Tο Σάββατο 10 Δεκεμβρίου και ώρα 7μ.μ. στο χώρο μας Λυκούργου 50 στην Καλλιθέα, θα διεξαχθεί το 7ο τουρνουά rapid του συλλόγου μας. Το παράβολο είναι 5 ευρώ και ο χρόνος σκέψης 10 λεπτά με επιπλέον προσαύξηση 5 δευτερολέπτων ανά...

The Ukrainian Men’s Chess Championship 2016 is taking place from December 6-17, in Rivne. The event is a round-robin tournament in 11 rounds. The tempo of play is 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″. Participants: GM Anton Korobov (2692), GM Alexander Areshchenko (2678), GM Alexander Moiseenko (2657), GM Yuriy Kuzubov (2651), GM Zahar Efimenko (2651), GM [...]

The 2017 World Amateur Chess Championships for men and women with a FIDE rating under 2300 will be held from 1-9th April in the Rocca Albornoziana in Spoleto, Italy. There will be separate championships for categories Under-2300, Under-2000 and Under-1700. In each rating section, a separate championship for women shall be organized only if there [...]

The Tunisian Secretary of State for Sport welcomed African Chess Confederation President Lewis Ncube who is on a working visit to the country on the occasion of the conclusion of the African Junior Championship that took place from November 25 to December 4, 2016 in Hammamet. The meeting was attended by the Director General for [...]

“In chess, a queen sacrifice is a move giving up a queen in return for tactical or positional compensation.” Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_sacrifice The queen is the most powerful piece, so it is understandable players of all levels think really hard before sacrificing it. I remember one of my OTB games from the junior years where I […]

World Championship challenger Sergey Karjakin took a ceremonial kick-off in the football match of his favourite Spartak Moscow and Rubin Kazan on the Otkrytie Arena. Rubin was in the lead but Spartak turned the score and won by 2-1. In 2013 Magnus Carlsen started the match Real Madrid-Valladolid.

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The solution to last Monday’s problem is that White wins most cleanly with 1. Nc2!. The idea is that Rxa2 is met by 2. Qd8+ Qxd8 3. Rxd8+ Kg7 4. Na3 In this week’s problem, White has to find the cleanest method of establishing a won game. At present, he has two pieces for a […]

In the conference hall of the Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi, the opening ceremony of the World Schools Chess Championship took place on 2nd December. 499 players from 30 countries arrived to take part in the competition. The tournament is hosted in Russia for the first time ever. Alexander Tkachiev, Deputy Executive Director of RCF, read [...]

Δημοσιεύεται σε συνέχειες ένα σπουδαίο κείμενο του Παναγιώτη Κονιδάρη, συγγραφέα σκακιστή και φαρμακοποιού από το Μεγανήσι Λευκάδας, σχετικά με τις σπουδές.Οι σπουδές είναι συνθέσεις (δηλαδή δεν έχουν οπωσδήποτε...

At the end of Richmond Junior Club last Saturday I was analysing a game with one of our members. He’s typical of many of the children we see. He knows how to play a good game and wins most of his games at school but lacks the concentration and impulse control needed to avoid blundering […]

Chess grandmaster Timur Gareyev, also known as the Blindfold King will set a new world record for Blindfold Chess in Las Vegas. OFF da ROOK Entertainment along with the Las Vegas Chess Center will present a special Blindfold Chess event with the Blindfold King. GM Timur Gareyev will challenge himself to set the new world [...]