Στον Άγιο Ιωάννη, θέρετρο του ανατολικού Πηλίου, θα γίνει από τις 16 έως τις 22 Ιουνίου το διεθνές τουρνουά “Πήλιο 2018” που διοργανώνουν η ΠΣ Περιστερίου και η ΣΕ Βόλου. Το τουρνουά θα είναι ελβετικό 9 γύρων με...

TCEC Premier Division – the strongest round robin championship for chess software – is going to start this Wednesday, May 23rd, at 20:00 CET. The eight strongest computer chess programs in the world with over 3300 ELO will compete in the 12th edition of the highest division of the Top Chess Engine Championship. TCEC Premier [...]

The tournament starts with blitz chess matches on May 27th and the last round is June 7th. The 6 first rounds are played at Clarion Hotel Energy before the last 3 rounds, 5th-7th. June is played at Stavanger Concert Hall. We are pleased to present a fantastic field of players to Altibox Norway Chess 2018! [...]

The 3rd Kolkata International Grandmaster Open Chess Tournament was held from 14 to 22 May in Kolkata. Venue was The New Town School. Tournament was organised by Dibyendu Barua and Allsport Foundation. 200 players took part in the tournament. After 9 rounds, the winner is GM Srinath Narayanan, who drew in the last round against [...]

The “Tournament of the Champions” was a 10-player round-robin tournament which took place from 14-21 May 2018 in Pleven, Bulgaria. All the strongest Bulgarian women have played, except Antoaneta Stefanova. IM Iva Videnova took by storm the tournament with 8,5 points out of 9. She gained 27 rating points also. The competition was for the [...]

The Mongolian Women’s Championship is a 12-player round-robin tournament taking place from 19-27 May 2018 in Arkhangai, Mongolia. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. Live game with analysis will be provided daily with the best chess [...]

The Mongolian Championship is a 12-player round-robin tournament taking place from 19-27 May 2018 in Arkhangai, Mongolia. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. Live game with analysis will be provided daily with the best chess software [...]

“… Skyrockets in flight! Afternoon Delight!…” Starland Vocal Band Teaching is a journey of 1,000 miles. There are countless ups and downs along the way and key is to keep on moving no matter what. In the same time teaching requires two willing parties: the teacher sharing their knowledge and the student absorbing it. The […]

The 36th edition of the Mitropa Cup is being held in Isola Capo Rizzuto, Italy, from May 30th to June 9th. The traditional team event this year brings together 10 nations competing against each other in an Open and a Women section on 4 boards each. Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, [...]

The Brazil Open – Three Borders was a 9-round Swiss tournament which took place from 16-20 May 2018 in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. The venue was hotel Da AVM . 97 players took part in the tournament. It was very competitive and before the last round 9 players were leading with 6 points out of [...]

African Individual Chess Championships were held in Lusaka, Zambia from 12 to 22 May. Organizers were the African Chess Confederation and the Chess Federation of Zambia. The venue was Warm Harbor Hotel. 30 players took part in the Open section and 22 in the Women section. In the Open section the Egyptian players proved their [...]

The 2018 LOTTO Polish Championship was a 10-player single round-robin which took place in the Trading Room of the Warsaw Stock Exchange from 12-20 May. The top prize is 20,000 PLN (about $5,500) with the top two qualifying for the Polish Olympiad team. 20-year-old Jan-Krzysztof Duda won his 1st Polish Championship. He was leading with [...]

The 2018 Budimex Polish Women’s Championship was a 10-player single round-robin taking place in the Trading Room of the Warsaw Stock Exchange from 12-20 May. The top prize was the same as for the open – 20,000 PLN (about $5,500), with the top two qualifying for the Polish team. The tournament was very competitive and [...]

My Dad and I have been working through Nikolai Minev’s book on rook endgames where we found the following example. Black had a problem in that he needed to shield his king from checks and he achieved that with 61…Re7! followed by bringing his king to e5. He was then able to stop either White […]

The 7th international Llucmajor is a 9-round Swiss open which took place from 13-20 May, 2018 in Llucmajor, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 138 players took part in the tournament, among them 18 GMs. After 9 rounds 3 players have finished with 7 points out of 9. The winner is GM Jaime Santos Latasa with the [...]