The carnage begins at 3:30 ET (about two hours from now), and will be televised on NBC. Go Irish! (Yep, still refusing to learn!)

In game two of the match for the World Cup championship, Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk made a short draw, preserving the former's lead at the halfway point of the match. It may have looked like Svidler was content with a day off, but he insisted at the press conference that it was just him failing yet again in this tournament to get anything with the white pieces. Tomorrow, obviously, is...

Malcolm Pein looks at the key moments from the Rapid and Blitz Playoff between Alexander Grischuk and Vassily Ivanchuk.

Malcolm Pein looks at the key moments from the Rapid and Blitz Playoff between Alexander Grischuk and Vassily Ivanchuk.

Ένα βίντεο από την παρτίδα ανάμεσα στους Judit Polgar (λευκά) και τον Nigel Short (μαύρα) που παίχτηκε το 1994 στην Νέα Υόρκη στα πλάισια του Intel World Speed Chess Tournament θα παρακολουθήσουμε σήμερα. Ο Nigel Short απέκτησε πολύ καλή θέση -σχεδόν...

Στην αυγή της δεκαετίας του ’90, ο ιταλοαυστριακός ηθοποιός Terence Hill (κατά κόσμον Mario Girotti) έκανε μια προσωπική απόπειρα να μεταφέρει τα κατορθώματα του Λούκι Λουκ στο σινεμά, παίζοντας ο ίδιος τον ρόλο του ήρωα στην...

ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟ ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣΙΑΣ Η ΤΕΔ ΕΣΣΝΑ σε συνεργασία με την Πνευματική Στέγη Περιστερίου οργανώνει σεμινάριοΕλβετικού συστήματος και swiss.Το σεμινάριο θα γίνει στα γραφεία της Πνευματικής Στέγης Περιστερίου, Δημοσθένους 12...

Το πολύ όμορφο και τρυφερό "Νανούρισμα" του Μάνου Χατζιδάκι σε εξαιρετική διασκευή και ερμηνεία από τον ταλαντούχο έλληνα κιθαριστή Γιώργο Τοσικιάν θα ακούσουμε τούτο το πρωινό του Σαββάτου.Καλημέρα και καλό...

It's beginning to look like Peter Svidler prepared for Khanty-Mansiysk by reading the works of Stokely Carmichael because he's all about Black Power, baby! Check out this line of the Russian champ's games with the dark pieces. Note that those last four in a row are classical wins. Insane and amazing. Kasparov had five black wins in a row at Linares, 1999 (Ivanchuk, Adams, Topalov, Svidler (!)...

Jeremy James: “They know they’ve got to play 40 moves in 2 hours, why do they keep getting into this time trouble?” Yes Jeremy, that’s a very good question. And personally I think it’s a great shame that FIDE has been allowing incremental time limits (a basic time bank plus so many seconds for each [...]

The Kings vs Queens in Saint Louis concludes. This Chess960 and Rapid event saw the final score finish as Kings 31.5 - Queens 18.5. The Queens team do win final rapid 3-2. Hikaru Nakamura was the top score conceding just the one draw in scoring 9.5/10.

The Kings vs Queens in Saint Louis concludes. This Chess960 and Rapid event saw the final score finish as Kings 31.5 - Queens 18.5. The Queens team do win final rapid 3-2. Hikaru Nakamura was the top score conceding just the one draw in scoring 9.5/10.

The opening of the World Chess Hall of Fame to the public in Saint Louis had a number of events. The main one was a Kings vs Queens event, starring Hikaru Nakamura sadly for them Judit Polgar couldn't make it after reaching Round 5 of the World Cup. This event was a double round robin Scheveningen tournament with half chess960 rapid games and half rapid games. One of each per day with live video...

Peter Svidler was at a loss to explain his fourth win in a row with the black pieces after defeating Alexander Grischuk in just 30 moves in the first game of the World Cup final in Khanty Mansiysk. He was certainly not admitting to planning anything so devious as giving Grischuk an interesting Sicilian side-line to look at and allowing his opponent to self-destruct on the clock, but that was ...

Peter Svidler was at a loss to explain his fourth win in a row with the black pieces after defeating Alexander Grischuk in just 30 moves in the first game of the World Cup final in Khanty Mansiysk. He was certainly not admitting to planning anything so devious as giving Grischuk an interesting Sicilian side-line to look at and allowing his opponent to self-destruct on the clock. Planned or not...