The 81st Belarusian Men’s Championship and 59th Belarusian Women’s Championship were held from 12-22nd January, 2015, at the RCOP, Minsk. The men’s event started as a 12-player round robin, but Aleksandr Kocheev dropped out after four games. The women’s event was a 10-player round robin. Grandmasters Kirill Stupak and Aleksej Aleksandrov shared the first place [...]

I am posting two different games from the same section here. In the first game my opponent dropped a Bishop on the thirteenth move of the game and he resigned when I took it. My opponent in this first game is from the Netherlands. My opponent in the second game is from Canada. In the […]

The update was already made to the previous post, so you can go there or just click this direct link to my annotations for the round 10 games from Wijk aan Zee.

FIDE and the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission are going to organize an Internet Based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, from 9 to 14 March 2015, under the auspices of FIDE. The participation is free for all Arbiters. The Lecturer will be IA Takis Nikolopoulos (GRE), FIDE Arbiters’ Commission Chairman and FIDE Lecturer. The Technical Organizer and Assistant Lecturer [...]

The Dreaming King Open was held from 17-19th January, 2015, at the Marriott San Diego Airport/Liberty Station in San Diego, California, USA. The 6-round Swiss event consisted of seven sections with a total of 155 participants. The guaranteed prize fund was 17,000 USD. The Open section had 30 players. GM Melikset Khachiyan, GM Enrico Sevillano [...]

The Armenian Chess Federation is organizing an international open chess tournament, dedicated to the memory of GM Karen Asrian, which will take place on June 15-25, 2015, in the prominent resort town of Jermuk. All interested chess players can participate in the 9-round Swiss tournament. GM Karen Grigoryan was the winner of the 7th Asrian [...]

The Georgian Chess Federation organized the 2015 edition of the 72nd Georgian Individual Chess Championship for women from 10th to 19th January, 2015, in Tbilisi, the capital and largest city of Georgia. The event was a 1-player round-robin tournament with time control 40/90′ + 30′ + 30″. Georgian Olympic player IM Nino Batsiashvili emerged a [...]

The 75th Armenian Men’s Championship and 70th Armenian Women’s Championship were held from 12-21st January at the Central Chess Club “Tigran Petrosian” in Yerevan. Both events were 10-player round robins. In the men’s section the talented GM Karen Grigoryan claimed the title with 6,0/9 points. Grigoryan won four games and lost only to second-placed rising [...]

The 2014 Croatian Individual Chess Championship for men was held from 11th to 21st January 2015 in Opatija, a resort town in western Croatia, situated on the Adriatic Sea. The event was a 12-player round-robin tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″. GM Alojzije Jankovic emerged a clear winner with 7/9 points and took [...]

The blog renders thought discontinuous but there’s a thread in all my posts, and the thread is that even in “scientific” chess there is a tendency to evaluate positions and strategy with a logic colored by emotion and blurred by human fatuity. 20th century players laughed at 19th century players for scorning ending advantage in […]

Magnus Carlsen's winning streak came to an end today, though the result wasn't such a bad one: an easy draw with Black against Vassily Ivanchuk. That's an acceptable result for anyone - or at least any human being - and as his closest competitors (Wesley So and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave) didn't gain any ground, so much the better. The Ivanchuk-Carlsen game was strange - "nonsense", as the latter...

Magnus Carlsen's game today against Vassily Ivanchuk was a short one and all theory, so with time to kill and energy to burn Carlsen stayed in the commentary room for a long time answering a wide range of questions from host and New in Chess editor Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam. Have a look here - Chess24 has the video and significant written highlights too.

The Jersey Chess Federation announces the Polar Capital Jersey International Chess Tournament which will be held on 15-20th March, 2015, in St Clement Bay, Jersey. The event consists of three tournaments: Open Tournament, Holiday Tournament and Nautilus Jersey Blitz Championship. Sponsors of the event are Polar Capital, Jersey Tourism, the One Foundation and Nautilus Trust [...]

FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, in collaboration with FIDE Journalist Commission, has decided to establish a special FIDE award to recognize outstanding contributions for the popularisation of chess by journalists, who have successfully created and made TV Chess programmes. Recognizing its contribution in the promotion of chess for many years, one award goes to chess journalists [...]

Η σχετική σελίδα της WFCC είναι εδώ : http://www.wfcc.ch/competitions/solving/ecsc2015/Προθεσμία συμμετοχής μέχρι 01-Απρ-2015Τόπος : Ιάσιο, ΡουμανίαΧρόνος : Άφιξη 01-Μάη-2015, Αναχώρηση 04-Μάη-2015