Caruana's opening to the U.S. super-tournament has now equaled the longest starting win streak in an elite tournament in the modern era, established by former World Champion GM Anatoly Karpov in Linares 1994, oft-argued as the greatest tournament performance ever.

Η ταλαιπωρημένη στήλη “Παρτίδα της Ημέρας” καταργείται, δεν είχε και πολύ μέλλον, ούτε πολύ ενδιαφέρον, με τις βάσεις δεδομένων εγκατεστημένες σε κάθε υπολογιστή. Τη θέση της, από σήμερα, παίρνει η “Θέση της...

The 2014 Myanmar International Open is set to take place on 23-30th November at the Central Hotel, Bogyoke Aung San Road in Yangon, Myanmar. This event is organized by Myanmar Chess Federation under the auspices of the Myanmar National Olympic Council and supported by the Kasparov Chess Foundation Asia-Pacific. The event will be completed over [...]

You might have heard that Carlsen can remember numbers of positions and recall them over the board in a limited amount of time. In the book GM-RAM, by Rashid Ziatdinov, the author emphasises remembering key positions and games and claims that “if you know just one of important classical games, you will be able to […]

Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich won the St. Petersburg stage of Rapid Grand Prix of Russia, which took place on 30-31st August as part of the traditional festival “St. Petersburg Summer”. Morozevich had a furious start, scoring 7,5 points from eight games, and proceeded to win the event with the final 9,0/11 points. Sergei Rublevsky (Russia) and [...]

The final event of the Moscow Blitz Chess Championship will take place on 6th September at the VDNH House of Culture. Invited Grandmasters and players qualified from five semifinal events will form the field of 20 participants. Top seeded players in the final are Ian Nepomniachtchi 2880, Alexander Grischuk 2777, Alexander Morozevich 2750, Alexey Dreev [...]

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Το νέο βιβλίο του Στράτου Γρίβα ‘The Grandmaster Program’ θα κυκλοφορήσει στο πρώτο δεκαήμερο του Σεπτέμβρη. Μέσα σε 248 πυκνογραμμένες σελίδες (17×24 cm) περιγράφεται η προσωπική του προπονητική φιλοσοφία, με βάση το πρόγραμμα...

The 80th Annual Southwest Open was held from 29th August to 1st September at the Doubletree DFW Airport North in Irving, Texas, USA. The event had three sections – Open, Reserve (U2000), Novice (U1400) – and a scholastic event. The sections were played over 7 rounds of Swiss system, while the scholastic event was one-day [...]

Grandmaster Gata Kamsky convincingly won the 136th Annual New York State Championship that was held from August 29-September 1, 2014, at the Albany Marriott, 189 Wolf Road, Albany, NY. Kamsky finished first in the main Open section with 5,5/6 points, leaving the nearest followers a full point behind. He earned $1600 for the effort. The [...]

We chess players, have all had bad games — especially mere mortal and non-titled players such as myself. We’ve lost pawns, dropped pieces, got swindled, and fallen for tactics we really shouldn’t. Some of us may even have comitted the ultimate sins and lost a queen here and there, or even worse, walked in to […]

The 16th Open Internacional de Sants, Hostafrancs & Bordeta was held on 22-30th August at the Auditoridel Centre Cívic de les Cotxeres de Sants, 79 Sants St in Barcelona, Spain. The 10-round Swiss event consisted of two sections: - Group A: open to all players, regardless of their rating, with a FIDE ID - Group [...]

Some of the players that will compete at the European Club Cup and the Chess Masters Final, which will be held simultaneously from 14 to 20 September, have lent their image to promote Bilbao Chess 2014. The promotional advert produced by the organizers of both events in order to encourage visitors features Ukrainian GM Ruslan [...]

Σκακιστική σκηνή από το πρώτο επεισόδιο, του πρώτου κύκλου της βρετανικής τηλεοπτικής σειράς Luther. Ο Τζον Λούθερ είναι ένας ταλαντούχος Επιθεωρητής στο τμήμα ανθρωποκτονιών, του οποίου η προσήλωση στην επίλυση των...

The 6th Internet based FIDE Seminar for International Organizers to be held on 6-9th October.