On August 17th, coincidentally former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik’s 100th birthday, 84 players began play in the strongest chess tournament in Southern California in over 2 decades. Seattle Master Joshua Sinanan talks about his experience playing against GM Michael Adams.

Metropolitan Chess held the 1st Metropolitan International Chess Tournament in Los Angeles, August 17-21. 10 Grandmasters and over 50 titled players comprise the field, making it the strongest tournament in Southern California in over two decades. This video contains interviews with Organizer Ankit Gupta, GM Michael Adams, GM Loek van Wely and GM Melikset Khachiyan.

By now all of British chess is pretty much up to date with T-shirt-gate or Stonewallgate depending on your preferance, so I will try not to belabour the point. Chaos reigned supreme at the time as so often but it does seem quite extraordinary that we still appear to be stalled in an era where [...]

I arrived back at home in London at 1am this morning so this is the first time I’ve had to write an update. The last round was a 10am start, and after a few hours sleep, breakfast, a quick bit of preparation and packing I managed to arrive at the board just 15 minutes late. [...]

Today we had a pair of short draws, but in both cases it was due to successful opening play by Black rather than collusion aimed at an unofficial rest day. Peter Svidler "declined" the Berlin against Ruslan Ponomariov, aiming for the sort of slow kingside buildup that has become popular lately both as an anti-Berlin weapon but also in the Italian Game. The most interesting moment came on move 12...

Κοινοποιώ επιστολή που έστειλα στην ΕΣΟ με αφορμή τις αλλαγές στις συνθέσεις: Αγαπητέ Πρόεδρε, Από σημερινά δημοσιεύματα πληροφορήθηκα ότι το ΔΣ της ΕΣΟ αποφάσισε να επαναφέρει 20χρονο σκακιστή στις εφηβικές...

Όλοι γνωρίζουν για την «Ρώσικη σχολή σκακιού» για τους κορυφαίους παίχτες που έχει βγάλει και τον πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο που έχει παίξει για πολλά χρόνια στο σκάκι. τα τελευταία χρόνια όμως οι Ουκρανοί σκακιστές και η...

Malcolm Pein looks at the Quarter Finals of the World Cup where two players made it through without need for playoffs. He looks at one of his wins against Bu Xiangzhi, an earlier Bu finish and Polgar's quick draw with Svidler.

The following dramatic game was played during my best ever tournament win in which I went half a point over the GM norm. King hunts tend to fill the books because they supposedly illustrate the triumph of brilliance over materialism. But they can be quite unrepresentative of ‘real life’ because sometimes the king gets away.

Το ΔΣ της ΕΣΟ στη χτεσινή συνεδρίασή του αποφάσισε για τα διασυλλογικά τα εξής:  1) Για το 2012, 2013 και 2014, η Α’ Εθνική θα γίνει με το σημερινό σύστημα (34 ομάδες, ελβετικό κλπ) με δεκαμελείς συνθέσεις. Στην περσινή σύνθεση...

Aviv Friedman reports on the first day of the Kings vs Queens tournament in Saint Louis that is part of the opening of the World Chess Hall of Fame. Hikaru Nakamira stars in this event. Commentary videos are embedded.

The opening of the World Chess Hall of Fame to the public in Saint Louis has a number of events. The main one is 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 is a double round robin Scheveningen tournament with half chess960 rapid games and half rapid games. One of each per day with live video...

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The World Cup Quarter Finals were completed by two rapid matches on Sunday. Alexander Grischuk exploited an early error by David Navara as white to win the first game of their playoffs and eventually drew the second. Vassily Ivanchuk held a lengthy ending against Teimour Radjabov in game one as black before torturing him with a small advantage until he won in 54 moves. The semi-final pairings are...

6 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011, φωτογραφίες του Reuters. Ο πρώην παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής Γκάρι Κασπάροβ δίνει αγώνα σιμουλτανέ στο Πόρτο Αλέγκρε της Βραζιλίας και υπογράφει αυτόγραφα. Η πόλη του Παγκόσμιου Κοινωνικού Φόρουμ φιλοξένησε...