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Gata Kamsky won the first game of his final against Yuri Shulman and stands on the verge of a 3rd US Title. IM Malcolm Pein takes a look.
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Ένα νέο μπόκ που απευθύνεται σε όσους θέλουν να εμβαθύνουν στην σκακιστική ανάλυση και στην σκακιστική σκέψη! Μπορείτε να το επισκεφθείτε από εδώ!
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Η ανθρώπινη φαντασία είναι τεράστια και αρκετά δημιουργική! Έχουμε δει ανθρώπους να πετάνε, να σταματάνε σφαίρες με το χέρι κτλ…Το να κερδίσει κάποιος το καλύτερο σκακιστικό πρόγραμμα στον κόσμο και μάλιστα χωρίς...
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Featuring the Schliemann Variation (3...f5, also and probably more appropriately known as the Jaenisch Variation). I don't quite make it all the way through the Schliemann, but most of the minor lines plus 4.d4 and 4.d3 are covered; 4.Nc3 will be the subject of next week's video.
You can watch the show here - it's free, as always (free registration required), and will be available on-demand for...
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After two weeks of almost non-stop playing, IM Anna Zatonskih needed a few more hours to win the 2011 U.S. Women's Championship. She won her first rapid game as Black on Thursday against WFM Tatev Abrahamyan. Zatonskih seemed to be able to cruise to the title, but in the next round she spoiled a better position and lost. The two had to play a deciding Armageddon match that Zatonskih drew to give...
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A few rounds into the preliminaries she was almost knocked out, but eventually she won the 2011 U.S. Women’s Championship: Anna Zatonskih. It was her fourth U.S. Women’s Championship title and second since 2009 when the U.S. Women’s Championship was first hosted in St. Louis. Anna Zatonskih, 2011 U.S. Champion | Photo © St. Louis [...]
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Τα καφενεία στην Ελλάδα και τα "cafe" στην αλλοδαπή, ήταν, και κάποια ελάχιστα πιά εξακολουθούν ακόμη να είναι χώροι που το σκάκι και οι σκακιστές είχαν την τιμητική τους. Ένας μικρόκοσμος των αισθήσεων από την ευωδία του...
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It is sometimes said that winning a won game is the hardest thing in chess. Not strictly speaking true but I managed to drum up some support for this theory at the 4NCL and Bundesliga that followed. In the positions below particularly bearing in mind the fairly healthy clock lead in several of them you [...]
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Ρωμαϊκη Λεγεωνα...
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Χτεσινή φωτογραφία του Reuters. Σκακιστές κάτω από τις κερασιές, στο Kungstradgarden, στο κέντρο της ανοιξιάτικης Στοκχόλμης. Μια πόλη που σβήνει ομαλά μέσα σε δάση, ακτές και κανάλια, όντας χτισμένη πάνω σε δεκατέσσερα νησάκια...
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Andrei Deviatkin won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia. The Russian grandmaster finished on 7.5/9, half a point clear of GMs Dejan Bojkov of Bulgaria and Sune Berg Hansen of Denmark. As in previous years, Australia’s retired GM Ian Rogers provided expert commentary which was posted in multiple videos on YouTube. The 2011 Doeberl Cup [...]
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Maurice Ravel(7/3/1875 – 28/12/1937)Με την πανέμορφη και εξαιρετικά ευαίσθητη σύνθεση του Γάλλου συνθέτη Maurice Ravel "Pavane pour une infante défunte" (Παβάνα γιά μιά νεκρή πριγκίπισσα) θα ταξιδέψουμε μουσικά σήμερα. Την Boston Symphony Orchestra διευθύνει ο...
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Can we start talking Candidates Matches? First off, capital "C" in candidates or not? Second, apostrophe in "candidates'" or not? We have kids' menus and ladies' rooms, right? Ahem. So take your Strunk, your Funk, and take a hike, punk, because we're here to talk chess. You know, like we always do here. Mostly. Sometimes.
The entirely superfluous candidates matches of 2010 2011 are finally upon...
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The 17th Asian Cities Championship was held from 22nd to 28th April in Kartika Chandra, Jakarta, Indonesia. 24 teams from 17 countries competed, with 18 Grandmasters and many titled players attending the event. The tournament format was 9-round Swiss and the prize fund amounted to 24000 US$.
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"When FIDE understood that having Armenian chess player competing on the Azerbaijan soil became impossible, we decided to act as peacemakers. We stated that we are open for proposals from all countries, but if nobody should stand up, we are prepared to resolve the situation. Tatarstan is capable of hosting such event and we know that they won't have organizational problems, that everything will...
