του Νίκου Παπαθανασόπουλου Από κάτω βρίσκεται η μετάφρασή μας ενός άρθρου που δημοσιεύτηκε στις σελίδες 1-4 του σκακιστικού περιοδικού της Ουρουγουάης «Mundial», Μάιος 1927. Το ιδανικό στυλ των μετρ Ο ιδανικός τρόπος...

So what can we conclude from our look at advantage and the perception of it in chess analysis? Is there a “correct” way to open the game from the traditional starting position? The question has no answer, being merely a form of “What is the best opening?” Define best. A question which might have an […]

The Chess IQ Academy is going to organize an Internet based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, from 6 to 11 April 2015, under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer and Technical Organizer will be IA Sevan Muradian (USA), FIDE Lecturer. The lectures will be in English language. The Seminar will give FIDE Arbiter norms and titles, according [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 1 to 3 March 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel, by the Israel Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Seminar will be organized parallel to the European Individual Chess Championship 2015. The Lecturer will be IA Almog Burstein (ISR), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturers [...]

Grandmasters Ian Nepomniachtchi, Francisco Vallejo and Igor Lysyj are the top-seeded players in the Moscow Open main event, the 2015 Cup of Russia qualifier. More than 250 chess players are participating in this event. The Women’s Cup of Russia stage rating favorites are World Women’s Junior Champion Aleksandra Goryachkina (2451), Georgian Women’s Champion Nino Batsiashvili [...]

The world chess champion Hou Yifan was pleasantly surprised by Dutch chess ambassador Hans Bohm during the prizegiving of Tata Steel tournament last Sunday in Wijk aan Zee. The Chinese first lady was delighted to be presented with the new book by Hans Bohm & Yochanan Afek “Wij Presenteren De Koningin” that compiles the most [...]

Azerbaijan national team will not compete in the World Team Chess Championship, scheduled to start 18th April in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, azerisport.com reported. The World Team Chess Championship is held at two-yearly intervals in the first six months of each odd year. The FIDE World Team Championship is the sequel to the Continental Team Championships and [...]

Successful Seminar attendees will grant a FIDE IO Norm necessary for the FIDE IO title application and they can apply till 31st of March 2015 for the title.

The European Chess Union and Turkish Chess Federation have the honour of inviting all National Chess Federations of the ECU and eligible players to the European School Championships 2015 organised in Konya, Turkey from 24 June (arrivals) to 03 July (departures). Each National Federation or School Association or schools may enter an unlimited number of [...]

The official registration for the 2015 Susan Polgar Foundation’s National Open Championship for Girls and Boys is open. The organizers invite you to join the SPFNO on February 27th – March 1st, 2015 in San Mateo, California. In the course of the three-day chess festival, the SPFNO will award qualifications for: - The Prestigious Susan [...]

In a recent article I touched on the mystery of Magnus Carlsen’s dominance in chess. Grand master Nigel Davies suggested that the answer to Magnus Carlsen’s dominance may actually be very simple. He went to explain that in an age when the top players are focussing on opening preparation they are neglecting endgames. Jan Timman […]

Round 1 of a normal open Swiss system event generally sees the favorites pound the underdogs, and the start of the Gibraltar Chess Congress was no exception. Unless I missed something, it seems that the favorites only gave up three draws and one loss - a pretty big one. Badrakh Galmandakh, rated just 2240, defeated erstwhile 2700 Alexander Motylev, who is still a 2665-rated player. To add...

More about Gibraltar Tradewise Chess Festival: Official website / Gibraltar Masters 2015 LIVE/ Gibraltar Challengers 2015 LIVE/ Tradewise Chess Festival underway in Gibraltar/ List of participants/ Salome Melia and Jovanka Houska to give opening simuls in Gibraltar/ Play online chess/ The First Move of the 2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival at The Gibraltar Masters tournament took...

The 2015 Iranian National Chess Championship (Men’s Final) took place from 20th to 27th January, 2015, in Mashad, the second most populous city in Iran and a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road connecting with Merv in the East. The event was an 11-round Swiss tournament consisting of 29 players. 4 of them are GMs, 3 [...]

The January “Lviv Tradition” IM round-robin tournament kicked off at the Hotel Nton, in the splendid city of Lviv, situated in western Ukraine. Three players head the field of ten participants from three different countries with one points each. Pylyp Lornye, FM Oleg Terletsky and WFM Nataliya Buksa defeated their opponents Szymon Walter, WFM Iulija Osmak and Kamil Koziol, [...]