A friendly match between European champion 2016 Ernesto Inarkiev and World Vice-Champion 2012 Boris Gelfand will take place on June 12-22 in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia Republic. The match will consist of six games with the following time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves, and them 30 minutes for the rest of the game, [...]

This win against a much lower-rated opponent put me into temporary first place in this section. However, games that finished after this one did dropped me back into a tie for fourth place. Going through the crosstable for this section I played over my opponents games that he has finished. So far, he has one forfeit […]

During the European Go Congress a special match between famous Grandmasters Alexander Morozevich (Russia) and Tiger Hillarp Persson (Sweden) will take place. Both of them can play Go game close to dan level. 10-00, 1st game: Go (commentary by Go professional) 11-30, 2nd game: Chess (commentary by chess Grandmaster) 14-00, 3rd game: Go (commentary by [...]

It was al-Biruni in 10th-century Baghdad who explained how to calculate 264 efficiently by repeated squaring. He was definitely a computer scientist. He knew how many grains of wheat there were without doubling 64 times. al-Khwarizmi, who lived about 150 years before that, gave us his name as “algorithm.” There were great books about chess […]

Ukraine will compete in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku without Vassily Ivanchuk, the long time national team leader. Ivanchuk debuted for the USSR in 1988 in Thessaloniki where he was the 2nd reserve. Already in 1990 in Novi Sad he played the top board for USSR. Both times the team won the gold medal. [...]

The 44th Annual World Open was held from June 30-July 4, 2016 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The event had 9 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400, Under 1200, Under 900 and Unrated. The main Open section had 220 participants. After 9 rounds [...]

Pawns are natural blockaders of lines so every pawn move opens up some lines while closing Others. The quality of your long-range pieces depends upon the availability of open lines. Besides this pawn levers can be very useful in busting the opponent’s pawn structure or improving one’s own pawn structure. Therefore every pawn move and […]

The Israeli player Evgeny Postny, 35 years of age, is the first 2600+ player to sign up for Rilton Cup 2016/2017 which will be played between December 27th and January 5th. GM Evgeny Postny has 2632 in ELO and will surely be among the favorites to win the trophy. By Ingemar Falk It’s more than [...]

The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission has the pleasure to announce the nominees of the 2016 Arbiters’ Awards. The requirements for the Arbiters to be awarded were: (a) to have obtained the IA title before 1981 (35 years of service as an IA) (b) to have worked as an Arbiter in at least three (3) FIDE Major [...]

Την Τετάρτη ο «Αλλοστρόπος» θα παρουσιάσει την «Άλη» Μπύρα, την φρέσκια μπύρα Θεσσαλονίκης.  Δείτε όσοι έχετε fb τις λεπτομέρειες του event εδώΆλη σημαίνει περιπλάνηση. Την Τετάρτη το απόγευμα στις 7 μ.μ...

Adrian Hollis was one of Britain’s leading chess players both at correspondence and over-the-board chess in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s. There were many good obituaries in the newspapers when he died a few years ago and I am not intending to match any here, just to show how good he was at chess. I […]

Αρχίζει σήμερα, 5 Ιουλίου, στις 4.30 το απόγευμα, το 44ο Πανελλήνιο Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Α’ Εθνικής  Κατηγορίας, στο Ρίο της Αχαϊας. Συμμετέχουν 34 σύλλογοι (οι ομάδες και ο μέσος όρος του έλο με βάση τη δηλωμένη σύνθεση): 1...

Άρχισε την Δευτέρα 27 Ιουνίου το πρόγραμμα “Αθλητικά μονοπάτια – Καλοκαίρι 2016”. Το πρόγραμμα έχει ως στόχο την εξοικείωση των παιδιών των νησιών της άγονης γραμμής με διάφορα αθλήματα. Φέτος για δέυτερη χρονιά στο...

Στεφάνου και Χριστοδούλου πρώτος και δεύτερος στα Αγόρια 10 ετών, Ζαρονίκας τρίτος στα αγόρια 12 ετών και Καλύβα τρίτη στα Κορίτσια 14 ετών, πέτυχαν την καλύτερη συγκομιδή μεταλλίων όλων των εποχών στα Πανελλήνια Νεανικά...

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