Οι προγραμματισμένες (από την Επιτροπή Καλλιτεχνικού Σκακιού) εκδηλώσεις για το 2016 είναι στον ακόλουθο πίνακα 2016: ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΙ ΕΠΙΛΥΣΗΣ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΩΝ ΗΜΕΡΟΜΗΝΙΑ ΔΙΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΤΟΠΟΣ Κυρ. 3 Ιανουαρίου 3ο...

The European Chess Union and Chess in Schools and Communities, a UK registered charity, are joining forces to provide the first ever professional program for social entrepreneurs in chess. As part of the London Chess Classic with its London Chess and Education Conference 2015 on the theme „Chess and Society“ the best applicants will come [...]

It often seems to amaze people that strong player can find the right moves in the blink of an eye, how do they think so fast? Actually they often don’t need to think at all, they just know what to do: Nigel Davies

Δημοσιεύoνται οι αποφάσεις της Γενικής Συνέλευσης της ΕΣΣΠ που έλαβε χώρα στις 13-9-2015.

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 European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2015, 17-21 December, 2015, in Minsk/Belarus. The tournament venue will be Sports Palace, Pr. Pobeditelei, 4, Minsk, Belarus. [...]

The IGB International Open Chess Championship headlines the 2015 Malaysian Chess Festival, and this year there are 143 players from 19 countries already signed up! Amongst them, 11 GMs and 25 IMs out of a total 80 titled players. Surprisingly it is Indonesia with 31 participants having the largest delegation, Malaysian only second with 28 [...]

The Swensen’s Rapid Age Group Championships has become one of the signature events of the Malaysian Chess Festival being held from 18-28 September 2015 at Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is traditionally held on the day between the end of the ASTRO Merdeka Rapid Team Championships and the start of the IGB International [...]

In this week’s position, White is losing. He tries one last trick with 1. g4. Even in supposedly very simple positions, you need to concentrate to the end. Black played 1…hxg4 after White played 1. g4. Can you see how White now draws the game? What should Black have played on his first move to […]

The first round of the FIDE World Chess Cup has just finished and 64 players proceeded to the next stage. The 24 pairs of players who tied their 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. After [...]

Η Επιτροπή Καλλιτεχνικού Σκακιού έκρινε ότι είναι σωστό να δημιουργηθεί ένα ιστορικό αρχείο βραβευμένων σκακιστικών προβλημάτων των Ελλήνων Συνθετών.Καλούνται οι Έλληνες Συνθέτες να αποστείλουν τα βραβευμένα...

Ο σύλλογος στηρίζεται αποκλειστικά στις συνδρομές των μελών του. Η ετήσια συνδρομή για τα μέλη του συλλόγου είναι 24 ευρώ το χρόνο (2 ευρώ το μήνα).Με κάθε συνδρομή κερδίζετε:Έκπτωση 20% σε όλα τα τουρνουά του...

Προσωρινά αποτελέσματα του σημερινού (13-Σεπτέμβρη-2015) διαγωνισμού λύσης για το πρωτάθλημα Αττικής, που διοργανώθηκε από την ΕΣΣΝΑ (Ένωση Σκακιστικών Σωματείων Νομού Αττικής):1. Πρωταθλητής Αττικής Παπασταυρόπουλος...

The 8th Memorial Maria Albulet is currently in progress in the Romanian city of Braila. The event is a 9-round Swiss female open tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″, that takes place from September 10-16, 2015. WFM Lena Miladinovic from Serbia and Bulgarian Olympic player WGM Adriana Nikolova took the lead with 3.5/4 points. [...]

In the last round I didn’t get my expected pairing of Black against Robert Bellin. Instead I had my third consecutive white (and my fourth in the tournament) against Belgian international Richard Meulders. The game was an English Opening, with my opponent choosing the Botvinnik Blockade, a plan which I had often used myself, and […]

From 24th to 28th August 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Gaborone, Botswana, by the Botswana Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the Oasis Hotel, Gaborone, Botswana. The Lecturer was IA David Sedgwick (ENG), FIDE Lecturer, and the Assistant Lecturer was FA Vincent Masole (BOT). [...]