Τελείωσε το 2014 και όλοι μεταθέτουμε τις ελπίδες μας στο 2015 για όλα αυτά που ονειρευτήκαμε και δεν τα πετύχαμε ή δεν συνέβησαν.Με ευχές για καλυτέρευση της ζωής μας σε κάθε δυνατό επίπεδο, σας δίνω δυο προβλήματα για...

Has the creation of chess playing programs and their subsequent use for game preparation ruined the game of chess? While it may not have completely ruined our great game (yet), it has taken some of the excitement away that comes from purely human play. Further more, it appears as if the silicon beast is raising […]

Chess Association of “Gilan” province on behalf of I.R. Iran Chess Federation has the honor to invite all players from national federations to participate in the 13th Khazar International Open Chess Tournaments from 11-18th February 2015 in Rasht city, Iran. The tournament will take place at Yadegar Imam Sport Complex located in Golsar St, Rasht. [...]

The 44th Rilton Chess Cup is taking place from 27th December 2014 to 5th January 2015 at Clarion Hotel Stockholm, in Stockholm, the capital and largest city of Sweden. The event is a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament open to all players with FIDE or national rating more than 2200 and first prize in the amount of 20.000 (nearly 2.100 €). [...]

Georgian Grandmaster Gaioz Nigalidze won the 2014 Al Ain Chess Classic after edging the opposition on additional criteria. Gaioz Nigalidze, Tigran Petrosian (Armenia), Vladimir Onischuk (Ukraine) and Sergei Zhigalko (Belarus) finished on top with 7,0/9 points each. Nigalidze started the event as 28th seed, finally earning 30 elo points and 11,000 USD top prize. The [...]

Andrew Kayonde was the best performing Zambian player in the open section of the just ended Africa Individual Chess Championships that were held in Windhoek, Namibia in mid December 2014.

This chess game is one that I recently completed. I have not been writing articles lately partly because these correspondence chess games have taken up a great deal of my time and partly because I have not been feeling well. I am feeling a little better now and I am getting caught up on things […]

The 2014 Kehat Beukes Memorial Chess Tournament is scheduled to take place on 27-28th December 2014 at the Protea Hotel Thuringerhof, in Windhoek, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. Windhoek has been the main chess center in Africa, hosting numerous chess events: 2014 African Individual Chess Championships for men and women, [...]

(25.12.2014) Ιδού η Βράβευση για το 2ο Θεματικό Τουρνουά KoBulChess - Χριστουγεννιάτικο Τουρνουά 2014! Πολλές ευχαριστίες σε όλους τους συμμετέχοντες και στον κριτή IM Krassimir Gandev για την ταχύτητα της απόφασής του. Η βράβευση θα...

The Russian website dni.ru produced TOP-10 Chart of the Russian most beautiful female athletes for 2014 and Alexandra Kosteniuk is on fourth position. Enjoy the photos, kindly provided by dni.ru!

Zambian women chess poster girl Epah Tembo Jere was on Monday night conferred with the Woman International Master title

The concept in Chess of advantage is peculiar in that it lacks rigorous definition. What is advantage? If there is one human notion of the game which is endorsed by our experience with computer chess, it is certainly that chess positions tend to possess myriad defensive resources: the embarrassing truth is that one must work […]

The International Chess Tournament “Ciutat de Lloret” is scheduled to be organized by IO Pere Reginaldo and GM Jordi Magem from 28th December 2014 to 3rd January 2015 in the Gran Garbí Hotel****, Lloret de Mar, Girona, Spain. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. The main prize [...]

Διαλέξεις με θέμα «Μαθαίνοντας από τους παγκόσμιους πρωταθλητές. Καπαμπλάνκα, Αλιέχιν, Μποτβίνικ» διοργανώνει η ΕΣΣΠ τις Κυριακές 28/12, 4/1 και 11/1 στο αμφιθέατρο του 50ου Δημοτικού Σχολείου στις 11:00. Η συμμετοχή είναι...

Η ΣΣ Ακαδημία Σκάκι Αγίου Βασιλείου Ρίου και το σωματείο ΣΣ Κεραυνός Αγίου Βασιλείου Ρίου διοργανώνουν το τουρνουά Κεραυνός για το 2015 στο κλειστό γυμναστήριο της ΕΑΠ. Το τουρνουά θα πραγματοποιηθεί τις ημερομηνίες...