“American Chess Magazine has been launched in November 2016 to help readers keep in touch with all the most significant happenings in the exciting world of present-day chess, both at home and abroad.” https://acmchess.com/ A month ago I presented a couple of exotic puzzles from the “Chess 2022 Day-to-Day Calendar: A Year of Chess Puzzles” … Continue reading "Chess...

After returning from the April holidays, the students of the Roger-Martin-du-Gard college in Belleme, west France, were able to take advantage of the gift offered by the socio-educational center – a giant chessboard painted on the floor of the school playground! As part of the school project that aims to develop all students’ academic ambition, […]

The 79th LOTTO Polish Championship and the 74th Polish Women’s Chess Championship simultaneously take place in Kruszwica, from 9-17 May 2022. The Open section event was played as a 16 players knockout tournament, with Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Kacper Piorun proceeding to the finals. The final match of two games started with a quick draw after only 16 moves but the...

The award named after Serbian grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric was established by FIDE in 2012. FIDE General Assembly in 2012 has accepted the proposal of the Serbian Chess Federation to establish the award for fair play which would be named after the legendary Svetozar Gligoric who passed away earlier that year. The FIDE Presidental Board decided […]

True to her Petrosian-esque reputation of a strong match player who does not often win tournaments, Leela Chess Zero defeated Komodo Dragon 54.5-45.5 (+24 -15 =61) to win the TCEC Subfinal. The match started out closely contested, with Leela scoring wins in games 1 & 5 before Komodo Dragon evened the score with its own […]

The 10th jubilee edition of the TCEC Cup starts this Tuesday at 17.00 UTC (19:00 CEST, 13:00 ET). The best 32 engines are going to meet in a direct knockout event. Top seeded is the winner of TCEC Cup 9 and the TCEC League – Stockfish. The other participants are seeded by their final standing […]

The Ontario Open Chess Tournament will take place from May 21 through May 23, at the beautiful West Toronto Masonic Temple. The event features 4 tournaments: Crown, U2200, U1800 and U1400. Each tournament will be played in six rounds with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move. The total prize fund of […]

The 15th European Chess Solving Championship 2022 took place on 14-15 May in Riga, Latvia. The event included five categories: Team, Individual, Juniors, Seniors and Women. Serbian team became the European Team Solving Champion with a total of 205.25 points which were collected by four team members: Ilija Serafimovic, Bojan Vuckovic, Marjan Kovacevic and Srecko […]

Russian International Master Andrei Obodchuk won the 21st IPCA World Individual Chess Championship which concluded today in Ashdod, Israel. Obodchuk stroke back after a loss in the fifth round and scored 7.5/9 points to be the sole Winner of the event. Replay the games here IM Stanislav Mikheev was second with 7 points and Yaacov […]

The FIDE Zonal 2.3 Chess Championship 2022 took place from 25-30 March in the city of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. The event attracted 65 entries from 13 countries who played a 9 rounds swiss tournament. GM Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera won the event and qualified for the next FIDE World Cup. He scored […]

The 2022 Open and Women National Chess Championships of Jamaica took place from 7-15 May in Kingston. 12 players in the Open section and 8 players in the Women’s section battled it out to clinch the title of National Champions. After 11 round robin rounds played in the Open tournament, three times Jamaican Champion FM […]

Grandmasters are not especially noted for their longevity, but Yuri Averbakh, whose death at the age of 100 was announced the other day, was a notable exception. He will be remembered for his work on endings, but also for various opening variations bearing his name, most notably the Averbakh Variation against the King’s Indian Defence. … Continue reading "Averbakh Variation" The post...

The Tunisian Chess Championship 2022 took place from 7-15 May, 2022 in the city of Hammamet. Twelve players competed in the 11 rounds round robin event for the title of Tunisian National Champion. Tunisian best rated grandmaster Amir Zaibi won the event scoring impressive 9 victories and 2 draws for the final score of 10 […]