Ολοκληρώνονται στην πρωτεύουσα της Τσεχίας τα Ευρωπαϊκά Νεανικά Πρωταθλήματα 2016. Οι κατηγορίες: U8, 10, 12, 14, 16 και 18 για αγόρια και κορίτσια. Από Έλληνες παίκτες, την καλύτερη εμφάνιση με βάση τη βαθμολογία πραγματοποιούν...

Improving your chess is really all about practice, but how do people establish the practice habit? Here are some interesting tips from another field that chess players in general are not familiar with: Nigel Davies

Houdini 5 dev impresses in Stage 3 of TCEC

Since I returned to tournament chess in 2011 after a hiatus of 20 years, I’ve had an … “interesting” time with the openings. Having depended heavily on memorization in my earlier years, I found I needed a reset. Easier said than done. My best games have consistently been those where there was no opening: I […]

The 20th Vienna Chess Open concluded with the victory of the Austrian top player GM Markus Ragger (2686), who was in the same time the top seed of the event. The local star drew in the last round with GM Evgeny Vorobiov (RUS 2586) and triumphed with 8,0/9 points to earn top prize of 2500 [...]

In these days of very serious opening analysis and theory going well into the middle game in many lines, people often forget the importance of core skills or don’t have time to practice them. Tactical vision is of course absolutely essential, as most people realize. But endgame skill is often underestimated or even overlooked altogether. […]

The 10th and last player to join the line-up of the 8th London Chess Classic is none other than England’s number one, Michael Adams. The Cornishman has been the country’s leading player since 1999 and was once ranked number 4 in the world. Adams has consistently recorded outstanding performances and been a member of the [...]

Live games with computer analysis

There are two schools of thought with regard to making changes to openings. Most people believe that you should stick to what’s working whilst a rare few like to move on and explore new avenues. I like to think that I belong to the second group, at least in theory, and there are good reasons […]

Live games with analysis

Live games with analysis

In last week’s problem, Black’s plan was to liberate his pieces by playing e5. White can get an advantage and stop Black’s plan by playing 1. Ne5. The idea is to follow up with f4 and Nb1-d2-f3, or Qf3 and then Qh3. The best play for Black is to play 1..Bxe5 2. fxe5 Nd7 3. […]

In the Open section of 2016 World Junior Championship, GM Jeffery Xiong was held to a draw in the final round by Iran’s Masoud Mosadeghpour. Xiong had dominated the competition throughout and already won the event with a round to spare. At 16, the American is amongst the youngest World Junior Champions in chess history. [...]

As we now know, chess, at least using the CSC model, doesn’t make kids smarter. However, a recent article in the Daily Mail, citing research involving 12,000 Australian teenagers, suggests that playing video games might make kids smarter. According to Alberto Posso, from RMIT University in Melbourne, students who play online games almost every day […]

The Fiji Chess Federation organised the 2nd Fiji International Open Chess Tournament, incorporating the Oceania Seniors and Oceania Juniors Championships, which was played from the 14th of August until the 17th of August. The venue was the Radisson Blu in Denarau which is about 20 minutes from Nadi. The tournament was a 7 round championship [...]