The 19th edition of Vienna Chess Open included a Blitz tournament which was held on August 16th, 2015. 137 players from 25 different countries took part in the 11-round Swiss event with time control 3′ + 2″. English GM Matthew Sadler emerged a convincing winner with the amazing 11/11 score. Sadler won all the games, [...]

Tomashevsky Retains Lead at Men’s Russian Championship Superfinal. Goriachkina Emerges on Top The games of round 8 of the Russian Championship, the 68th for men and the 65th for women, were played in Chita on August 17. Official website / Men’s games with analysis / Women’s games with analysis In the men’s section, Alexander Motylev [...]

H ΕΣΣΠ τιμώντας την μνήμη του αξέχαστου Νίκου Καραπάνου διοργανώνει τουρνουά ράπιντ με διεθνή αξιολόγηση στις 4-6 Σεπτεμβρίου στο Ξενοδοχείο Porto-Rio. Δηλώσεις συμμετοχής, έως και μισή ώρα πριν την έναρξη των αγώνων, στο...

The traditional Children’s Day took place on August 15, on the day off at the Russian Chess Superfinal. Grandmasters Sergei Rublevsky, Evgeny Miroshnichenko and Evgeniy Najer played simuls against local chess fans. Konstantin Ilkovsky, the governor of the Zabaykalsky Krai, visited the simuls in Chita. Evgeny Miroshnichenko competed against 30 young players in the Chess [...]

Tα σωματεία μέλη τις Ε.Σ.Σ.Π καλούνται το Σάββατο 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2015 στις 19:00 σε Γενική Συνέλευση στο εντευκτήριο της Ακαδημίας Πέλοπος Πατρών (Arena Sports Center, Πέλοπος 26, Πάτρα). Σε περίπτωση μη απαρτίας η συνέλευση θα...

A Queen and Knight can cooperate very well in the endgame. In this week’s problem, White can force a win with a clever sequence of moves. He has an advanced pawn on h6, which means he may be able to sacrifice something on g6, if he can then play h7 and queen his pawn. How […]

Tomashevsky Leads at Men’s Russian Superfinal, Kosteniuk and Goriachkina Ahead in Women’s Section Games of round 7 of the Russian Championships Superfinal, the 68th for men and 65th for women, were played in Chita on August 16. Official website / Men’s games with analysis / Women’s games with analysis Evgeny Tomashevsky, who played White versus [...]

The 19th Vienna Chess Open is taking place from 15-23rd August, 2015, at the Wiener Rathaus in Vienna, Austria. The event is organized by the Wiener Schachverband and has attracted over 800 chess players accross four sections. The main Open A has 465 players from 43 countries, including 21 Grandmasters and 39 International Masters. There [...]

The 5th Split Chess Open 2015, organized by the Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation, was held on 9-16th August at Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia. 198 players competed in the 9-round Swiss event with the prize fund of 8500 EUR. The tournament concluded with as many as ten players sharing [...]

Σκάκι και πρωινός καφές στη Μύκονο, Μάιος του 1961. Του φωτογράφου Ντμίτρι Κέσελ, που στα στερνά του εγκατάσταθηκε στην Κίνα και την αποτύπωσε με το φακό του.  

Στις 18 Αυγούστου ξεκινάει το 5ο Διεθνές Τουρνουά ‘ΙΣΘΜΙΑ” 2015 με τη συμμετοχή πολλών Ελλήνων και ξένων παιχτών. Για πρώτη φορά τα “ΙΣΘΜΙΑ” γίνονται στο Λουτράκι Κορινθίας στο ξενοδοχείο “POSEIDON RESORT”. Τη...

The 2015 Stavropolsky Milk Factory Cup is taking place from August 15-16, in the Russian city of Stavropol. The event was a 9-round Swiss rapid tournament with tempo of play 15′ + 10″. Tournament website

The Evening Standard London Chess Fortnight, organised by Stewart Reuben, took place in August 1975 at a hotel in Earls Court, West London. The main event was an 11 player all play all tournament which was memorable for providing Tony Miles with his first GM norm. (Miles 7½/10, Timman and Adorjan 7, Sax 6, Nunn […]

The Top Computer Chess Championship TCEC Season 8 is scheduled to start this August 21st. The world’s best computer chess software engines will compete through four stages and a final to decide the 2015 TCEC Grand Champion. Last season the TCEC, which was won by the Komodo engine, attracted hundreds of thousands unique viewers and [...]