Karjakin is placed fifth on the Tata Steel 2016 starting ranklist - can he climb to number 1 by the final round?

Mamedyarov has had some great successes in the past, but he succeed once more in the Tata Steel 2016?

Evgeny Tomashevksy was the last person to join Tata Steel Masters 2016, but will he be first in the final standings?

The 75th Georgian Individual Chess Championship is taking place from 14-26 January, 2016, in Georgian capital Tbilisi. Standings and statistics

The 2016 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is taking place from January 25th to February 4, at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar. The traditional 10-round Swiss FIDE event s one of the strongest open chess tournaments in the world and its hefty prize fund attracted many top players. The first prize is £20,000, while the best female [...]

The 78th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2016 is taking place from 16-31 January in Wijk Aan Zee, Amsterdam and Utrecht. The event is a 13th category tournament with an average Elo rating 2569. Participants: GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter GER 2679, GM Baskaran, Adhiban IND 2653, GM Safarli, Eltaj AZE 2653, GM Dreev, Alexey RUS 2644, GM l’Ami, Erwin NED [...]

Russian Grandmaster Ivan Popov inched closer to the title after settling for a draw with Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine in the ninth and penultimate round of the premier group of 14th Parsvnath Delhi International chess festival now drawing to a close here. After scoring seven victories on the trot, Popov did not take many chances [...]

The QGD Minority Attack is a very popular choice for white players, mainly because of the apparent simplicity of White’s play – “you just develop, play Rab1. b4-b5, bxc6 and then exploit the weak pawns”. It is true that in practice, White scores disproportionately well at almost all levels, but this is only because black […]

Αρχίζει το Σάββατο 16 Ιανουαρίου στην Ολλανδία το 78ο παραδοσιακό Tata Steel, που θα γίνει, όπως πάντοτε, στο μικρό χωριό Βέικ ααν Ζέι ενώ παράλληλες εκδηλώσεις θα γίνουν στο Άμστερνταμ και στην Ουτρέχτη. Στον πρώτο όμιλο...

Έγινε η κλήρωση για τα πρωταθλήματα ΠΟΑ και ΠΟΒ και αναδείχτηκε η παρακάτω σειρά αναμετρήσεων ....

Dubai Chess and Culture Club has opened the registration for the 18th Dubai Open Chess Tournament – Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup, which will be held from April 10-20, 2016, at the club’s Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Hall. According to Ibrahim Al Bannai, Chairman of Dubai Chess and Culture Club, many of the world’s [...]

Ο Νίκος Παναγιωτόπουλος στο μυθιστόρημα “Τα παιδιά του Κάιν” που εκδόθηκε το 2011 (Μεταίχμιο) επιλέγει να δώσει ένα σκακιστικό τέλος στο μυθιστόρημά του. Ενώ σε όλο το βιβλίο, όπου πραγματεύεται η πορεία μια παρέας...

Πλήθος κόσμου (περί τις 10.000) συγκεντρώνεται μπροστά στην Όπερα του Ερεβάν στην Αρμενία όπου παίζεται ο Οιδίπους Τύραννος, ένα ανοιξιάτικο απόγευμα του 1963. Όσο τραγική κι αν ήταν η μοίρα του ήρωα του Σοφοκλή η αιτία που...

World Champion Magnus Carlsen is reviewing the chess year 2015 in a 10-minute video recorded at the Play Magnus headquarters.

Today, Russian Sports New Agency (R-Sport) published an interview with Andrey Filatov, President of the Russian Chess Federation, where he stated that ‘talks to hold the 2016 World Chess Championship Match in the US are on hold’. Agon, which holds rights to organize the match, would like to inform the media that statement by RCF [...]