+ Sicilian with some interesting twists) with Short collapsing towards the end of an interesting game. What is particularly striking about the commentary is [...]

Luke McShane leads the 3rd London Chess Classic with two rounds to go from Vladimir Kramnik and Magnus Carlsen all on 12 points, after wins today against English players. McShane with 3 wins with black has the best tie-break. Having led after 6 rounds, but in the commenatary box for round 7, Hikaru Nakamura is a point further behind in 4th but with the easiest run in. The outlook for Short...

IM Malcolm Pein looks at Hikaru Nakamura's defeat of David Howell which took him into the lead in the 3rd London Chess Classic after 5 rounds.

KAPPA-55 TOURNAMENT                         Round 4 on 2011/12/12 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 3 Poulos Georgios 3   2 Sienczewski Zbigniew 2 2 5 Vazelakis Dimitrios [...]

KAPPA-55 TOURNAMENT                         Round 3 on 2011/12/09 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 1 Kostouros Alexandros 2 0  -  1 2 Poulos Georgios 3 2 4 [...]

Ένα σκακιστικό πρόβλημα του αμερικανού συνθέτη Eric M. Hassberg που δημοσιεύθηκε στην εφημερίδα New York Post στις 21 Απριλίου 1945.Παίζει ο λευκός και κάνει ματ σε δύο κινήσεις.

Συνεδρίασε η επιτροπή μεταγραφών της Ελληνικής Σκακιστικής Ομοσπονδίας και το πλήρες πρακτικό θα δημοσιευτεί σύντομα στην ιστοσελίδα της ΕΣΟ. Οι κυριότερες μεταγραφές που εγκρίθηκαν (κανονικές ή με υποσχετική)...

Yes more from London and the round 5 game between Hikaru Nakamura and David Howell. One thing that I find interesting is that even young players are using Flank Openings these days in order to create positions which are harder to prepare from. At one time one would have expected someone with Nakamura’s style to [...]

Hikaru Nakamura heads to his appearance in the commentary box on Saturday retaining the lead in the 3rd London Chess Classic after 6 rounds. He had to show some accuracy as black against Luke McShane to hold the draw but wasn't really in difficulties. All the games were drawn on the day but probably the best of the bunch was an interesting tussle between World Champion Viswanathan Anand and...

IM Malcolm Pein looks at the Twitter game that started the London Chess Classic. Also he looks at a win by Jovanka Houska in the open held alongside the Classic.

Καθώς έψαχνα τα αρχεία μου για να βρω ασκήσεις έπεσα πάνω σε  μερικά όμορφα παραδείγματα και αποφάσισα να δημοσιεύσω ένα από αυτά.Στην θέση του διαγράμματος παίζουν τα λευκά και κερδίζουν.Μου πήρε αρκετή ώρα να βρω...

We had all been spoiled by all the hard-fought, decisive games in the earlier rounds; today, all four games were drawn by the first time control. Still, at least two of the games had some flavor. The battle of the world champions was one of them. Viswanathan Anand seemed to have drifted a bit with White against Vladimir Kramnik, but in fact was setting up a very interesting exchange sac with...

Dear Readers, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delay in an update and also for the lack of a GOTM! We both totally forgot! Now of course, Ga is playing in the London Chess Classic FIDE Open so won’t be able to analyse until the tournament is over. After that he’ll be off to Poland [...]