Μετά τις αρχαιρεσίες της 2/11/2014, το νέο ΔΣ για την τριετία 2014-2017 σχηματίστηκε ως εξής: Πρόεδρος: Νίκος Κουκίδης Αντιπρόεδρος: Ηλίας Αλεξίου Γραμματέας: Μαρίνα Ηλιάδου Ταμίας: Βασίλης Τασιάκος Έφ. Αγώνων: Αργύρης...

The Mayor Cup Rapid Chess Tournament 2014 is taking place on 16th November 2014 inn Yerevan, the capital and largest city of Aremnia. Official website

Του Παναγιώτη Κονιδάρη Φινάλε πύργων- 1 Το πιο συχνό φινάλε που μπορεί να προκύψει σε μια παρτίδα είναι, θαρρώ, αυτό των πύργων. Πολλά καλά βιβλία (και ορισμένα κακά) έχουν ασχοληθεί διεξοδικά με το θέμα και έχουν εδώ και...

Ενώ η πέμπτη παρτίδα του ματς για το Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα ήταν μια άχρωμη ισοπαλία, στην 6η παρτίδα ο Νορβηγός παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής κέρδισε σε μια συναρπαστική μάχη με πολλά λάθη, και τώρα προηγείται με σκορ 3.5-2,5...

Chess is a violent sport according to artist and chess player Marcel Duchamp. It’s a vicious game, says folk singer Nic Jones. Nigel Short is frequently quoted as saying that chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people. Grandmaster Boris Gulko tells his (adult) pupils that chess is a game for hooligans. […]

The reigning TCEC champion Stockfish leads TCEC Season 7 – Stage 3 on 5.5/7 points, leaving the nearest follower Critter 1.5 points behind. Only Komodo (4/6 points) cam come closer if  beating Houdini in their seventh game, which is in progress. Follow “the unlimited” duel Houdini-Komodo LIVE at the official website (the engines played 111 (!) moves so far and it seems...

The Remco Heite Invitational Chess Tournament 2014 is taking place on 14-16th November 2014 at Hotel Holland Inn in Wolvega, a town in the Netherlands. Official website/ LIVE games with analysis Press Release by Peter Boel, Photos by Harry Gielen The second round had many similarities with the first. True, yesterday Black was very much OK, whereas this morning [...]

Chessdom’s Chief Editor Goran Urosevic spoke to Espen Adgestein, manager to World Champion Magnus Carlsen, about television and media coverage of World Championship Match 2014 in Norway. Video by Vijay Kumar, photo Espen with NRK by Anastasya Karlovich Carlsen-Anand game 6 LIVE

The 14th European Youth Rapid Team Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union and Estonian Chess Federation on 12-17th November 2014 at the Meriton Grand Conference & Spa Hotel Conference Centre in Tallinn, the capital and largest city of Estonia. Boys and girls under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 participate in the event. Top seeded players [...]

Press Release by Peter Boel It’s a good tradition in the Remco Heite tournament: as so often, the first round was highly spectacular in all respects. Erwin l’Ami was lucky enough to find himself in a position in which he had already shown how it should be played, and Gawain Jones didn’t find a real [...]

The 14th European Youth Rapid Team Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union and Estonian Chess Federation on 12-17th November 2014 at the Meriton Grand Conference & Spa Hotel Conference Centre in Tallinn, the capital and largest city of Estonia. Boys and girls under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 participate in the event. Top seeded players [...]

Most beginning players never get to the endgame because they’re defeated in the middle-game. When they do get into the endgame, they don’t know what to do with the small amount of material they have left on the board. A beginner once told me that he felt the endgame to be easier than the middle-game […]

The first weekend of November was dedicated to the promotion of the sport at multiple levels, which gathered a large audience of curious chess fans, but also families who were able to spend time together and experience the beauty of the mind sport that chess is. Chess is all in one, a sport, an art, [...]

Αγαπητοί φίλοιΣας ενημερώνω ότι το 2ο Κύπελλο Ελλάδας Λύσης Σκακιστικών Προβλημάτων έχει προγραμματιστεί για την πρώτη Κυριακή του νέου έτους, 4 Ιανουαρίου 2015, ώρα 11.00-13.30.Η διαδικασία του θα είναι η ίδια με αυτήν της...

Ισόπαλη τελείωσε η 4η παρτίδα του ματς Κάρλσεν – Ανάντ που διεξάγεται στο Σότσι της Ρωσίας και θα αναδείξει τον παγκόσμιο πρωταθλητή. Ο Κάρσεν απέφυγε να μπει σε κύριες γραμμές στο άνοιγμα, αλλά δεν κατάφερε ως...