Αποτελέσματα Γ γύρου και κλήρωση Δ γύρου του Ομαδικού Παίδων – Κορασίδων ΕΣΣΠ 2015

The solution to last Monday’s difficult problem is that Black plays 1… Bc8. This aims to get the Bishop on the long diagonal. After 2. Rcd1 f5! 3. Rhe1 Bd7! , White’s pawns start to fall. In this week’s problem, you are White against the Stonewall Dutch. Your task is to get a small, but […]

2015-2016 Norway Elite Team Chess Championship is taking place in Norwegian capital Oslo. Tournament website

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 continued with round 7 here in Porto Carras, Halkidiki. The untitled Mosadeghpour Masoud from Iran won another game in the Open U18 group to retain the perfect score and stay a full point ahead of the nearest follower. Indian girls WFM Mahalakshmi M (6,5 points) and WFM [...]

The British Rapidplay Chess Championship 2015 is taking place from October 31st to November 1st, in Leeds, England. The event is played in 11 rounds with top seed GM Mark Hebden. Official website/ Standings and statistics

Finally the election results are in and it’s clear that the conservatives have won an overwhelming victory, while their erstwhile coalition partners have suffered a humiliating defeat. Two of their number were even beaten by Not This Candidate, which seems to me very much like losing a game to David Edward Fault. But wait! It […]

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 resumed after the rest day here in Porto Carras, Halkidiki. Mosadeghpour Masoud from Iran continued the winning row in the Open U18 group and is now full point ahead of the nearest followers. WFM Mahalakshmi M of India is leading the Girls U18 with 5,5 points. Her [...]

The photo gallery of round 6 is available and you can check it at this link. The photos by A. Kontokanis and D. Matisone include players from all sections and more will be added in the next hours. More photos will be uploaded to the official gallery of WYCC and on Flickr here.

The 2015 Ptuj International Chess Tournament took place from October 24-31, in Ptuj, a city in Slovenia. The event was a 9-round Swiss open tournament with tempo 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. 65 players from Croatia, Czech Republic, Norway, Poland and Slovenia took part in the event but Croatian GM Robert Zelcic emerged a [...]

The Friendship Games, a 9-round Swiss FIDE rated tournament for title norms, takes place at the Royal Dearborn Hotel and Conference Center in Dearborn, Michigan (suburban Detroit) from 28th October to 1st November. The event is organized by Michigan Chess Festival LLC (MCFLLC) and the arbiter is IA Hal Bond of Canada. The tournament is [...]

The American Wesley So and the Dutch Anish Giri are most certainly the two favorurites to win Bilbao Masters Final, after the tremendous victory from this last one upon the game against Viswanathan Anand, and the ties Ananad resulted in against Liren Ding. In the Ibero-American tournament, with only four more rounds to go, the [...]

The 9th edition of the Kings Tournament is taking place from 30th October to 3rd November, 2015, in Medias, Romania. The tournament is a 5-player Sheveningen match between Germany and host Romania. Germany is represented by Daniel Fridman GM 2649, Rainer Buhmann GM 2615, Matthias Bluebaum GM 2588, Alexander Donchenko GM 2577 and Dennis Wagner GM 2575, while the players from Romania...

The 2015 Ptuj International Chess Tournament takes place from October 24-31, in Ptuj, a city in Slovenia. The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with tempo 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. 65 players from Croatia, Czech Republic, Norway, Poland and Slovenia participate. Top seed is Croatian GM Robert Zelcic (2518). Official website/ Standings and [...]

I received an email a while back from a gentleman who is a professional football player. He decided to take up chess as a way to relax and exercise his mind while on the road. He carefully explained that he was have trouble with fully grasping the reasons for control of board’s center during the […]

The 9th edition of the Kings Tournament is taking place from 30th October to 3rd November, 2015, in Medias, Romania. The tournament is a 5-player Sheveningen match between Germany and host Romania. Germany: Daniel Fridman GM 2649 Rainer Buhmann GM 2615 Matthias Bluebaum GM 2588 Alexander Donchenko GM 2577 Dennis Wagner GM 2575 Romania: Constantin [...]