The Asian Youth Chess Championship being held in Suwon, Korea from 3-11 August 2015 is providing to be particularly competitive as can be seen after three rounds of play where it is clear that the premier events, Open U-18 and Girls U-18 will be hard fought while Open U-16 could arguably be the strongest. Both [...]

The Turkish Isbank Chess Super League 2015 is taking place 4-15 August in Kocaeli, Turkey. A total of 14 teams participate, composed of eight main payers and additional reserves. Top players of the event include GM Wesley So, GM Esen Baris, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, GM Eltaj Safarli, GM Dragan Solak, GM Pentala Harikrishna, GM Vladislav Artemiev, GM [...]

Today’s challenge: Find the typical pattern and move like Capablanca. Capablanca against Fonaroff in 1918 White is a pawn up and has a nice knight on f5. In addition he has a rook on an open file and should win, but can you finish off Black quickly using a very simple checkmate pattern? Answer: The […]

The 9th and last round of this European Chess Championship for Blind and Visually impaired players took place on Sunday 2nd August at the Mercure Hotel, rue de Bonnel in Lyon. The closing ceremony was just after at 17:00. http://tiny.cc/IBCAEuro http://lyon-olympique-echecs.com/ This last round, like the first one, saw an extreme fighting spirit because there [...]

The 90th French Chess Championship is taking place from August 9-20, 2015, in Saint-Quentin, France. The event is an 11-round round-robin tournament with the participation of: GM Etienne Bacrot (2694), GM Tigran Gharamian (2644), GM Romain Edouard (2634), GM Andrei Istratescu (2619), GM Christian Bauer (2618), GM Matthieu Cornette (2586), GM Sebastien Maze (2573), GM [...]

The 26th Czech Open 2015 International Chess and Games Festival took place from July 24 through August 1, in Pardubice, a city in the Czech Republic. The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″. 289 players from 35 different countries take part in the event, including 34 GMs. GM Viktor Laznicka [...]

With 2700+ ELO participants, starting at 14:00 CET

Η ζέστη του καλοκαιριού καλά κρατεί!Από την δεκαετία του 1960 και μάλλον στις Η.Π.Α. έχει τραβηχθεί η φωτογραφία με τους δύο νέους άντρες να παίζουν μία παρτίδα σκάκι μέσα στην δροσιά της πισίνας με την κοπέλα να...

The Asian Youth Chess Championship got underway with a short and simple opening ceremony graced by In Suk Hyun, President of the Korea Chess Federation who welcomed all participants to Korea and wished them every success and an enjoyable stay. Kyung Hee University’s Global Campus in Suwon is a beautiful setting for a competition that [...]

The Third British Webserver Team Tournament Division One started in June 2015. The team who I play for, “Pawn Stars”, won the very first tournament and only lost the second on a tie breaking rule to “ICCF Warriors”. It consists of seven teams, each with four players playing six games each and two players can […]

Έχουν αρχίσει να δημοσιεύονται αποτελέσματα από τις εργασίες του Παγκόσμιου Συνεδρίου για την Σκακιστική Σύνθεση.Προσωρινά αποτελέσματα από το OPEN λύσης [http://www.wfcc.ch/wp-content/uploads/Open-prelim-2015.pdf]. Νίκος Μενδρινός 38ος και...

The 11th Gazi-Heraklion Open 2015 took place from July 25 to August 1, at the Apollonia Beach & SPA Hotel*****, at the Greek island of Crete. The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament, open for players with Elo rating over 1500. Grandmasters Andrey Rychagov (Russia), Alberto David (Italy), Aleksander Delchev (Bulgaria) and Alexander Kovchan (Ukraine) emerged joint [...]

The ONJK (Open Nederlands Jeugd Kampioenschap) is taking place on August 3-8 August, 2015, at Sportcentre ‘t Wooldrik, in Borne, in the Netherlands. The event is a Youth chess championship for player born 1995 or later. Tournament website

The International Chess Festival Baku Open 2015, dedicated to the Independence Day of Republic of Azerbaijan, will take place from 21st September to 1st October at the AF Hotel near Caspian Sea. The Festival is organized by the Azerbaijan Youth & Sport Ministry and Azerbaijan Chess Federation. The total prize fund is 40,000 USD and [...]

The Mongolian Chess Federation has the pleasure to announce that the Mongolia Open – 1st International Chess Festival, which will be held from 19-29th August in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, concurrently with the U16 World Youth Chess Olympiad. The 9-round Swiss event is open to all players and the games will take place at the Chinggis Khaan [...]