Ένα καινούργιο βιβλίο γιά τον Bobby Fischer πρόκειται να εκδοθεί τον ερχόμενο Ιούλιο του 2011 από τον αμερικάνικο εκδοτικό οίκο "powerHouse Books". Πρόκειται γιά το βιβλίο του αμερικάνου δημοσιογράφου και φωτογράφου Harry Benson με τίτλο...

In the Sigeman tournament, the penultimate round had a couple of surprises. Giri's grinding away for 111 moves against Hector before having to acknowledge the draw wasn't one, but the other two games were. First, Tikkanen continued to surprise, holding on with Black against Shirov and saving a draw. That kept him tied for first with Giri. The other surprise was that one of the co-leaders dropped...

Today's action featured one short game and two marathons. The short game, unfortunately, was the battle of the leaders. Vassily Ivanchuk played 4.d3 against Magnus Carlsen's Berlin, got nothing, and the players had to struggle to make the game last 33 moves. It's not that they didn't try, but that a position arose where there was nothing to try. Meanwhile, as predicted by the prophet Regan...

Hikaru Nakamura bounced back with a win in the second round of the Kings Tournament in Medias, Romania. The American grandmaster defeated Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in a game that lasted 78 moves and started as a Closed Ruy Lopez. First-round winners Magnus Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk drew their game, also a Ruy Lopez, while Teimour Radjabov [...]

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving! –> IM Yochanan Afek’s Official Website E. Abdullayev 2009 White to play and draw Next week the solution. Solution last week V. Neishtadt 2010 new [...]

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GM Henrik Danielsen, the author of The Insight chess show, has prepared over 25 lectures on the Accelerated Dragon. Parallel to the Accelerated Dragom GM Henrik Danielsen will begin series of lectures on other types of Sicilian defence, as well as the Rubinstein.

Live games from Bazna with GM Naiditsch and GM Ipatov start at 14:30 CET. Pairings of the day are Ivanchuk - Carlsen, Radjabov - Karjakin, and Nakamura - Nisipeanu.

Bazna Kings 2011 live games will be daily on Chessdom.com with the commentary of GM Naiditsch and GM Ipatov.

GM Ipatov has just received his Grandmaster title, and to celebrate it he will be joining for live commentary for the first round and later for Bazna Kings. Round 2 will be with computer analysis starts at 14:00 CET. Expect daily live coverage and also updates at the Chess videos section of Chessdom.

Σε τρία συνεχόμενα απογεύματα (3-5 Ιουνίου), πραγματοποιήθηκε όπως είχε προγραμματιστεί το 2ο Νεανικό Τουρνουά Καλλιθέας. Πέρα από τα παιδιά της Σκακιστικής Ακαδημίας του συλλόγου (με κάποιες αναπόφευκτες απουσίες...

Έβαλαν τα δυνατά τους τα Γιάννενα αλλά δεν τα κατάφεραν στο κύπελλο. Η Φλώρινα επικράτησε με 3, ½ - ½ .Μόνο ο Νικόλας Τεπελένης κατάφερε να αποσπάσει μισό βαθμό, αλλά αυτός δεν ήταν αρκετός για αν δώσει ένα θετικό...

After a few weeks off, we're returning to our possibly never-evening series on the Ruy Lopez. First we looked at Black's rare 3rd move alternatives, then covered the Schliemann, and now it's time to start on the Berlin. Before we get to the "Wall" endgame, there are the sidelines to consider. The Wall starts after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 (the official start of the Berlin) 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6...

Video analysis of round 1 from Romania's Grand Slam, where Carlsen defeated Nakamura in the game of the day. Analysis by GM Henrik Danielsen.

All three games were drawn in the third round of the 19th Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmo. Alexei Shirov played the Bishop's Opening against Anish Giri and the game simplified to an ending where he had an extra d-pawn. He didn't seem to make the best of this and the game was drawn on move 40. Hans Tikkanen drew a Queen's Gambit Exchange Variation against Wesley So in 30 moves. Nils Grandelius...