Live games with analysis

Good night boys & girls . . . Thank you for coming to our concert – Frank Zappa My wife says I’m really two chess players. The first one sits down and bungles the opening and the second one pushes the first out of the chair, saying, “Move over, patzer, let me handle this!” Today […]

The opening ceremony of the 3rd Vugar Gashimov Memorial took place on 25th May in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. The ceremony was attended by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Azerbaijan Minister of Sport and Youth Azad Ragimov, Vice President of Azerbaijan Chess Federation Mahir Mamedov, Vugar’s father Gasim Gashimov, Executive director of Synergy Group Gudrat Seyfulaev, Governor of [...]

The Ontario Open Championship is an annual chess tournament sanctioned by the Ontario Chess Association and held traditionally over the Victoria Day long weekend by one of its four leagues. This year’s event was held on May 21-23, at the Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst, Toronto. Over 140 players competed in four sections: Crown, U2200, [...]

Live games with analysis

Live games with analysis

Την επόμενη Τετάρτη, 01/06/2016, λήγει η προθεσμία για την υποβολή επιλεγμένων προβλημάτων των συνθετών, της τριετίας 2013-2015, στα FIDE Albums.Πληροφορίες εδώ : http://www.wfcc.ch/fide-albums/fa1315sl/fa1315ann/

Live games with analysis

After castling short we tend to play the king’s rook to another open/half open file, abandoning protection of the f-pawn in front of it. Therefore it is quite useful to set your radar for the f7 (f2) square in order to seize any opportunity to launch an attack on castled king. Usually, we sacrifice the […]

The Catalan Grand Prix of International Open Chess Tournaments – Catalan Chess Circuit 2016 is a series of international open chess tournaments held from May to September. The Circuit Català is organized by the Catalan Chess Federation (FCE) and sponsored by the Catalan Sports Council of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The 23 tournaments which count [...]

The 2016 Asian Continental Chess Championships – Open and Women’s – will take place from 25th May to 5th June at the Uzbekistan Hotel in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Eligible to participate are players from FIDE Zones 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. The tournament will be conducted as a Swiss System competition of 9 [...]

H Γυμναστική Εταιρεία Αγρινίου προκηρύσσει την διοργάνωση του 2ου ΔΙΑΣΥΛΛΟΓΙΚΟΥ RAPID ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟΥ. Οι αγώνες θα πραγματοποιηθούν την Κυριακή 12 Ιουνίου στις αίθουσες του Εmileon Sport Center στο Δοκίμι Αγρινίου. Οι δηλώσεις...

In the run up to the crucial Brexit vote next month I thought I’d show some games by the England team from the European Team Championships in Skara, 1980. England won gold ahead powerful opposition including the Soviet Union and Hungary, and they did it in remarkable style. Here is the most famous game from […]

Russian Grandmaster Ernesto Inarkiev won the 2016 European Individual Chess Championship in a convincing fashion, concluding the race with 9 points from 11 rounds. Inarkiev entered the final round with a full point advantage ahead of the chasing pack and duly drew with black pieces against Kacper Piorun to secure the title. Igor Kovalenko from [...]

Όπως γνωρίζετε, τα σκακιστικά προβλήματα πρέπει να έχουν την λύση που επιθυμεί ο συνθέτης και μόνο αυτήν, αλλιώς θεωρείται ότι είναι τρύπια (στα αγγλικά cooked, μαγειρεμένα).Στα βοηθητικά, μπορεί να υπάρχουν περισσότερες...