The Elite Hotels Open is taking place from 13-15th February, 2015, in Vaxjo, a city in Sweden. The event is an 8-round Swiss open with tempo of play 15′ + 5″ for the first 4 rounds and 90′ + 30″ for the second half of the tournament. 174 players from 14 different countries take part [...]

The CJKS-Prime Distribution Group GM Tournament 2015 took place on 5-13th February, 2015, in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The event was a 10-player round-robin tournament including 3 Grandmasters, 4 International Masters, 1 Woman Grandmaster and 2 FIDE Masters. The winners received two thousand five hundred US dollars (2,500 $) in total. GM Abdullah Al-Rakib of Bangladesh Navy became champion...

The Lilla Elite Hotels Open is taking place from 13-15th February, 2015, in Vaxjo, a city in Sweden. The event is an 8-round Swiss open with tempo of play 15′ + 5″ for the first 4 rounds and 90′ + 30″ for the second half of the tournament. Tournament website

The 75th Noteboom Chess Tournament, sponsored by CORPUS, is taking place from 13-15th February, 2015, in Leonardo College in the city of Leiden, Netherlands. The highlight of the event is CORPUS Noteboom Cup, 4-player round-robin tournament with the special participation of GM Loek van Wely (2667), GM Jan Smeets (2621), GM Jan Timman (2592) and [...]

The 75th Noteboom Weekend Tournament 2015, sponsored by CORPUS, is taking place from 13-15th February, 2015, in the CORPUS Congress Center of Leonardo College in the city of Leiden, Netherlands. The event is a 6-round Swiss tournament, led by GM Daniel Fridman (2651), GM Sergey Fedorchuk (2642), GM Vyacheslav Ikonnikov (2558) and GM Erik van den Doel (2553). Tournament website

The 6th edition of Pfaltz Open 2015 is taking place from 13th to 17th February, 2015 in Neustadt, Germany. The event is split into two tournaments, Open A (open to all players rated 1850 ELO or more) and Open B (for Participants rated below 1950 ELO). Open A wants to be Played in a 9-round [...]

Reigning European Champion Alexander Motylev and former European Champion Vladimir Potkin (2011) are appointed as coaches for the Russian men’s national team, RCF CEO Mark Glukhovsky confirmed for R-Sport. Motylev will be acting captain but the two experts will be equal in decision-making process. Following the poor result at the Tromso Chess Olympiad, the Russian [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized from 1-4th February in Casablanca, Morocco, by the Royal Morocco Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the Movenpick Hotel in Sana’a. The lecturer was IA Mahdi Abdulrahim (UAE), Councilor of the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers were IA [...]

Μετά τα αποτελέσματα του Δ γύρου όλα τα παιχνίδια, στον τελευταίο γύρο είναι κρίσιμα. Τόσο η κορυφή όσο και ο υποβιβασμός είναι ανοιχτά. Στην Β τοπική η ΕΑΠ έχει ήδη κατακτήσει την πρώτη θέση και έχει εξασφαλίσει ήδη...

GM Nikita Maiorov (Belarus) emerged a clear winner of the 2015 Bergquell Open 2015 with 5,5/7 points. The event was organized by Chess Club 1994 OberlanD e.V. in February, 2015, in Germany. The second place was shared in a three-way tie by GM Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukraine), GM Henrik Teske (Germany) and GM Vladimir Okhotnik (France) [...]

I used to think that Vishwanathan Anand must retire from chess but I feel otherwise now. Having played through a good number of Anand games I feel he is a very strong positional and strategic player who underutilizes that strength of his.  He possibly focusses too much on openings and complex positions which puts him […]

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Possibly the surest way to get better at chess is to avoid verbalizing about it. Chess is a non-verbal symbolic language. Chessize in your skull instead of verbalizing. It’s a old saw that words are not the things they describe. Zen calls verbalization “a finger pointing at the moon”. And it’s a cliché that those […]

The 13th Khazar International Open Chess Tournament is organized by 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 is taking place at Yadegar Imam Sport Complex located in Golsar St, Rasht. 88 players from 12 [...]