The 74th Ukrainian Individual Women’s Chess Championship is taking place on 10-22nd November 2014 in the city of Lviv, Ukraine. The event is 12-player round-robin tournament, including the strongest Ukrainian female players. The finalists are: GM Anna Muzychuk (2545), IM Mariya Muzychuk (2529), GM Anna Ushenina (2494), GM Natalia Zhukova (2470), IM Inna Gaponenko (2381), [...]

The 83rd Ukrainian Individual Men’s Chess Championship is taking place on 10-22nd November 2014 in the city of Lviv, Ukraine. The event is 12-player round-robin tournament, including five players from “Club 2700+” The finalists are GM Vassily Ivanchuk (2726), GM Pavel Eljanov (2719), GM Ruslan Ponomariov (2711), GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2706), GM Alexander Moiseenko (2701), GM...

Only four months after the Chess Olympiad in Tromso where the greatest chess players of the world competed against each other it is already time to have a look at the best talents of the next generation. In December this year Hungary is organizing a Chess Olympiad for the first time, the competition for youth [...]

TCEC Season 7 – Stage 2 is over and only 3000+ engines qualify for TCEC – Stage 3. Komodo (3230) emerged a clear winner of the second stage, collecting 10.5/13 points. Stockfish (3243) and Gull (3116) shared second place on 10 points, while Houdini (3224), Junior (3000), Critter (3110), Protector (3000) and Chiron (3049) will join the winners in the next stage. [...]

FIDE and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission are going to organize on Internet a Refreshing Course for Arbiters in Spanish language. The following subjects will be discussed: (a) The changes of the Laws of Chess that have been in effect since 1 July 2014. (b) The changes of FIDE Titles, Ratings Regulations and Swiss System regulations that [...]

Well that Spanish train still runs between Quadalquivir and old Seville. And at dead of night the whistle blows. And people hear she’s running still. And far away in some recess. The Lord and the Devil are now playing chess. The Devil still cheats and wins more souls. And as for the Lord, well, he’s […]

Η πρώτη παρτίδα του ματς Κάρλσεν – Ανάντ για το παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημα έληξε ισόπαλη, ήταν όμως μια πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα και μαχητική νούλα. Στη δεύτερη παρτίδα, ο Κάρλσεν είχε τα λευκά και στην επέτειο της πτώσης του...

With Magnus Carlsen having played the Gruenfeld in the first game of the World Championship I guess that a few people may want to follow in his footsteps. How should they go about doing this? Well what they shouldn’t do is buy the biggest and best reviewed book on this opening, it’s just too much […]

Concurrently with the FIDE World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand, the Russian Chess Federation will hold Mikhail Tal Memorial on 13-14th November in Sochi. Mikhail Tal Memorial will be a 12-player double round robin tournament with the time control 4′+2”. The playing venue will be the 2nd floor of the Sochi Media [...]

On November 9 in the Novotel Moscow City Hotel the 5th round of the International TASHIR Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian was played. Alexander Grischuk gained another fine victory by outplaying Peter Leko. The opponents held their discussion in a sharp opening variation: White had left his king in a center and advanced [...]

From 2 to 6 November 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Samara, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the sanatorium Tsiolkovsky in Samara region. The lecturer was IA Alexander Tkachev (RUS), FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer was IA Stanislav Yanusevsky (RUS). [...]

The Commission for Women’s Chess, in cooperation with the Sri Lanka Chess Federation, is going to organize a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 26 to 28 November 2014, under the auspices of FIDE. The venue will be the Colombo University in Colombo. The Lecturer will be IA Franca Dapiran (ITA), FIDE Lecturer [...]

Super Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian return to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis for four classical games of chess and 16 Blitz. SAINT LOUIS (November 4, 2014) – From the same venue that hosts such high-quality events as the U.S. Championships and the global super-tournament Sinquefield Cup, the Chess Club [...]

Πρωταθλητής ο ΣΟΠ στο Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Παίδων Κορασίδων ΕΣΣΠ 2014. Η ΝΕΠ και η ΕΑΠ κατέλαβαν την δεύτερη και τρίτη θέση αντίστοιχα. Τα αποτελέσματα του τελευταίου γύρου και η τελική κατάταξη των ομάδων...

Του Παναγιώτη Κονιδάρη Σπουδές με πύργο εναντίον πιονιού/-ιών- 2 Ακόμα κι αν τα πιόνια φτάσουν στην 7η υπάρχει ελπίδα, αρκεί αυτά να είναι τα ακριανά. Ο παρακάτω μηχανισμός (γνωστός από τον Moravec-1924) πρέπει να είναι κτήμα...