The 3rd International Chess Festival Cesme Open 2015 is held from 15-20th June, at the Cesme Aya Haralambos Church, in Cesme, a splendid coastal Turkish city, situated near the largest metropolitan center in Turkey’s Aegean Region, Izmir. Turkish Chess Federation and Cesme Municipality organize the event in a 9-round Swiss format with the hefty prize fund in total of 33,500 [...]

My final game in the Adrian Hollis Memorial Tournament on the ICCF Webserver finished as a draw with Black against ICCF GM Richard Hall, the World Silver Medalist in the 25th ICCF World Championship Final. My final score being 4 / 10 (+1, =6, -3), which included loss of a level game due to my […]

The 45th Rilton Cup Chess Festival is scheduled to take place from 27th December, 2015 to 5th January, 2016, in Clarion Hotel Stockholm, in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic region. The Rilton Cup was initiated by a donation from Dr. Tore Rilton, and since 1985 the tournament is [...]

The most common aim in an endgame is to queen a pawn. This is why it is often a good idea to advance your pawns if you can do so safely. If you move them nearer the promotion square, you can often threaten to promote them. In this week’s problem, White can queen one of […]

The 2015 International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra is taking place on 13-20th June in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps. Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi, Circolo Scacchistico Udinese, ScacchiRandagi, FSI and Comune Forni di Sopra organize the traditional event in the heart of [...]

The 2015 International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra is taking place on 13-20th June in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps. Following the tremendous success of the previous editions, which were won by GM Carlos Matamoros (2011), GM Ivan Salgado (2012), [...]

Neva Foundation organised on 11th and 12th of June in Geneva the final of the Interscholastic Tournament “Tous aux Echecs”.

This year is the 50th anniversary edition of the traditional tournament Capablanca Memorial. The 2015 will start in the 15th of June in Salón Embajadores in Hotel Habana Libre. One more time the chess fans will have a special coverage with commentary and analysis in the live section of Chessdom.com, as well as detailed reports on the Spanish [...]

Dedicated to Norway Chess 2015

Live games with analysis

The 10th Annual Open Teplice is taking place from June 13 through June 21, 2015, at the Estrade Hall in Culture House of Teplice, one of the largest spa towns in the Czech Republic. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″. 164 players from 22 [...]

Live coverage of the opening ceremony and blitz tournament

Στο Αιγαιοπελαγίτικο νησί με τη μακρά σκακιστική παράδοση ανατέθηκε η διοργάνωση των Ανοιχτών Πρωταθλημάτων Ελλάδας Ανδρών και Γυναικών. Ο «Ίκαρος 2015» έχει ήδη ενσωματώσει το Ανοιχτό Πρωτάθλημα Αιγαίου και...

The 29th International Open Tournament Pula 2015 is taking place 13-20th June at the Hotel Park Plaza Histria in Pula, Croatia. The 9-round Swiss event is organized by the Chess Club Pula and Croatian Chess Federation. The total prize fund is 7,330 EUR. 220 players from 19 different countries take part in the event. Top seed is [...]

I haven’t considered myself a serious player for many years, but back in the early and mid 70s I was a regular on the British tournament circuit. This new series takes a look at some of my more successful events. For several years I’d been playing at about 1800 strength but the latter months of […]