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The Women’s World Chess Championship Match between Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) and Hou Yifan (China) is being held from 1-19th March, 2016, at the Potocki Palace in Lviv, Ukraine. The opening ceremony and drawing of lots took place last night at the Lviv Opera House. Hou Yifan was the first to pick the colour and she [...]

Today I am going to discuss one very common attacking formation with your knight on e5 (Ne5/Ne4) and Bishop on c4 (Bc4/Bc5), which generates enormous pressure on f2/f7 square whether the king is castled or not. Of course in order to accomplish the task you might need to use another pieces too. Legal’s trap is […]

The third day of the 2016 IMSA Elite Minds Games – Blitz saw a dramatic change on the top of both tournament sections. In the men’s section the overnight leaders Ding Liren and Pentala Harikrishna lost the pace while the reigning European blitz champion Rauf Mamedov seized the opportunity to claim the first place with [...]

An induction ceremony on April 13, 2016, will recognize five exceptional chess players as they take their places in history as members of the World Chess Hall of Fame and the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. Representatives of the World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs or FIDE) nominated and selected David Bronstein, Sonja Graf­Stevenson [...]

The Women’s World Chess Championship Match between Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) and Hou Yifan (China) is taking place from 1-19th March at the Potocki Palace in Lviv, Ukraine. The opening ceremony will take place tonight at 19:00 local time at the Lviv Opera House. Yesterday there was the first players meeting, when Mariya Muzychuk and Hou [...]

The 15th Rochefort Chess Festival was held from 20th to 26th February at the Congres Palais, in Rochefort, France. 51 players competed in the Masters section which was reserved for the players rated above 1900. Grandmaster Ventzislav Inkiov (Bulgaria) won the first place with 7 points. He was followed by Master Diego Di Berardino (Brazil) [...]

The 2016 FIDE World Chess Championship, the pinnacle of the global sport played by more than 600 million people, is to take place in New York, FIDE announced. The month-long contest will take place in November between Norwegian Magnus Carlsen – the reigning champion and the highest ranked player in history – and the winner [...]

One of the most common and important positional motivations for exchanging pieces is to remove a key defensive unit. In the following diagram, White clearly has a huge advantage, but he still has to find a way to break through. Polugayevsky realises that the key defensive piece holding Black’s position together is the Ne6, which […]

After the furious start when she scored ten consecutive victories, Valentina Gunina considerably slowed down in the second day of the 2016 IMSA Elite Minds Games – Blitz taking only 5,5/10 points, but this was still sufficient to stay on the top with 15,5/20 points. Her compatriot Kateryna Lagno reduced the gap and is now [...]

The American Continental Women’s Championship was held from 20-28th February at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru. The local star WGM Deysi Cori emerged champion by finishing the tournament with 7,5/9 points, half a point ahead of the second-seed WGM Maritza Arribas (Cuba). 38 players from nine countries competed. Full standings below. Replay games with [...]

ΝΕΠ και Αγρίνιο είναι οι πρωταθλητές σε ΠΟΑ και ΠΟΒ αντίστοιχα ενώ απομένει μία αγωνιστική. Στον τελευταίο γύρο το ενδιαφέρον επικεντρώνεται στην δεύτερη θέση του ΠΟΑ. Τα αποτελέσματα αναλυτικά:

The 2016 Cannes International Chess Open was held from 22-28th February at Rotonde Lérins in Cannes, France. The event consisted of three sections – Open A for players rated over 2100, Open B for players rated under 2200 and Open C for players rated under 1600. The main Open A tournament had 111 participants. The [...]