The Superfinals of 70th Russian men’s championship and 67th Russian women’s championship took place on December 2-14 at the State Museum of Political History of Russia (2-4, Kuybysheva St., Saint Petersburg). In the open event, Peter Svidler and Nikita Vitiugov scored 7 points out of 11 and had to play a tie-break for the 1st [...]

The fifth round of the World Youth Chess Olympiad 2017 was something the pundits were looking forward to, with saliva dropping from their mouth. First up was the Russia vs. Uzbekistan clash on the top table. IM Semen Lamasov, rated 2516, the Russian trump card on the top board lived up to his billing and [...]

Αρχίζουν αύριο Παρασκευή 15 Δεκεμβρίου στο Κατοβίτσε, μια μεγάλη πόλη μισού εκατομυρίου της νότιας Πολωνίας, όχι παίζουμε όσο αφορά την πολυτάραχη ιστορία κατά τον 20ό αιώνα, αλλά και τον πολιτισμό που παραδόθηκε καθώς...

Η φωτογραφία προέρχεται από το τεύχος Αυγούστου 1962 (σελ. 227) του αμερικανικού σκακιστικού περιοδικού Chess Review και αναδημοσιεύτηκε πριν μερικά χρόνια στο chesshistory του Έντουαρντ Γουίντερ ως μέρος γενικού άρθρου για...

Παιδικό rapid τουρνουά με ελβετικό σύστημα 7 γύρων  με διεθνή αξιολόγηση ELO FIDE Rapid (Οι διοργανωτές μπορούν να αλλάξουν σύστημα αγώνων ανάλογα με τον αριθμό συμμετοχών)   Την Κυριακή, 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2017, στην αίθουσά μας...

After 16 rounds

I’ve been down at the London Chess Classic. I worked 10 days straight. It was too hard to resist playing and I entered the weekday U2050. I won my games with White but lost with Black. I was so tired that is was hard to calculate. Also, I had intermittent toothache. I registered with a […]

Nihal and Praggnanandhaa walked into the tournament hall together. The young duo of India Greens is clearly the talk of the tournament hall. A young boy and his mother, playing for one of the South-East Asian teams walked up to them and requested for a photo with her son. That was the beginning. Players young [...]

Ξεκίνησε στο Λευκώνα Σερρών το Πανελλήνιο Πρωτάθλημα Τυφλών και Μερικώς Βλεπόντων 2017. Συμμετέχουν γνωστοί τυφλοί σκακιστές και σκακίστριες που οι περισσότεροι αγωνίζονται συχνά και στα γενικά τουρνουά. Το σκάκι από...

Everything is set for the European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship for 2017 which starts tomorrow in “Spodek” Sport and Entertainment Centre, in city of Katowice, Poland. The first on the schedule is European Blitz Chess Championship which will be played on 15th of December. 1138 players coming from 37 European federations registered for the [...]

Jamie Kenmure: Firstly, congratulations on winning the World Junior Girls Championship. We know it is a tough tournament to win so tell me how you felt after winning the event or when you found out that you won? Zhansaya Abdulmalik: Thank you! I’m very glad that I finally managed to win this Championship! Honestly, I [...]

Στον πολύ όμορφο και φιλικό χώρο του εντευκτηρίου Chess Square (Μακρυνίτσας 3, Αμπελόκηποι) θα γίνει από τις 1 έως τις 8 Ιανουαρίου το πρωτοχρονιάτικο όπεν που διοργανώνουν ο ΣΟ Θωμάς Γεωργίου και ο ΣΟ Αμπελοκήπων. Το τουρνουά...

For those of you with a free weekend, rather than watch a season of Star Trek Voyager you might want to watch a couple of rounds from the London Chess Classic. Round 9 came in at just over 9 hours, which basically takes a day if you factor in cups of tea, bathroom breaks, lunch, […]

Two rounds were played on the second day of the World Youth Chess Olympiad 2017 being held at the Karnavati Club in Ahmedabad. After a comfortable first day for all the top seeds, the second day already witnessed some surprising turnarounds. In the second round, the top seeds India Green successfully fended off the Turkish [...]

The 4th ECU School Chess Teacher training course took place from 2nd-3rd December in PODIT Educational and Chess Center in Budapest, Hungary. The course comprised of two days of interactive presentations, group discussions and practical exercises with focus on the teaching aspects of chess. Participants, after completing the course, had to pass the online test [...]