A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 29 May to 2 June 2015 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, by the Tajikistan Chess Federation and under the auspice of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar will be the Hodja Abigarm Hotel, in Dushanbe. The Lecturer will be IA Ashot Vardapetyan (ARM), Chairman of the FIDE [...]

The 2015 Russian Seniors Championships were held from 6-15th April in Lesnoy Gorodok, Moscow Region. Grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov won the men’s event with 7,0/9 points. IM Vladimir Zhelnin took the silver, outscoring GM Yury Balashov and IM Evgeny Kalegin on tie-break. 30 players competed in the event, including 7 Grandmasters. WGM Natalia Ruchieva won the [...]

The 1st International Blau Open Calvià is taking place from 11-19th April, 2015, in Palmanova/Magaluf (one of the most important tourist center of Mallorca, Spain). The event is organized by Chess Club Blau Escacs Calvià in collaboration with City Council Calvià and Balearic Chess Federation in a 9-round Swiss format. 65 players from 15 different [...]

The 43rd edition of Dortmund Chess Meeting is taking place from 27th June to 5th July, 2015, in the NRW Orchestra Centre in Dortmund, Germany. The event is an 8-player single round-robin super tournament with the participation of Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik, Arkadij Naiditsch, Hou Yifan, Georg Meier, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Wesley So and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Round [...]

Five Grandmasters have moved to the front of the Thai Open Chess Championship as the tournament, being played at the Dusit Thani Resport in Pattaya, passes the halfway mark. Two of the overnight leaders, Jan Gustafsson and Paco Vallejo, played out a speedy, friendly draw to maintain a share of the lead, and were soon [...]

The 2015 Colorado Closed Championship and Scholastic Championship took place the second weekend in April. There were five six-person sections: Championship Challenger Booster Scholastic Championship Scholastic Challenger The Championship featured three “zombies”, as we in Colorado call strong players who have disappeared from competition for a long period of time: the event winner...

The Hungarian Chess Federation organized the International Women Spring Chess Festival from 7-15th April, 2015, in Budapest, the capital of Hungary and one of the largest cities in Central Europe. The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament, exclusively for women. The tempo of play was 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″. The first place was split in a three-way [...]

The 10th JAPFA International Chess Festival is set to start at the Hotel Kartika Chandra in Jakarta, Indonesia. The main event of the Festival is the GM tournament, taking place from 14-23rd April as a round robin event with 12 players: GM Sergey Tiviakov 2662, GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal 2577, GM Rogelio Antonio Jr. 2483, GM Nguyen [...]

Grandmaster Dragan Solak walked away with Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup after Tuesday night’s final round of the 17th Dubai Open Chess Tournament at Dubai Chess and Culture Club. Coming into the final round with the highest tiebreak among the five eighth-round joint leaders, Solak only had to draw his final game and [...]

The 24th Annual Eastern Class Championships will be held from April 24-26, 2015, at the Host Hotel at Cedar Lake, 366 Main St, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. The event has 7 sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E. All sections have either 3-day (April 24-26) or 2-day (April 25-26) schedules [...]

Ξεκίνησε στις 14/4/2015, με 92 συμμετοχές το Πρωτάθλημα Παίδων - Κορασίδων ΕΣΣΠ 2015

It’s generally good advice to develop rapidly and castle early in the opening. If you fail to do so the consequences can be very costly. In a similar fashion, it is very useful to find a move which hinders the opponent’s smooth development, or keeps his king in the center. The following game illustrates this […]

The Uganda Chess Federation (UCF) under the auspices of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) has the honour of inviting all chess federations in Zone 4.2 that are affiliated to the World Chess Federation (FIDE) to participate in the 2015 Zone 4.2 Individual Chess Championships. The event will comprise an Open Section and a Women’s Section. [...]

The Bangkok Chess Club Open saw many big fights in round four with the big upset of the day being GM Oliver Barbosa’s win over GM Nigel Short and which helped him join two former champions in GM Francisco Vallejo Pons and GM Jan Gustafsson on 4/4 and continue as one of the leaders. Gustafsson [...]

Excitement heats up with one round to go as top-seed Grandmaster (GM) David Howell of England crawled back into the leader board with five others after out outsmarting GM Gadir Guseinov of Azerbaijan in Monday night’s eighth round, to up his tally to 6.5 points in the 17th Dubai Open Chess Championship – Sheikh Rashid [...]