Grandmasters Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukraine) and Luka Paichadze (Georgia) concluded the campaign in the 8th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup with 8,0/10 points each. After breaking the tie Kravtsiv was awarded with the winner’s trophy. The 8th Mumbai Mayor’s Cup was held from 2-9th June at the Goregaon Sports Club in Mumbai, India. Organized by Venus Chess Academy [...]

The ECU Board Meeting will take place this week on 12-13 June, in the city of Bucharest, after the kind invitation of the Romanian Chess Federation. The meeting will take place in the RIN Grand Hotel in Bucharest. ECU Board agenda includes administrative matters, tournaments reports, proposals for the tournaments regulations, the preparation of the [...]

The traditional ČEZ Chess Trophy 2015 Festival is scheduled to take place from 12-16th June, 2015 at the marvelous Michna Palace on Kampa Island, in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. The highlight of the festival is a match of four games between World #14 David Navara (2751) and World #9 Wesley So (2778). The games between the [...]

The traditional ČEZ Chess Trophy 2015 Festival is held from 12-16th June, 2015 at the marvelous Michna Palace on Kampa Island, in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. The highlight of the festival is a match of four games between World #14 David Navara (2751) and World #9 Wesley So (2778). The games between the best [...]

Further to my post yesterday on the Tiger Chess Strategy Course, here’s how the Tiger Chess Endgame Course works. Once again it is included with the £4.95 Full Membership fee and provides an easy and very thorough way to learn the endgame: Nigel Davies

Norway Chess 2015 super tournament starts in a week with a fantastic field including Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2876, Fabiano Caruana (Italy) 2805, Viswanathan Anand (India) 2804, Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2802, Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) 2798, Alexander Grischuk (Russia) 2781, Levon Aronian (Armenia) 2780, Anish Giri (Netherlands) 2773, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) 2723 and Jon Ludvig...

With a record 459 players from 18 countries, the 16th ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess Championships has now begun in Singapore where the SEA (South East Asian) Games in also currently concurrently taking place and which is also part of the island nation 50th anniversary celebrations. The venue is the very same Nanyang Technological University Sports & [...]

From 28 to 31 May 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Doha, Qatar, by the Qatar Chess Association, in cooperation with the Qatar Olympic Academy and under auspices of FIDE. The lecturer was IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE), FIDE Arbiters’ Commission Councilor and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant lecturer was IA Michael Shadarevian (SYR). The [...]

From 25 May to 2 June 2015 the 42nd Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held, organized by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer of the Seminar was IA Jesus Mena (ESP), Councilor of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer and Technical Organizer was IA [...]

Σε εξέλιξη βρίσκονται οι προετοιμασίες για τον φετινό 38ο Διεθνές Σκακιστικό Τουρνουά “Ίκαρος” 2015 το οποίο θα διεξαχθεί το διάστημα 11-19 Ιουλίου 2015 στον Άγιο Κήρυκο της Ικαρίας. Ήδη το ενδιαφέρον τόσο των ξένων όσο και...

The NSW Open 2015 took place from 6-8th June, at the Chatswood Club in Sydney, the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The tournament was a 7-round individual Swiss event with tempo of play 90′ + 30″ and it is an ACF & Oceania Grand Prix Class 5 event. International Masters Anton Smirnov and [...]

I’ve been introducing a lot of new features at my Tiger Chess site with the aim of making it a one stop improvement venue for those who’ve had enough of gimmicks. Amongst these is a 160 week strategy course which aims to provide an in depth education in chess strategy. Each lesson addresses a particular […]

From 29 May to 1 June 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, by the Tajikistan Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer was IA Ashot Vardapetyan (ARM), FIDE Rules Commission Chairman and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Husan Turdialiev [...]

Ο Claude Shannon ήταν ένας Αμερικανός μαθηματικός, ηλεκτρονικός και κρυπτογράφος που γεννήθηκε το 1916 στο Μίσιγκαν και πέθανε το 2001 στη Μασαχουσέτη. Το διδακτορικό του πάνω στη δυαδική άλγεβρα το 1937 αποτέλεσε τη βάση πάνω...

From 8 to 12 May 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Cairo, Egypt, by the Egyptian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer was IA Geurt Gijssen (NED), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers were IA Hassan Khaled (EGY) and IA Omar Salama (ISL). The lectures were in English language. Twenty [...]