Belarus National Youth Chess event “Belaya Ladya 2021” Finals concluded today in Minsk. The event gathered 14 teams and 56 young players aged U14. After 7 played rounds according to Swiss system, the Winner Teams are: “Orsha 13” – 13 match points “Rogachev Gymnasium” 9 match points “Minsk Gymnasium” 8 match points During the Closing […]

Mitropa Chess Cup 2021, the annual team chess tournament for national teams from Central Europe. This year, the Mitropa Cup is played as an Online hybrid event with participation of 10 teams competing in Women’s and Open’s section separately: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. Live games from the […]

Going back into time when reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen was a 13 year old talented boy, while he spoke about impressions from the meeting with Chess Legend Garry Kasparov, Carlsen said: “I hope to become a world champion. It has to happen before 2020.” The dream came true in 2013, when Carlsen defeated […]

Ukrainian Clubs Teams Chess Championship 2021 launched yesterday in Lviv, Ukraine. 128 players compete for their clubs in three events: blitz, rapid and classical. Ukrainian Team Championship 2021 with classical time control is taking place from 6th-12th of May, while blitz and rapid competitions will be played on 13th and 14th of May in the […]

Romanian Youth Chess Championships 2021 for boys and girls in groups U8, U10 and U12 are underway in Bucharest. More than 170 talented kids participate in the event and Romania will soon have new National Youth Champions in the respective categories! The Winners will qualify for the Youth European and World Championships, having a chance […]

Last week, we started looking at the opening through the eyes of the beginner playing Black. The key points I made regarding playing Black were that the same opening principles that apply to White hold true for Black as well. We dismissed the idea that White had a big advantage because of having the first … Continue reading "A Foundation for Beginners Seventeen" The post A Foundation for...

Indian Qualifiers Chess event will take place from 7th-10th May 2021 through chess24, as a qualification tournament for the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The event gathers 16 participants playing a knockout tournament and the best ranked two players will qualify for a Tour event: GM Adhiban Baskaran 2660 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2647 GM Sethuraman S.P. […]

Nigerian news portal Today.ng reported today about children learning chess to seek escape from Nigeria’s slums. Today.ng tells the story of Michael Omoyele, who at the age of 14 has already dealt with food scarcity and needed to work to be able to feed himself. Read the full article here. Read more- Nigerian refugee Tani […]

Russian juniors and trainers, members of the Russian National team that won the 1st FIDE Online Olympiad, were awarded in the Educational Centre “Sirius” in Sochi for their contribution to the victory of the Russian national team. Among the awarded players were Andrey Esipenko, Polina Shuvalova, Alexey Sarana and Margarita Potapova, graduates of the chess […]

Jon Kristian Haarr is the General Manager of the Offerspill Chess Club in Norway. In a detailed interview for Chessdom.com he discusses the history of the club, the innovative approach of the Offerspill Online League, the recent first edition of the new season, the role and importance of Magnus Carlsen in the club, and more […]

The Mitropa Cup Hybrid 2021 has started and although the games have shown how players haven’t lost their habits playing standard chess, let’s focus for a moment on the venues. As this edition is still influenced by the global pandemic, Federations have been asked to find a suitable location for the event. This means having […]

The Women’s Candidates Chess Tournament 2022 qualifying path has been approved by the FIDE Council. The Women’s Candidates will be an eight player double round robin event, copying the format of the open Candidates which just finished. Women’s Candidates Chess 2022 1 player from the FIDE WC Match 2020, Runner-up (GM Aleksandra Goryachkina) 2 players […]

ITT Fenamac Mexico chess events launch today in Mexico city within 3 groups: A, B and C, as round-robin 10 players tournaments. Participants of group A:GM Henriquez Villagra Cristobal (CHI 2600)GM Shabalov Alexander 2008572 (USA 2528)GM Obregon Rivero Juan Carlos (CUB 2520)GM Yermolinsky Alex (USA 2486)GM Ibarra Chami Luis Fernando (MEX 2447)FM Cardoso Cardoso Jose […]

The 57th Romanian Correspondence Chess Championship held between May 2019 and March 2021, ended with the victory of the well-known Romanian chess player Partenie Mihai. Tudor Ristea had the same score but Sonneborn Berger tiebreak decided that Parenie Mihai takes the title of Romanian Correspondence Chess Champion 2021. Partenie Mihai is born on May 25, […]

As I’m currently writing a book for Everyman Chess on a Nimzo and Queen’s Indian repertoire the Nimzo was an obvious choice for N. Some of you might have expected the Najdorf but I prefer not to encourage highly theoretical lines in which the maintenance load increases as players move up the rankings. The Nimzo-Indian … Continue reading "Nuke ’em with the Nimzo" The post...