The May Lviv Tradition (IM Group) round-robin tournament is currently in progress at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event is an eleven-round tournament with the participation of 12 players from 6 different countries. IM Upadhyaya Anwesh from India and Ukrainian player IM Daniil Shkuran take the lead with 4/5 points each, leaving [...]

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I don’t know whether it is a coincidence that more or less highest rated players qualified from the Grand Prix series.

The first official trailer for the movie “Pawn Sacrifice” has been released. Pawn Sacrifice, a movie about the legendary chess champion Bobby Fischer, premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai), and starring Tobey Maguire (as Bobby Fischer) and Liev Schreiber (as Boris Spassky), [...]

“So you have identified a problem with your chessplay,” said Brian Wall LM. “Sit down for ten minutes, think about it, and fix it. Botvinnik said that Bronstein’s greatest skill was transition from the opening to the midgame.” This recent game shows some progress with regards to the transition to the midgame. Although the opposition […]

The 11th Asian Schools Chess Championships to be held from 30 May to 8 June 2015 in Singapore is all set to go and welcome 365 players from 20 countries.

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 3 to 8 August 2015 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar will be the St. Petersburg Chess Club “Peters Rook” (Peterhof, Saint-Petersburg prospect, 4а, office 315). The Lecturer will be IA [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 6 to 9 June 2015 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by the Saudi Chess Association in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturers will be IA Shaker Alafoo (BAN), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer will be FA Yaser Motlaq [...]

The 19th Voronezh International Chess Festival 2015 will be held from 10-20th June at the Voronezh Chess Club, in Voronezh, Russian Federation. A well-known Russian GM Dmitry Bocharov is coming to Voronezh again, but not for the first time. This year, however, he comes as Russia’s champion in both team and blitz tournaments, winning the latter with [...]

Lowest-seeded Libyan player scores win The fancied bets asserted their supremacy to prevent any major upset during the opening round of the 3rd Arab Elite Chess Championship – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Cup, the most prestigious individual chess tournament in the region, Wednesday night at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Hall of the Dubai Chess & [...]

UAE’s GM Salem A.R Saleh and FM Saeed Ishaq to compete against 14 of the region’s best players The third edition of the Arab Elite Chess Championship – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Cup opens today with 16 players from 15 Arab countries vying for the most prestigious individual chess title in the region. The competition kicks off [...]

The 3rd Arab Elite Chess Championship – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Cup is taking place from 27th May to 3rd June, 2015, at the Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Hall of the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. The event is organized by the Arab Chess Federation and UAE Chess Federation, in collaboration with Dubai Chess & [...]

Moscow, 27 May 2015 – Andrey Filatov, president of the Russian Chess Federation and the founder of Art Russe, has been presented with an award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for his contribution to the international culture cooperation and for his efforts to preserve historical heritage.The ‘Five Continents’ commemorative medal [...]

Capablanca,Jose Raul – Fonaroff,Marc New York , 1918 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0–0 d6 4…Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 is the so called Berlin wall, but that’s another story. 5.d4 Bd7 5…exd4 6.Qxd4 Bd7 7.Bxc6 Bxc6 leaves White with more space in the center. 6.Nc3 Be7 7.Re1 It is […]

In the final eleventh round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura drew their respective games to take the top two spots in the overall Grand Prix standings and qualify for the 2016 FIDE Candidates Tournament. The Ugra nominee Dmitry Jakovenko was in position to fight for qualification in the [...]