The 2nd tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2015-2016 will take place from 10-24 February, 2016, in Tehran, Iran. Twelve players will compete in the round robin tournament. The Women’s Grand Prix 2015-2016 which will give qualification to the Women’s World Championship match 2017 The previous tournament was held in Monaco and the later stages [...]

The 2nd European Small Nations Individual Chess Championship is set to take place from 1-11th April, 2016, in Luxembourg. The contract for the organization was signed by the ECU Secretary General, Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou and the President of the Luxembourg Chess Federation, Mr. Pierre Fattebene. The event will be a twelve-player Round Robin tournament and [...]

I’ve previously written about the problems of an ageing population of regular chess tournament goers and how little seems to have been done to address the coming crisis. How should this be tackled? The usual answer is to teach kids to play, but they tend not to feed through into adult tournaments. A factor in […]

Για το 10ο Παγκόσμιο τουρνουά Σκακιστικών Συνθέσεων μπορείτε να διαβάσετε εδώ την Ανακοίνωση και εδώ τα διευκρινιστικά σχόλια 1 :Υπεύθυνος για την Ελλάδα είναι ο Χάρης Φουγιαξής και πρέπει να του έχουμε στείλει...

Today is the first round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters. This is such a strong event and it seems to get stronger every year! Gawain is 28th seed and is sharing an apartment with GM Nils Grandelius & GM Erik Blomqvist from Sweden. This is such a fun tournament to visit as a spectator and […]

The 1st Lviv Chess Tradition Tournament 2016 is a 12-player IM-group round robin tournament, which takes place from January 25-31, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event is a second category closed tournament, valid for FIDE rating and norms. The tempo of play is 90′ + 30″ and the [...]

(φωτ. ο Στέλιος Χαλκιάς αναλύει με έναν κορυφαίο γκρανμέτρ, τον Άγγλο Μάικλ Άνταμς. Γιβραλτάρ 2010). Έκανε τα πρώτα του σκακιστικά βήματα στον Γαλαξία Θεσσαλονίκης. Ο πρώτος του σύλλογος, ένα από τα ιστορικά αθλητικά...

Rapid marathon announced for this weekend

Grandmaster Belous Vladimir (Russia) emerged the Chennai Open 2016 Champion with 8.5 points after the tenth and final round of the 8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy, held at Nehru Stadium, Chennai. Belous Vladimir received Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy and the winner’s purse of [...]

This week’s game is a cautionary example of when the black plan with b7-b5 can go wrong. As we mentioned last week, a critical factor in this plan’s success is usually that he have a strong grip on e4. White usually tries to react to b5 by breaking in the centre with e3-e4, which, if […]

First open for Viswanathan Anand in many years

The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has awarded Natalia Zhukova with the state Order of Princess Olga II for her high achievements in the sport of chess and her European Women Chess Title in 2015. Zhukova was awarded with a Presidential decree №18/2016 Replay the games of Natalia Zhukova from the EWICC 2015 Last year [...]

 (φωτ. Η Ουγγαρέζα Τζούντιτ Πόλγκαρ υπογράφει τις μπλούζες μικρών σκακιστριών που θα ήθελαν να της μοιάσουν). Πριν δυο χρόνια η κορυφαία σκακίστρια του κόσμου Τζούντιτ Πόλγκαρ ανακοίνωσε πως αποσύρεται από το...

Congratulations to WGM Xiaobing Gu, winner of the Australian Women’s Masters 2016! Although first place had been decided before the last day, many of the players still had plenty to play for in round 9, with the minor placings a potential WIM norm on the line! As it turned out, Hanna Leks; Jilin Zhang had a [...]

New video series by GM Davorin Kuljasevic