The 47th International WGM Tournament Belgrade 2015 is taking place from 3rd to 11th March, in Serbia, the capital and largest city of Serbia. The event is a 10-player round-robin tournament for women with the participation of: WIM Rakic Marija 2336, WGM Chelushkina Irina 2274, WIM Goczo Melinda 2226, IM Petrenko Svetlana 2216, WGM Benderac [...]

Ο Νικόλας Σφήκας, ο ζωγράφος από τη Θεσσαλονίκη, ο οποίος έχει συνθέσει δεκάδες πίνακες με σκακιστική θεματογραφία (μπορείτε να δείτε μερικούς που κοσμούν εξώφυλλα βιβλίων στην ανάρτηση Μικρή Πινακοθήκη) ασχολήθηκε...

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The Latvian Chess Federation is holding the 4th Vladimir Petrov Memorial on 7-8th March, 2015, at the Jurmala City museum in Jurmala, Latvia. The aim of the tournament is to pay the tribute to one of the brightest representatives of Latvian Chess ever who tragically died in Soviet camps during the Second World War. The [...]

The 137th MGU Open 2015 was held from 28th February to 1st 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 [...]

I had been travelling the tri-city circuit (Albany, Schenectady, Rochester NY) tournament play, and went with Dr. Erich Marchand to Cazenovia for the NY State Championship in 1963. If it hadn’t been for Erich I probably would not have played chess at all. He was the strongest player in Rochester for many years, until Ken […]

The All India Chess Federation on behalf of FIDE and Commonwealth Chess Association cordially invite your Federation to participate in the Commonwealth Chess Championship to be held at Hotel Park Plaza, Shahdara, New Delhi, India from 22nd June to 30th June 2015. The event is organized by Delhi Chess Association. Total Cash Prizes: Rs. 10,00,000/- [...]

India and China are playing a 4-board Scheveningen Match on 1-10th March in Hyderabad. In round 4 China won 2,5-1,5 to equalise the score 8-8. Live games here. Video courtesy of Vijay Kumar.

Ενημερώνουμε την εκπαιδευτική κοινότητα και τους γονείς των μαθητών ότι οι σχολικοί σκακιστικοί αγώνες, που  διεξάγονται την Κυριακή 8/3/2015 στο 4ο Γενικό Λύκειο «Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης» στα Τρίκαλα, δεν έχουν την...

A new product is available at the Chessdom chess shop and it is dedicated to the World Champion Magnus Carlsen. All 1198 games played by Magnus Carlsen come in this download DVD program. 230 of the games are accompanied with commentary. Additionally, you can find 80 exercises: play like Carlsen and play against Carlsen. Only [...]

Κείμενο: Έντουαρντ Γουίντερ Μετάφραση: Νίκος Παπαθανασόπουλος Το 1958 παραχωρήθηκε στον Λε Μονιέ πρόσβαση στο υλικό και βρήκε, λέξη προς λέξη και με το γραφικό χαρακτήρα του Αλιέχιν, το κείμενο του πρώτου αντισημιτικού...

Λίγα λόγια για το Σχολικό Πρωτάθλημα Σκακιού που οργανώθηκε στον Πλατανιά Χανίων, από τον φίλο του skakistiko Σάκη Κουβάτσο. Με χαρά θα δημοσιευτούν κι άλλες ανταπόκρισεις, από άλλες περιοχές. Μπορούν να σταλούν στο...

The Chess Federation of the Vietnam has the honor to invite all Chess Federations in Zone 3.3 affiliated to FIDE to participate in the Zone 3.3 Zonal Championships 2015 for Open and Women from 06-16 March 2015 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The top two in the Open Zonal shall qualify for the World [...]

The Chess Federation of Nepal, on behalf of the Zonal President, has the honor to invite all National Chess Federations of Zone 3.2 affiliated with FIDE to participate in the Asian Zonal (Zone 3.2) Chess Championship 2015 Men & Women organized by Chess Federation of Nepal which will be held from 26th March to 2nd [...]

Among first-class masters the capture of the adverse king is the ultimate but not the first object of the game and by best play on both sides a draw ought to be the legitimate result. – W. Steinitz, The Modern Chess Instructor Thus did Steinitz enunciate his principle theoretical intuition, one still unprovable even using […]