Έγινε σήμερα 25-ix-2016, η πρώτη διοργάνωση του Κυπέλλου "Βύρων Ζάππας" στη λύση σκακιστικών προβλημάτων, σε πολλές πόλεις της Ελλάδος ταυτόχρονα.Η επιλογή των 12 προβλημάτων έγινε από τον πολυπρωταθλητή Ελλάδος Κώστα...

Live games with analysis

My attention was recently drawn to a discussion on Mumsnet about the cost of school chess clubs. The original poster was of the opinion that £6.50 a week for a school chess club (an hour after school) was rather too expensive. She thought that she ought to teach her son at home instead. The subject […]

It’s 3:30 in the morning and I’ve just gotten back from a club (at the age of 55). I’m in the studio mixing 20 tracks of music for a band that has twenty plus musicians in it. I’ve scored the material which means writing all the musical parts down via sheet music. The song is […]

“Σύμπλεγμα ασημάντων οδών φερουσών ηρωικά ονόματα” (Ι.Κονδυλάκης). Η οδός Αλεξάντερ Αλιέχιν, παγκόσμιου πρωταθλητή στο σκάκι 1927-35 και 1937-46, στο Εστορίλ της Πορτογαλίας, πόλη που ο ρώσος εμιγκρές βρήκε το θάνατο. Ο...

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all […]

Live games with analysis

“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!” – Benjamin Franklin Readers may recall that I’ve made various game theory comments about Chess over the past two years. In practice, what it has meant for me is that I’ve not been comfortable with charging into the center […]

Live games with analysis

Live games with analysis

The participants of the FIDE World Youth U14, U16, U18 Championships have arrived to Khanty-Mansiysk, the capital of Ugra. The players and their accompanying persons were greeted in the airport in a traditional Russian way – with songs, accordion playing and local Siberian treats – nuts and cranberries. The official press-center of the tournament talked [...]

Ο ΣΕΠΟΚΕ προκηρύσει για 4η χρονιά τον πανελλήνιο διαγωνισμό σκακιστικού σκίτσου στα Καλάβρυτα στις 17/12/2016. Ακολουθεί η προκήρυξη...

Positions in which the kings are castled on opposite sides often feature a violent race of attacks. Alexander Kotov wrote a chapter on this subject in the book he wrote together with Paul Keres, The Art of the Middle Game. He described how he used to practice playing such positions as a boy and later […]

The 1st Hainan International Chess Open Tournament will take place from 6th to 17th December in Danzhou, Hainan, China. The event consists of the Open section for players rated over 1900 FIDE and Amateur section under 1900. Open section will be played from 6-17th December in 9 rounds according to Swiss system. 1 hour 30 [...]

The last round of 42nd World Chess Olympiad in Baku and the final session of FIDE General Assembly took place on 13th September. The main topic of the discussion of delegates of member countries of FIDE was choosing the city that will host the Chess Olympiad 2020. Khanty-Mansiysk was bidding as the candidate city. The [...]