The solution to last Monday’s problem is that Black draws with 1…Bg3! 2. h5 Bf4 3. h6 Kf8 4. h7 Be5 and the pawns are stopped. In this week’s problem, Black has to play and win. This is difficult, as White has a protected passed pawn. How does Black manage to overcome this problem? Steven […]

SWISSSYS STANDINGS. SPFNO 2016: U16-18 BOYS # Name Rtng Team Club Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot 1 Siddharth G Banik 2265 ARAGON FCCC W13 W3 L4 W5 W2 W7 5.0 2 Cameron Wheeler 2436 MV W7 W10 W9 W4 L1 D5 4.5 3 Josiah P Stearman 2203 [...]

Two times European champion Valentina Gunina from Russia demolished the opposition on the first day of the 2016 IMSA Elite Minds Games – Blitz to emerge leader with the perfect 10/10 score. Far behind on the second place is her compatriot Kateryna Lagno with 7,0 points and on third place is former world champion Antoaneta [...]

I’ve thought for a long time that there’s been more well-intentioned but misleading advice written about doubled pawns than about anything else in low and intermediate level chess books. This first occurred to me in about 1970 when I first read Botvinnik’s One Hundred Selected Games and played through a couple of games that startled […]

One of the most beautiful Swiss cities Lugano is going to host the jubilee edition of the New-OPEN di Lugano from 25-28 March 2016 at Hotel Pestalozzi, which is located in the center of the town, overlooking the bay. It will be separated into Open A (open to all, regardless of their rating) and Open B (open  to all players [...]

Αντίστροφα είναι τα προβλήματα που παίζει πρώτος ο Λευκός και εξαναγκάζει τον Μαύρο να του κάνει ματ, ενώ ο Μαύρος αντιστέκεται.Θέμα Στριπτίζ (Strip-tease) : Αποσύρονται ένα-ένα τα κομμάτια από την σκακιέρα, αφήνοντας ένα νέο...

Previously on Goldchess series GM Aleksander Mista reviews Goldchess and Rosija-America tournament Goldchess with $50 000 prize fund Goldchess continues with the creative online tournament organization, including the Goldchess0, the Grandmaster corner event and the Rosija-America tournament. Piotr Murdzia, 7-time world champion in solving competitions, commented, “Rosija-America Tournament...

Play as if your life depended on it! That’s what I tell my students before they sit down to play a casual or tournament game. Why would I say this? Because too often a player will let a winning game slip from his or her grasp. It happens more often than you might think. When […]

The 2016 IMSA Elite Mind Games kicked off Friday at Huai’an, Jiangsu Province, China. For the rapid 25 min +10 sec/move chess competition, four rounds have been completed on the first day, and the men’s group battled fiercely. Leinier Dominguez, Ruslan Ponomariov and Wang Hao all scored 3 points out of 4 without losing one [...]

Η ΕΣΣΠ προκηρύσσει το ατομικό πρωτάθλημα μαθητών-μαθητριών της Περιφερειακής Ενότητας Αιτωλοακαρνανίας (Δήμοι Θέρμου, Ναυπακτίας και Ιερής Πόλης Μεσολογγίου) για το 2016. Οι αγώνες θα διεξαχθούν το Σάββατο 5 Μαρτίου...

The competition to take lace in May

The Chess in School Conference, organized as a result of the co-operation of the European Chess Union and European Parliament, was held on 24 February in Brussels/Belgium. The Conference was attended by the European Union officials and Members of the European Parliament, FIDE, ECU and National Federations’ representatives, among whom Mr. Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the ECU President, Mrs. Ana...

The chess game below is from Round Two of a Saturday event that had a rapid, sudden-death time control with a five-second increment. In the previous round, I lost to higher rated player and I had about five minutes to recover before starting this round. My concentration was shot! My opponent was a nine-year-old boy […]

From February 25th to March 3th, the IMSA Elite Mind Games will be held in China, Huai’an, which is the city with great long history and significant cultural influence. This event is hosted by IMSA organization and the Sports management center of Chinese Sports General Administration, orgnized by Jiangsu Sports Bureau and Huai’an government. Jiang Su Sports [...]

From February 25th to March 3th, the IMSA Elite Mind Games will be held in China, Huai’an, which is the city with great long history and significant cultural influence. This event is hosted by IMSA organization and the Sports management center of Chinese Sports General Administration, orgnized by Jiangsu Sports Bureau and Huai’an government. Jiang Su Sports [...]