The International Chess Festival Baku Open 2014, dedicated to the Independence Day of Republic of Azerbaijan, is taking place from 21st September to 1st October 2014 at the AF Hotel near Caspian Sea, in Baku, the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan. 75 players from 21 different countries are taking part in the event, including 30 GMs, [...]

Η Ολλανδική σειρά «Βήμα-Βήμα» είναι ένα σπουδαίο εργαλείο για όσους ασχολούνται με το σκάκι. Τόσο για τους προπονητές όσο και για τους μαθητές. Τρία νέα βιβλία και ένα σημαντικό εργαλείο το Chess Tutor Βήμα 1, κυκλοφορούν...

The American Continental Championships 2014 are scheduled to take place from 18-26th October at the Hotel Pipa Atlântico – Convention Center on Praia da Pipa in Brazil. The participation is open to all players registered with FIDE federations of the American continent. The system of play in the Classical Championship is 11-round Swiss. Top four [...]

The 5th Annual Hartford Open will be held from September 26-28, 2014, at the Sheraton Hartford Hotel, 1 Bradley Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The event has 4 sections: Open, Under 2010, Under 1610 and Under 1210. All sections have either 3-day (September 26-28) or 2-day (September 27-28) schedules to play in. The tournament format is [...]

Multiple decisive games, spectacular sacrifices, close saves, deep tactics, and instructive play were all part of an exciting first round of the top computer chess championship TCEC. Twelve exciting games has just finished and ten of them were decisive. You can see the results below. Chiron 2 and Stockfish, modification 160914, are the only engines so [...]

The 11th IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open took place from 15-21st September at the Cititel Hotel Mid Valley, MidValley City, Kuala Lumpur. 130 players from 15 countries, including 14 Grandmasters and 19 International Masters, competed in the event. Top rated GM Zhang Zhong (Singapore) emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points after defeating the 2nd-seed [...]

Η Ε.Σ.Σ.Π. προκηρύσσει το Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Παίδων – Κορασίδων του 2014. Οι αγώνες θα πραγματοποιούνται κάθε Κυριακή το διάστημα από 12/10 έως 9/11 με εξαμελείς συνθέσεις. Οι δηλώσεις συμμετοχής γίνονται μέχρι την Δευτέρα 6...

Κείμενο: Παναγιώτης Κονιδάρης Θεωρητικά, το χιούμορ είναι ίδιον έξυπνων ανθρώπων, κάτι που μπορεί κάλλιστα να επιβεβαιώσει η νευροφυσιολογία και η ανθρωπολογία. Επίσης θεωρητικά, οι σκακιστές είναι έξυπνοι άνθρωποι...

Last Tuesday (9 September 2014) my old friend Abraham Neviazsky died suddenly at the age of 80. I’d known Abraham more or less since joining Richmond & Twickenham Chess Club in 1966. Abraham was a remarkable character who had learnt chess as a boy in Lithuania, having been taught by the likes of Mikenas. His […]

The organizing committee of the FIDE World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand has chosen Sochi Media Center as playing venue for the event. Sochi Media Center hosted international and Russian media around the clock during the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014. Henrik Carlsen inspected [...]

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All of them wins for white

“Don’t dwell on the game you lost last week. Focus on the game you’re playing now!” Those were my words to one of my students before he started playing a game against an opponent he lost to the previous week. While we improve by learning from our losses, we can do more harm than good […]

The 11th IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open is taking place from 15-21st September at the Cititel Hotel Mid Valley, MidValley City, Kuala Lumpur. 130 players from 15 countries, including 14 Grandmasters and 19 International Masters, are taking part in the event. Vijay Kumar presents the round 6 video