The Dutch Individual Chess Championship for women is taking place from 6th to 13th July 2014 at the Manor Hotel in Amsterdam, the capital and most populous city in the Netherlands. GM Peng, Zhaoqin, WGM Muhren, Bianca, WIM Haast, Anne, IM Lanchava, Tea, WGM Paulet, Iozefina, WIM Padurariu, Smaranda, Hortensius, Lisa and WFM Kazarian, Anna-Maja 2025 will be vying in a 7 round [...]

The Dutch Individual Chess Championship for men is taking place from 6th to 13th July 2014 at the Manor Hotel in Amsterdam, the capital and most populous city in the Netherlands. GM Tiviakov, Sergei, GM Van Wely, Loek, GM L’Ami, Erwin, GM Van Kampen, Robin, GM Reinderman, Dimitri, GM Bok, Benjamin, GM Spoelman, Wouter and GM Ernst, Sipke will be vying in a 7 [...]

In New In Chess 2014#4 Magnus Carlsen speaks out about losing 2 games in a row, how it feels to be treated like royalty and why, in a friendly soccer game, he torpedoed a 73-year-old chess arbiter. Our triple world champion Magnus Carlsen is always ready: ,,I feel every tournament should be an event, it should be something I look forward to”, Carlsen says in an [...]

Dutch Individual Chess Championships for men and women are scheduled to take place from 6th to 13th July 2014 at the Manor Hotel in Amsterdam, the capital and most populous city in the Netherlands. Both tournaments will be played in 8 player round-robin format. Men Section has the strong participation of 8 GMs, including the [...]

The 48th edition of the Ilmar Raud Memorial is taking place from 30th June to 6th July 2014 at the Viljandi Sports Center in Viljandi, a town in southern Estonia. The event is played in memorial of Ilmar Raud, member of the Estonian team that scored bronze at the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires. The playing format is 9 [...]

Ολοκληρώθηκαν οι τρεις πρώτοι γύροι του 42 Ομαδικού Πρωταθλήματος Α! Εθνικής. Από τις ομάδες τις ΕΣΣΠ ο Σ.Ο. Πατρών βαδίζει στα αχνάρια της πολύ καλής περσινής του παρουσίας, ενώ η Ν.Ε. Πατρών και η Ε.Σ. Αιγιαλείας θα...

Here’s a Youtube video that I hadn’t seen before on the young Magnus Carlsen, was that Guinness he was drinking during the Aronian game? Some good insights into Garry Kasparov too which made me realize that I probably don’t punish myself enough when I lose: Nigel Davies

The Ellivuori International Chess Tournament was held from 23rd to 29th June, 2014, at the Ellivuori Hotel in Ellivuori, a town in the heart of pure nature, in the western part of Finland. GM Vasily Yemelin led the tournament by one point after the seventh round and maintained his advantage till the end. Collecting 6,5/9 points, he emerged [...]

The 11th Annual Susan Polgar Foundation Girls’ Invitational with over $200K in prizes and scholarships will be held on July 10–15, 2014 at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. Webster University will provide complimentary room and meal accommodation on campus for all qualifiers. The annual Susan Polgar Girls’ Invitational, in its 11th year, is the [...]

So my intention was to write a tournament update for each of my tournaments played since the Icelandic League but that isn’t really viable so I’ve decided to round it all up in one update.   Going back to March I played the Reykjavik Open. I started with a couple of quick wins but then […]

The 2nd Jaen Chess Festival 2014 is taking place from 28th June to 2nd July, 2014 in the Andalusian city of Jaen, Spain, known as The World Capital of Olive Oil. The event is a 9 round Swiss with a total of 64 players from 5 different countries, including 4 GMs 7 IMs and 3 FMs. The [...]

Cuban IM Camilo Ernesto Gomez takes the lead in XXII edition of Montcada Chess Festival, defeating Russian FM Roman Oganisian in the 4th round of the competition. IM Camilo Gomez won a beautiful game in a sharp Dragon Variation of Sicilian Defence (replay the game here) to obtain a sole lead with 4/4 points. Second place [...]

“What does not kill me”, said Nietzsche, “makes me stronger”. How we react to bad experiences is an important part of our personality. Of course we all want to protect children from high-level bad experiences, but the issue I have with many parents and schools is that they are over-zealous in protecting children from low-level […]

TCEC Special event FRC (Fischer Random Chess) has just started. The reigning TCEC champion Stockfish, modification 260614, defeated Shredder 12 in the very beginning of the tournament. It won with white pieces in 69 moves. In the other game of the day Fire 3.1 won against Tornado. In Fischer Random Chess aka Chess960 the pieces at the [...]

England’s team captain GM Peter Wells has announced the board order for the Open Team at the Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway: 1. Michael Adams 2. Gawain Jones 3. Nigel Short 4. David Howell 5. Matthew Sadler