The last round of TCEC Season 7 – Stage 1b is in progress and five chess engines fight for the last qualifying spot. According to the TCEC rules the top 7 engines qualify for TCEC – Stage 2, while the rest are out of TCEC for the current season. Komodo 8 and Houdini 4 lead [...]

The third round of the European Youth Chess Championship 2014 in Batumi was completed on Tuesday, and in some groups favorites already emerged. In the oldest boys group three players have maximum score – Valerii Iovcov from Romania, IM Alexey Zenzera from Russia and FM Melih Yurtseven from Turkey. Yurtseven defeated the top seed GM [...]

The Al Ain Chess Club invites all FIDE rated players to participate in the 3rd Al Ain Chess Classics from 18-27th December 2014. The 9-round Swiss tournament will take place at the Al Ain Rotana Hili Hotel. Top prizes are 1st $11,000 / $8,500 / $6,000 / $4,500 / $3,000 / $2,000 etc (20 regular [...]

FIDE and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission are going to organize on Internet a Refreshing Course for Arbiters in French 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 [...]

Ο γνωστός συγγραφέας και προπονητής Jacob Aagaard θα ταξιδέψει στην Αθήνα στα μέσα Φλεβάρη και έτσι δίνεται η ευκαιρία να διοργανωθεί ένα 3ήμερο προπονητικό camp στο οποίο ο Δανός GM μέσα σε 15 ώρες θα εισάγει τους φιλόδοξους...

Σκάκι σε ένα εφηβικό δωμάτιο στην καναδική ταινία J’ai tué ma mère (Σκότωσα τη μητέρα μου), παραγωγής 2009. Ένας 17χρονος, νιώθει έντονη απέχθεια για τη μητέρα του. Την κρίνει με περιφρόνηση, βλέπει μόνο τα παλιομοδίτικα...

Like mating patterns and attacking patterns, there are patterns in that endgame which can help you to formulate simple but effective strategies. 1. Material Advantage: A material advantage is an obvious winning advantage in the endgame; a person who has a material advantage can win easily, though one should always investigate the resulting positions in […]

ΕΝΩΣΗ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΤΙΚΟ ΔΕΛΤΙΟ Ολοκληρώθηκαν την Κυριακή 19 Οκτωβρίου 2014, οι αγώνες της προκριματικής φάσης  του 7ου ομαδικού πρωταθλήματος σκάκι «ΠΑΙΔΩΝ-ΚΟΡΑΣΙΔΩΝ» , που...

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The 7th Chennai International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament will take place from 30th December, 2014, to 6th January, 2015, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai, India. The event will consist of three sections: - Category A (for players rated over 1900), 10-round Swiss, 90 Minutes each plus 30 seconds increment from move 1 - [...]

The 2014 US Class Championship is set to take place from 31st October to 2nd November at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA. The event consists of seven elo sections. The tournament format is 6-round Swiss with the time control G/120 +30. The total prize fund is [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 28 February to 1 March 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, by the Australian Chess Federation and under the auspice of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar will be the Melbourne Chess Club, 66 Leicester Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065. The Lecturer will be IA N.Y. Wong (SIN), [...]

The 4th Liscate Chess Trophy 2014 took part on 17-19th October 2014 at the Centro Civico Polifunzionale in Liscate, a commune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region of Lombardy. The event was split into two separate tournaments – Open A (for players rated over 1800) and Open B (for players below 1850). Both [...]

From 16 to 18 October, 2014, an International Conference “Chess in Schools” was held in Yerevan, Armenia, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia, the World Chess Federation (FIDE), as well as the Armenian Chess Federation and the Chess Academy of Armenia, in cooperation with the Armenian State Pedagogical [...]

Ενημερώνουμε τα σωματεία ότι η Γενική Συνέλευση που έχει προγραμματιστεί για το Σάββατο στις 15 Νοεμβρίου 2014 στις 19:00, θα γίνει στο εντευκτήριο του Πέλοπα, στην Arena Bowling, Πέλοπος 26, Πάτρα