Ο Τσεπουκαϊτις (δεξιά) σε παρτίδα μπλιτς εναντίον του νεαρού Πίτερ Σβίντλερ. Φυσικά το δεξί χέρι του είναι έτοιμο να παίξει την επόμενη κίνηση πριν καν ο Σβίντλερ πατήσει το ρολόι. Το πανίσχυρο πρωτάθλημα μπλιτς 1958 του...

The 4th qualifier of the Italian Online Blitz Chess Championship took place on October 22nd, 2015, at the FIDE Online platform. The event was a 9-round Swiss blitz championship with tempo of play 3′ + 2″ and 68 players participated. ANM Christian Gagliardi emerged a solo winner with 8/9 points, leaving the runner-up, ANM Riccardo Alaimo, half a [...]

The 2015/16 season for the Counties and District Correspondence Chess Championship (C&DCCC) here in England has recently started with the usual three divisions, namely Ward-Higgs, Sinclair and Butler-Thomas. When I was informed that the Ward-Higgs was about to start I eagerly looked down the game list to see who my opponent would be, but could […]

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 continued with round 5 here in Porto Carras, Halkidiki. In most of the sections there are single leaders on the top with perfect 5/5 scores: Open 18 – Mosadeghpour Masoud IRI Girls 18 – WFM Varshini V IND Girls 16 – WFM Abdusattorova Bakhora UZB Open 14 [...]

In the Iberoamerican Championship, the former champions Bruzón and Granda are in first position, after Vallejo, who was the favourite, ended with in a tie in his game. In tomorrows resting day, the champions of the Masters Final will face the difficult challenge of winning school student of 12 years old. Official website/ 8th Bilbao Masters LIVE/ 6th Ibero-American Championship LIVE [...]

The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus and Belarus Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union organize the European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2015, from 17-21 December, 2015, in Minsk, Belarus. The tournament venue will be Sports Palace,  Pr. Pobeditelei, [...]

The 2015 Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona Chess Tournament is taking place from November 4-8, at Fabra i Coats, in Barcelona, Spain. The event is a 6 player round-robin tournament organized by Catalan Chess Federation and supported by Barcelona City Hall. GM Alexander Morozevich, GM Csaba Balogh, GM Karen Grigoryan, GM Axel Bachmann, GM Narciso Dublan and IM Hipolito Asis Gargatagli are vying...

The new edition of the Chess Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona is approaching. The Catalonian Chess Federation just beat its all-time record: for the first time we have reached 7.500 licenses. This big news, associated to the traditional dynamism of the Catalan chess clubs as for organizing different chess events, makes Catalonia the World´s most active [...]

Some part of a mistake is always correct. – Tartakower Once again a glorious and haphazard victory when my opponent lunges at White’s 1. g3 position. Well, that’s oversimplifying it. White’s position was genuinely inferior to the point of material loss, but care was required. My Candidate Master opponent played nervously and moved a bit […]

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 continued with round 4 here in Porto Carras, Halkidiki. The Open U18 group now has a sole leader as the untitled Mosadeghpour Masoud from Iran defeated the 2nd seed GM Alekseenko Kirill and is on top with perfect score. WFMs Harazinska Ewa and Varshini V share the [...]

The Chess Club Gardena is delighted and proud to be hosting from 4th to 11th of June 2016 for the third time an important international chess tournament in Ortisei with a prize fund of 10,000 Euros. That much is certain that thanks to the success of the two previous editions, together with our regional and [...]

8-year pld girl is the youngest Developmental Instructor

The final stage of the The FIDE Online Juniors World Blitz Championship Semifinal was held on 22nd October, at 13:00 GMT/UTC, on the official FIDE Online platform. The event was a 16 player round-robin tournament with a total prize fund in the amount of US$ 4,250 and US$ 1,000 reserved for the winner. The Championship consisted of 8 qualifier tournaments, a semifinal [...]

The American Wesley So keeps alone the leading position 8th Bilbao Masters 2015 after playing, with blacks, against the al Dutch Arish Giri, in the Second Round of the tournament, that will end the following Sunday, after six rounds. In order to keep for himself the first leading position in the classification, the Philippine origin [...]

Today’s Challenge: Find the typical pattern and react accordingly; Black to Move Carlos Silva against Aleksandr Betaneli in 2000 over internet (ICC) Q: How should Black act against White’s three minor pieces and queen eyeing Black’s king? Should you play …Qf4 or …h6? And what is this formation called? Solution: White’s attacking formation with queen, […]