The Norway Chess 2015 super tournament started with a bang. World champion Magnus Carlsen lost on time against Veselin Topalov in a winning position. Enjoy the game, fully annotated by Chess Insider commentator GM Davorin Kuljasevic. Get your copy of Chess magazines June pack here to stay tuned for the next Norway Chess games. All issues of Chess [...]

Vietnam are the overall champions of the 16th ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships 2015, a position they have held since the event started in Vietnam in 2000. The country with the largest delegation won the most medals and the statistics are staggering. Vietnam’s 68 Golds are more than the second to eighth ranked countries combined and their [...]

From 2 to 6 June 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held in Singapore, organized by the Singapore Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer of the Seminar was IA Takis Nikolopoulos (GRE), Chairman of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer [...]

The Board meeting of the European Chess Union was held this weekend, 12-13 June, in the capital of Romania – the city of Bucharest. The ECU Board meeting concluded with important decisions, which will be communicated by the next ECU Circular Letter. Mr. Azmaipairashvili and the ECU Deputy President, Mr. Ion Dobronauteanu had a number [...]

Δυστυχώς ο διαγωνισμός καλλιτεχνικού σκακιού που θα πραγματοποιούσε η Σκακιστική Ένωση Νικόπολη Πρέβεζας την Κυριακή 21/6 αναβάλλεται.Ο σοβαρός λόγος της αναβολής είναι η διεξαγωγή του ατομικού πρωταθλήματος...

Αυτές τις μέρες διεξάγεται το Ανοιχτό Πρωτάθλημα Αττικής, στα πλαίσια του Όπεν της Σκακιστικής Επικοινωνίας Ηρακλείου και στο οποίο συμμετέχω κακοποιώντας το σκάκι. Δε θυμάμαι να έχω παίξει τόσο άσχημα σε τουρνουά. Η...

After three editions held in Portuguese capital Lisbon, the National Masters and Honor Tournaments returned north, taking place in Matosinhos on June 7-13th, 2015. Both events were played in a 10-player single round-robin format. The 2010/2011 champion IM Jorge Ferreira scored 6,5/9 points in the Master Section to take the trophy for second time. He was [...]

Zukertort, Johannes Hermann – Steinitz, William 1st World Championship 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Bf5?! 4.Nc3 A slight inaccuracy. Analysts suggest that 4.cxd5! cxd5 5.Qb3, hitting d5 and b7, 5…Bc8 favours White. 4…e6 5.Nf3 Nd7 6.a3?! With the idea of c5 and b4, thereby keeping Black’s dark square bishop away from h2-b8 diagonal. 6…Bd6! Euwe […]

The 2015 Dutch Individual Men’s Chess Championship is taking place from July 4 through July 12, in the Manor Hotel, in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The event is an 8-player single round-robin tournament with the participation of: GM Anish Giri (2773), GM Loek Van Wely (2653), GM Sergey Tiviakov [...]

The 2015 Dutch Individual Women’s Chess Championship is taking place from July 4 through July 12, in the Manor Hotel, in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The event is an 8-player single round-robin tournament with the participation of: GM Zhaoqin Peng (2381), WIM Anne Haast (2373), WGM Bianca De Jong-Muhren [...]

Stockholms Schacksällskap, one of the world’s oldest chess clubs, celebrates its 150 years jubilee with a grand tournament at the venerable Scandic Hotel Hasselbacken**** in the heart of The Royal Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. The Hasselbacken Chess Open 2016 will be held from April 30 through May 8, 2016, in a 9-round FIDE-Swiss open format and it will be valid [...]

Former world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and world championship semi-finalist Harika Dronavalli are leading the field of the 1st FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 that is starting from 18th June on the official FIDE Online platform. The FIDE World Online Women Blitz Championship 2015 is a new attractive event in which players can participate [...]

We sat down with Singapore’s latest IM Tin Jingyao, winner of the ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships U-20 Open soon after he dropped to the Open U-16 category for the Rapid Chess competition where he picked up yet another individual success and also helped Singapore to the Open U-16 Rapid team Gold. PL: Hi Jingyao, Thanks for [...]

The 19th Voronezh International Chess Festival 2015 is currently in progress at the Voronezh Chess Club, in Voronezh, Russian Federation. Igor Glek is a Russian chess Grandmaster who now competes for Germany. As well as this, he is a chess theorist, a coach, the President of the World League of Chess Tournaments and a co-founder of the ACP. [...]

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