The new commission of FIDE, Skills Management Committee and its president Roberto Mogranzini were invited by the Milan stock exchange to hold a seminar during the TOL Expo

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 continued with round 3 here in Porto Carras, Halkidiki. After multiple surprises and exciting games, leading groups are forming in each section. Mosadeghpour Masoud, FM Stathopoulos Ioannis and GM Alekseenko Kirill are on the top of the Open U18 group. The top-seeded Vaibhav Suri is half a [...]

The Superfinal of the Top Chess Engine Championship TCEC is going to take place Nov 3 – Nov 29, 2015. Komodo and Stockfish will clash for the highest computer chess title in what is going to be the strongest chess match in history. Both engines boast ELO of over 3200 and each will come with [...]

Egyptian Grandmaster Ahmed Adly won the 10th Mediterranean Individual Championships 2015 that was held from 16-25th October at Riviera Grand Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon. Adly collected 7,5/9 points, leaving the silver medalist GM Mohamed Haddouche (Algeria) and bronze medalist FM Anastasios Pavlidis (Greece) half a point behind. The Championship was played over nine rounds of [...]

The 5th edition of the Zurich Chess Challenge is set to take place from 12-15th February 2016 at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland. Participants: Viswanathan Anand (India), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Anish Giri (Netherlands), Alexei Shirov (Latvia). The oldest chess club in the world and its [...]

A few months ago I changed my international representation to Wales, which you wouldn’t think is a big deal for a chess teacher who is currently on a long break from playing competitive chess. Amazingly this has now hit the media in a big way with articles in the Telegraph (with different pieces appearing online […]

The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 resumed on Monday with the games of round two. All of the twelve age categories still have multiple leaders with perfect scores. However, there were some notable upsets where the lower seeded players defeated higher rated opposition: O16: FM Papadopoulos Argirios 2267 – FM Moroni Luca Jr [...]

The 6th Ibero-American Chess Championship, part of Bilbao Chess 2015, is taking place from October, 26th to November, 3rd in the city of Bilbao. The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. Top seed is Spaniard GM Francisco Vallejo Pons (2684). Official website/ Standings and statistics/ 8th Bilbao Masters 2015

The 15th Sautron Open 2015 takes place from October 24th through October 31st, in Sautron, a city in France. The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 moves + 30′ + 30″. GM Jean-Pierre Le Roux (2572) from France heads the field of 202 players. The first prize is [...]

The final stage of the 1st FIDE World Online Amateur Blitz Championship 2015 was held on 15th 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$ 1,200 reserved for the winner. FULL Regulations The best 16 players qualified after [...]

The young Grandmaster Vladislav Artemiev took the winner’s trophy in the Kustov Memorial Rapid tournament after edging Anton Shomoev on tie-break. The two players finished the event with 9,0/11 points each. The Kustov Memorial, a stage in the Russian Rapid Grand Prix, was held from 23-25th October in Novokuznetsk. The tournament format was 11-round Swiss [...]

The 2015 Haarlem Masters Tournament took place from October 17-25, at the Stedelijk Gymnasium, in Haarlem. The event was a 10 player round-robin tournament and three Dutch players tied for the first place at 6/9 points each – IM Manuel Bosboom, FM Jap De Jager and Barry Brink. FM Ilias Van der Lende emerged clear fourth with [...]

It is usually a bad idea to have doubled and isolated pawns. However, all chess rules have exceptions. Doubled pawn can give you open files for your rooks to attack on. Isolated pawns can give open diagonals for your bishops to attack on. If you have pawn weaknesses, you can sometimes compensate for them by […]

The 2015 FIDE World Youth & Cadets Chess Championships opened on Sunday, October 25th, with brief introductory speeches and round one games in twelve age categories. The FIDE Events Commission Secretary and ECU General Secretary Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou greeted the participants and guests and wished them a pleasant stay in Greece. He expressed satisfaction that Porto [...]

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