(In English, that is.) At long last, it has been translated. Have a look.

In the last round of Reggio Emilia, Gashimov drew quickly (vs. Onischuk) and Vallejo Pons drew more slowly (vs. Movsesian) - both players with Black - and as a result finished tied for first with 6/9. Gashimov's Sonneborn-Berger score was better, though, so he was declared the tiebreak winner. (I've always thought the first tiebreaker should be head-to-head - which also favored Gashimov - but for...

Vugar Gashimov won the 53rd Torneo di Capodanno in Reggio Emilia. The grandmaster from Azerbaijan edged out Paco Vallejo from Spain on tiebreak. The two both won in round 8 and then drew quickly in the final round, with Gashimov having the highest Sonneborn-Berger score. General info The 53rd Torneo di Capodanno took place December [...]

Ιούνιος 1962, στην πόλη Βίνα ντελ Μαρ της Χιλής, Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου. Δυο χρόνια πριν, στις 22 Μαΐου 1960, η χώρα είχε χτυπηθεί από τον πιο σφοδρό σεισμό που έχει καταγραφεί στη σύγχρονη ιστορία του πλανήτη, 9,5...

Το διαρκώς διογκούμενο με γεωμετρική πρόοδο, οργανωμένη μορφή και κοφτερή αιχμή, πανελλαδικό κίνημα: «ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΝΟΥΜΕ ΔΙΟΔΙΑ - ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗΡΩΝΟΥΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΚΡΙΣΗ ΤΟΥΣ», έχει τρομοκρατήσει την κυβέρνηση και τις πολυεθνικές...

Yesterday was the last round of two open tournaments with a very long tradition: the Hastings Chess Congress and the Rilton Cup. In Hastings Indian GMs Deep Sengupta and Arghyadip Das emerged as the winners after a dramatic last round, while in Stockholm Sergey Volkov was the strongest with 8/9. L-R Deep Sengupta, Arghyadip Das [...]

The night the World Blitz Championship finished, late last year, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura played a private 40-game blitz match. That's well known, but for whatever reason they kept the result secret. The secret is out: in the latest edition of New In Chess Magazine, Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam spills the beans. The winner was... Carlsen, by a fairly hefty 24.5-15.5 score.

In this post (since updated to reflect this info), I review a forthcoming biography of Bobby Fischer. The advance copy I received lacked a photo section, and I expressed disappointment about this. I've been informed by the publisher that this was only true of the advance copy; the finished version will have such a section. Good!

Both Francisco Vallejo Pons and Vugar Gashimov won in round 8, and share the lead in Reggio Emilia with a round to go. Vallejo beat Alexander Onischuk on the white side of a Scotch, while Gashimov won against David Navara when the latter squandered a winning advantage in time trouble. The leaders have 5.5/8, and are a full point of Sergei Movsesian, who drew against Fabiano Caruana. Five players...

Six men were arrested in October for playing chess in a playground in a park in New York City. Two of them decided to fight the charges. Macauley Peterson, who went to the New York City Criminal Court in lower Manhattan yesterday, reports. By Macauley Peterson On October 20th, at two o’clock in the afternoon [...]

Αγγλία: Δυο Ινδοί σκακιστές ισοβάθμησαν στην πρώτη θέση του φετινού Χέιστινγκς. Ο Sengupta (φωτ. 2527) και ο Das (2479) με 7 βαθμούς σε 9 γύρους. Βραβείο ωραιότητας έλαβε ο νικητής της παρακάτω παρτίδας, που παίχθηκε στον τελευταίο...

Προσωρινά αποτελέσματα του διαγωνισμού λύσης όπως ανακοινώθηκαν στον ιστοτόπο pzrdig2.bloger.hr :Λύτης                    Χώρα Βαθμ.  Χρόνος1  Emmanuel Manolas      GRE ...

Καλή χρονιά σε όλους. Μια χρονιά που δυστυχώς δε θα είναι καλή παρά για ελάχιστους. Εμείς οι πολλοί θα πρέπει να βρούμε τη διέξοδό μας σε αυτά που αγαπάμε - σκάκι, βιβλία, μουσική - και οι πιο τυχεροί από μας, σε αγαπημένα...

The Turkish Chess Federation has withdrawn from hosting the upcoming European Individual Women’s Chess Championships, which were due to be held in March 2011. In an open letter posted on its website, the TCF expresses disappointment about the correspondence with the European Chess Union (ECU), but there may be more to it than that. Last [...]

Ανήμερα των Θεοφανείων (6 Ιανουαρίου), που θα είναι κενή αγωνιστικήμέρα για το τουρνουά <<Ελληνικό-Αργυρούπολη-Γλυφάδα>> το οποίοδιεξάγεται στο Πνευματικό Κέντρο Ελληνικού μέσα στην πρώην αμερικανικήβάση...