World Senior Team Championship 2017 Category 50+ and World Senior Team Championship 2017 Category 65+ are taking place from 24th April to 2nd May at the wonderful Creta Maris Resort in Hersonissos, Greece. Entitled to participate in the category 50+ are players who were born in the year 1967 or earlier. Entitled to participate in [...]

“To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame” Jose Raul Capablanca This week’s endgame is a beauty! At first glance it looks deceivingly simple. It is white to move; please have a look and guess what the result would be: Does the position look familiar to you? Do you happen […]

Έφυγε από τη ζωή σε ηλικία 93 ετών ο Σπύρος Λοβέρδος, ένας πολύ αγαπητός άνθρωπος που αποτελούσε μυθική κληρονομιά για το ελληνικό σκάκι. Από τα παγωμένα χρόνια της κατοχής ακόμα δραστηριοποιήθηκε σε σκακιστικούς...

Οι λαβύρινθοι του Χόρχε Λουίς Μπόρχες καθώς και το τούνελ, οι ήρωες και οι τάφοι του Ερνέστο Σάμπατο, συναντώνται σε φιλοσοφικούς και λογοτεχνικούς διαλόγους με όχημα το παιχνίδι του σκακιού. “Στις προφορικές (και...

Σε 20 περίπου ημέρες αρχίζει στη Θεσσαλονίκη (ξενοδοχείο ΦΙΛΙΠΠΕΙΟΝ) το Διεθνές  τουρνουά rapid & blitz. Σε αυτό έχουν πάρει μέρος στο παρελθόν πολλοί GM & IM και Έλληνες πρωταθλητές – πρωταθλήτριες όπως επισης και...

Η κλήρωση του διασυλλογικού κυπέλλου θα γίνει σήμερα το βράδυ στις 21.00 στο εντευκτήριο της ΝΕΠ στο Κλειστο Κολυμβητήριο "Αντώνης Πεπανος". Οι εκπρόσωποι των σωματείων μπορούν να παρακολουθήσουν την κλήρωση...

Ο Βασίλης Κόκκαλης με 5 βαθμούς σε 6 αγώνες αναδείχθηκε ο νικητής του Ατομικού Πρωταθλήματος Ανδρών Γυναικών της ΕΣΣΠ για το 2017. Ο Βασίλης θα εκπροσωπήσει την περιοχή μας στο Ανοιχτό Πρωτάθλημα Ελλάδος. Για την επιτυχία...

I found it shocking that Black can win this endgame but he does so with a very surprising breakthrough. The other thing is that when both sides promote, Black needs to be able to force the exchange of queens after which he’s closer to the queenside than White: Sam Davies

Georgian Grandmaster Nana Dzagnidze is the winner of the 18th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship, which was held from 11-22nd April at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Riga, Latvia. In the final decisive round Dzagnidze drew with Russian Natalija Pogonina, and emerged clear winner with 8,5/11 points. Second place was shared between two Russian players [...]

The All India Chess Federation on behalf of FIDE and Commonwealth Chess Association cordially invite your Federation to participate in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017 to be held at Hotel Park Plaza, Shahdara, New Delhi, India from 2nd-10th July 2017 organized by Delhi Chess Association. The tournament will be conducted as per FIDE Laws of [...]

You might think, given the decline in traditional print media, it’s a strange time to launch a new magazine. Bridge Magazine, the stablemate of CHESS, went digital a few years ago, and The Problemist, the magazine of the British Chess Problem Society, will be heading in the same direction at the start of next year. […]

The 4th MindSports World Championships 2017 will be held from 19-27th August at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center (DECC) in Doha, Qatar. The competitions in Scrabble, Chess, Go and Esports will offer a record prize fund of 200,000 USD. The chess programme will include: Bughouse – August 19th – Prize pool minimum $3000 Blitz [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 12 to 19 May 2017 in Koror, Palau, by the Palau Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Jamie Kenmure (AUS), FIDE Lecturer. The language of the Seminar will be English. The [...]

Levon Aronian ist the winner of the GRENKE Chess Classic with one round to go. The Armenian grandmaster won in the sixth round against Hou Yifan. Fabiano Caruana tried everything to win his game against Matthias Blübaum, to keep a minimal chance to tie with Aronian after seven rounds alive, but he only got a [...]

Over the last eight articles, we’ve explored basic tactical ideas and have seen how important a role tactics play in the game of chess. Of course, great chess playing requires more than simply being good at tactics. Master level players will incorporate and employ tactics in their overall plan but know that tactics alone don’t […]