The 1st European Corporate Chess Championship 2017 will take place in the Town Hall of Honour of the City of Asnières, Paris, France, 24–25 November 2017. The tournament will be played as a Swiss Open in 9 rounds, with time control 15 minutes per game + 3 seconds per move starting from move 1. Each [...]

This year I had to play a game on my 26th Birthday, I can’t actually remember the last time that happened. I’ve heard more often than not people don’t like playing on their birthday but I wont this year so it was fine :-). We arrived back from sunny Bali early on Wednesday morning and […]

Η Ναυταθλητική Ένωση Πατρών νίκησε την Ε.Α.Π. με 5,5 – 4,5 και δίκαια κατέκτησε αήττητη την πρώτη θέση στο πρωτάθλημα της Ε.Σ.Σ.Π. για το 2017

This was a good game by my Dad in the King’s Indian Attack. I was impressed with how he outplayed another Grandmaster in this system using some moves which looked strange at first. When Black played …e6-e5 his d5 pawn became weak. Sam Davies

Today I want to look at a forgotten story from the heady days of the English Chess Explosion. The year was 1980. Chess in the UK was booming, and, in particular, the game was becoming very popular in Primary Schools. What could be better for catching the Zeitgeist than a chess teaching scheme, combined with […]

The 15th Aeroflot Open took place from 21st February to 1st March at the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow, Russia. The main event of the festival with 140.000 EUR in prizes attracted 98 players from 28 countries. Grandmaster Vladimir Fedoseev took a clear first place with 7 points in 9 rounds. He qualified to participate in [...]

With Hugh away this week I find myself in the unfortunate position of having to fill in for him. Rather than attempt to match his brilliant articles I thought it better to offer some light entertainment in the form of Chess and Simpsons. And no that’s not the famous Simpson’s restaurant in the Strand but […]

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Η ΕΣΣΠ προκηρύσσει την προκριματική φάση του 29oυ Ατομικού Πρωταθλήματος Μαθητών Μαθητριών Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Ελλάδας για τις περιοχές των Δήμων Πατρέων, Δυτικής Αχαΐας ,Ερυμάνθου, Υπολοίπου Αιτωλοακαρνανίας και...

I decided that we needed to have a holiday in February as we hadn’t had any sun for the last 5 months(!). I also noticed that we had not visited my family in Malaysia for 4 years so it felt like it was time to head back to my Mum’s hometown, Sungai Pelek. Gerry Graham […]

In recent years there has been talk about rating inflation due to top players achieving ever higher Elo ratings. Were so many players really so much better than Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov? I’m not sure that the effect can really be described as inflation as at the other end of the scale […]

The game below is a real trip down memory lane for me. It was played in my first Elo rated tournament when I’d just turned 17 and I still played openings like the King’s Gambit and Schliemann Defence. The Schliemann featured in this game and my opponent, Jeff Horner, didn’t really know what to do […]

“It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position” -Richard Reti When we start learning chess, we are often given general principles or “rules of thumb” to follow. Here are an example of some general principles we […]

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“100 Teste de sah, Procedee tactice elementare”/ “100 Chess tests, Basic tactics”, ISBN 978-606-8298-58-0, Editura Unirea – Alba Iulia is the third book in Romanian by MF Marius Ceteras (ROU), a follow up on the previous two very popular ones for beginner and intermediate players. His books are recognized by Romanian Ministry of Education and […]