The 2015 Canadian Closed Chess Championship, which is also FIDE Zonal 2.2 tournament, is set to take place from 10-16th July at the Peter Clark Hall, Guelph University Centre, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The tournament format is 9-round Swiss with the time control 40/90, G/30+ 30 seconds from move one. The winner of the Championship [...]

Chess has this in common with the study of quantum phenomena, that the difficulty in grasping the whole is caused by the intricacy and complexity of the subconstituent parts. We know that chess is determinate. Among the myriad pathways the game can follow there are those paths which lead to a draw, and the lost […]

Webster Vienna Hosts Top Global Talent in 2nd Annual FIDE WOM Chess for Girls Competition Webster University partnered with the Commission for Women’s Chess (WOM) of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) as well as the Austrian Chess Federation/Vienna Chess Federation, and the Susan Polgar Foundation to hold the competition. Webster University was the proud co-host of [...]

The Chess Academy of Armenia under the auspices of Armenian Chess Federation is organizing the annual “Lake Sevan 2015” International Chess Tournament from July 12-20, in Martuni, Armenia. The event is a 10-player FIDE 15th category round-robin tournament with the participation of: GM Vladislav Artemiev (2660) RUS, GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (2643) IND, GM Jan Krzysztof Duda [...]

The calendar of the events is published at the beginning of every month to allow the members to dedicate part of their time to play for free against GMs and IMs.

Recently one of my students got a fide rating of 1325. We were expecting something much higher than that as his standard rating on playchess has been above 1800 for most of the last 6 months. In order to know the reason for this difference we have analysed his games. What I found should be […]

Women’s World Champion Mariya Muzychuk and her sister GM Anna Muzychuk are visiting Montenegro Chess Federation from 6th to 16th July. On 7th July Mariya Muzychuk opened the Chess House in Bijelo Polje, and then held a simultaneous exhibition for the local chess players. On 15th July Mariya Muzychuk will attend the press conference of [...]

Twenty-four (24) people from Montenegro, FYROM, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia participated in the Seminar and all of them participated in the examination test, held after the end of the lectures.

GM Nils Grandelius (2623) will surely be Sweden’s big hope in Hasselbacken Chess Open 2016. Grandelius has steadily improved his world ranking, and shown in the large open tournaments that no 2700 players go safe. Tournament website/ Registration/ LIVE games with analysis/ Alexei Shirov first 2700+ player in Hasselbacken Chess Open 2016 Here is an interview with Nils Grandelius [...]

Two chess legends will meet in a rapid chess match in Riga, Latvia from July 7 to July 9. 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov (Russia) will meet the renowned chess theoretician Evgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia) in a 6 game match. The games start at 2pm UTC (16:00 CET, 10:00 EST) on July 7 and 8, [...]

GM Salem A.R. Saleh of the UAE and GM Dimitri Komarov of Ukraine score rare sweep to dominate the Dubai Cup Blitz Chess Team Tournament. GM tandem win all their games to rule the tournament with a perfect score ahead of 51 other teams. Dubai, UAE – Grandmaster (GM) Salem A.R. Saleh of the UAE and [...]

The 38th International Chess Tournament “Ikaros” 2015 will be held from Saturday 11th till Sunday 19th of July at Aghios Kirykos, the capital town of Ikaria, Greece. The Men and Women Greek Open Championships 2015 are integrated with the Chess Festival. The top prize in the main tournament is 800 EUR. Read the full Regulations [...]

One of the most popular features at my Tiger Chess site is the recently introduced Analysis Training feature. It is very different to tactical chess problems of the ‘White to play and win’ genre in that the positions may be tactical or strategic in nature and call for a quite different type of thinking to […]

Grandmasters Sofio Gvetadze (Georgia), Irene Kharisma Sukandar (Indonesia) and Iva Videnova (Bulgaria) are signed up to take part in the 2nd qualifying tournament of the FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 that is taking place 9th July on the official FIDE Online Arena. The 1st FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 is a [...]

The 2015 Belgium Chess Championship is taking place from July 4-12, at the Sports Hall Schelle, located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with prize fund in total of € 10,000. Tournament website/ Play chess online/ Chess Arena Video Channel