The Polish Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union and Mr. Bronisław Komorowski, the President of the Republic of Poland, organizes the European Youth U18 Team Chess Championship 2015. The Championship will take place from 12-20 July, 2015, in Karpacz, Poland. The playing venue will be New Queen of Karkonosze Hotel (Nowa [...]

The 138th MGU Open 2015 was held on 7-8th March, 2015, at Chess Club MGU, in Sofia, capital and largest city of Bulgaria. The event was organized by FA Dimitar Iliev under the auspices of the University of mining and geology “St Ivan Rilski” Sofia,  Chess Club “An Pasan” and “Zora” Trading Company in a 6-round Swiss FIDE format, open to all players rated [...]

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The Croatian Individual Women’s Chess Championship is taking place from 9th to 15th March, 2015, in Djakovo, a city in Croatia. The event is a 10-player round-robin tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″. Participants: WIM Frančišković Borka CRO 2325, WGM Medić Mirjana CRO 2224, WFM Deur Šarić Zrinka CRO 2188, [...]

I played in the Colorado Springs Open over this past weekend and won my first 5 queens game: Jacques Delaguerre

China won the India-China Chess Summit 2015, organised by Telangana State Chess Association Adhoc Committee at Marriott Hotel, Hyderabad, comfortably by beating India in the final round. They collected 18 game points and 11 match points, compared to that of 14 and 5 respectively by India, to win the Komati Reddy Prateek Reddy trophy. The [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized in Doha, Qatar, from 28 to 31 May 2015, by the Qatar Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Qatar National Olympic Committee and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar will be the Qatar Olympic Academy Offices, in Doha. The Lecturer of the [...]

It probably shows that we don’t update as often as we would like as I checked a couple of days ago the website but found myself unable to access it. It seems we didn’t pay our hosting fees (messages were sent to spam) and was actually very close to having our website deleted forever. I […]

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Το The Mall Athens, η Ελληνική Σκακιστική Ομοσπονδία (ΕΣΟ) και η Οργανωτική Επιτροπή του Σκακιστικού Φεστιβάλ «Chessnale Athens 2015», συνδιοργανώνουν για τρίτη φορά το σκακιστικό φεστιβάλ Chessnale Athens στους χώρους του The Mall Athens, το οποίο...

Η Ακαδημία των Σπορ διοργανώνει στο café meli την Κυριακή 15/03/2015 και ώρα 17.00, τουρνουα θεματικού rapid 5 γύρων, με θέμα την Ινδική Άμυνα της Βασίλισσας (1. δ4 Ιζ6 2. γ4 ε6 3. Ιζ3 β6)

The Uruguay Chess Championship 2015 is taking place 6-13 March. Twelve of the best national players are competing for the highest award in Uruguayan chess. Top seeded are IM Bernardo Roselli Mailhe, FM Manuel Larrea, and FM Nicolas Lopez Azambuja More information in the Spanish version of Chessdom Reports: Round 1 / Round 3 / [...]

You might have heard almost everywhere that studying classic will improve your chess. Here is one of my favorite games. Here’s what you can learn though this gem: – Rapid development – Building up an attack – The pin and its usage – A checkmate pattern with Rook and Bishop Note that I am presenting […]

The Russian Chess Federation and ArtRusse, which aims to develop a greater understanding of Soviet and Russian art, have signed a partnership agreement. ArtRusse’s goal is to bring forgotten and little-known artworks from the period 1917-1991 to the attention of international audience. The Russian Chess Federation’s activities are aimed at popularising chess, as well as [...]

Σκάκι στην Union Square, στο Μανχάταν της Νέας Υόρκης. Το όνομά της δεν προέρχεται από την ομοσπονδιακή ένωση των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών ούτε από τις συνδικαλιστικές οργανώσεις, αλλά δηλώνει το γεγονός ότι “εδώ ήταν η ένωση...