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. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with total prize fund in the amount of INR 10,00,000/- (approx 15,000 EUR). Top seed is English GM Short Nigel (2664). Official website/ Participants Round [...]

Four-time US chess champion GM Yasser Seirawan visited Dubai Chess & Culture Club to deliver a chess lecture on 19th March, 2015, just a few days before the start of the prestigious 17th Dubai International Chess Open Tournament. The special guest and former World junior champion returned to the United Arab Emirates after nearly 30 years. In [...]

From 1 to 3 March 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Jerusalem, Israel, by the Israel Chess Federation, under auspices of FIDE. The lecturers were IA Almog Burstein (ISR), FIDE Lecturer and IA Ashot Vardapetyan (ARM), FIDE Lecturer. The assistant lecturers were IA Shlomo Kandelshine (ISR), IA Mordechai Shorek (ISR) and IA Abraham [...]

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, Nigel Short of England and Surya Sekhar Ganguly of India surged ahead to lead with 5.5 points each after the completion of the 6th round of [...]

The 3rd Polish-Hungarian friendship tournament was opened by Polish and Hungarian presidents. Bronisław Komorowski and Janos Ader took part in opening ceremony which was held before the second round of the tournament. The presidents wished participants to play fair and expressed contentment with their participation in the competition. The special guest, Judit Polgar, played a game [...]

I’ve just been reading H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald’s multiple award-winning and beautifully written account of how, suffused with grief as a result of her father’s sudden death, she decides to buy and train a goshawk. It got me thinking, as I often do, about the whole concept of training, about the difference between […]

The concluding games of the 2nd round matches of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship were played on March 21 at SCC Galactica (Sochi, Krasnaya Polyana). There was a special guest at the tournament today – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Before the start of the round he came to the playing hall to greet [...]

Τα αποτελέσματα και φωτογραφίες από το Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Μαθητών Μαθητριών Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Ελλάδας …

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the playing venue of the 2015 FIDE Women’s World Championship today. Before the start of the second game of the second round he had a short tea meeting with the Russian chess players. The Prime Minister and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov made the first move in the game between [...]

The 1st International Open Amic Hotels 2015 is going to take place from 22-29th March, 2015 in at Hotel Amic Horizonto, in the Spanish city of Palma de Mallorca. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament, valid for FEDA and FIDE rating and norms. The main prizes will be awarded as follows: 1,000 € + Trophy/ 600 € + [...]

The 1st International Open Amic Hotels 2015 is taking place from 22-29th March, 2015 in at Hotel Amic Horizonto, in the Spanish city of Palma de Mallorca. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament, valid for FEDA and FIDE rating and norms. Ukrainian GM Sergey Fedorchuk (2650) heads the field of 96 players from 19 different countries, including [...]

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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. Round 5 video by Vijay Kumar includes interviews with Nigel Short, Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Soumya Swaminathan and RR Laxman.

The beginner makes a move with high hopes that his or her opponent will make the counter-move the beginner has anticipated. Of course, their opponent makes a move but it isn’t the move our beginner anticipated. Our beginner is now faced with a weak position that degrades further and further with each subsequent move. Where […]