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 [...]

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European Blitz Champion GM Rauf Mamedov will participate in two events at the new Bay Area Chess office which is located at 2050 Concourse Drive #42, San Jose 95131, USA. On 11th February Mamedov will give a lecture titled “The Secrets of Chess Strategy” and then he will hold a 25-board simultaneous exhibition. On 17th [...]

American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has won the 2016 Tradewise Gibraltar Masters, which concluded at the Caleta Hotel on Thursday 4 February. Nakamura successfully defended the trophy that he won in the previous edition of the tournament. After the regular 10 rounds of the play Nakamura and French star Maxime Vachier-Lagrave tied for the first place [...]

Συγγραφέας: Μιγκέλ ντε Ουναμούνο Εκδότης: Άγρα Μετάφραση: Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης Σελίδες: 112 ISBN: 9789605051969 Ημ. Έκδοσης: 16/11/2015 «Aν θέλετε να χάσετε έναν άνθρωπο, μάθετέ του να παίζει σκάκι». Δεν γνωρίζω καλύτερη απεικόνιση...

Η Διεθνής Ομοσπονδία Σκακιού (FIDE) άρχισε να εκδίδει ένα δωρεάν περιοδικό για να ενημερώνει τους διαιτητές ανά τον κόσμο για τις αλλαγές στους κανονισμούς, να θέτει διαιτητικά προβλήματα υπό τη μορφή άρθρων, να...

A few years ago one of the chess coaches in the Tampa area had an annoying habit of telling his students that I hated little kids. Because I got tired of that, I decided to make a sarcastic reply if I heard him say that again. He did during one of his group lessons, so […]

The International Open Chess Tournament dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the legendary chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili is scheduled to take place from 21-30th April, 2016, at the Chess Palace in Tbilis, Georgia. The tournament is organzied by the Ministry of Sport and Youth of Georgia, Tbilisi city Hall and Georgian Chess Federation. Sections: - [...]

“When you see a good move, look for a better one”  – Emanuel Lasker Lasker’s advice is probably the best single piece of chess advice ever given. Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring the opposite, which I’ve taken to calling “Lunging”. Lunging at the opponent, rather than building up the position and advancing […]

The European Amateur Chess Championship 2016 will be held in Ruzomberok, northern Slovakia, from June 5 (day of arrival) to June 12 (day of departure) 2016. The tournament will be held in the „Sports hall Koniaren“, and the official accommodating hotel is Hotel Kultura. The Championship is open to all players representing Chess Federations, which [...]

The 76th Noteboom Chess Tournament is taking place from February 5-7, 2016, in the venue of CORPUS Congress Centre, at the Leiden city, in the Netherlands. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with top seed Dutch player GM Benjamin Bok (2607) Official website/ Standings and statistics

The 21st HIT Open 2016 is taking place from January 29 to February 4, in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The event is organized by Chess Club Nova Gorica in a 9-round Swiss FIDE format with prize fund in total of 6,000 EUR. Top seed is Hungarian player GM Tamas Banusz (2612). Official website/ Standings and statistics

After four round of play in the Men’s Cup of Russia stage, the main event of the RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2016, three players are in joint lead with perfect score – Urii Eliseev (Moscow), Vasiliy Korchmar (Saratov) and Oleg Ivanov (Ukraine). Thirteen participants follow on 3,5 points each, including the main favorites of [...]

The 7th Southwest Class Championships will be held from February 11-15, 2016, at the DFW Airport Marriott South, 4151 Centreport Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The event has 7 sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E. The Master Section is a 9-round Swiss over 5-day schedule (February 11-15) [...]

The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission has the pleasure to publish the second issue of the Arbiters’ Magazine (PDF). We continue our efforts to offer to all Arbiters around the world the necessary knowledge and information, to enable them to exercise their duties in the best way. Many thanks to the Arbiters’ Commission Editorial Subcommittee of IA [...]