The TV2 Chess International Fagernes 2015 was held from December 27th, 2015, to January 3rd, 2016, at Quality Hotel & Resort Fagernes, in Fagernes, Norway. Official website The highlight of the event was a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament GM-Group, which was open to all FIDE titled players. GM Andrey Vovk from Ukraine finished on top [...]

Ένα από τα τελευταία γραμματόσημα που κυκλοφόρησαν από την ταχυδρομική υπηρεσία της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης, λίγους μήνες πριν την διάλυση. Είχε αξία 15 καπίκια, εικονιζόταν ο μεγάλος Πολ Κέρες και ήταν επετειακό, για τα 75...

King and Pawn endings are not as easy as many people think they are. In this week’s position, White has an extra pawn,but it is not easy to convert it into a win. How does White win this game? The solution to last Monday’s problem is that White wins with 1. Kd5! b1=Q 2. c4+ […]

Paul Keres dedicated event on January 7th

Ανταπόκριση του Elliott: Η Αυστραλιανή Σκακιστική Ομοσπονδία (ACF – Australian Chess Federation) σε συνεργασία με τη Σκακιστική Λέσχη Μελβούρνης (MCC -Melbourne Chess Club) διοργανώνουν το Παναυστραλιανό Σκακιστικό Πρωτάθλημα 2016. Οι αγώνες της...

GM Robert Hess won the Empire City Open after concluding the competition with 5,5/6 points to take the top prize of 1250 USD. The 34th Annual Empire City Open was held from December 26-28, 2015, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 Seventh Ave, New York. The event had 6 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 1900, Under [...]

o GM Zvonko Stanojoski υπογράφει το νέο του δελτίο στον Σ.Ο. ΣΑΧΚαλωσορίζουμε τη νέα χρονιά με τις νέες μας μεταγραφές, Ο Δήμος Χατζηχρυσάφης θα παίξει στην εφηβική σκακιέρα, η Ζήνα Κοτανίδου θα παίξει στις νεάνιδες, ο Δημήτρης...

Τα προβλήματα :https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6Z0VzZW9jeVQ5blE/view?usp=sharingΤα λυμένα προβλήματα :https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-Lv0IlDIs6dThURlZfY2NCWTA/view?usp=sharingΟι νικητές κατά σειρά :(Αργότερα)

The 78th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2016 will have daily live games coverage on Chessdom.com. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Ding Liren, Wesley So, Sergey Karjakin, Pavel Eljanov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Michael Adams, David Navara, Wei Yi, Yifan Hou and Loek Van Wely will be the A group players of the first top [...]

The 53rd Chess Festival Groningen brought hundreds of chess players of all levels to the city of Groningen from December 21-30, 2015. The Master event was a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament open to all players rated above 2000 Elo. The playing venue was Sportcentrum Rijksuniversiteit & Hanzehogeschool, while the prize fund was in the amount of 6,000 [...]

The 21st Bosnjaci Open 2016 is taking place from January 3-9, in Bosnjaci, Croatia. The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament which gathers 177 players from Bosna and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Top seed is GM Emir Dizdarevic (2514). Standings and statistics

You can’t understand chess openings unless you understand middle games. You can’t understand middle games until you understand endings. And you can’t understand endings until you understand pawn endings. If you’re in a rook ending you need a constant awareness of what’s likely to happen should the rooks get exchanged, so that you know whether […]

Today is Round 2 of the New Zealand Chess Open. The tournament is being held at the New Zealand  National Chess Center in Devonport (weddings can be held in the church venue) – the brainchild of NZ’s only GM Murray Chandler. You can read more about the chess center here. There are 6 Grandmasters in […]

The 15th Prague Open International Chess Tournament is taking place from January 8-15, 2016, at the Olympik hotel, in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The event is organized as a part of the Czech Tour 2015/2016 Series in a 9-round Swiss FIDE format, valid for international rating and norms. The venue of play is Olympik [...]

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