IM Malcolm Pein enthuses about a 24 move win for Vugar Gashimov against Robert Kempinski from Round 2 of the Schachbundesliga match between Bremen and Hamburg with some quite remarkable variations.

IM Malcolm Pein enthuses about a 24 move win for Vugar Gashimov against Robert Kempinski from Round 2 of the Schachbundesliga match between Bremen and Hamburg with some quite remarkable variations.

The fields for the Tata Steel Chess Tournament have been announced. The event takes place Sat 14th Jan - Sun 29th Jan 2012. Magnus Carlsen is the top seed of a very strong field. However it is the composition of the field that is most exciting with very few players with a drawish reputation competing and a case could be made for at least half the field emerging as winners. Read the full official...

The fields for the Tata Steel Chess Tournament have been announced. The event takes place Sat 14th Jan - Sun 29th Jan 2012. Magnus Carlsen is the top seed of a very strong field. However it is the composition of the field that is most exciting with very few players with a drawish reputation competing and a case could be made for at least half the field emerging as winners. Read the full official...

The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament takes place Saturday 14th January - Sunday 29th January 2012. Magnus Carlsen is the top seed ahead of Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin and Veselin Topalov. Defending champion Hikaru Nakamua returns. The organisers say this is the strongest ever A-Group. With rating inflation this might be the case but this is objectively not their strongest field. But the field...

The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament takes place Saturday 14th January - Sunday 29th January 2012. Magnus Carlsen is the top seed ahead of Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin and Veselin Topalov. Defending champion Hikaru Nakamua returns. The organisers say this is the strongest ever A-Group. With rating inflation this might be the case but I rather doubt this is objectively the strongest field. The...

Δεύτερη συνεχόμενη νίκη για την ομάδα μας την Κυριακή , όπου επικράτησε με σκορ 5.5-0 της αντίστοιχης της Πετρούπολης! Τις νίκες της ομάδας πέτυχαν οι Γιώργος Χριστόπουλος , Χρήστος Κοκκινογένης , Έλλη Βαλή και Λένα...

Τα αρχικά 17 λιθόχτιστα νεώρια (arsenali) ιδρύθηκαν το 1497 -στο μέσον της πολύχρονης κυριαρχίας των Βενετών- ως σημείο απόσυρσης, συντήρησης και προστασίας του στόλου κατά τον βαρύ χειμώνα (οπότε και θα ήταν δύσκολο να δοθεί...

Το βίντεο της εβδομάδας, που αναρτήθηκε στη δεξιά στήλη είναι νομίζω κα-τα-πλη-κτι-κό...Πάρα πολλά τηλέφωνα και πολλές νέες συμμετοχές στο 2ο Τουρνουά του ΣΑΧ-ΜΙΚΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ που θα ξεκινήσει μέσα στο Νοέμβριο.Τις πρώτες...

Χτεσινή φωτογραφία του πρακτορείου Reuters. Σέρβοι του βόρειου Κοσόβου παίζουν μια παρτίδα σκάκι στα οδοφράγματα που έχουν στηθεί κοντά στο χωριό Ζούπτσε. Οι διαδηλωτές κάθισαν στο δρόμο μπροστά από τις μπάρες σε 16...

O ΣΟΠ και ο ΑΣΟΝ Έπαχτος είναι οι δύο πρωτοπόροι μετά την λήξη του δεύτερου γύρου με 4 βαθμούς αφού επικράτησαν επί του Πατραϊκού και της ΕΣ Αιγιαλείας με σκορ 5-1 και 3.5 -2.5 αντίστοιχα. Στα άλλα παιχνίδια νικητές ο...

KAPPA-53 TOURNAMENT                                 Round 6 on 2011/10/24 at 18:00                                 Bo. SNo.   Name Pts Res. Pts   Name SNo. 1 2   Kesoglou Konstantinos [...]

KAPPA-53 TOURNAMENT                           Round 5 on 2011/10/21 at 18:00                           Bo. SNo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name SNo. 1 1 Kostouros Alexandros 3½ 1  -  0 3 Hristidis Savas 6 2 [...]

How should one teach chess to your kids? This is a fairly new area to me so I don’t claim particular expertise. But what I’m doing with my 9 year old son right now is just going through lots of miniature games, first of all Tony Gillam’s Your First Chess Games and now The Art [...]

The 76th Spanish Championship took place in Arenal den Castell on Menorca 15th-23rd October 2011. Alvar Alonso Rosell scored 7/9 and took first place on tie-break. He qualified for the European Individual Championship in Plovdiv in March 2012. Alvar Alonso caught Miguel Illescas Cordoba with a win (totally garbled in transmission) after the latter mysteriously took a quick draw in the final round...