Το 2008 το 1ο Εαρινό Τουρνουά Τριανδρίας πήγε με την πρώτη στο Γυμνάσιο: θρανία δύο-δύο (κοντά-ψηλά, στραβά, γραμμένα και κουτσά), προτομές ηρώων του ’21 και μια πόρτα πτυσσόμενη που έτριζε σαν την πατρίδα τους. Αλλά και μια...

The LXI Mexican International Open Tournament is taking place from 31st March to 5th April, 2015, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel****, in the city of Monterrey, the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the country of Mexico. The event i a 9-round Swiss with tempo of play 90′+30″. GM Emilio [...]

The 122nd Scottish Championship and International Open will take place at the Tom Fleming Centre in Stewart’s Melville College in Edinburgh on July 11-19, 2015. The event will be a 9-round Swiss title norm opportunities. Play shall be governed by the 2014 FIDE Laws of Chess. Accelerated pairings will be used in the first three [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 16 to 19 April 2015 in Eastern Region, Saudi Arabia, by the Saudi Chess Association and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturers will be IA Shaker Alafoo (BAN), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers will be FA Khalaf Al Azmi (KUW) and FA Yaser Motlaq [...]

I’ve still got many pages to read in Secrets of Rook Endings and it was in my backpack. Nonetheless, on the way to the airport, I stopped into the bookstore hoping for some more entertaining chess reading to enjoy in small doses in the cattle pen of modern jet airliner economy class. I found what I […]

Ο Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Πατρών «Προμηθέας» σε συνεργασία με το Επιστημονικό Πάρκο Πατρών διοργανώνει Πασχαλινό Τουρνουά blitz την Μ. Τετάρτη 8 Απριλίου 2015 και ώρα 18.00 στο Επιστημονικό Πάρκο Πατρών.

"When we got application from Chita, it immediately fascinated us, and we decided to hold the tournament here."

Irish Chess Union (ICU) development officer Darko Polimac reports the good news that the European Chess Union are helping to sponsor the 2015 Glorney and Faber cups with 5000 euro in support. The ICU is pleased to announce that the European Chess Union (ECU) has provided a very generous grant of 5000 euro to the [...]

The 2015 O2C Doeberl Cup is set to take place from 2-6th April at the University House, 1 Balmain Cres, in Canberra, Australia. The Doeberl Cup is the longest running weekend chess event in Australia, taking place every year since 1963. The event consists of four sections: - Premier, 9-round Swiss, for players rated over [...]

Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov was forced to withdraw from the 2nd Vugar Gashimov Memorial for health reasons, Extratime.az reports quoting the tournament press service. Radjabov will be replaced with Michael Adams (England). The official website is currently showing photos of nine participants. The organizers have also announced live games commentary in three languages. GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko...

The 2015 edition of O2C Doeberl Cup is taking place from 2-6th April, 2015, at the University House in Canberra, the capital of Australia. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″, open to all players with FIDE titles or untitled players with minimum 1900 Elo [...]

The March “Lviv Tradition” (IM Group) was held from 24-29th March 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event was a 10-player tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. Indian IM Upadhyaya Anwesh emerged a clear winner with 6,5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers half a point behind. WFM [...]

This gem throws some lights on the difference between fake development and real development. The checkmate Patterns covered are: 1. Queen on h6, bishop on b1-h8 diagonal and no defender of f7. 2. Queen h6 and rook along the g file I am aiming to present this game only to show how it can be […]

The tie-breaks of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship Semifinals were played in SCC Galactica (Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana) on March 31. The matches Pia Cramling (Sweden) – Natalia Pogonina (Russia) and Harika Dronavalli (India) – Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) continued with quicker time controls following 1-1 draws after the first two classical games. In their first [...]

Pia Cramling was eliminated in the semifinal of the FIDE Women’s World Championship, but is still happy with her overall performance and the choice of the venue. With emotions still running high minutes after finishing the tie-break, Pia started talking about the games even before we had a chance to start the recorder. Pia Cramling: [...]