Grandmaster Timur Gareev stormed through the 9th Festival Internacional de Xadrez da Figueira da Foz to take a clear first place with 8,5/9 points and the top prize of 1200 EUR. Point and a half behind the winner is GM Krzysztof Jakubowski from Poland. The 9th Festival Internacional de Xadrez da Figueira da Foz was [...]

Loose pieces have a tendency to drop off the board when your opponent attacks and captures them. If you have pieces which are not guarded by other pieces, they can form the basis of tactical combinations. This week’s problem sees Tal using the undefended Bishop on e6 as something he can base his kingside attack […]

The Turkish Chess Championship is taking place from November 27 to December 10, 2015, in Adana, a major city in southern Turkey. The event is a 14-player single round-robin tournament for the title 2015 Turkish chess champion. Participants: GM Dragan Solak (2628), GM Alexander Ipatov (2624), GM Baris Esen (2565), GM Kivanc Haznedaroglu (2471), IM [...]

The 1st FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship Final took place in Rome on November 26th 2015. The venue was the prestigious Circolo Canottieri Aniene in Rome, Italy, made available by its president, Giovanni Malago, who is also the president of the Italian Olympic Committee. The event was the culmination of the massive qualification process [...]

The 4th Central Asia Chess Cup of the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was held from 21-29th November at the Grand Hotel Tien Shan in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The tournament was organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation and FIDE. Entitled to participate were chess players from the Central Asian countries – Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and [...]

The 3rd JAPFA ASEAN Chess Championships will be held from 21-30 December 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia. It has been four years since the championship has been held and is very timely indeed with the ambitious plans of the ASEAN Chess Confederation to refocus on helping the region’s best young players build on their success at [...]

The popular chess club “Studentski Grad” held its annual blitz championship in the central library of the Studenski Grad campus in Belgrade, Serbia. The club invited its current and former members and supporters. Three players participated through the online platforms from distant Australia, France and Surgut (Ugra) Russia. After 11 rounds of the Swiss pairings [...]

Νοσοκομείο στην πόλη Αλ Ράμθα της Ιορδανίας. Τραυματισμένος πρόσφυγας πολέμου, από τη Συρία, καπνίζει στο κρεβάτι του, ενώ στο βάθος ένας νοσηλευτής παίζει μια παρτίδα σκακιού με έναν επίσης τραυματισμένο, έφηβο (Stuart...

Sixteen year old Karthikeyan Murali of Tamil Nadu was crowned as the national champion, irrespective of the final round loss to IM Arghyadip Das in the ONGC 53rd National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Tiruvarur District Chess Association at Kasi’s Inn, Tiruvarur, today. Things went in his favour, as Vidit drew his game to be [...]

The 75th Italian Chess Championship is taking place from November 30 to December 11, 2015, at Grand Hotel Doria, in Milano. The event is a 12-player single round-robin tournament for the title 2015 Italian Men’s Chess Champion. Participants: GM Axel Rombaldoni (winner 2014), GM Daniele Vocaturo, GM Sabino Brunello, GM Alberto David, GM Michele Godena, [...]

The draw for the highly anticipated London Chess Classic, which is just one week away now, was performed by Tournament Director Malcolm Pein and Deputy Arbiter David Sedgwick with the pupils of Marion Richardson Primary School on Monday 23rd November. This year’s London Chess Classic promises to be the most exciting to date, as it [...]

The 2015 Myanmar International Open is taking place from 22-28th November at the Central Hotel, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Yangon. The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with first prize in the amount of US$ 3,000. Top seed is Russian GM Dmitri Komarov (2517). Standings and statistics

Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό, καιρό παλιό, τόσο παλιό που κανένας δεν θυμάται να πει με σιγουριά πότε ήταν, έπαιζε ο κόσμος ένα παιχνίδι που το έλεγαν σκάκι. Ήταν παιχνίδι φερμένο από τα βάθη της Ασίας, με ιστορία τόσο αρχαία...

In round 3 I was paired with the white pieces against Tony Cullinane, a former British Championship contender who was graded some way above me. I took on his French Defence with the Advance Variation. 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 c4 7. g3 […]

Kan says, "Komodoes it again, takes third TCEC title"