The Italian Stock Exchange in collaboration with FIDE Skills Management Committee organizes the Trading Online Expo during the conference on Chess & Finance. The meeting will take place on 23rd October from 9:45 at the Glass Cube, Palazzo Mezzanotte, in Milan, Italy. In the early 90′s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, some American [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 25 to 28 February 2016 in Podgorica, Montenegro, by the Montenegro Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar will be the Hotel City in Podgorica. The Lecturer will be IA Vyron Tsorbatzoglou (GRE), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers will [...]

At the FIDE Congress in Abu Dhabi the FIDE Ethics Commission found that Garry Kasparov and Ignatius Leong were guilty for breaching par 2.1 of FIDE Code of Ethics. The complaint related to agreements for cooperation in the FIDE elections and the payment of consideration in exchange for written pledges or proxies. Upon due consideration [...]

From 7 to 11 October 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Agadir, Morocco, by the Royal Morocco Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Arab Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the Anezi Tower Hotel in Agadir. The lecturer was IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE), Councilor of the [...]

Towards the end of each year the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) organises back to back International Open Championships and this year is no different. Both USD 30,000 tournaments will be held in Subic and first up will be the Philippine International Chess Championship from 8-14 November 2015 and which be followed by [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 30 October to 3 November 2015 in Dubai, UAE, by the UAE Chess Federation, in cooperation with the UAE Leaders Qualification Center and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturers will be IA Dr. Hesham El Gendy (EGY), FIDE Lecturer and IA Sultan Al Taher [...]

Yury Razuvaev memorial evening took place on October 17 in the Dvorkovich Chess Saloon during the seniors rapid chess event “Anniversaries-2015”. The guests honored memory of the famous grandmaster and coach. Honored Trainer of Russia Boris Postovsky presented his new book “Yury Razuvaev. A chess academician”. The book consists of three parts – recollections of [...]

The 4th Memorial Gonzalez was held place from October 10-18, 2015, in Madrid, Spain. The event was a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. 73 players from 16 different countries took part in the tournament, including 11 GMs, 1 WGM, 7 IMs, 13 FMs and 2 WFMs. Armenian GM Karen H. Grigoryan emerged [...]

In a previous article on The English Chess Implosion I presented a case for the UK’s reduction in titled players being largely driven by financial considerations. I do have a practical suggestion for how money can be brought into chess, though I doubt there’s much chance of it happening. It’s really very simple, you need […]

World Chess Championship for Disabled 2015 in Dresden is under way. Round 3 started in time and brought positive emotions to all players. The President of ICCD Philip Gardner was present at the beginning of the round and made a first ceremonial move at board 1. The results of Round 3 cannot be called unexpected. Though [...]

2ο ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΦΕΣΤΙΒΑΛ ΣΚΑΚΙΟΥ BLITZ 3ο ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΟ ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΟ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑ BLITZ 3ο ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΟ ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΟ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑ BLITZ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 6 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2 0 15 6ο ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΦΕΣΤΙΒΑΛ ΣΚΑΚΙΟΥ RAPID 10ο ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΟ ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΟ...

This was a game I played in the recent Birmingham Rapidplay. I was pleased with how this game went, I managed to control the c-file and with 25.Rc7 got my rook to the important 7th rank. When my rooks got doubled on the 7th (32.Rcc7) Black was already losing a pawn and I went on […]

Videos of Stage 2 and Stage 3

Την Δευτέρα 2 Νοεμβρίου στις 18:00μ.μ. ξεκινάει το τουρνουά Κάππα-64, με εθνική και διεθνή αξιολόγηση έλο. Θα είναι ανοιχτό τουρνουά με ελβετικό σύστημα επτά γύρων και παράβολο 20 ευρώ για ενήλικες και 10 ευρώ για ανήλικους. 2ο...

Ένα δικό μου ποίημα με αναφορές στο σκάκι σας παρουσιάζω απόψε. Το έγραψα ένα ανοιξιάτικο απομεσήμερο του 2013 στον φιλόξενο σκακιστικό χώρο του καφενείου "Πανελλήνιον". Η ΕΠΙΘΥΜΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΑ ΠΡΙΝ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΜΑΤ Γερνάω...