India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the 21st Abu Dhabi Chess Festival 2014 on its DD Sports Channel from 5-8th October. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 5 October from 11pm to 11:30 pm (GMT [...]

Η ΕΣΟ ανακοίνωσε το αγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα της Ομοσπονδίας για το 2015, όπως εγκρίθηκε στη συνεδρίαση του ΔΣ της 27.09.2014.

Albanian Chess Federation is organizing the International Open Chess Tournament “Durres 2014″ on 1-8th November 2014 in the Conference Hall of the Hotel “Bleart”****  in Durres, one of the most ancient and significant cities of Albania, situated on the Adriatic Coast. More information about the tournament format and prizes here. The preliminary list of players consists of 20 players...

Chess South Africa held the 1st Durban Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa from 20 to 29 September 2014. The 11-round Swiss event with 84 participants took place concurrently with the FIDE World Youth Chess Championships. Grandmasters Sabino Brunello from Italy and Sahaj Grover from India shared the [...]

The position below was taken from the game of Tarrasch against Berger, played in 1889: White to move At first glance it looks as if it is winning for white as you can play Rxd4, winning a piece. First raw thought: Rxd4 – cxd4 Qxc8 – Qxc8 Ne7+ and White wins a piece, Normally a […]

The Gull chess engine maintains the lead in Stage 1a of TCEC with 6,5/8 points, followed by Protector (5,5/9) and Chiron (5,5/8). Gull scored four consecutive victories in a row, outplaying Chiron in the fourth round, Stockfish (you can see the full game below), Tornado and Toga in the next three. Cheng4 managed to hold the draw against the [...]

The Annual Women’s Tournament Satka Autumn 2014 was organized by Chess Club “Vertical” on 20-30th September 2014 in Satka, a town on the western slope of the Southern Ural Mountains in Russia. 32 female players were vying in a 9-round Swiss format. The last year’s winner IM Anastasia Bodnaruk (2434) outplayed the sole leader WGM Elmira Mirzoeva (2233) to [...]

Russian GM Ernesto Inarkiev took the winner’s trophy and top prize in Baku Open A after edging Romanian GM Constantin Lupulescu on tie-break. The two players finished on 7,0/9 points each, in the field of 70 participants from 20 countries, including 28 Grandmasters. The International Chess Festival Baku Open 2014, dedicated to the Independence Day [...]

With triple engine analysis

Close battle for the first position in the men and women rating lists

Moscow Team Chess Championship 2014 is taking place from 27th September to 11th October in Russian capital Moscow. 11 teams are playing in a round-robin system. Top seed is the team of “Dvorets” consisting of: GM Ivan Popov (2627), GM Andrey Rychagov (2559), GM Stanislav Novikov (2559), GM Alexei Gavrilov (2489), GM Alexey Kim (2488), [...]

The 2014 FIDE World Youth Chess Championships were held on 18-30th September at the International Convention Centre, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. The event was organized by the South African Chess Federation under the auspices of FIDE. India is boasting six individual medals – 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze, while representatives of Russia [...]

Πάρκο στο Χονγκ Κονγκ όπου οι άνθρωποι συναντιούνται μέχρι αργά τη νύχτα και παίζουν το πανάρχαιο κινέζικο σκάκι (ξιανζί).Το Χονγκ Κονγκ ανήκει, μετά την παράδοσή του από τη Βρετανία το 1997, στην κινεζική επικράτεια...

It is often said that a chess player should not forget their King — and of course rightly so. We should not forget that our whole game revolves around it. We strive to keep our King safe, and to be the undoing of the opposition King. And, ultimately, to capture it. However, this being said, […]

Mr Gianpietro Pagnoncelli, President of Italian Chess Federation since 2005, has kindly agreed to an interview with Chessdom.com. Q: In the recent weeks Fabiano Caruana has had a string of fantastic results. How do you comment on this? A: I am really happy. But before speaking about Caruana, let me thank the Chessdom staff for [...]