This is another correspondence chess game from the 1978 Golden Knights Postal Section 93. Although I won this game in 18 moves, it was not one of my best chess games.  We both made all kinds of blunders that could have lost the game for us, or we missed opportunities for quick wins. My opponent […]

The Greek Chess Federation has responded positively to the request of the organization committee of Ikaros to integrate the Greek Open Championship 2015 with the 38th Ikaros International Tournament! This, combined with the strong international field means that this year’s “Ikaros 2015″ will be an interesting and competitive event. Very good news was also the [...]

The first edition of the Lucky Dino Open was played 20-26 May in Sliema, Malta. The joint winners, a Swedish IM Roland Ekstroem and a Polish Candidate Master Piotr Tworzydło scored 7,5 out of 9 and were followed by a Romanian player Tiberiu-Petre Stanciu, who finished 1,5 points behind them. Report by Piotr Kaim/ Photos [...]

Μέρος 1ο - Εισαγωγή, Μόσχα 1949/1950 Μέρος 2ο - Τουρνουά Διεκδικητών 1952Και έτσι - μετά το τουρνουά διεκδικητών του 1952 - φτάσαμε στο πρώτο ματς για τον παγκόσμιο τίτλο γυναικών της νέας εποχής. Η Elizaveta Bykova, η διεκδικήτρια του...

On the occasion of the 28th Magistral Ciudad de Leon Tournament the FIDE Skills Management Committee (SMC) was invited to give a speech at the local Club de Prensa. The Chairman and GM Roberto Mogranzini was invited by the tournament organizer IM Marcelino Sión Castro to introduce to the Spanish audience some of the ideas [...]

Singapore 2015 is arguably seeing the strongest ever ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships held so far with seedings, titles, and reputations counting for nothing especially in the higher ages categories. In Open U-20 it is FM Tin Jingyao from Singapore, Dhulipalla Chandra Prasad from India and FM Bui Trong Hao from Vietnam who are all on 4/5 [...]

The English Chess Federation and the Tradewise Insurance Company are pleased to announce that Tradewise have agreed generous funding to assist English chess. Building on its sponsorship of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival – acclaimed as the world’s leading open chess tournament pioneering women’s participation – Tradewise will now be sponsoring the English Chess Federation, [...]

The 37th Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov Cup took place from 31st May to 8th June, 2015, in Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The 9-round Swiss event  was topped by GM Denis Khismatullin and GM Aleksei Pridorozhni who came out joint winners with 7/9 points. The third place was shared in a five-way tie by GM [...]

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first. – Harry S Truman He that ruleth his spirit [is greater] than he that taketh a city. – Proverbs 16:32 U.S. President Harry S Truman (1945-1953) played chess on a […]

Numerous and strong entries are setting the scene for an interesting tournament! The preparations for the 38th edition of Ikaros International Chess Tournament, which will be held from 11th till 19th of July at Aghios Kiyrikos, Ikaria island, Greece, are well under way. This year the interest of both foreign and Greek players is high [...]

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Ηλιοβασίλεμα στον Αρμενιστή - Sunset at Armenistis(* Non-greek speaking visitors, please scroll below)  Θετική ήταν η απάντηση της Ελληνικής Σκακιστικής Ομοσπονδίας στο αίτημα της οργανωτικής επιτροπής του “Ίκαρου” για ένταξη του Ανοιχτού...

Massive support for Georgiev, Stoinev, and Stoichkov, local clubs condemn BCF It took the Bulgarian Chess Federation months to ban cheating players and indefinite long time to provide their contact information to institutions. Actions so slow, that they almost brought disciplinary measures against BCF. However, when Kiril Georgiev, Metodi Stoinev, and Simeon Stoichkov revealed facts [...]

The HSG Open 2015 is taking place on 19-21st June, in Hilversum, in the Netherlands. The event is a 6-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 110′ + 10″ and first prize in the amount of € 1250. Top seed is Romanian player GM Levente Vajda (2558). Tournament website/ Play chess online/ Chess Arena Video Channel More summer [...]

The ASEAN+ Age-Group Championships has completed three rounds of play and already that have been numerous surprises. In the highly competitive Open U-20 section where both the IM title and a GM norm is the winners reward, it is Yoseph Theolifuc Taher from Indonesia who has the early lead with 3/3 ahead of IM Garcia [...]