Continuing on from my previous article I want to talk about how the game has changed and what I might need to do to adjust. The big thing to happen in the last couple of decades has been an explosion in the use of chess databases and engines which mean that even club players need […]

Chessity empowers teachers to add gamification to their chess classes

The super-tournament Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge 2017 is scheduled to take place from 12-17th April in Zurich, Switzerland. The first leg will be all-play-all with the time control 45 min + 30 sec per player. The win will bring 2 points and draw 1 point. The second leg will be with the rapid time control [...]

Here’s another old game and another Ruy Lopez, though this time it features one of my chess heroes, Paul Keres. Keres was a great specialist in the Black side of the Ruy Lopez and developed many different ideas for use in practical games. Here he adopts an unusual move order with 4…Be7 and then 5…d6, […]

You would have seen after my big announcement things have been quiet on the update front. It’s not really been my fault as we have now moved to Sheffield and we only got internet today! It was a real hassle setting up with Virgin as it didn’t work and we switched to SSE- today I was waiting […]

There are some interesting analogies between board games and martial arts and at many different levels. I noticed quite a few of them when I took up internal martial arts (Yiquan and then Tai Chi) around a decade ago and continue to be reminded of them all the time. Here’s an interesting video in which […]

Spanish coastal city of Fuengirola near Malaga will host the European Universities Bridge and Chess Championships – EUSA mind sports – from September 20-24, 2017. Preparations are well underway, and the event will be organised in cooperation of European University Sports Association (EUSA) and the local organising committee, with the support of the European Bridge [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Baku Chess Olympiad on its DD Sports Channel from 21-24th November, 2016. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 21st November from 8pm to 8:30pm (14:00hrs to 14:30hrs GMT) [...]

On 10 November 2016, the CAS dismissed the appeal filed by Ignatius Leong against the decision of the FIDE Ethics Commission which found Mr Leong and Mr Kasparov guilty of breaching Article 2.1 of the FIDE Code of Ethics and banned both of them for a period of two years from holding any office or [...]

In the third round of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk the sole leader was determined. Nino Batsiashvili gained the third victory in a row having outplayed Alexandra Kosteniuk. The opponents discussed the Nimzo-Indian with 4. Qc2. After the game Nino said the fight had been very hard and complicated, but up to some [...]

Any serious club player wishing to improve should prepare their openings properly. I know looking online at multiple free database sites with millions of games and choosing the moves order based on shown percentages is the most common action these days. Players do that and believe they are well prepared and of course do not […]

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The solution to last Monday’s problem is that White can push Black over the edge by playing 1. Ra8. Then Black just has too many pins, pieces en prise and threats to cope with. This week’s problem illustrates the importance of winning won positions. In the diagram, White is a piece up. he is winning, […]

The second round of the 5th FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix leg in Khanty-Mansisyk turned out to be full of fight and even more bloody than the first one. As CEO of FIDE Geoffrey Borg said at the press conference, “women’s chess is always very exciting. Men may be technically higher but we do see the higher percentage [...]