Στο πλευρό των σκακιστριών που διαμαρτύρονται έχουν ταχθεί πολλοί επώνυμοι σκακιστές, όπως ο Ρώσος πρώην παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής Κασπάροβ και ο Βρετανός γκραν μετρ Σορτ, οι οποίοι κατακεραυνώνουν της απόφαση της FIDE...

I’ve always had trouble focusing my mind quickly because my thoughts tend to be akin to a pinball wildly bouncing around a full tilt gaming machine. This can be troublesome when trying to sit down and play a game of chess! For the last three years, I’ve been studying the game of blackjack from a […]

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility – those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.  -Viktor Korchnoi Chess is a game of the mind. Not just because it is game of logic, memory, and analysis, but also because chess tests your very character. Chess is played with 32 […]

Το Φεστιβάλ «Chessnale Thessaloniki 2016» έρχεται για πρώτη φορά στη Θεσσαλονίκη από τις 14 έως τις 23 Οκτωβρίου στους χώρους του Mediterranean Cosmos και στην Πλατεία Αριστοτέλους. Το φεστιβάλ διοργανώνουν η Ελληνική, η Ρώσικη και η...

Amalgamated Lint–up 3 points! – Gomez Addams My game certainly has collected lint lately. Every Gruenfeld player with Black likes nothing better than White to play e3 … Be2 without moving the queen bishop out to f4 nor otherwise offering challenge Black’s quick rush to the center. Yet in recent weeks I lost two .. […]

The 2016 European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship will be held in Tallinn, Estonia, from December 14-18, 2016. The competition venue will be Park Inn by Radisson Meriton Conference & Spa Hotel. The Championship, dedicated to Paul Keres 100 Memorial, is open to all players representing Chess Federations which are ECU members (FIDE zones 1.1. [...]

Humans tend to form rules in order to make life easier, but these rules are not always true. Chess is not an exception here. To play better chess, we need to form some general rules. These sets of rules are called strategies and they can be applied to different phases of the game. Yet sometimes […]

Έντεκα τελικά ομάδες δήλωσαν συμμετοχή στο Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Παίδων Κορασίδων της ΕΣΣΠ για το 2016. Οι αγώνες θα ξεκινήσουν την Κυριακή 16/11 στις έδρες των γηπεδούχων σωματείων. Αναλυτικά η κλήρωση του 1ου γύρου

“The Lucena position is one of the most famous and important positions in chess endgame theory, where one side has a rook and a pawn and the defender has a rook. It is fundamental in the rook and pawn versus rook endgame. If the side with the pawn can reach this type of position, he […]

The 2016 Magistral d’Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona is organized by the Catalonia Chess Federation from 22-28th October in Barcelona, Spain. The 8-player round robin tournament of 14th category is sponsored by the Barcelona City Hall. Participants: GM Arkadij Naiditsch (2684) Azerbaijan GM Jan Krzysztof Duda (2678) Poland GM Vadim Zvjaginsev (2573) Russia GM David Antón [...]

This week’s problem is about how to be a piece up without taking more of your opponents pieces than he has taken of yours. The solution is that you bury one of your opponent’s pieces alive so that it can never enter the game. How can Black to play ensure that he is , to […]

If Stephen Moss, a player with a perfectly respectable grade (slightly above average club strength) considers himself a rookie, perhaps we need a different word for those who really are rookies. Just before the start of term I received an email from a parent of a boy at a school where I run a chess […]

We are now both in Atlantic City, New Jersey where Gawain is currently competing in the Millionaire Open. Unfortunately I don’t think you can become a millionaire this year as prizes as well as the entry fee was reduced from the previous editions. After we split up last time I headed to Texas (more on […]

One of the key points I make to new chess teachers is the idea of getting to know your student’s interests outside of chess. There’s a very good reason for this and it has to do with your ability to convey knowledge in the most efficient way. Your job as a teacher is explain something […]

Η Π. Σ. Περιστερίου σας καλεί σε διάλεξη που θα δώσει ο GM Στέλιος Χαλκιάς με θέμα “Ολυμπιάδα Μπακού 2016” την Κυριακή 9 Οκτωβρίου και ώρα 18:30. Θα παρουσιαστούν αναλυμένες παρτίδες του Στέλιου, άλλων μελών της Εθνικής...