Hou Yifan has helped Chilean organizers promote chess in Chile with activities in Santiago and Punta Arenas. The event started with an opening ceremony hosted by the Minister of Sports and a simultaneous exhibition in Santiago, Chile. GM Hou Yifan and IM Cristobal Henriquez played a 4-games match in Patagonia, which ended with 2.5-1.5 score [...]

Live games with computer analysis

Live games with computer analysis

CHOPIN aka Chess Openings 24/7 is a website entirely dedicated to modern opening theory. Besides the many updated opening lines, CHOPIN features the only complete up-to-date opening reference guide, whose depth and quality of the regularly updated content stand high above all other commercially available opening encyclopedias, has to offer now: It’s all-comprehensive and ultra-reliable [...]

12 κορυφαίες σκακίστριες έφτασαν στην Τεχεράνη για να συμμετέχουν στο γκραν πρι γυναικών της ΦΙΝΤΕ που άρχισε χτες. Στη φωτογραφία η Ουκρανή Ναταλία Ζούκοβα, που φόρεσε το χιτζάμπ (όπως και οι υπόλοιπες) μιας και η...

In a previous article, I posted my loss to a thirteen-year-old girl named Sara Herman. I have decided to find all of my games on  this chess blog in which I played a kid (someone under 21 years of age) and put the links to them on this page. Then, I will add another game […]

Anand and Topalov to repeat WCC 2010 in round 1

(φωτ. Ο Κράμνικ αντιμετωπίζει την Χοτενασβίλι στον πρώτο γύρο του όπεν του Κατάρ 2015). Ο πρώην παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής Βλαντίμιρ Κράμνικ έδωσε εκτεταμένη συνέντευξη στη ρωσική αθλητική εφημερίδα Sports Express όπου μιλάει για...

The 2016 Peruvian Men’s Championship is taking place from February 10-14, at the National Stadium of Peruvian capital Lima. The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament with time control 90′ + 30″. It is a qualifying tournament for the Continental Championship, the first three players will have the right to fight for the free [...]

After our wonderful time in New Zealand we had a week to recover before I was off again. In the three weeks we were away new tenants had moved in and I spent a lot of the week tidying up after the mice and making the house habitable. Hopefully we’re starting to win the fight! […]

Still strumming my harp on the Caissic theme of lunging, the premature unbuckling of the position to the detriment of the lunger, I offer this game from a few weeks ago. This time I am the lunger. In the diagrammed position, I opened the center with 14. d4 ? thinking to free my game. Instead, […]

Complete repertoire databases by GM Chatalbashev and GM Arnaudov

Enjoy the holidays in one of the most beautiful Swiss cities! Lugano is considered as a part of “Mediterranean Switzerland” due to its mild climate and its location on the bay of the lake Lugano. The city also offers wonderful landscape composed of the Alps and the quiet lake and is at the same time [...]

The total prize fund is over 1 million USD

The European Youth Chess Championship 2016 is organized by AVE-KONTAKT Pardubice agency, Czech Chess Federation and the European Chess Union in Prague, Czech Republic, from 17th August (arrival) to 28th August (departure) 2016. The tournament is played in 6 age categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18, Boys and Girls separately. The entry form [...]