A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 29 September to 1 October 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, by the Hungarian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Werner Stubenvoll (AUT), FIDE Qualification Commission Chairman and FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer will be IA Miklos Orso (HUN). The [...]

The winner of the first tournament in 1962 was Miguel Najdorf. The record with most tournament wins is held by Vassily Ivanchuk with 6 titles.

What are Grand Prix participants mostly know for? Official YouTube channel of WorldChess, the broadcasting platform for the World Chess Championship cycle events. The interviews with players and organizers of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow can be found here.    

It is interesting and useful to look through our games but can be rather uncomfortable too. The moves you decide are good during a game can often seem rather strange in the cold light of day. In this game my Queen moves at 11, 12 and 13 look like I’m trying to create something out […]

Grandmasters take you to the alternative reality created by journalists. Official YouTube channel of WorldChess, the broadcasting platform for the World Chess Championship cycle events. The interviews with players and organizers of the FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow can be found here.    

There are many games with this material imbalance, so it is important to know the basic strategy in such situations. Broadly speaking we can divide into two parts, middle game strategy and endgame strategy. In the middle game two minor pieces tend to be stronger than the rook and pawn as the rook won’t be […]

One month before the Silver Lake Chess Festival 2017 there are already 150 registered participants from 14 countries. Among them are 44 titled players, including 16 Grandmasters. The Organizing Committee is preparing a rich programme for all ages and playing levels: – Open “A”, tournament for players rated over 2000 FIDE – Open “B”, tournament [...]

Την Κυριακή 4 Ιουνίου 2017 και ώρα 16:00 μ.μ. διοργανώνεται παιδικό ράπιντ τουρνουά, με διεθνή αξιολόγηση έλο. Θα είναι ανοιχτό τουρνουά με ελβετικό σύστημα επτά γύρων σε δύο γκρουπ και έκτακτη συνδρομή 10,00€. Θα δοθούν...

On 30th September 2016, the Bulgarian Chess Federation filled an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the decision of the European Chess Union General Assembly on 10th of September 2016 to expel the Bulgarian Chess federation from the European Chess Union. After an exchange of written submissions for both sides and [...]

Quality Chess is delighted to announce the publication of the book The Thinkers, by the world’s premier chess photographer, David Llada. Quality Chess has since our inception in 2004 worked tirelessly on producing chess books of high quality, no matter if they are opening books, training books or biographies, whether they are aimed at high [...]

With a win in the final round on Sunday, Ding Liren of China clinched the Moscow Grand Prix. Ding finished with 6 points, half point ahead of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan. Ding and Mamedyarov had led the tournament since Round 4. Ding beat Boris Gelfand of Israel and he did it with the Black pieces. [...]

Second edition of Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour to be held in June 2017, with Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Vassily Ivanchuk and Baadur Jobava. Leuven, Belgium – 22 May 2017 – After the success of the first edition held in 2016, the [...]

“Record, analyse and store your competitive ‘over-the-board’ games” This week I am happy for the opportunity to present another app useful for the club player, app called ChessJournal. It is created by Jon Fischer and Matt Lawson both from Bristol, England and it can be downloaded for free at the iTunes and Google Play stores. Jon […]

Άκρως ευνοημένοι από την τύχη (και την θεά Κάισσα), οι σκακιστές και φίλοι της περιοχής μας. Το ‘νεότευκτο’ και ‘ζωηρό’ σωματείο της Ζακύνθου προκηρύσσει (με την αρωγή του παλαιότερου ΣΑ Πύργου) αγώνες...

Η ΝΕΠ όπως κάθε χρόνο προκηρύσσει το καθιερωμένο πλέον ‘καλοκαιρινό’ τουρνουά της που έρχεται να προσθέσει μια νότα δροσιάς στα σκακιστικά δρώμενα του Ιουνίου. Ο σύλλογος διαθέτει και πισίνα (Ναυταθλητική Ένωση...