A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 7 to 11 October 2015 in Agadir, Morocco, by the Moroccan Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE), Councilor of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer will be IA Akkour Abdelfattah (MOR). [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized in Muscat, Oman, from 20 to 24 May 2015, by the Oman Chess Committee and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar will be the City Seasons Hotel in Muscat. The Lecturer of the Seminar will be IA Dr. Hesham El Gindy (EGY), [...]

Montenegro Chess Federation and “Vile Oliva” organized the International Open Chess Tournament “Petrovac 2015″ from 8-14th May. The 9-round Swiss open was held at the hotel “Vile Oliva” in Petrovac, Budva Riviera, Montenegro. Top seed Ukrainian player  GM Yuri Vovk emerged a clear winner with 7/9 points, leaving the nearest followers half a point behind. The second place [...]

The European Amateur Chess Championship will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania, from August 8 (day of arrival) through August 17 (day of departure) 2015. The tournament will be held in the Palace of Army Officers (Mickeviciaus str. 19, Kaunas, Lithuania). The official accommodating hotels will be Daniela Hotel (4*) and Kaunas Hotel (4*). The Championship [...]

Ένα πολύ όμορφο πρόβλημα θα προσπαθήσουμε να λύσουμε σήμερα. Συνθέτης του είναι ο Ούγγρος σκακιστικός συνθέτης György Bakcsi.Το πρόβλημα αυτό δημοσιεύθηκε στην εφημερίδα του Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος Ολλανδίας "De Waarheid" το...

The 4th Llucmajor International Chess Open is taking place from 10-17th May, 2015, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. GM Romain Edouard FRA (2627), GM Kiril Georgiev BUL (2616) and GM Andrey Sumets UKR (2563) head the field of 203 players from [...]

I rarely try to play the White side of the Smith-Morra Gambit, but in this chess game I did try to play it. Black declined the gambit pawn by playing 3… d5. If I was going to decline this gambit that is the way that I would play it, By move number 5, I (White) […]

The 2015 edition of Deltalift Open is taking place on 14-16th May, 2015, in Tylosand, a locality situated in Halmstad Municipality, Halland County, Sweden. The event is an 8-round Swiss FIDE tournament with the participation of 190 players from 7 different countries, including 8 GMs. Top seed players are GM Emanuel Berg SWE (2553), GM [...]

Ένα αρκετά φιλόδοξο προπονητικό καλοκαιρινό καμπ, σχεδιάζεται για τους φίλους του αθλήματος το καλοκαίρι που μας έρχεται. Για την ακρίβεια σε ένα οκταήμερο θα γίνουν συνολικά 30 ώρες μαθημάτων και αρκετά σκακιστικά...

Τουρνουά Μπλιτζ με Ελβετικό Σύστημα 7 γύρων θα διεξαχθεί την Κυριακή 17/5/2015 και ώρα 18:30 στον χώρο του καφέ - μπαρ και χώρου μουσικών και άλλων πολιτιστικών εκδηλώσεων "Άλικο", (οδός Αγίου Δημητρίου 16 Ψυρρή - κοντά στον...

I’m still struggling with the midgame. There’s that critical moment where I tend to slip up. At the Colorado Class Championships over the past weekend, I went 1-1-2. I won and drew by  calculation and technique, but in my two losses, intellect couldn’t save a game that went south at the nexus for lack of […]

The strongest Icelandic Chess Championship in history is taking place from 14-24th May, 2015, in Reykjavik (Harpa) Iceland. 8 GMs and 7 former previous winners of the Championship will be vying in a 12-player round-robin tournament with an average Elo rating of 2461 and tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″. A comeback of [...]

The 10th American Continental Chess Championship is taking place from 15-24th May, 2015, in the Telecommunications Tower (ANTEL Tower), in Montevideo, the capital and largest city of Uruguay. The event is organized by the Uruguay Chess Federation (FUA), under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, Montevideo Municipality and ANTEL Telecommunications company. The tournament...

The 10th American Continental Chess Championship is scheduled to take place from 15-24th May, 2015, in Montevideo, the capital and largest city of Uruguay. The venue of play will be the Telecommunications Tower (ANTEL Tower), the tallest building in the country. The event is organized by the Uruguay Chess Federation (FUA), under the auspices of [...]

  Μία σχετικά εύκολη θέση που προέκυψε μετά την 46η κίνηση των μαύρων στην παρτίδα μεταξύ του Mikhail Botvinnik (λευκά) και του Viktor Arsentievich Goglidze  (μαύρα), {Μόσχα 1931}, θα προσπαθήσουμε να λύσουμε σήμερα.Παίζουν τα λευκά και...