The 1st FIDE World Cadets Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships 2017 will be held in Minsk, Belarus, from 1st of June (arrivals) to 5th of June (departures) 2017. The championships will be held in Palace of Sport in Minsk, Belarus. Each federation can register unlimited number of players in each of the categories ‐ under [...]

The 1st English Correspondence Chess Championship (ECCC) starts on 1st April 2017. It will be a bi-annual event and, as the name suggests, will only contain players registered under the England flag. There will be a Championship Final with between 11 and 15 competitors, two Semi-Finals with between 9 and 13 competitors and some preliminary […]

‘We raise Champions!” We all remember our first steps in chess. Our first lesson about the chessboard and pieces probably came from our grandparents, parents or friends; if you were the curious kind maybe you saw someone play the game and asked what was that about. Depending on your age I bet the chessboard looked […]

A journalist investigation brings down Borislav Ivanov

Ανακοινώνεται ο πίνακας των προκριθέντων αθλητών και λεπτομέρειες για την διαδικασία της εκδήλωσης ενδιαφέροντος για την συμμετοχή στην τελική φάση που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Λουτράκι 8-10 Απριλίου.

Η Ένωση Αθλοπαιδιών διοργανώνει τουρνουά rapid 7 αγωνιστικών με διεθνή αξιολόγηση το διήμερο 25 και 26 Μαρτίου στο cafe "Μεσημεριανή" στην πλατεία Αγίας Λαύρας στην Πάτρα.

Με την συμμετοχή 412 μαθητών και μαθητριών από όλη την Περιφέρεια Δυτική Ελλάδος, την Κεφαλλονιά και την Ζάκυνθο πραγματοποιήθηκε την Κυριακή η τελική φάση των περιφερειακών ατομικών μαθητικών πρωταθλημάτων.Αναλυτικά...

Με την συμμετοχή 61 ομάδων από όλες τις βαθμίδες της εκπαίδευσης και την συμμετοχή περίπου 300 μαθητών και μαθητριών πραγματοποιήθηκε το Σάββατο στο Πάρκο της Ειρήνης η τελική φάση του περιφερειακού ομαδικού μαθητικού...

The rook endgame in this game was a good example of the strength of a pawn duo. Mikhail Botvinnik had a pawn on the 7th rank but Kopilov’s e- and f-pawn duo was too much. This game was also a big upset as Botvinnik was World Champion at the time. Sam Davies

We all know that checkmate ends the game, and yet, if you visit your local primary school chess club you’ll see that many children get more pleasure from promoting lots of pawns and getting lots of queens than from actually winning the game. Furthermore, you’ll see that most games end with the equivalent of a […]

We’re going to take a break from tactics to look at one of the many places I teach chess but will return to our tactical studies next week. Teaching chess to children is only part of my chess teaching career. I teach teenagers, adults, coach chess teams and teach chess to extremely hardened criminals, both […]

Anatoly Karpov was one of the all time greats. He was known especially for his positional play and accuracy in the endgame. One of the positional techniques he was particularly good at was the minority attack. He has several sparkling victories in which the minority attack was a featured contributor. In this first example, Karpov saddles […]

The Chess Festival will take place from 18-25th June, 2017, at the “Kamin hall” of Restaurant Sidro and “Great hall” of Danubia Park Hotel on Silver Lake in Serbia.

The Sharjah Chess & Culture Club is organizing the 1st Sharjah Masters international Chess Championship, which will be held at Sharjah Chess & Culture Club from 22nd March to 31st March 2017. The Masters is held under the Patronage of H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah. [...]

This recent article lends some important clarification to the so-called 10,000 hour rule. Of course some of us have been aware of the importance of talent for some time, especially after post mortem analysis with a young Vishwanathan Anand. I understood that I’d never be as quick sighted as him or other top players even […]