Pentala Harikrishna from India took the winner’s trophy in the 2nd Isle of Man International after edging Laurent Fressinet and Gabriel Sargissian on tie-break. The three Grandmasters finished on 7,0/9 points each. The 2nd Isle of Man International Chess tournament was held from 3-11th October in Douglas, Isle of Man, with 102 chess players from [...]

Την Παρασκευή 16 Οκτωβρίου και ώρα 20:00 θα πραγματοποιηθεί η πρώτη συνάντηση για τα μαθήματα σκακιού ενηλίκων. Η συνάντηση θα γίνει στα γραφεία του Σκακιστικού Ομίλου Καλλιθέας, Λυκούργου 50. Πληροφορίες: κος Αλεξίου...

Την Παρασκευή 16 Οκτωβρίου και ώρα 20:00 θα πραγματοποιηθεί η πρώτη συνάντηση για τα μαθήματα σκακιού ενηλίκων. Η συνάντηση θα γίνει στα γραφεία του Σκακιστικού Ομίλου Καλλιθέας, Λυκούργου 50. Πληροφορίες: κος Αλεξίου...

People are always looking for ways to popularize chess, coming up with one gimmick after another. But how about chess just being authentic, just being what it is without chasing after attention? This is what happened in 1972, and people are still talking about it: Nigel Davies

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 11 to 14 December 2015 in Minsk, Belarus, by the Belarus Chess Federation and the Global Chess Academy of Minsk and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Andrzej Filipowicz (POL), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer will be IA Anastasia Sorokina (AUS). [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 3 to 6 November 2015 in Barnaul, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Altai Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Alexander Shaab (RUS), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer will be FA Nadezhda Zykina (RUS). [...]

The International Chess Festival “Mikhail Chigorin Memorial” 2015 took place from 2nd to 11th October at the Park Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Russian Cup Stage was played over nine rounds of Swiss system. GMs Kirill Alekseenko, Chanda Sandipan and Dmitry Kokarev tied for the first place at 7.5 points each but Alekseenko lifted the trophy [...]

Την ερχόμενη Κυριακή 18/10 δίνεται η εκκίνηση του Ομαδικού Πρωταθλήματος Παίδων – Κορασίδων ΕΣΣΠ 2015. Δείτε την κλήρωση του Α γύρου

The Millionaire Monday Finals take place on Monday, October 12, 2015, in Las Vegas, USA. The event is a 4-player knock-out tournament with the participation of: Hikaru Nakamura, Yu Yangyi, Liem Le Quang and Alexander Lenderman. Tournament website/ Standings and statistics/ 64″ with Amy Lee/ Wesley So is champion of the first Millionaire Open in Las Vegas New: Season 8 of the strongest...

Carlsen wins the World Rapid 2015 in Berlin

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Students of the Russian Ural State Mining University (USMU) Daria Pustovoitova and Sanan Sjugirov have won the 1st European Universities Chess Championship for women and men, respectively. Pustovoitova was the convincing winner with 8,0/9 points, leaving the nearest followers point and a half behind. Sjugirov scored 7,5/9 points, half a point clear from GM Hovhannes [...]

How far ahead does a chess player think? This is a very hard question to answer. Many people do lots of study of mate-in-5, or mate-in-6 puzzles. But it is rare for a game to be decided by a forced checkmate. In the majority of cases, all that is necessary is to see tactics which […]

The 2015 World Rapid Chess Championship continued today at the Bolle Meierei in Berlin, Germany, with rounds 6-10 in schedule. The defending champion Magnus Carlsen and GM Sergei Zhigalko from Belarus maintained the pace from the first day, scoring 4,0/5 points each, to emerge co-leaders on 8,0 points. Carlsen started the day by saving a completely [...]

Dubai, UAE – Marvin Marcos dominated the field to rule the Fide-rated blitz chess tournament organized by Dubai Chess and Culture Club on Friday (October 9). Seeded tenth at the start of the event, the Dubai-based Filipino chef scored ten points on nine wins and two draws in the 11-round Swiss system event to claim the [...]