The Top Chess Engine Championship TCEC Season 8 is in progress and eight rounds have already been completed. The reigning TCEC champion Komodo (3213) is shattering opposition. It has collected 7.0/8 points, leaving the nearest followers, Gull (3118) and Ginkgo (3066), a full point behind. This fact is especially interesting having in mind that Komodo plays this [...]

Chess is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some it’s simply a game to pass the time while to others it’s a way of life. Chess is a battle in which we use our brains as our weapon. I tell my students that chess is an intellectual martial art, Kung Fu […]

The Portugal Open 2015 is taking place from August 30th to September 5th, at Escola Secundária Sebastião e Silva, in Oeiras, Portugal. The event is a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″. 110 players from 13 different countries will take part in the event. Top seed is Russian GM Vladimir [...]

The 2015 Atlantis Open is taking place from August 27-30, in Groningen, the largest city in the north of the Netherlands. The event is 7-round Swiss open with top seed GM Sipke Ernst (2552). Tournament website/ Standings and statistics

The 22nd Abu Dhabi Chess Festival is taking place from August 23-31, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Festival consists of the Masters, Open, Juniors, Blitz, Family and Homeland Protectors tournaments. The main event is the 9-round Swiss Masters, open for players rated 2000 Elo or above. 147 players from 35 different countries, including 57 Grandmasters, [...]

The Lebanese Chess Federation, on behalf of the FIDE, invites your Federation to participate in the 10th Mediterranean Individual Men and Women’s Chess Championships – Normal and Rapid chess, scheduled 15th (arrival) to 26th (departure) of October 2015 in Beirut, Lebanon. The Championships will be held under the patronage of FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and [...]

In this article I am posting two correspondence chess games against the same opponent. He uses the handle TIGER68 on Stan’s Net Chess. His first name is Angelo and he is from Richmond, Virginia. My record at Stan’s Net Chess is 68-12-6. In the first correspondence chess game, I won quickly because my opponent blundered […]

The 22nd Abu Dhabi Chess Festival is taking place from August 23-31, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Festival consists of the Masters, Open, Juniors, Blitz, Family and Homeland Protectors tournaments. The main event is the 9-round Swiss Masters, open for players rated 2000 Elo or above. 147 players from 35 different countries, including 57 Grandmasters, [...]

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Periodically, an opening line experiences a spate of popularity in grandmaster practice. Something like that is currently happening with the Four Knights English line in which Black opens the center with an early … d7-d5. Starting popularly with Rubinstein, over the years the second player has often aimed for a reversed Maroczy Bind, commencing with […]

The 22nd Abu Dhabi Chess Festival is taking place from August 23-31, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Festival consists of the Masters, Open, Juniors, Blitz, Family and Homeland Protectors tournaments. The main event is the 9-round Swiss Masters, open for players rated 2000 Elo or above. 147 players from 35 different countries, including 57 Grandmasters, [...]

From 21 to 26 July 2015 the 43rd Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held, organized by the Chess Federation of Honduras and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer of the seminar was IA Santiago Garcia Ramos (MEX), FIDE Lecturer and the Assistant lecturer and Technical Organizer was IA Hector Mejia Espinal (HON). The [...]

The 3rd Golden Apricot Chess Tournament is taking place from August 25-30, 2015, at the Ataturk Sports Hall, in Malatya, Turkey. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. Top seed is Dutch player GM Sergei Tiviakov (2611). Tournament website/ Standings and statistics

Stockholms Schacksällskap, one of the world’s oldest chess clubs, celebrates its 150 years jubilee with a grand tournament at the venerable Scandic Hotel Hasselbacken**** in the heart of The Royal Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.The Hasselbacken Chess Open 2016 will be held from April 30 through May 8, 2016 and prize fund in total of 300 000 SEK (nearly 32,000 €) will be...

The 2015 World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships are scheduled to take place from October 9-15, at the Bolle Meierei, in Berlin, Germany. The event is organized by FIDE in collaboration with AGON – the World’s Chess Federation’s commercial partner, and prize fund in total of $400,000 will be distributed to the winners. Live games blitz [...]