The 18th International Chess Festival “Citta di Padova” is taking place from December 13-20, 2015, in Padova, Italy. The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament for players above 1800 Elo rating. 68 players are vying for the first prize in the amount of 1,500 EUR. Top seed is Bulgarian chess player GM Kiril Georgiev 2627. Official website/ Standings [...]

Στη Θεσσαλονίκη,  μια πόλη που οι σκακιστές της συχνά παραπονούνται πως δεν γίνονται αρκετά τουρνουά, από τις 3 έως τις 10 Ιανουαρίου θα γίνει το ανοιχτό τουρνουά “Λευκός Πύργος 2016” στο οποίο εντάσσεται η...

Rain is much better for Chess than hot, sunny days. – Bent Larsen Larsen was speaking of the Korchnoi-Karpov match, held in tropical Baguio City, 1978. Snow, on the other hand, is not so good for Chess. When I arrived at the Denver Chess Club last night, the round had been cancelled due to snow. […]

The European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2015 will start in two days in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The Championship kicks off with a Blitz event, which is scheduled for 18th at 11 am. The strong field of 679 participants is led by GM Stanislav Bogdanovich (UKR 2815), defending champion GM David Navara (CZE [...]

Grandmaster Denis Khismatullin from Neftekamsk took the winner’s trophy in the final tournament of the 2015 Russian Rapid Grand Prix that was held from 13-15th December in Khanty-Mansiysk. 16 players competed in the round robin tournament with the time control 15′+10”. Denis Khismatullin and Pavel Ponkratov shared the first place with 11,0/15 points each, but [...]

Sheikh Russel Memorial Sporting Club  became unbeaten champion in the WALTON Premier Division Chess League 2015 sponsored by the renowned and famous electrical, electronics, automobiles and home appliances Manufacturer Company WALTON group and organised by Bangladesh Chess Federation was held at N.S.C. Tower Auditorium Lounge of National Sports Council. Sheikh Russel Memorial earned 15 points...

The 25th ITT Millonario de Navidad Bogotá is set to take place from 18-22nd December, 2015, at the Centro Comercial Outlet Factory in Bogotá, Colombia. The event is organized by the Liga de ajedrez de Bogota and Club Deportivo Sicoopweb and is part of a Christmas Chess Festival sponsored by the Seguros del Estado. The [...]

Hugh Edward Myers against Dmitri Poliakoff in 1955: White to move Q: Here Black has the initiative but is far from winning. His last move was 47…Qc4 which sets-up a trap. Can you see it? A: In the game, White failed to do so and lost in the next two moves: 48. Ra4 Qxf1!! 49. […]

Match of Friendship, a scholastic chess match between Russia and China dedicated to the 70-year anniversary of winning the 2nd World War, ended in China on December 14. Russian team consisting of Artur Gaifullin, Timur Fakhrutdinov, Andrey Esipenko, Alexandra Obolentseva, Alexander Zemnitsky, Daniil Golikov, Maxim Shinkevich, and Ekaterina Vorobiova won six matches out of eight [...]

23 orphans from boarding houses of Sverdlovsk Region took part in a simul given by 2014 Russian champion Igor Lysyj. The event took place in Sila Voli mall in Ekaterinburg, and was organized by Svoi Deti charity fund, Sila Voli management, and Sverdlovsk Region Chess Federation sponsored by Penetron Russia group of companies. The youngest [...]

Εκλογικό σύστημα είναι η μέθοδος μετατροπής των ψήφων σε έδρες, δηλαδή με ποιόν τρόπο η βούληση του εκλογικού σώματος, που εκφράστηκε στις εκλογές με την ψήφο των εκλογέων, θα μεταφραστεί σε κατανομή των εδρών. Αν και...

Η Πνευματική Στέγη Περιστερίου, σε συνεργασία με τον GM και Γραμματέα της Επιτροπής Προπονητών της FIDE, Στράτο Γρίβα, διοργανώνει σεμινάριο προπονητών FIDE από τις 28 έως τις 30 Δεκεμβρίου, στο ανακαινισμένο εντευκτήριο του...

Με συμμετοχή 34 σκακιστών και σκακιστριών ξεκίνησε στο ξενοδοχείο Olympia της Θεσσαλονίκης το Πανελλήνιο Πρωτάθλημα Τυφλών & Μερικώς Βλεπόντων 2015. Ισχυρότεροι σκακιστές στην αρχική κατάταξη σύμφωνα με τα έλο οι Κλήμης...

The World Amateur Chess Championships 2016 will be held from 18-28th April, 2016, in Halkidiki, Greece on the northern coast of the Aegean Sea. The games will take place in the conference center of 5-star Anthemus Sea Resort on the Sithonia peninsula of Halkidiki, 95 km south Thessaloniki airport. Anthemus Sea is an excellent holiday [...]

The Semifinal of the 2015 Iranian Chess Championship is taking place from December 13-19, in Rasht, the largest city of Iran’s Caspian Sea coast. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. Top seed is GM Pouria Darini (2500). Official website/ Standings and statistics