The more you improve your pattern bank, the better you become at chess. Whether it is in the opening, middle game or endgame we usually tend to play what we know! And the deeper your knowledge of different patterns, the more beautifully you are likely to play. It could be any tactical or attacking pattern […]

The 3rd qualifying tournament of the ongoing FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 is set to take place on 30th July (at 7:00 GMT/UTC time) on the official FIDE Online platform. The FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 is a new attractive event in which players can participate from the comfort of their [...]

The Open Women’s Bulgarian chess championship “Thracian princess” celebrated its 10th anniversary with the annual edition of the tournament from July 20 through July 26, 2015. The event was played in a 9-round Swiss format with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. The venue of play was County Youth House of Vratsa, a city in [...]

The FIDE World Junior Under-20 Championships 2015 (open and girls under 20) will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from the 31st of August -1st of September (arrival) till the 16th of September (departure) 2015. The Championships will be organized and held by Ugra Chess Federation under the auspices of Russian Chess Federation and FIDE. The [...]

The 2015 Vietnam Chess Championship was organized by Liên đoàn Cờ Việt Nam from July 16 through July 24. The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament that gathered 82 players from 14 different countries. The 19-year-old FM Tuan Minh Le emerged a sole winner with 7/9 points. He added 14 new Elo points to his rating [...]

The 2015 Montenegro Chess Championships for men and women are taking place from 25th July to 4th August in the city of Pljevlja. The men’s tournament is a 12-player round robin with the average elo 2382. The country’s top female player WIM Tojana Blagojevic is competing in this section. After three round of play the [...]

The Italian Chess Federation has announced that the Polgar sisters – Susan, Judit and Sofia – will be present at the EXPO Milano on 18th August. The three sisters will be hosts in the pavilion of Hungary. At 11 am there will be a press conference and from 12 am the sisters will give a [...]

The 12th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan International Open Championship, ASTRO Merdeka Rapid Open Team Championship, 6th KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Open Seniors Championship, 10th Malaysian Chess Challenge, and 6th Swensen's Open Rapid Age-Group Championships.

I was asked a little while ago, how one can improve their chess if they don’t have a lot of time. To be honest, this is a tricky question to answer. If the player is seriously up against it when it comes to available time, (for example, someone working long hours or a single parent […]

The 102nd British Chess Championship is held from 25th July to 8th August, 2015, in the University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, The event is an 11-round Swiss FIDE tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″. The recent winner of the 9th Leiden Open 2015, GM David Howell, will be defending the title in [...]

The 4th “Lviv Tradition” chess tournament is taking place from July 27, through August 1, 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event is a 10-player round-robin tournament, valid for FIDE rating and norms. The average Elo rating is 2230. Participants: IM Dmitry Mischuk (2337), Piotr Sabuk (2335), FM Bebel Arkadiusz...

The 9th Leiden Chess Tournament 2015 took place from July 17 – 26, in the Leiden Denksportcentrum. The event was a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″. Top seed player GM David Howell defeated GM Marian Petrov in the last round of the tournament to emerge a convincing winner with 8.5/9 points. The [...]

The 14th International Chess Festival Condom 2015 took place from 11-18th July, at the Salle Pierre de Montesquiou, in Condom, France. Every year an IM-tournament is organized to provide the young French players with norm opportunities. This time, FM Tangi Migot was near to achieve his third norm while he needed ony a draw in [...]

Just like the combination on a safe has to entered in the correct order, you have to play the moves in a combination in chess in the correct order. Sometimes you see the moves which win, but realise that they allow the opponent to defend if you play them in the wrong order. So if […]

Grandmaster Julio Granda Zuniga from Peru repeated the last year’s success and emerged convincing winner of the 33rd Open Andorra Hotel St.Gothard that was held from 18-26th July in Andorra. Granda Zuniga completed the event with 8,0/9 points, staying half a point clear from the 2013-winner GM Andrey Vovk. 164 players from 18 countries participated [...]