Norway Chess is a super-tournament established in 2013 and traditionally held in the Stavanger region, Norway. The first edition in 2013 was a round robin event with ten players. The games were played in various venues: Sandnes, Aarbakke factory (Bryne), Hidle and Stavanger. Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin won the tournament with 6,0/9 points, leaving Magnus [...]

The 14th International Chess Festival Condom 2015 will take place from 11-18th July, at the Salle Pierre de Montesquiou, in Condom, France. Condom, also referred to as Condom-en-Armagnac, is a commune in southwestern France in the department of Gers. Condom is a town on the Via Podiensis, one of the three major French arms of [...]

The games of the first round of the 46th finals of the All-Russian Chess Tournament White Rook will be played in Dagomys today. For the first time since its inception, the finals have acquired international status. Aside from 328 young chess players from 75 Russian regions, foreign teams representing Israel, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia and [...]

The 2015 European-ACP Women’s Rapid Championship is taking place 1-3rd June at the Kutaisi City Hall in Kutaisi, Georgia. The event is organized by the European Chess Union, Georgian Chess Federation and ACP. The playing format is 11-round Swiss tournament with the rate of play 15 min + 10 seconds increment per move. After the [...]

Top-seed GM Bassem Amin of Egypt moves half a point behind Al-Sayed with two rounds to go Tournament website/ LIVE games with analysis/ Standings and statistics Qatar’s Grandmaster (GM) Mohammed Al-Sayed held on to the lead by the slimmest of margins after he settled for an uneventful draw with the UAE’s Fide Master (FM) Saeed Ishaq in [...]

Chess fans, myself included, are no doubt looking forward to the release of, Pawn Sacrifice, new Bobby Fischer movie. It looks pretty good from the trailer: Nigel Davies

The winner of the FIDE Grand Prix’s final stage answers Eteri Kublashvili’s questions. – Dmitry, congratulations on your successful performance in Khanty-Mansiysk. What does getting in the FIDE Grand Prix series mean for a chess player, generally speaking? – That depends on what kind of chess players they are. For anyone from the world’s top [...]

What is in common between chess and food? Nothing, at first glance. But in the new book called “How to feed a champion?” Maya Gelfand managed to combine the incompatible ideas. “How to feed a champion?” is the title of the new cook book by Maya, the wife of renowned chess player Boris Gelfand. 30 [...]

Στις 24 Μαρτίου 1946, στο Εστορίλ της Πορτογαλίας, πέθανε ο Alexander Alekhine, βγάζοντας από τη δύσκολη θέση πολλούς - και κυρίους τους Σοβιετικούς - ως προς το τί θα γίνει με τον παγκόσμιο τίτλο. Ο βίος και η πολιτεία του Alekhine κατά...

The May Lviv Tradition (IM Group) round-robin tournament took place from 26th May to 1st June, 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event was a 12-player single round-robin tournament with tempo of play was 90′ + 30″. Indian player IM Upadhyaya Anwesh was convincingly first with 9/11 points after winning [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to the finalists in the Belaya Ladya tournament. The text is published on the official site of the Russian President. “This competition has a longstanding history and brings together talented young people from many parts of the country, those who remain committed to the ideals and values of [...]

The players are beginning to settle down at the 11th Asian Schools Chess Championships 2015 with several favourites beginning to emerge after three rounds of play over two days including today’s double round. Singapore’s big hope is Liu Xiangyi in the under 17 Open but the last game of the day to end proved to [...]

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΟΜΟΣΠΟΝΔΙΑΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΚΑΛΛΙΤΕΧΝΙΚΟΥ ΣΚΑΚΙΟΥΑθήνα, 01/06/201514ος ΠΑΝΕΛΛΗΝΙΟΣ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΛΥΣΗΣ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΩΝΗ Ελληνική Σκακιστική Ομοσπονδία (Ε.Σ.Ο.) προκηρύσσει τον 14ο Πανελλήνιο Διαγωνισμό Λύσης...

It is not FIFA, but things look pretty grim for the Bulgarian Chess Federation. At a national press conference in the BTA studio the 2015 national champion GM Georgiev, FM Stoinev, and local organizer Stoichkov brought up shocking facts about the operations of the BCF and its relations with the previous management of ECU, during [...]

If our opponent leaves his King in the centre of the board during the opening, sometimes we can decide the game with a quick attack on his exposed King. In this week’s problem, Black is just about to castle on the Queen side. But if we can hurry, we can open up the position and […]