Enjoy Daily Master Chess Challenge against strong players and experienced trainers. Every day of November offers you free Chess Arena Challenges against IM Nikolay Milchev, IM Velislav Kukov, WGM Iva Videnova and many more yet to come. Wednesday, 12th November at 20:00 CET - Play with IM Velislav Kukov (3′ + 1″) Thursday, 13th November 2014 at 18:00 CET - Play with WGM [...]

On November 11 in the Novotel Moscow City Hotel the final 7th round of the International TASHIR Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian was played. The game between leaders of the race Alexander Grischuk and Vladimir Kramnik was drawn rather quickly – the opponents had repeated their moves as early as in the opening. [...]

Συνδυάζοντας άριστη προετοιμασία στο άνοιγμα και εξαιρετικό παιχνίδι ακριβείας στη συνέχεια ο Ανάντ κέρδισε την τρίτη παρτίδα του ματς για το παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημα που διεξάγεται στο Σότσι. Ήταν η πρώτη νίκη του Ανάντ...

Have you been ever become bored while working at chess or playing? To be honest I have done so quite often and many times I have fallen asleep while doing some chess. Part of the problem is that my whole day involves chess and chess alone, whether it’s coaching or preparation. That in turn has […]

The International Chess Open Graz 2015 will take place on 13-20th February 2015 at the beautiful and modern Hotel Spa Novapark in Graz, the second-largest city in Austria. The event will be split into 3 tournaments: Open A (open to all), Open B (for players rated below 2000) and Open C (for participants rated less than 1700). [...]

The Remco Heite Invitational Chess Tournament 2014 will take place on 14-16th November 2014 at Hotel Holland Inn in Wolvega, a town in the Netherlands. The event will be a 6 player single round-robin tournament with the strong participation of: GM Loek Van Wely NED - shared first in 2012 and Dutch champion in 2014; GM Gawain Jones ENG – winner of [...]

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. The event will be a 6 player single round-robin tournament with the strong participation of GM Loek Van Wely, GM Gawain Jones, GM Daniel Fridman, GM Sipke Ernst, GM Dimitri Reindrman and [...]

The Remco Heite Open Tournament is taking place on 14-16th November 2014 at Hotel Holland Inn in Wolvega, a town in the Netherlands. The event is a 9-round rapid tournament in which the winner receives, besides an attractive cash prize, a ticket for the Invitation Tournament in 2016. Official website

Μετά την τρίτη αγωνιστική, ο παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής Κάρλσεν και ο Ινδός τέως παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής και νυν διεκδικητής Άναντ είναι ισόπαλοι 1,5-1,5 με μία νίκη ο καθένας. Οι αγώνες (που θα διαρκέσουν 12 παρτίδες το πολύ)...

On November 10 in the Novotel Moscow City Hotel the 6th and next to last round of the International TASHIR Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian was played. In the game Levon Aronian vs. Alexander Grischuk the Armenian grandmaster demonstrated an interesting novelty in the Gruenfeld Defence. It was connected with a pawn sacrifice, [...]

I recently got back in to playing some chess, dear reader. For some time now, my main chess activity has been writing about our wonderful game, and I do dare say that I might regret not leaving it that way as time goes by. However, I must say that having joined up at one of […]

The 2014 edition of the Romanian Team Chess Championships is taking place on 7-16th November 2014 in Calimanesti-Caciulata, a town in southern Romania. The event is topped by GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu GER (2652), GM Vladimir Baklan UKR (2651), GM Ivan Ivanisevic SRB (2643), GM Constantin Lupulescu ROM (2643) and GM Zbynek Hracek CZE (2636). Official [...]

The 2nd International Open Chess Tournament “Durres 2014″ was organized by the Albanian Chess Federation on 1-8th November 2014 in Durres, Albania. The 9-round Swiss Open gathered 98 players from 11 different federations. They were provided with excellent conditions in the splendid 4-star Hotel “Bleart”**** near the city of Durres. More than one quarter of the players received...

Chess Club “Bošnjaci” will organize the 20th jubilee edition of Bosnjaci Open 2015 on 3-9th January 2015 in Bošnjaci, eastern Croatia. The event is sponsored by Municipality Bošnjaci, in collaboration with Croatian Chess federation, Chess federation of VS county, Sladorana d.d. Županja, VS county,“Komunalac“ Županja, “Admiral Tisak“ Cerna, Pizzeria AQUARIUS, NARCOR...

The 83rd Ukrainian Chess Championships for men and women will take place on 10-22nd November, 2014, at the Hotel Warsaw in Lviv. Both events will be held according to the round robin system – men (11 rounds), women (9 rounds). Participants, men: Ivanchuk Vassily 2726 Eljanov Pavel 2719 Ponomariov Ruslan 2711 Kryvoruchko Yuriy 2706 (last [...]