Live games with computer analysis

The solution to last Monday’s problem is that White wins easily with almost any move. 1. Kc5 wins easily, for example. But White played the tempting 1. Ka5 Kxh5 2. Kxa6 Kg4 3. b4 h5 and the win is now not clear. In chess, you must concentrate to the end. In this week’s problem, White […]

Open Tatry 2015 is taking place from September 26 to October 3, 2015, in Strbske Pleso, a resort in the High Tatras, Slovakia. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 15′ + 30″. IM Tomas Krnan (2440) from Canada heads the field of 219 players from 11 different federations. [...]

The 70th birthday of GM Lev Gutman is celebrated with a GM tournament, held from September 21-30, 2015, in Lingen Germany. The event is a 10-player round-robin tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. Participants: IM Andreas Heimann GER (2548), GM Stellios Halkias GRE (2538), GM Viktor Mikhalevski ISR (2536), GM [...]

The September Lviv Tradition (IM Group) round-robin tournament is taking place from September 28 to October 4, 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event is a 12-player single round-robin tournament with an average Elo 2257, valid for FIDE rating and norms. The tempo of play is 90′ + 30″. [...]

The Malaysian Chess Festival held at Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur from 18-28 September 2015 has now come to an end with the conclusion of the concurrently played IGB Malaysian International Open Chess Championship, KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng Seniors Open Chess Championship, and the Malaysian Chess Challenge. Fittingly it all ended at a [...]

The Semifinals of the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup started today at the Fairmont Hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan, with four players that remained in the competition. Official website / Live games with analysis / Live games with chat  Previous reports: Round 1 pairings/ Round 2 tie-break/ Round 3 picturesque report/ Eljanov with six straight wins/ Andreikin defeats Kramnik in Russian...

Russian Grandmaster Sergey Volkov emerged clear winner of the 8th Beirut International Open 2015 after concluding the race with 8,0/9 points, half a point ahead of GM Kirill Stupak from Belarus. The Beirut International Open was held from 19-27th September with 88 players from 14 countries. Among them were nine Grandmasters. The total prize fund [...]

The Smashing Pawns organized a rapid chess tournament on 20th September in Schifflange, Luxembourg. The tournament consisted of 104 players coming from 11 federations which is a great representation. The playing format was 9-round Swiss with the time control 15′+5”. The event is rated with FIDE. GM Alberto David, formerly of Luxembourg and now representing [...]

Last week I considered the development of chess clubs and chess administration here in England since the 19th century and explained how little has changed over the best part of 200 years. Chess became very popular among children of secondary school age (11 to 18) after the Second World War, and, for 35 years or […]

The 8th FIDE World Online Women Blitz Qualifier was held on Thursday, September 24th, on the official FIDE Online platform. WGM Olga Sokorova (CZE) 2207 and WGM/ IM Deimante Daulyte (LTU) 2259 tied for the first place at 5 points each. FM/WIM Marina Brunello (ITA) 2325, WIM Maria Florencia Fernández (ARG) 2179 and WFM/AIM Aygun Aliyeva (AZE) 1973 also qualified [...]

The Poikovsky Karpov Chess Tournament 2015, named after the former world champion Anatoly Karpov, is going to take place from 27th September to 8th October. It will be the 16th edition of the event, which once again will be a strong 10-player round robin tournament. Participants: Alexei Shirov LAT 2712 Alexander Morozevich RUS 2711 Anton [...]

Αγαπητοί φίλοι,Σας ενημερώνουμε ότι οι εγγραφές για τη νέα περίοδο θα γίνονται καθημερινά  Δευτέρα έως Παρασκευή 6-8 το απόγευμα και το Σάββατο 11.00-13.00 κατά το διάστημα 28 Σεπτεμβρίου με 3 Οκτωβρίου.Για τον υπόλοιπο...

When you teach and coach chess long enough, you’ll know what works and what doesn’t. I keep a journal regarding teaching methods that work and those that don’t. I recently had the opportunity to start teaching chess to a group of older students who are all intellectually gifted but had played little if any chess. […]

The two pairs of players who tied their round five matches with the classical time control returned to the playing hall at the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku to settle the scores in the rapid and blitz games. Official website / Live games with analysis / Live games with chat  Previous reports: Round 1 pairings/ Round 2 tie-break/ Round 3 picturesque report/ Eljanov [...]