Continuing my series on chess-playing musicians, let’s move forward into the mid 19th century or so and meet Ferenc Erkel (November 7 1810 – June 15 1893). Erkel is perhaps not a household name today but his music is still revered in his native Hungary. He was a composer, conductor and pianist best known as […]

On June 1, the International Children’s Day, Dagomys will host another final of White Castle, a team chess tournament for schools. For the second consecutive year, foreign teams will participate in the final along with Russian schoolchildren. This year the tournament will welcome more youngsters from abroad, and the RCF takes special pride in succeeding [...]

Στην αρχειακή φωτογραφία εικονίζεται ο Νταβίντ Μπεν-Γκουριόν, ο ιδρυτής και πρώτος πρωθυπουργός του κράτους του Ισραήλ, να παίζει σκάκι πάνω σε πλοίο. Η εικόνα πιστεύεται πως τραβήχτηκε λίγες εβδομάδες μετά την έκδοση...

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The 11th American Continental Chess Championship is taking place from 28th May to 5th June, 2016, at the CIFCO in San Salvador, El Salvador. The tournament format is 11-round Swiss and top four finishers will qualify for the 2017 FIDE World Cup. Top prizes are USD 5000/3400/2400/1700/1200/900 etc The preliminary list has 79 players from [...]

There’s an old joke in which one gentleman asks another gentleman, who just so happens to be carrying a violin case, how to get to Carnegie Hall (a famous New York City concert hall where only the best musicians in the world are invited to play). The gentlemen asking the question is running late and […]

Όπου σήμερα συζητάμε για ένα θρύλο της σκακιέρας που τα έβαλε με δυο υπερδυνάμεις. Τραγουδάμε για τον Μπόμπι Φίσερ έναν άνθρωπο που κατάφερνε να εξευτελίζει κάθε του αντίπαλο – ακόμη και τον ίδιο του τον εαυτό...

Representatives of the UK newspaper The Telegraph have confirmed that President of the Russian Chess Federation and Vice-President of FIDE Andrey Filatov is not associated with Telecom Ltd Express, a company mentioned in the article Chess Drawn in the Panama Papers Scandal, and apologized for the error. Earlier the online version of the newspaper published [...]

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The 35th Zalakaros Chess Festival is taking place from 27th May to 4th June, 2016, in Zalakaros, a town in Hungary, famous for its thermal bath. The event is organized by the Hungarian Chess Federation and Zalakaros City Council, under the patronage of Mr. Tamás Seszták, President of the Hungarian Chess Federation, and Mr. Ferenc [...]

TrustNordisk has struck multiple Cannes deals for the Norwegian documentary about chess world champion Magnus Carlsen. Arrow Films has picked up UK and Ireland rights for Benjamin Ree’s Norwegian documentary Magnus. The deal was struck in Cannes with Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk, who also closed a deal with Pretty Pictures for France. Rights were previously [...]

My opponent in this OTB Rapid Chess game became a USCF Life Master. I do not recall if he was yet a LM at the time that this chess game was played. This is one of three losses that I have to Corey Acor and my only loss to him with the black pieces. My […]

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The Spanish Chess Federation is saddened to inform that the legendary Grandmaster Arturo Pomar Salamanca passed away at the age 84 after a long ilness. Born in 1931 in Palma de Mallorca, Pomar excelled in chess at the early age and was considered a child prodigy in the 1940s. At the age of 13 he [...]

The Swedish Chess Academy and Swedish Chess Federation will hold the social project “The Swedish industry meets suburbs” on 3rd June in Stockholm. - “This initiative is an effort of inclusion of ethnic minorities in Sweden through chess”, says GM Pontus Carlsson, the main organizer for the event. Chess benefits millions because of its widespread [...]