Fabiano Caruana’s impressive run has been put to a halt in round 7 of the FIDE Grand Prix in Baku when he was defeated by the tail-ender Dmitry Andreikin. This was Caruana’s first loss since the Chess Olympiad in Tromso. Boris Gelfand joined the Italian on the shared first place with 4,5 points each after [...]

The World Junior Chess Championships 2014 (for boys & girls under 20) are being held in Pune, India, from 6th to 19th October 2014. The Championship is organized and conducted by Maharashtra Chess Association under the auspices of AICF and FIDE. Vijay Kumar presents the round 3 video. Live games with analysis (Boys) / Live [...]

Θεωρείται ο σπουδαιότερος επιθετικός σκακιστής που κατέκτησε τον τίτλο του παγκόσμιου πρωταθλητή. Η σκακιστική ιστορία τον κατέγραψε σαν τον “μάγο της Ρίγα” και η αυτοβιογραφία του, η οποία κυκλοφορεί στα...

The 8th International Chess Festival of the Central University of Bogota is taking place on 9-13th October 2014 in the Colombian capital. The Festival consists of three separate tournaments: Elite Group, University Tournament and School Championship, played in a 9-round Swiss FIDE format. The time control in the School Tournament will be 30′, while the [...]

A student of mine lost a game almost straight out of the opening as a result of facing Alekhine’s Defense as White and overextending and losing the advanced e5 Pawn; there may have been drawing chances later in the game, but losing the e5 Pawn at move 13 was not fun: Avoid overreacting to the […]

Fabiano Caruana defeated Peter Svidler in the 6th round of FIDE Grand Prix in Baku to move into sole lead with 4,5 points. Yesterday’s co-leader Boris Gelfand was held to a draw by Sergey Karjakin. With 2851 elo on the live rating list Caruana is now only 12 points behind the World Champion Magnus Carlsen. [...]

The Millionaire Chess Tournament is taking place on 9-13th October 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the USA. The preliminary list of participants consists of 525 players, including 32 GMs. They will be vying for the hefty prize fund in the amount of 1.000.000 $. Official website  

The 77th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament is set to take place from 9-25th January 2015. After this year’s success with the individual rounds in the Rijksmuseum and at the High Tech Campus, Tata Steel Masters will once again add two locations as playing venues. A press conference with tournament director Jeroen van [...]

The World Junior Chess Championships 2014 (for boys & girls under 20) are being held in Pune, India, from 6th to 19th October 2014. The Championship is organized and conducted by Maharashtra Chess Association under the auspices of AICF and FIDE. Vijay Kumar presents the round 2 video. Live games with analysis (Boys) / Live [...]

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The 13th International Chess Open Menton 2014 is taking place on 19-26th October 2014 in Menton, a city in France situated on the French Riviera. The event will be a 9-round Swiss with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 20 seconds increment starting [...]

Here’s some rare footage of Bobby Fischer demonstrating a Morphy game. Actually I think he did a nice job: Nigel Davies

The Washington Chess Congress will be held from October 8-13, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia. The same venue hosted the 2014 World Open. The event has 4 sections: Premier, Under 2100, Under 1700 and Under 1300. The Premier section has either 6-day (October 8-13), 4-day (October 10-13) [...]

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