Οι γκραν μετρ προηγούνται στην ΙκαρίαΟ Ούγγρος Προχάσκα (2585) και ο Τσέχος Βέλιτσκα (2413) προηγούνται με 4 βαθμούς σε ισάριθμους αγώνες στο Ανοιχτό Διεθνές Πρωτάθλημα Αιγαίου «Ίκαρος 2014». Οι δύο γκρανμετρ αποτελούν το...

There is one very important ability needed by every chess player wanting to improve their game. Of course, chess has many different aspects to it, but without this certain ability, they all fade in to the background, and many may not even develop. The ability in question, is that of being able to be critically […]

The 19th Annual Pacific Coast Open will be held from July 17-20, 2014, at the Sheraton Agoura Hills Hotel, 30100 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, California. The event has 6 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500 and Under 1250. All sections have either 4-day (July 17-20), 3-day (July 18-20) or 2-day (July [...]

The 2014 edition of Miguel Najdorf International Chess Festival is taking place from 14th to 20th July 2014, at the Palace of Culture and Science in the Polish capital Warsaw. The event is organized by gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski Chess Foundation, in co-operation with the Polish Chess Federation, under the auspices of the President of Warsaw Ms [...]

The 33rd edition of St. Veit Open 2014 took place from 5th to 12th July 2014, in Sankt Veit, Austria. The event was a 9 round Swiss Open with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1. Croatian [...]

The 2014 edition of Miguel Najdorf International Chess Festival is taking place from 14th to 20th July 2014, at the Palace of Culture and Science in the Polish capital Warsaw. 84 players will be vying for the first prize of 5.000 €. Top seed is Ukrainian GM Alexander Areshchenko. Official website

Chess will be included in the official program of Pan American games in 2019, according to Mr. Raúl Enrique Hernández, President of the Mexican Chess Federation (FENAMAC), The Pan American Sport Organization (PASO, affiliated with the IOC), which is represented by Mr. Mario Vázquez Raña, is making all the necessary adjustments in order to add [...]

The 2014 International Styrian Open took place from 5th to 13th July, 2014, at the Bad Gleichenberg region of Austria. The event was organized by Georg Lupinski and Walter Kastner in a 9 round Swiss format with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds [...]

The above was the title of a Dvoretsky article, analysing in depth the game Taimanov-Fischer, Buenos Aires 1060. But one often comes across single games, which are rich in instructional value, and those games are frequently not very well-known or ostensibly brilliant ones I recall being deeply impressed by the following obscure game, played in […]

The FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championship 2014 is taking place on 12-22nd July at the Vilnius Town Hall, Didžioji g. 31, LT-01128 Vilnius, Lithuania. The Championship consists of two sections: - Section 1 with 18 teams: Open tournament for teams with players 50+, including women’s teams with players 50+ which will have separate ranking [...]

The Annual General Body meeting of the All India Chess Federation elected new office bearers for the 2014-2017 period at Chennai on June 22, 2014. The elections were unanimous. Justice K.M.Nataraajan (Retired, High Court of Madras) was the Returning Officer and he read out the elected names. In a significant change, P.R. Venketrama Raja, Vice [...]

In case Dortmund and the ACP Golden Classic aren't enough to keep your interest, two more major events are coming your way. Biel starts Monday - today for some of you, tomorrow for others - and looks quite attractive. The main event is a six-player double round-robin, starring Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Pentala Harikrishna, Alexander Motylev (the graybeard of the...

The World Senior Team Chess Championship is taking place from 12th to 22nd July, 2014, in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania and second biggest city in the Baltic states. The event is a nine round Swiss tournament, split into two Sections (Open tournament for teams with players 50+ and Open tournament for teams with players [...]

The 24th Heart of Finland Chess Tournament took place from 7th to 13th July, 2014, at the Harju building of Jyväskylä College, in the city of Jyväskylä, situated in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. The top seeded GM Kaido Kulaots emerged a clear winner for second consecutive year. The Estonian champion collected 7,5/9 points, leaving the nearest [...]

Latvian champion GM Igor Kovalenko simply crushed the opposition in the 21st edition of Liepajas Rokade Chess Festival 2014, that took part on 10-12th July 2014 in Liepaja, a city in western Latvia, situated on the Baltic Sea. Kovalenko finished first with the impressive score 12,5/13 points in the Open Tournament, full 3 points ahead [...]