If a king is uncastled we all know that we have to open the lines against it, especially those of major pieces. Sometimes your opponents are so friendly that they don’t castle for personal reasons :), but sometimes there are some tough guys who are not so friendly and there you have to demonstrate your […]

FIDE Secretariat has published the bids for the World Chess Championships 2019 received by the deadline of 31st March 2017. The bids were forwarded to the FIDE Events Commission which will decide on the technical sufficiency of the bids received according to the bid regulations and the call for bids published on the FIDE site. [...]

The 8th International “Terre degli Elimi” Tournament is scheduled to take place from 28th July to 4th August at the Palazzo Sales in Erice, on Sicily, Italy. As usual, the organizers will offer to chess players and their companions: cheap prices, good weather and wonderful beaches, great cooking and great chess masters to help achieving [...]

The Armenian Chess Federation is organizing an international open chess tournament, dedicated to the memory of GM Karen Asrian, which will take place on June 20-30, 2017, in the prominent resort town of Jermuk. All interested chess players can participate in the 9-round Swiss tournament. The total prize fund is equivalent to 22,500 US dollars. [...]

Με συγκομιδή 6 μεταλλίων και με πολλά καλά πλασαρίσματα επέστρεψαν οι μαθητές και οι μαθήτριες που εκπροσώπησαν την ΕΣΣΠ στα Πανελλήνια Πρωταθλήματα Μαθητών Μαθητριών που πραγματοποιήθηκαν πριν από λίγες ημέρες στο...

“We raise Champions!” Past reviews can be accessed here ChessEssentials, level 1 ChessEssentials, level 2 ChessEssentials, level 3 App link at the iTunes store ChessEssentials Level 4 (reference ratings 1100-1400) costs $2.99 and it also has 30 lessons, 30 puzzle sets and 30 tests still arranged in a well thought order. A junior at this level […]

The 17th Bangkok Chess Club Open is taking place from 8-16th April in the Regent Cha-am Beach Resort, Petchburi, Thailand. The event consists of two sections: Open category for all players (9-round Swiss), and Challenger category for players rated below 2100 or unrated (7-round Swiss). Prizes: Open Group: 1st prize 100,000 Baht, with additional prizes [...]

The 11th Annual Philadelphia Open will be held over the Easter weekend from April 12-16, 2017, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event has 7 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400 and Under 1100. The Open Section is a 5-day tournament (April 12-16) with [...]

Armenian Grandmaster Samvel Ter-Sahakyan took the winner’s trophy in the 2017 Karpos Open after concluding the event with 7,5/9 points and best tie-break score. Also on 7,5 points were last-year winner GM Kiril Georgiev and Russian GMs Anton Demchenko and Boris Savchenko. The 2017 Karpos Open was held from 1-8th April at the Hotel Aleksandar [...]

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Tiebreaks today at the US Chess Championship

Live games with analysis

The championship starts tomorrow

Defending champion Grandmaster (GM) Gawain Jones of the UK returned to the driver’s seat after ending the giant-killing spree of Spanish International Master (IM) Jaime Santos Latasa in Sunday’s seventh round of the 19th Dubai Open Chess Tournament–Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. Official website/ Live games/ Round 1 [...]

I played this game yesterday in the Wakefield 4NCL Congress. The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation is a solid opening where White often plays for a minority attack with b2-b4-b5, but this is more difficult when Black manages to exchange light squared bishops. One of the problems is that Black can often get a knight […]