Όπως όλα τα εθνικιστικά ρεύματα, έτσι και αυτό που στόχευε στην ίδρυση Εβραϊκού κράτους στη Μέση Ανατολή, ο Σιωνισμός, προσπαθούσε να ενσωματώσει και να προσδώσει υπεραξία πάνω σε χαρακτηριστικά του λαού που...

The 5th Qualification Tournament of the 1st FIDE World Online Amateur Blitz Championship 2015 was held on 18th June on the official FIDE Online platform. An impressive number of 142 participants from 43 countries competed in the 11-round Swiss event. The top represented countries are Italy, India, Poland, Greece, Russia, England, USA. Top eight finishers [...]

Fabbrica del Vapore (Steam Factory) was packed with young people last Sunday when the venue of Expo Milan Chess Move hosted the 2015 U16 team championship of Lombardia. 38 teams – for a total amount of more than 150 young chessplayers coming from all over the region – took part in the event. Teams from [...]

The 7th LUBLIN Union Memorial, match Lublin-Lviv is taking place from June 24 to June 25, in Lublin, the ninth largest city of Poland. The chess teams of Ukrainian city of Lviv and Polish city of Lublin will face each other in a match of two games with a time control 90′ + 30″. Lviv [...]

Η επιβεβαίωση των συμμετοχών για τα Πανελλήνια Ατομικά Πρωταθλήματα Παίδων-Κορασίδων 2015 θα γίνεται με φυσική παρουσία των αγωνιζομένων στο χώρο αγώνων στο ξενοδοχείο Porto Rio την Πέμπτη 25/06 και ώρα 17.00-21.00 και την...

Learning checkmate in two is perhaps the most important step towards developing your fundamental calculation skills. Yusupov used this as a tool to improve the skill of calculating short variations in one of his books. There are various ways of teaching this to kids but what I am going to discuss is a multipurpose technique […]

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Μια συνέντευξη τύπου στις 23/06/2015 μπορείτε να παρακολουθήσετε εδώ:http://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/news/2015/06/press-conference-with-garry-kasparov/

Pre-tournament favorites GM Ivan Sokolov of the Netherlands, GM Salem A.R. Saleh of the UAE and three other grandmasters maintain perfect slates Dubai, UAE – Only eight players, including five grandmasters (GM), remain with perfect scores after four rounds of the 12th Allegiance to Zayed Chess Tournament at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Bin Rashid [...]

The European Schools Chess Championship 2015 will be held from 24th June until 3rd July in the Rixos Konya Hotel in Konya, Turkey. The organizer of the Championship is Turkish Chess Federation under the auspices of the European Chess Union. The Championship is organized in 12 different categories: U7, U9, U11, U13, U15 and U17, [...]

On June 21, the city of Kaliningrad was the venue for a grand opening of a nationwide competition: the 68th Russian Men’s Chess Championship and the 65th Women’s Chess Championship. For the first time, the competition is being held as part of the international program Chess in Museums implemented by the Russian Chess Federation together [...]

I had been playing the advance variation against the French Defense lately (blitz only), and became curious about the 6.a3 line where Black plays c4 immediately. (see positions below). When I did a search through the Chess King database I found that Sveshnikov seemed to attract this position more than others, so here are a […]

The 2015 Namibia Open Junior Chess Championship was organized by Namibia Chess Federation on June, 20, in the Walvis Bay Private High School, Walvis Bay. The event gathered 270 young players from all over Namibia and it was separated into seven different sections – Under 8, Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16, Under [...]

Γράφει ο InspirusΈνα... προαιώνιο ερώτημα, που βασανίζει όλους τους σκακιστές, είναι το “Με ποια 1η κίνηση είναι καλύτερο να ξεκινάμε?”. Αλλά αυτό το ερώτημα έχει και άλλες εκδοχές και παραλλαγές, που συνήθως ξεφεύγουν πολύ...

The  Russian Men’s Higher League is taking place from June 21 to July 2, in Hotel Baltika****, in Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ X 40 mves + 30′ + 30″. The first five players will qualify for [...]