Η ΕΣΣΠ προκηρύσσει το ατομικό πρωτάθλημα μαθητών-μαθητριών της Περιφερειακής Ενότητας Ηλείας για το 2016. Οι αγώνες θα διεξαχθούν την Κυριακή 20 Μαρτίου στο Κλειστό Γυμναστήριο του 2ου Δημοτικού Σχολείου Πύργου που...

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Στις 26/3 και 27/3 θα διεξαχθούν οι προκριματικοί αγώνες Μαθητών – Μαθητριών για την περιοχή του Νομού Αχαΐας. Οι αγώνες θα γίνουν στο ξενοδοχείο Porto Rio. Λεπτομέρειες για την κατανομή των σχολείων στους ομίλους….

In the 6th round of the Women’s World Championship Match the defending champion Mariya Muzychuk lost with white pieces and allowed her opponent Hou Yifan to increase the lead to 4-2. Muzychuk repeated the Italian Game and the position became very complex right from the opening. Hou Yifan responded quite aggressively with g5-g4 but also [...]

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Yesterday This Day’s Madness did prepare. – Omar Khayyam A weak move prepares a bad move, because a weak move is where the rubber of a faulty positional plan meets the road. In the White fianchetto positions that arise from the King’s Indian Attack or the Modern Reversed / Benko’s Opening as in today’s game, […]

I’ve now been to Iceland so often that I know how to spell the capital city Reykjavik. It’s one of my most favourite places in the world to visit and it’s such a cool place to be a chess player. Obviously the city is rich in chess history with the “Match of the Century” taking […]

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Latvian player IM Toms Kantans, managed to beat the top seed in Stockholm Chess Challenge, GM Vladimir Onischuk from Ukraine in round 2 of the competition. This means that Kantans shares the lead with GM Daniil Lintchevski from Russia. Both have 2 points after the first two games in the tournament. The fact that so few [...]

Today we are going to see another common attacking formation with your knight on e5 (or e4 as Black) and bishop on b5 (b4 as Black). It is usually more effective when the bishop’s counterpart is not able to defend the d7 (d2) or c6 (c3) square. Again you must consider surrounding pawn structure before […]

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) has unveiled the feature films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Screening sections. Also announced was the Centerpiece film, Works In Progress screenings, and the feature film lineup for the 10th annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. The 15th edition of TFF will take place from April 13-24 in New York [...]

The 6th HDBank Cup International Chess Open 2016 is set to take place from 8-13th March at the First Hotel, 18 Hoang Viet Str, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with an average Elo rating of 2350. Chinese player GM Wang Hao (2717) heads the field of 71 players from 12 [...]

Με αφορμή την τελευταία διαφήμιση του Κωτσόβολου "Φαντάσου Δύναμη" που εμφανίζει ως άχρηστη τη σκακιέρα του παππού , την εξαφανίζει και στη θέση της τοποθετεί μία τεράστια τηλεόραση που "φερνει όλη την οικογένεια...

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