Komodo and Stockfish lead TCEC Season 7 – Stage 2 with 8/10 points. Komodo defeated Houdini in the ninth round of the competition in a 110 move giant clash, while Stockfish outplayed Senpai to join the leader. Two more rounds to go and only eight engines will qualify for Stage 3 while the rest are out of TCEC for the [...]

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 [...]

Πολλές διοργανώσεις αρχίζουν από αυτήν την Κυριακή 9 Νοεμβρίου. Αρχικά έχουμε τα Ομαδικά πρωταθλήματα Παμπαίδων (Κ12) και Παίδων (Κ16). Οι αγώνες θα διαρκέσουν 5 αγωνιστικές και η Καλλιθέα θα εκπροσωπηθεί και στις δύο...

The 41st Indian Individual Women Premier Chess Championship 2014 was held from 25th October to 5th November 2014 in Sangli, a city in the state of Maharashtra, in western India. The event was a round-robin tournament in eleven rounds. WGM Rout Padmini (2331) won convincingly with 9,5/11 points, leaving the nearest followers full two points behind. IM [...]

On November 9, within the framework of the International Tashir Chess Tournament in memory of Tigran Petrosian a special session of simultaneous game “World Grandmasters for the children” will be held. The young chess players with physical disabilities will have a unique opportunity to play with the greatest grandmasters of the world. The event is [...]

Live news updates from Sochi

A year ago, before the World Championship match in Chennai, Sergey Shipov took the risk of predicting a confident victory for Magnus Carlsen, and he guessed correctly. On the eve of the second Carlsen-Anand clash, the Russian star commentator again previews the match in New In Chess magazine issue 2014#7. An excerpt: GM Sergey Shipov [...]

Νέος, θαυμάσιος χώρος για τον Σκακιστικό Όμιλο Αμπελοκήπων και τον Σκακιστικό Όμιλο “Θωμάς Γεωργίου”. Όλη η σκακιστική κοινότητα είναι καλεσμένη στα εγκαίνια που θα γίνουν την Κυριακή 9 Νοεμβρίου, 7 μ.μ...

In a recent tournament game, as White I ended up misplaying a Semi-Tarrasch type of early middlegame, allowing Black easy equality after committing to the e5 advance (giving up control of the d5 square) and not taking advantage of Black’s lag in development. However, I managed to win by stubbornly trying to attack a slightly […]

The 14th Sautron Chess Open was held from 25th October to 1st November 2014 in Sautron, a commune in the Loire-Atlantique département in western France. The event was a 9-round Swiss with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move [...]

The second edition of the International Open Chess Tournament “Durres 2014″ is taking place on 1-8th November 2014 in in the Conference Hall of the 4-Star Hotel “Bleart”**** in Durres, one of the most ancient and significant cities of Albania, situated on the Adriatic Coast. The event is organized by the Albanian Chess Federation in a 9-round Swiss format, valid for FIDE rating...

The first two stages of the FIDE Grand Prix Series 2014-2015 were held in Baku, Azerbaijan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Two more events will follow in Tbilisi, Georgia (February) and Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (May). Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand shared the first place in Baku Grand Prix. Russian Grandmaster Dmitry Andreikin was the sole winner of the [...]

Indian Grandmaster Harikrishna Pentala continues with chess promotional activities. After the 30-board simultaneous exhibition in Belgrade, he is currently playing a six-board clock simul against the members of G-Team Novy Bor. The simul is taking place at the restaurant Ajeto in Novy Bor, Czech Republic. Grandmaster started with 75 minutes on the clock while his [...]

Inspections day in Sochi

Μια μαύρη και μια λευκή βασίλισσα παίζουν σκάκι σε καλντερίμι του ιστορικού κέντρου της Μπρατισλάβα, στη Σλοβακία σε προπαγανδιστική εκδήλωση δρόμου για το σκάκι. Την Μπρατισλάβα επέλεγε η αριστοκρατία της...