Το πρόγραμμα των μαθημάτων των παιδιών για την σχολική περίοδο 2015-2016 είναι το εξής: Προχωρημένοι        Σάββατο 16:30-19:30    Διδάσκων: WFM Στεφανίδη Μαρία-Άννα Μέσου επιπέδου     Σάββατο 15:00-18:00    Διδάσκων: Πολυζώης Ντελής...

The 2015 Qatar Masters is organized by Qatar Chess Federation from December 19-30. The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament for players rated over 2300. The hefty prize fund is in the amount of $130.000 including $27.000 first prize and $8.000 first women prize. The strong field is headed by World champion Magnus Carlsen [...]

Aronian is the nominee of the organizers

Emirati kiddie player Darmaki Latifah led the winners at the third edition of the Dubai Chess and Culture Club’s Beginners Chess Tournament 2015, which concluded Saturday, October 31st, with a record number of participants. Latifah, won the gold medal in the Under-10 age category after tallying six points in seven rounds, outclassing 43 other contenders [...]

Chess is possessed of nearly infinite defensive resources. – (I have forgotten which master it was who said this around 1940. Richter? Steiner? Rauzer? Teichman? Google can’t find it.) Bobby Fischer certainly believed that Chess is possessed of nearly infinite defensive resources, and would take amazing risks (such as the Black side of the Poisoned […]

The penultimate round of the FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 was played today in Porto Carras, Halkidiki. Mosadeghpour Masoud made a quick draw to reach 9,0 points and maintain the lead in the Open U18 section half a point ahead of GM Alekseenko Kirill. In Girls U18 WFM Mahalakshmi M of India is [...]

The Semifinal of FOA Women World Blitz Chess Championship was held on Thursday, October 29th, 2015, on the official FIDE Online platform. The event was an 11-round Swiss tournament that gathered 50 players qualified after 8 individual tournaments. Bulgarian player WGM Adriana Nikolova scored 10/11 points to win the tournament, leaving the nearest followers full two points [...]

The 7th London Chess Classic is taking place from December 4-13, 2015, in London, England. Participants: reigning World champion Magnus Carlsen, #2 Veselin Topalov, #3 Vishy Anand, World Blitz Champion Alexander Grischuk, America’s two top players, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, Dutch Wunderkind Anish Giri, French prodigy Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Armenian virtuoso Levon...

Συνθέτης : Vladislav Tarasiuk (Ukraine)Η σπουδή πρωτοδημοσιεύτηκε στο περιοδικό "Задачи и Этюды" ("Problems and Studies", "Προβλήματα και Σπουδές") του 2014, № 64, chart 5013.Λευκά: Kb8,Sh6,Pc5,f2Μαύρα: Ke4,Pb5,b7Κλειδί : 1.Sf5!Δοκιμή 1.f4? Кd4(d5)! (1…b4? 2.f5 Ке5 3.Sg4+ ±) 2.f5 Кхс5...

The games of the SAIF POWERTEC 41st Bangladesh National ‘A’ Chess Championship 2015, sponsored by SAIF POWERTEC Limited, and organised by Bangladesh Chess Federation began from 3rd November 2015 at the NSC Tower Auditorium of National Sports Council in Dhaka, Bangladesh. LIVE games with analysis/ Standings and statistics It’s the highest national champion of Bangladesh. This year [...]

The Saif Powertec 41st Bangladesh National “A” chess championship, sponsored by Saif Powertec Limited and organized by Bangladesh Chess Federation is taking place from November 3-17th, 2015, at the NSC Tower Auditorium of National Sports Council in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The event is a 14 player round-robin tournament with an average Elo rating of 2324. Participants: GM Rahman [...]

Interviews with players

Today’s Challenge: Find the typical pattern and react accordingly, Black to Move: Aron Nimzowitsch against Bjorn Nielsen in 1930 Q – Can black play 20…Bd6 with an idea of meeting Rd7 with Rad8? A: Not at all, in the game Black played 20…Bd6 and lost very quickly. Instead the fight can be prolonged with 20…Bd8. […]

Την Τετάρτη 4/11/2015, στις 20:00 ξεκινάνε μαθήματα ενηλίκων στο Σκακιστικό Όμιλο Καλλιθέας. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να επικοινωνείτε στο τηλέφωνο του συλλόγου 210-9592163 (Σαββατοκύριακα & Τετάρτη βράδυ) και στο...

The Cuban Lazaro Bruzon has proclaimed this afternoon in Bilbao, the new Ibero-American chess champion after ending in a tie with the young talent Alan Pichot in a direct duel, in this last day. The Cuban has not suffered too much in this game because the Argentinian soon accepted the fact of ending in a [...]