GM Davies suggested a recent game: Tony Hynes vs John Cox, Shropshire Congress 2015 2015. Cox, author of the chess book The Berlin Wall, resigns a Giuoco Pianissimo after 15 moves against an “unknown”. After playing through this amusing miniature, I lightly opined to Davies that 5 … 0-0 is a lemon. 5 … a6 seems […]

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Την Κυριακή 11/1/2015 στο αμφιθέατρο του 50ου Δημοτικού Σχολείου στις 11:00, η τρίτη και τελευταία διάλεξη της σειράς με θέμα "Μαθαίνοντας από τους παγκόσμιους πρωταθλητές" Αυτή την Κυριακή "Μιχαήλ Μποτβίννικ" .....

The Chrstmas Blitz Tournament 2015 took place on 7th January 2015 in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city of Russia. The 11-round Blitz tournament with time control 5” gathered 80 players, including 3 GMs, 7 IMs, 3 FMs and 1 WFM. IM Vadim Moiseenko and IM Egor Pakhomov shared first with 9/11 points, but Moiseenko [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Qatar Masters Open 2014 on its DD Sports Channel from 11-14th January, 2015. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 11th January from 11pm to 11:30pm (Europe 18:30hrs to [...]

From 26 to 28 November 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Colombo, Sri Lanka by the Sri Lanka Chess Federation in cooperation with the Commission for Women’s Chess and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue was the Royal College in Colombo. The Lecturer was IA Franca Dapiran (ITA), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant [...]

On 20 and 21 December 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Eybens, France, by the French Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the Maison des associations – 8 rue Jean Macé 38320, in Eybens. The lecturer was IA Stephen Boyd (FRA), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant [...]

From 17 to 21 December 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Quezon City, Philippines, by the National Chess Federation of Philippines and under auspices of FIDE. The lecturer was IA Ignatius Leong (SIN), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant lecturer was IA Gene Polliarco (PHI). The lectures were in English language. Eight (8) National Arbiters [...]

Chinese Olympic player GM Ni Hua leads the 2015 Australian Open Chess Championship with the amazing 7/7 score. His start resembles Caruana’s historical perfect 7/7 score at the beginning of the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. The nearest follower is GM Rustam Khusnutdinov, who has 6/7 points, but Australian players IM Max Illingworth and IM Bobby Cheng stay close, with 5,5 points each. [...]

The 14th International Chess Festival Prague Open 2015 is taking place on 9-16th January 2015 in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. The event is organized by AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o. as a part of the Czech Tour 2014/2015 Series and will take place at the Olympik Hotel ****, Sokolovska 138, Praha 8. The tournament [...]

In this day and age, playing in long lasting tournaments is quite hard for chess enthusiasts. Routine working obligations rarely give them permission to take part in tournaments, even if they really look forward to participating. Even chess trainers or instructors usually cannot play, because of their training duties. Therefore, most of them play online, [...]

The 14th International Chess Festival Prague Open 2015 is taking place on 9-16th January 2015 in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. The event is organized by AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o. as a part of the Czech Tour 2014/2015 Series and will take place at the Olympik Hotel ****, Sokolovska 138, Praha 8. The Festival is [...]

Σήμερα γιορτάζουν οι Γιάννηδες. Θα αφιερώσω την σημερινή ανάρτηση σε έναν καλό φίλο και πάρα πολύ καλό συνθέτη, τον Γιάννη Καλκαβούρα.Επειδή του αρέσουν τα λογικά προβλήματα, έφτιαξα ένα μικρό λογικό, είναι μόνο...

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