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The venue is the Ugra Chess Academy, a modern building located in the city center. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies will take place at the Concert and Theatre Center Ugra-Classic.

Practical course in the Caro-Kann

My game below was played against the Metropolitan Police in New Scotland Yard which was a very interesting venue. The annotations are Nigel’s. The key things to take away for me were my risky Queen side castling and Nigel’s comments on my move 35.h4. He explained that 35.f4 was better and followed the ‘Capablanca rule’ […]

The 11th BPB Limburg Open was held from 2-5th June at the Sporthal de Geusselt in Maastricht, Netherlands. The event consisted of five sections: Open A for players rated above 2050, Open B for players rated from 1800-2100, Open C1 and C2 for players rated under 1800, and Veterans Group. The total number of participants [...]

The Sharjah Chess Club organized the 22nd Sharjah International Chess Championship 2017 from 2-6th June. The 9-round Swiss event was with the rapid time control 15 min + 10 sec. The local star GM Salem A.R. Saleh took the winner’s trophy after edging Elmar Magerramov, Vladimir Akopian and Bartosz Socko on tie-break. 119 players from [...]

Η  Ομοσπονδία για το Καλλιτεχνικό Σκάκι  του Ισραήλ  προκηρύσσει τον 4ο Διεθνή Παράλληλο Διαγωνισμό Λύσης Σκακιστικών Προβλημάτων. Ο διαγωνισμός θα διεξαχθεί την ίδια ημέρα και ώρα στις  χώρες που έχουν δηλώσει...

Last weekend I managed to follow up my previous first place in the Rhyl Open with another one in the South Lakes Open. After taking a bye on the Friday night I won the rest of my games, my opponents including FIDE Masters Joe McPhillips and Charlie Storey. The game against Storey was interesting, a […]

We all have one or more memorable games or combinations close to our heart to keep as jewels forever. How does your chess jewel look like? Is it a well rounded game where your plans went so well, it felt like your pieces were alive and moving alone? Was it maybe the combination of a […]

The 1st World Cadets Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships was held from 2-4th June in Minsk, Belarus. The championships were held in Palace of Sport, the same venue as the European Individual Chess Championship 2017. 626 young chess players from 24 countries took part in the rapid event. On June 4, the World Cadets Blitz [...]

Live games with analysis

Here’s a game I played this last weekend in which I got my best win in long play tournaments. My opponent was graded 169 ECF which is close to 2000 in Elo rating. The knight sacrifice with 24.Ne5+ was sound but Black should have played 28…Rhf8 instead of 28….Rhe8. Probably he missed my 29.Bd5 and […]

In his column in the May 2017 issue of CHESS, John Saunders regrets the demise of the ‘fun’ chess book. The sort of book that Reinfeld, Chernev and Horowitz, amongst others, used to produce. These books might include, for example, entertaining short games or combinations with light annotations, some accessible problems or studies, lists, records, […]

So far, we’ve learned about developing a central pawn (or two) at the start of the game, developing our minor pieces and Castling. I was going write the next article in this series about combining these three principles, using the Italian Opening as an example. However, I think we should discuss a few things you […]

The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will organize the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in Ahmedabad, India from 10th December (Arrival) to 20th December (Departure) 2017 conducted under the auspices of Federation Internationale Des Echecs (FIDE). The Gujarat State Chess Association has the pleasure of inviting your Chess Federation to participate in the World Youth [...]