Wikipedia mentions about this opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benko_Gambit “… Many of the world’s strongest players have used it at one time or another, including former World Champions Viswanathan Anand, Garry Kasparov, Veselin Topalov and Mikhail Tal, and Grandmasters Vassily Ivanchuk, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Boris Gelfand, and Evgeny Bareev.” Admit it...

I had a tough start in this last weekend’s Harrogate 4NCL Congress with a draw and then two losses against strong opponents. One thing that I’ve talked about a lot with my Dad is to never give in and fight on in the next games, regardless of what has just happened. And I managed it […]

The Sharjah Chess & Culture Club is pleased to invite players to participate at the 1st Sharjah Masters international Chess Championship, which will be held at Sharjah Chess & Culture Club from 22nd March to 31st March 2017. The 9-round Swiss event is open to players rated above 1500 FIDE. The total prize fund is [...]

The 2017 edition of Basel Chess Festival took place from 2-8th January at Hotel Landgasthof in Basel, Switzerland. A total of 107 players took part in the 9-round Swiss event. Grandmasters Eltaj Safarli, Bai Jinshi and Christian Bauer shared the first place with 7/0 points each. Eltaj Safarli took the winner’s trophy on best tiebreak. [...]

Former Women’s World Champion Mariya Muzychuk will not play in the World Championship in Iran this February, censor.net.ua reported. Mariya Muzychuk stated – “it is wrong that the players who refuse to play in Iran and to wear a hijab are simply out of the World Championship cycle.” At the same time Mariya confirmed that [...]

Η Ένωση Αθλοπαιδιών Πατρών διοργανώνει τουρνουά rapid 6 αγωνιστικών στις 15 και 22 Ιανουαρίου, στο Επιμελητήριο Αχαΐας στην οδό Μιχαλακοπούλου 58 στην Πάτρα . Οι συμμετέχοντες θα χωριστούν σε 3 γκρουπ δυναμικότητας ανάλογα...

Grandmaster Ernesto Inarkiev, the reigning European Champion, is elected president of the chess federation in Republic of Ingushetia, a federal subject of Russia. One of his first projects will be implementation of the program “Chess in Schools”. Inarkiev is the author of the idea of compulsory chess education in the elementary schools. This initiative is [...]

I had a tough start in this last weekend’s Harrogate 4NCL Congress with a draw and then two losses against strong opponents. One thing that I’ve talked about a lot with my Dad is to never give and fight on in the next games, regardless of what has just happened. And I managed it here […]

Διεξήχθη σήμερα, 08/01/2017, ο αγώνας λύσης σκακιστικών προβλημάτων "4ο Κύπελλο Ελλάδας".Την γενική επιμέλεια και την ευθύνη επιλογής των προβλημάτων είχε ο Νίκος Μενδρινός.Τα...

4ο ΚΥΠΕΛΛΟ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΛΥΣΗΣ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΩΝΕλάτε να γνωρίσετε τον κόσμο του Καλλιτεχνικού Σκακιού!Τη δεύτερη Κυριακή του νέου έτους, 8 Ιανουαρίου 2017 (ώρα 11.00-13.30) θα  πραγματοποιηθεί το 4ο Κύπελλο Ελλάδας στη...

The traditional Hastings International Chess Congress took place from 28th December 2016 to 5th January 2017 at the Horntye Sports Centre in Hastings, UK. The Congress consisted of seven tournaments and the main event was Hastings Masters with 99 participants from 23 countries, including 12 Grandmasters and 14 International Masters. GM Deep Sengupta from India [...]

Last month’s London Chess Conference supported by Chess in Schools and Communities was, as always, a mixture of the inspiring, the fascinating and the somewhat disturbing. We learned quite a lot about methods used for introducing chess to very young children, much of which seems to emanate from Italy and Spain. Now this doesn’t mean […]

Σε ηλικία 60 ετών έφυγε από τη ζωή ο αγαπητός σε όλους μας Στέλιος Ψάρρας. Ο Πειραιώτης μαιτρ, με καταγωγή από τη Λήμνο, είχε πολλές διακρίσεις σε εθνικό επίπεδο αλλά και αξιόλογη παρουσία ως προπονητής. Αγωνίστηκε στον...

The 46th Rilton Cup was held from 27th December 2016 to 5th January 2017 at the Clarion Hotel, in Stockholm, Sweden. The traditional festival consisted of four sections: Rilton Cup, Rilton Elo, Rilton 1800 and Rilton 1600. The main section was a 9-round Swiss for players rated over 2200. GM Krishnan Sasikiran of India took [...]

There was a time in the not so distant past, when we had to keep track of important games, both our own and the games of others, by carefully copying each move into a paper notebook. If you were serious about improving, you’d often find yourself copying dozens of games into that notebook that were […]