The 13th Southern Class Championships will be held from March 27-29, 2015, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, 8001 International Drive, Orlando, Florida.

The 22nd Annual Western Class Championships were held from March 20-22, 2015, at the Sheraton Agoura Hills Hotel, 30100 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, California. The event was 5-round Swiss with seven sections: Master, Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D and Class E. The main Master section had 29 participants. GM Ehsan Ghaem [...]

The tie-breaks of the third round of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship were played in Sochi on March 25. Six players returned to the SCC Galactica to find out who advances to the Quarterfinals. In the first rapid game Marie Sebag (France) and Natalia Pogonina (Russia) repeated the line that occurred in the Carlsen-Anand [...]

The Polish Chess Federation organizes the Lotto Polish Championships from 24th March to 1st April, 2015, in Poznan, a city in west-central Poland. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with an average rating of 2507 ELO. GM Gajewski Grzegorz 2648, GM Bartel Mateusz 2627, GM Socko Bartosz 2623, GM Swiercz Dariusz 2622, GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2597 head the field of [...]

The Polish Chess Federation organizes the Budimex Women’s Polish Championships from 24th March to 1st April, 2015, in Poznan, a city in west-central Poland. The event is a 10-player round-robin tournament with the participation of: WGM Jolanta Zawadzka (2422), WGM Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska (2414), WGM Joanna Majdan-Gajewska (2405), WGM Iweta Rajlich (2398), WGM Klaudia Kulon (2310), WIM...

The 2nd Vugar Gashimov Memorial will start in April, 2015, in Shamkir, Azerbaijan. World champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2865), Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2811), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2800), former world champion Viswanathan Anand (India, 2797), Anish Giri (Netherlands, 2797), Wesley So (USA, 2788), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2783), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France...

The Chess Federation of Norway organized chess promoting initiative on 23rd March, 2015. The reigning World chess champion Magnus Carlsen and former World champion Garry Kasparov increased chess popularity in Norway with simultaneous exhibitions and other chess activities inside the Norwegian parliament.   Photo credit: Stormester & Stormester

Here’s another game that’s useful for teaching kids through classical games. This game demonstrates some very instructive play based on a basic queen and bishop checkmate pattern. As with the last time please note that I am presenting this game just to show its value in teaching kids. But anybody who would like to play […]

Συνεχίζονται οι προετοιμασίες για το 1ο Διεθνές τουρνουά «Ευτύχιος Κρομμυδάκης» το οποίο θα διεξαχθεί από 13-19 Απριλίου 2015, στο ξενοδοχείο Caldera Creta Paradise. Διοργανωτές του τουρνουά, είναι ο Όμιλος Επιχειρήσεων...

The 2nd Kolkata International Grandmasters Chess Tournament took place from 15-24th March at the Indian Council For Cultural Relations, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata-71, India. GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly outwitted Cuban GM Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suarez in a battle of nerves to win the second International Grandmasters Chess Tournament on Tuesday. Surya, who was [...]

The return games of the third round matches of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship were played in SCC Galactica (Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana). Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine) became the first Quarterfinalist by beating Lela Javakhishvili (Georgia) as Black. Today the Georgian misplayed early in the middlegame, initiating an exchange of queens in highly unfavorable circumstances. She [...]

The FIDE Zone 4.4 Individual Championships 2015 were organized by the Togo Chess Federation under the auspices of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) from 13-22nd March in Lome, Togo. The Championships gathered 36 players from 7 federations: Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo, in Open and Women’s sections. International [...]

Susan Polgar, Chairperson of FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess (WOM), conducted a follow up interview with Amy Lee, the woman behind Millionaire Chess. Read also the first “64 seconds with Amy Lee” interview Susan Polgar: With 7 days left before the March 31 deadline for lower entry fees, about 25 GMs with ratings over 2600 [...]

One of the lost arts of the chess board is that of adjournment analysis. In the days before computers we used to adjourn games after the first session (normally 40 moves and 4 or 5 hours) and then continue them after dinner or on a separate day. And between the sessions it was customary to […]

The 3rd round of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship was played in the SCC Galactica on March 23. Only 16 out of 64 participants are remaining in contention for the title. This was a disastrous day for the four Russian players still competing in Sochi. Alisa Galliamova played Black against the top seed player [...]