By FT Darko Polimac The Chess School Polimac started its work in 2006 with 4 students in Club House Hotel Kilkenny as a part of Kilkenny Chess Club. The FIDE Trainer Darko Polimac originally from Croatia was very keen to put Kilkenny at the World Chess map and he did it. Since then Kilkenny is [...]

Saudi Chess Association (SCA), is officially recognized by the Saudi Olympic Committee and is a full member of FIDE, Asian Chess Federation as well as Arab Chess Federation.

The solution to last Monday’s problem is that White can draw with 1. Kg2! Ke4 2. Kg3 h5 3. h3! Kf5 4. Kh4 Kxf4 and we have a stalemate. In this week’s problem, White has to try to promote a pawn. How does White play and win? Steven Carr

Live games with analysis

Οι λύτες που έλαβαν μέρος στην Αθήνα, και τα αποτελέσματα που κατέγραψαν : Cat NAME M/F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TOT. Time Rd 1 Time Rd 2 TIME PLACE 1 Nikos Mendrinos M 5 3 1 2.5 5 4,5 5 0 5 0 31 120 119 239 1 1 Andreas Papastavropoulos M 5 0 3 0 5 4 5 5 27 120 120 240 ...

Grandmasters Solodovnichenko Yuri (Ukraine) & Belous Vladimir (Russia) shared the lead with 7.5 points after the ninth and penultimate round of the 8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy, held at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Four players closed in on the leaders at 7.0 points viz., [...]

Condolences to her family and Romanian chess

Την πόλη Μάριενμπαντ της Τσεχίας τη γνωρίζαμε από το κινηματογραφικό αριστούργημα του Αλέν Ρενέ “Πέρσι στο Μάριενμπαντ” (1963). Είχα συναντηθεί πριν τρεις εβδομάδες με τον Σπύρο Ιλαντζή και μου ανέφερε πως θα...

The Polish University Chess Championship 2016 were held from January 15 to 17 in Katowice, Poland. Nearly 300 players across 42 Polish universities participated in the event.

The 2016 Marienbad Open Tournament was held from January 16-23, in Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic. The event was a 10-player single round robin tournament with an average Elo rating of 2446. GM Dmitry Kononeko from Ukraine emerged a solo winner with 7/9 points, leaving the runner-up IM Ori Kobo from Israel half a point behind. The 19-year-old Israeli [...]

Last season, long-standing readers may recall, I switched from playing the Sicilian to 1… e5 in reply to e4. Just as last season, I’ve had the black pieces in most of my games so I’ve had several more opportunities to imitate my opponent’s e-pawn advance. My first 1. e4 e5 game this season was against […]

Ukraine Grandmaster Solodovnichenko Yuri (7.0) led the strong pack after the eighth round of the 8th Chennai Open International Grandmaster Chess tournament 2016 for Sakthi Group Dr N Mahalingam trophy, held at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Yuri beat GM Dzhumaev Marat (Uzb) in an exciting game, moving into sole lead with two rounds remaining. [...]

Instructive video by GM Kuljasevic