The Egyptian Chess Federation is holding the EGYPT Chess Open from 21-30th April 2016 at the at Shooting Club & El Gezira Youth Center in Cairo. The event is organized under Patronage of Eng. Khaled Abdel Aziz, Minister of Youth & Sports. The tournament is open to all Fide-rated players with a standard rating of [...]

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. – Proverbs 28:1 I was all about lunging for a few installments. I think now I’m about incisivity (which I coin as a term of art from “incisiveness”). Having experienced personal growth in technique and gamesmanship over the past years, […]

Το The Mall Athens ντύνεται στα ασπρόμαυρα και στο πλαίσιο της CHESSNALE ATHENS 2016 παρουσιάζει από τις 18 Μαρτίου και μέχρι τις 3 Απριλίου το τρίτο μεγάλο Σκακιστικό-Πολιτιστικό φεστιβάλ. Υπό την αιγίδα της Παγκόσμιας Σκακιστικής...

Η ΕΣΣΠ προκηρύσσει την προκριματική φάση του 28oυ Ατομικού Πρωταθλήματος Μαθητών Μαθητριών Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Ελλάδας για τις περιοχές των Δήμων Πατρέων, Δυτικής Αχαΐας και Ερυμάνθου. Οι αγώνες θα πραγματοποιηθούν ...

Η συνεδρίαση του ΔΣ της ΕΣΣΠ για τον μήνα Μάρτιο θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Κυριακή 20 Μαρτίου στις 18.00 στο εντευκτήριο της ΝΕΠ. Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε τα θέματα της ημερήσιας διάταξης στο άθρο.

The Romanian International Open 2016 is taking place from 16-23 March, in Alba Iulia, Romania. The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with an average rating of 2352. Top seed is GM Andrei Istartescu (2602) from France. Official website/ Standings and statistics

The First Mongolian Nations Chess Tournament takes place from 13 to 20 March 2016 in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. It is a round robin tournament (Men’s and women’s sections) having 4 chess players from Mongolia and one representatives per each regions of Inner Mongolia, Republics Buryatia, Tyva and Kalmykia (Russia). Prize fund of both sections is [...]

Whilst coaching beginners we often ask them not to move pawns in front of their castled king unless it is compulsory to do so. This is because it is a hook and your opponent can often launch a successful attack based on it. Today we will see how to attack when a pawn moves to […]

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The 1st Mongolian Nations Women’s Chess Tournament is taking place from 14-20 March 2016 in the capital of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar. It is a single round-robin tournament for women where 4 Mongolian players and one representative from each country (Inner Mongolia, Republics of Tyva, Buriatya and Kalmykia) participate. Participants: GM Gundavaa Bayarsaikhan MGL 2517, GM Batchuluun Tsegmed MGL...

The 1st Mongolian Nations Women’s Chess Tournament is taking place from 14-20 March 2016 in the capital of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar. It is a single round-robin tournament for women where 4 Mongolian players and one representative from each country (Inner Mongolia, Republics of Tyva, Buriatya and Kalmykia) participate. Participants: WGM Kovanova Baira RUS 2389, WGM Ivakhinova Inna RUS [...]

The First Mongolian Nations Chess Tournament started today on 14 March 2016 in the capital of Mongolia Ulan Bator. It will be round robin tournament (men and women sections) where 4 Mongolian players and one representative from each country (Inner Mongolia, Republics of Tyva, Buriatya and Kalmykia) will participate. The competition is taking place in [...]

The elections for the Iran Chess Federation presidency were held on 14th March at the Sport Hotel. 43 delegates constituted the Assembly and 14 candidates were running for the post of President. Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh won the election in the first ballot with 24 votes. He will be the federation President for the next four years. [...]

This week’s example may very well have been influenced by a knowledge of Botvinnik-Sorokin, shown last week. Kholmov also offers the queen exchange on e3, realising that the resulting doubled e-pawns will not be weak, but will increase White’s pressure down the f-file, especially against f7. Suetin opts to keep queens on, but has to […]

The new title tournament for young talents, Stockholm Chess Challenge 2016, was organized in Kista, Stockholm, from 8th to 13th of March. The event was a 9-round Swiss invitational tournament open to titled players at the age of 25 years old or younger. A total of 16 participants from Belarus, Canada, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, [...]