The ECO Chess Cup 2014 is taking place on 3-12th September in the Iranian capital Tehran. 10 players represent their countries in a round-robin format: GM Ehsan Ghaemnaghami (Iran) 2594, GM Azer Mirzoev (Azerbaijan) 2550, GM Marat Dzhumaev (Uzbekistan) 2510, GM Rustam Khusnutdinov (Kazakhstan) 2470, IM Muhammad Khusenkhojaev (Tajikistan) 2410, FM Cankut Emiroglu (Turkey) 2356, [...]

The 9th Mediterranean Men & Women’s Chess Championships 2014 are held from 2-10th September at the Atlantica Caldera Creta Paradise Hotel in Chania, Crete, Greece. Official website

The Qatar Masters, a new mega-open chess tournament, is set to take place from 25th November to 5th December at the 5-star Crowne Plaza Hotel in Doha, Qatar. The organizers are excited to have such great chess players as Vladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Anish Giri, Alexei Shirov, Gata Kamsky, Pentala Harikrishna, Pavel Eljanov [...]

“Οι σκακιστές”. Έργο του Ολλανδού ζωγράφου Ισαάκ Λάζαρους Ίσραελς (1865-1933) που εικονίζει τυπικές εργατικές ανθρώπινες φιγούρες αφοσιωμένες σε μια παρτίδα σκακιού. Ο Ίσραελς, ήταν από τους κύριους εκπροσώπους της...

The Hong Kong Chess Federation (HKCF) is pleased to invite chess players from all federations to participate in the Hong Kong International Open Chess Championship 2014 (FIDE rated) from the 30th September 2014 (arrival) to the 6th October 2013 (departure). The organising committee for this tournament is the Hong Kong Chess Federation. The event is [...]

The highest league of the Spanish Team Chess Championship – Division de Honor – will take place 04-10 September 2014 in Linares, Spain. In the mythical chess city behind the boards we will see Vassily Ivanchuk, Anish Giri, Pentala Harikrishna, Etienne Bacrot, Laurent Fressinet, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Zoltan Almasi, Gabriel Sargissian, Romain Edouard, Maxim Rodshtein, Konstantin [...]

Γράφει ο φίλος του skakistiko Παναγιώτης Αλπογιάννης: Στο φάκελο θα βρείτε 4 βάσεις δεδομένων. Οι δύο είναι με το όνομα «συνοπτικά τα ανοίγματα». Είναι το ίδιο αρχείο αλλά σε δύο μορφές, σε ChessBase και σε pgn. Εδώ έβαλα σχεδόν όλα...

I saw a curious position recently in which strangely, White was in a position to lose a c-Pawn placed on c4. I then remembered that it is actually not uncommon for this Pawn on c4 to be undefended when White has fianchettoed the Bishop to g2, because unlike classical development of the Bishop, where the […]

Day after day the Italian-American superstar Fabiano Caruana is making history. Fabulos Fabiano aka Fabi is now at 7,0/7 in the strongest ever chess tournament, the Sinquefield Cup, breaking every expectation, shattering even the bravest predictions. With his victory in round 6 he surpassed the 5,0/5 start of Ivanchuk at Mtel Masters 08, with the [...]

The 75th Armenian Men’s Individual Chess Championship was held from 21st August to 4th September in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. The event was easily won by the top seeded player GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan (2582). He scored 10/13 points, leaving the runner-up 1,5 point behind. FM David Shahinyan remained second on 8,5 points. Third [...]

The Serbian First League Team Championship for Men is taking place from 30th August to 9th September 2014 in the town of Palic, Serbia. Chess Club “RUDAR” – Kosovska Mitrovica, Chess Club “ZLATAR” – Nova Varos, Chess Club “BAS” – Beograd, Chess Club “JELICA PEP” – Goracici, Chess Club “RADNICKI” –...

The Serbian First League Team Championship for Men is taking place from 30th August to 9th September 2014 in the town of Palic, Serbia. Chess Club “ITAKA” – Beograd, Chess Club ”SPARTAK” – Subotica, Chess Club “JUGOVIC” – Kac, Chess Club ”SLOVEN” – Ruma, Chess Club ”RADNICKI VODOVOD” – Kragujevac, Chess...

The 22nd Nikaia International Chess Open 2014 was held from 26th August to 2nd September 2014 at the Cultural Complex “Manos Loizos” in Nikaia suburb in the western part of the Athens-Piraeus agglomeration, in Greece. The event was dedicated to the National Resistance against the occupation forces from 1940 to 1944. The top seeded GM Vasilios Kotronias stormed through the tournament...

The 30th Reykjavik Open will take place on 10-18th March, 2015, at the familiar venue – the Harpa Conference Hall. The 2015 event falls on the same year as the 80th birthday of the legendary Icelandic Grandmaster and former FIDE President Fridrik Olafsson, who even played in the tournament two years ago. The organizers are [...]

The central game of the eighth round between Ju Wenjun and Hou Yifan finished in a draw and the two Chinese players remain at the top of the Sharjah FIDE Women’s Grand Prix leaderboard with 6,5 points each. Batchimeg Tuvshintugs outplayed Alina L’Ami to keep the third place one point behind the leaders. Elina Danielian [...]