The French, Benko Gambit, middlegame, and endgame tactics.

Η παγκόσμια πρωταθλήτρια γυναικών Χου Γιφάν. Ισχυρότατο τουρνουά γυναικών διεξάγεται αυτές τις μέρες στην Κίνα. Συμμετέχουν σκακίστριες που προέρχονται από την ασιατική χώρα, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της παγκόσμιας...

Last Saturday, the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) in London organized a simultaneous exhibition as part of their centenary celebrations. Ten top English players (GMs Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell, Gawain Jones, Stephen Gordon, Jon Speelman, Julian Hodgson, Nick Pert, Simon Willams and IM/WGM Jovanka Houska) played against 100 players arranged into 10-player teams. By [...]

Το τροπάριο "Σήμερον Κρεμάται Επί Ξύλου" που ψάλλεται σήμερα, Μεγάλη Πέμπτη, θα ακούσουμε από την φωνή του Πέτρου Γαϊτάνου συνοδεία Βυζαντινής χορώδίας. Αφηγείται ο Νικήτας Τσακίρογλου.Καλημέρα.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBfGukpKlCw “Οι φίλοι γελούν στις συγκεντρώσεις, μεγάφωνοι, μικρόφωνοι, παράφωνοι…” Την εποχή εκείνη ήμουν μέλος του ΚΚΕ, και υπήρχε μια τρομερή αντιδικία μεταξύ του ΚΚΕ και του ΚΚΕ εσωτερικού. Αυτό δεν...

·         1ο  Εαρινό Παιδικό Τουρνουά.       Συμμετέχουν νεαροί αρχάριοι σκακιστές και σκακίστριες.·         Τετάρτη 27 Απριλίου          Α) 6.15΄ μ.μ...

Yasser Seirawan plays his first US Championships in 8 years and his rustiness is exposed by Larry Christiansen. Malcolm Pein reports.

Every night the St. Louis club sends me (and others, of course) a press release giving a recap of the round. I just received it a couple of minutes ago, and it addresses the situation in case of ties, albeit incompletely. Oddly, the procedures seem to be different for the men's and women's events. In the women's championship, there are four qualifying places available for the semi-final matches...

In a truly unique format, ten of Britain's highest-rated grandmasters took part: Mickey Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell, Julian Hodgson, Gawain Jones, Nick Pert, Stephen Gordon, Jon Speelman, Simon Williams and Jovanka Houska.

The preliminaries are winding down - there's just one more round to go before the semis! Group A: With one round to go, the group's obvious favorites, Kamsky and Shulman, are 1-2 and in great shape to make it to the next stage. Naroditsky - Kamsky was a model win for Black in a Caro-Kann endgame. The double rook ending was perhaps equal at the start, but it was easier for Kamsky to play, thanks...

Wood Green put out a team in the London League with 10 Grandmasters and two IMs in order to beat the Drunken Knight's first team in the London League. The Knights have concluded their season now Wood Green have to beat Athenaeum 1 for the title. The pub league is the staple of competitive chess in this country, I play all my chess in this scene which has some pretty strong players throughout the...

Wood Green put out a team in the London League with 10 Grandmasters and two IMs in order to beat the Drunken Knight's first team in the London League. The Knights have concluded their season now Wood Green have to beat Athenaeum 1 for the title. The pub league is the staple of competitive chess in this country, I play all my chess in this scene which has some pretty strong players throughout the...

Round five of the U.S. Championship produced the most fighting chess so far at the 2011 U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women's Championship. Players of the Black pieces won an astounding six games, and half of the games went into the sixth hour. Three-fourths of the games ended with a winner, and even the defending champion could not get an easy day off.

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1956, Πρωτάθλημα Νέας Υόρκης. Μια φήμη πλανιέται στον αέρα της Αμερικής για ένα 13χρονο παιδί που οι ικανότητές του στο σκάκι είναι πέρα από τις συνηθισμένες. «Τα δυο μεγαλύτερα ταλέντα στη σκακιστική ιστορία γεννήθηκαν...