The 16th European Senior Chess Championship will take place in Yerevan, Armenia from June 4 (day of arrival) to 14 June (day of departure) 2016. The tournament will be held in the Chess House named after Tigran Petrosian. The European Senior Chess Championship will be played in two categories: one for those who shall have [...]

Nagpur boy Sadhwani Raunak (7.5) emerged Champion on better tie-breaks, after the 9th and final round of the IIFL Wealth Mumbai International Junior Chess Tournament 2016 that concluded at Mount Litera School International, Bandra (East), Mumbai. Tying for the top spot at 7.5 points with Sadhwani Raunak were Rahman Mohammad Fahad (Ban) and Aditya Mittal [...]

GM Urii Eliseev and FM Dmitry Gordievsky shared the fist place in the 2016 Moscow Open Men’s Cup of Russia Stage, the main event of the 12th International RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2016, by scoring 7,5/9 points each. According to the tie-break criteria Eliseev was awarded with the winner’s trophy. In the ultra-exciting last [...]

ΣΟΠ και ΝΕΠ για τον ΠΟΑ, ΓΕΑ και Πύργος για τον ΠΟΒ ήταν οι νικητές του Α γύρου ενώ η ΕΑΠ και ο ΑΣΟ Αιγίου είχαν ρεπό και οι Αγ Βασίλειος και ΑΣΟΝ ήρθαν ισόπαλοι. Αναλυτικά τα αποτελέσματα του Α γύρου και η κλήρωση του Β

Του Θέμη Αργυρακόπουλου (η αρχική δημοσίευση – πρόσκληση για σύνθεση εδώ) Romolo RAVARINI (Ιταλία) Sinfonie Scacchistiche 49, Supplement (Ιούλιος 1977) h#2, 2 λύσεις 1.Bc4-b5 Qh1-h5 2.Rf7-e7 Rg2-a2 # 1.Qe8-b5 Rg2-g5 2.Bf8-e7 Qh1-a8 # Με το παραπάνω διάγραμμα επέλεξε ο Ιταλός...

The solution to last Monday’s problem is that White draws with 1. Kb7! If Black replies with a5, White continues with 2. Kxc7 a4 3. Kd6 a3 4. f7! and White queens his pawn. In this week’s problem, White has to play and win. It is quite difficult. One difficulty is that when White promote […]

The 2016 Moldovan Individual Chess Championships for men and women are taking place from 2-10 February, in the Moldova’s capital city Chisinau. Both events are played in a 10-player single round-robin format with time control 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. GM Viorel Iordachescu leads the men’s section with 4.5/6 points, while 19 years old [...]

The RSSU School Champions Cup, part of the 12th International RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2016, was concluded on 6th February at the Russian State Social University. The competitions were held in the age groups U9, U11, U13 and U15, for boys and girls. In the U9 Boys group Gleb Pidluzhny (Klaipeda, Lithuania) celebrated the [...]

The 6th Ferdowsi Open Tournament 2016 was held from January 28th to February 5th, in the city of Mashdad, Iran. The event was organized by the Khorasan Chess Association in a 9-round Swiss format with time control 90′ + 30″. A total of 178 players from 18 different federation took part in the tournament, including 7 GMs and [...]

Το Brennan’s Restaurant στη γαλλική συνοικία της Νέας Ορλεάνης. Σήμερα στεγάζει μια μοντέρνα επιχείρηση εστίασης, αλλά η ιστορία του κτιρίου είναι πολύ βαριά. Από το 1841 έως το 1891 το αρχοντικό ανήκε στην οικογένεια Μόρφι. Στο...

My first game of 2016 was for Richmond B against Hounslow A. While my team tends to vary a lot, Hounslow had fielded the same three players in the same order on their top boards all season. I knew I was on board 3 so I was expecting to play an old friend, the Thames […]

The ACP-FIDE veterans’ program continues for the third year. As it was in 2014 and 2015, six distinguished chess veterans will get an award of 5000 USD each. Here is the list of awardees for 2016: Arturo Pomar (Spain) Oscar Panno (Argentina) Milunka Lazarevic (Serbia) Sergey Pinchuk (Uzbekistan) Marta Litynska (Ukraine) Evgeny Sveshnikov (Russia) On [...]

Top rated female player and former World Champion Hou Yifan is visiting Chile from 2-10th February. The first activity was a 60-board simultaneous exhibition at the Plaza de la Constitución del Palacio de la Moneda. On the same day Hou Yifan visited Universidad San Sebastián to attend the national Youth Championship. Finally, the main activity is the Bicontinental [...]

Inevitably, there comes point in every chess player’s career, be they beginner or professional, when they find themselves in trouble on the chessboard. Beginners find themselves in continual trouble as they learn the game but that trouble eventually becomes less frequent as they improve. I’ve had students remark that they get into trouble because they’re […]