Well, not quite. However, my opponent in this chess game is a Russian woman. I did win and I love winning! My opponent’s last name sounds like that of another woman from Russia, Anna Kournikova. In this section I ended up with 5 draws and 1 win. This game was my only win in this […]

Jerusalem is getting ready for the 2015 European Individual Championship. The highly prestigious tournament, open to all members of European Federations, will be staged in hotel Ramada on February 23rd – March 8th 2015 by the municipality of Jerusalem and the Israeli Chess Federation under the auspices of the ECU. The prize fund was generously [...]

After the classical part of the Zurich Chess Challenge, which was won by Viswanathan Anand, the final day of the event was reserved for the rapid section. The classical games were counted as 2 points for win, 1 point for draw towards the overall score. Rapid games were adding 1 point for a win, 0.5 [...]

Official website/ EICC 2015: Players (Updated)/ EICC with special prize fund for seniors/ Full Regulations on ECU website/ Interview with ECU President Zurab Azmaiparashvili Next Monday, February 23rd, the European Individual Chess Championship 2015 will be officially opened in Ramada hotel in Jerusalem. The Mayor of the ancient city, Mr. Nir Barkat, the minister of culture and sport, [...]

The 2nd Bunratty Classic Chess Tournament 2015 is taking place from 18th to 22nd February, 2015, at the luxurious Bunratty Castle Hotel & Spa, Ireland. The event is a 10-player single round-robin tournament. Top seed is French GM Sebastien Maze (2585). Tournament website

The Curacao Chess Federation in cooperation with FIDE cordially invites you to attend the FIDE Organizers’ Seminar for International Organizers. The seminar will be held on February 27th, 28th and March the 1st at the Sunscape Resort and Spa. A more detailed rooster will be provided very soon. The lectures will be conducted in the [...]

The 12th Annual Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational is scheduled to take place from 26-30th July at Webster University, Saint Louis, Missouri. The event will offer more than $200K in prizes and scholarships. Webster University will provide complimentary room and meal accommodation on campus for all qualifiers. The annual Susan Polgar Girls’ Invitational, in its [...]

Game review analysis by GM Davorin Kuljasevic

The 2nd Bunratty Classic Chess Tournament 2015 is taking place from 18th to 22nd February, 2015, at the luxurious Bunratty Castle Hotel & Spa, Ireland. The event is a strong 10-player single round-robin tournament with top seeded player GM Anish Giri (2797). Tournament website

90% of the chess books should never have been written – Lev Polugaevsky The five chess books which commenced my study of chess 40 years ago are the following: Modern Ideas in Chess (Richard Réti) Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik (Imre König) 200 Open Games (David Bronstein) 500 Master Games of Chess (Tartakower & Dumont) […]

Evgeny Tomashevsky scores another victory in the FIDE Tbilisi Grand Prix to extend the margin on the leaderboard before the first rest day. Tomashevsky defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and took his tally to 3,5 points, leaving Alexander Grischuk, Anish Giri and Dmitry Jakovenko a full point behind. Grischuk bounced back after yesterday’s loss by winning against [...]

The 6th Pfalz Open 2015 was held from 13th to 17th February, 2015 in Neustadt, Germany. The first place in the Master Section was shared by Russian GM Alexandre Danin, GM Milos Perunovic from Serbia, IM Adrien Demuth from France, GM Sergei Azarov from Belarus and GM Vitaly Kunin from Germany after the whole group finished the [...]

Jerusalem is getting ready for the 2015 European Individual Championship. The highly prestigious tournament, open to all members of European Federations, will be staged in hotel Ramada on February 23rd – March 8th 2015 by the municipality of Jerusalem and the Israeli Chess Federation under the auspices of the ECU. The prize fund was generously increased to 120,000 € and 86 Grandmasters...

The 13th Khazar International Open Chess Tournament was organized by the Chess Association of “Gilan” province on behalf of I.R. Iran Chess Federation from 11th to 18th February, 2015, in Rasht, the largest city on Iran’s Caspian Sea coast. The tournament was held at Yadegar Imam Sport Complex located in Golsar St, Rasht. 88 players from 12 [...]

The 137th MGU Open 2015 is scheduled to take place from 28th February to 1st March, 2015, at Chess Club MGU, in Sofia, capital and largest city of Bulgaria. The event is organized in honor of the World champion for women Hou Yifan (born 27th February, 1994, in Xinghua, Jiangsu, China). The event will be organized by FA [...]