Top-seed Dutch GM Ivan Sokolov and the UAE’s second-seed GM Salem A.R. Saleh lead opening-night winners Dubai, UAE – The favorites had an easy workout during Sunday’s opening night of the 12th Allegiance to Zayed Chess Tournament, winning all their games in the first two rounds to maintain a hold of the leadership at the [...]

The  Russian Women’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 [...]

The 2015 edition of Roc Nova College Chess Tournament is taking place from June 26 to June 28, in Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands. The event is a 6-round Swiss tournament, open for players rated over 1850. Top seed Grandmasters are Matthew Sadler (2659), Erik van den Doel (2558), Stewart Haslinger (2526) and David Klein (2509). Top [...]

1ος ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ - ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ ΓΥΡΟΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ“Το σκάκι είναι τα πάντα. Τέχνη, επιστήμη, άθλημα.”Ανατόλυ ΚάρποβΠρώην Παγκόσμιος ΠρωταθλητήςΜε όραμα την εξωστρέφεια του σκακιού και τη σύνδεσή του με την τέχνη, τις...

1ος ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ - ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ ΓΥΡΟΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ“Το σκάκι είναι τα πάντα. Τέχνη, επιστήμη, άθλημα.”Ανατόλυ ΚάρποβΠρώην Παγκόσμιος ΠρωταθλητήςΜε όραμα την εξωστρέφεια του σκακιού και τη σύνδεσή του με την τέχνη, τις...

One passed pawn in the endgame can be stronger than two passed pawns. In this week’s problem, White has a very good passed pawn on the 6th rank. The Black King is also trapped in the corner. White can use these two advantages to win the game, despite being material down. How does White to […]

The first qualifier in the prestigious FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 took place on the official FIDE Online platform on June 18. In the third round of the event Italian WFM Tea Gueci (with nickname marmocchia) met former World champion for women GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (nickname: AlexandraK). It was a very interesting and [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized in Minsk, Belarus from 14 to 17 August 2015, by the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess, in cooperation with the Belarus Chess Federation and the Global Chess Academy of Minsk and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Andrzej Filipowicz (POL), FIDE Lecturer [...]

From 11 to 14 June 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Rosenheim, Germany, by the German Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the Hotel Hoehensteiger in Rosenheim. The Lecturer of the Seminar was IA Klaus Deventer (GER), Member of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer [...]

The 6th ShakkiNet International Grandmaster Tournament is taking place from 8-16th June, 2015, in Helsinki, the capital and largest city of Finland. The event was a 10-player single round-robin tournament with an average Elo rating of 2402. GM Kaido Kulaots from Estonia and last year’s winner GM Vasily Yemelin from Russia tied for the first place with [...]

Παρακολουθήστε την εξέλιξη των διοργανώσεων ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΑ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΑ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΩΝ-ΚΟΡΑΣΙΔΩΝ 2015, 33ο ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΟ ΟΜΑΔΙΚΟ ΚΥΠΕΛΛΟ και 43ο ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΟ ΟΜΑΔΙΚΟ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑ Α’ ΕΘΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΙΑ στις επίσημες ιστοσελίδες....

The 29th International Open Tournament Pula 2015 took place from June 13 to June 20, at the Hotel Park Plaza Histria in Pula, Croatia. The 9-round Swiss event was organized by the Chess Club Pula and Croatian Chess Federation. The first place was shared in a three-way tie by Slovenian GM Marko Tratar, Austrian IM Siegfried Baumegger  and Croatian IM [...]

I left you last time after the first round of the 1974 Paignton Challengers A Tournament. In round 2 I had the black pieces against a friend and clubmate, Geoff Davies, and was content with a short draw in a position in which I might well have played on. If you read my column two […]

Тhe 37th Portuguese Team Cup – Final Four takes place on June 20-21, in Alcochete, a municipality in Portugal. The teams who qualified for the Semifinals are O Amanhã da Criança, GD Dias Ferreira_A, CX Montemor-o-Velho/CGTA and Sporting Clube Portugal. The Semifinals will be played on Saturday, June 20, while the Final match is scheduled for Sunday, [...]

The 10th Edmonton International Chess Festival is taking place between June 19 and June 28, 2015, at the Edmonton Chess Club, in Canada. The event is a 10 player round-robin tournament with the participation of: GM Vassily Ivanchuk (2733), GM Pentala Harikrishna (2733), GM Wang Hao (2710), GM Samuel Shankland (2656), GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2625), [...]