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Standings after nine rounds of the Top Chess Engine Champioship

Chess is a bit ironic in that you can learn to play the “Game of Kings” in a matter of a few hours yet spend an often maddening lifetime trying to master its complexity and many mysteries. Those mysteries are elusive and only reveal themselves to those who are willing to dedicate their lives to […]

TCEC is bringing the competition to the next level

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FIDE is pleased to announce that, under the aegis of the General Sports Authority of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the 2017 King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between the 26th and 30th December 2017. The first two Rapid Championships (Open and Women) will be on [...]

Για το παιχνίδι του σκακιού έχει αναπτυχθεί μια υπερμεγέθης μυθολογία, σχεδόν μεταφυσικής καταγωγής, που πραγματικά δυσφημεί ανελέητα την υπαρκτή και πραγματική πολυπλοκότητα του παιχνιδιού. Στο παραμύθι αυτό...

This was a nice win for the Colle. Last season I’d played IM James Adair in these lines and lost, albeit narrowly! However, our Captain said after the game that he’d never known Yousuf to lose. Yousuf himself said that he used to play the Colle but frustratingly had forgotten the correct line.  I had been […]

In dhess we have many generalised rules which have been derived based on years of experience but same time smart people also find the ways to go opposite and scores some beautiful wins. When we see this (of course I am not talking about IMs and GMs… it’s about us), we become confused. How are […]

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Standings and statistics

“If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analyzing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience” Mikhail Botvinnik This week’s endgame comes from a voting match we played as part of one Canadian team during an 8 […]

Teams of Azerbaijan and Russia became the European Team Chess Champions for 2017 in Open and Women’s section respectively. The rush for gold in Open section was very intense until the end of the last game of the Championship. Azeris needed a victory in the last round to secure the title, but no decisive result [...]

The GAMMA Reykjavík Open 2018, set for 6-14th March, will be a very special event as this edition will be dedicated to the chess king Bobby Fischer. An Icelandic citizen in his last years, Robert James Fischer was born on March 9th 1943. That means he would have turned 75 years old during GAMMA Reykjavik [...]

Έπειτα από τη διακοπή του πρωταθλήματος για 3 εβδομάδες ήρθε ένα ακόμα χαρούμενο Σαββατοκύριακο για την ομάδα μας.Με μία ισοπαλία με αντίπαλο την ΕΣΘ Ιωακειμίδης και μία νίκη επί της Χριστιανικής Αδελφότητας Νέων...