The 2nd Kolkata International Grandmasters Chess Tournament is taking place from 15-24th March at the Indian Council For Cultural Relations, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata-71, India. Top seed Grandmaster Nigel Short, India’s Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Lu Shenglei of China drew their 8th round games and now with 6.5 points each are jointly leading [...]

The March “Lviv Tradition” (IM Group) is taking place from 24-29th March 2015, at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. The event is a 10-player tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. The participants are: WFM Osmak Iulija UKR 2405, IM Shkuran Daniil UKR 2386, IM Anwesh Upadhyaya IND 2366, Sabuk Piotr POL 2312, WGM Doluhanova Evgeniya UKR...

The 1st Thessaloniki International Blitz Chess Festival is scheduled to take place on 1st May, 2015, at Hotel Philippion**** in Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece and a popular tourist destination. Pefka Chess Club and Thessaloniki & Halkidiki Chess Union organize the event in 15 rounds. The tournament is a Swiss FIDE blitz rated event, open to all players, regardless of...

The 5th Thessaloniki International Rapid Chess Festival is scheduled to take place on 2-3rd May, 2015, at Hotel Philippion**** in Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece and a popular tourist destination. Pefka Chess Club and Thessaloniki & Halkidiki Chess Union organize the event in a 10-round Swiss FIDE format with tempo of play 15′ + 3″. The tournament is [...]

After two days of struggle we know the winners in Katowice (3rd Polish-Hungarian friendship tournament). GM Radosław Wojtaszek (POL) won the tournament (8 points), second place got GM Zbigniew Pakeza (POL), the third player was GM Kacper Piorun (POL). In women’s classification the first place went to WIM Klara Varga (HUN). WIM Anna Gasik (POL) [...]

The 5th HDBank Cup International Open Chess tournament 2015 was held from 17-22nd March in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. 80 players from 13 countries participated in the 9-round Swiss tournament. Among them were 20 Grandmasters and 19 International Masters. Local star GM Le Quang Liem took the winner’s trophy and top prize of 12,000 USD [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 1 to 4 of July 2015 in Cali, Colombia, by the Confederation for Chess of America, in cooperation with the Colombian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar will be the venue of the Pan American Youth Championships, in [...]

Fantastic game for the history of chess. Video analysis

The “San Sebastian City” 38th International Chess Open is scheduled to take place from 28th March to 4th April, 2015. The venue of play will be Gros Xake Taldea. Anoeta passeig, 20. Donostia – San Sebastián (Frontón Karmelo Balda). The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament valid for FIDE rating and norms. The tempo of play [...]

Try not to let your opponent get unneeded counterplay. Try to keep things under control if you can. For example, in the following position, the very strong grandmaster playing Black, played Kxb3. This allowed Qb5+ and this led to a very messy position where White was able to get a draw eventually. Certainly, after Qb5+ […]

Panic spread around the room as former world champion Anna Ushenina failed to appear on time

The ASEAN Chess Academy, in cooperation with the Thailand Chess Federation, is going to organize a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar in Pattaya, Thailand, from 9 to 13 May 2015, under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Ignatius Leong (SIN), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers will be IA N Y Wong (SIN) & IA [...]

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Top seed Nigel Short of England and six consecutive times Indian champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly jointly lead with 5.5 points each at the end of the sixth round of the LIC 2nd International Grandmasters Chess tournament, organised by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy and All Sport Foundation, at the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Kolkata. Four [...]