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ICCD World Team Championship – Chess Olympiad is taking part from 18th to 28th June, 2014, at the Congress Center of the Grand Hotel Adriatic in the Croatian pearl Opatija. The event is split into 3 main tournaments – Team championship for men, Team championship for women and Open tournament. The Men championship and Open [...]

The 5th edition of ShakkiNet Chess Tournament was held from 9th to 17th June, 2014 in Helsinki, the capital and largest city in Finland. GM Vasily Yemelin (Russia) emerged a clear winner, finishing with 7,5/9 point, half a point ahead of the runner-up Ebeling. Local FM Daniel Ebeling collected 7/9 points and fulfilled not only [...]

In my last three posts here, I analyzed the first three tournament games of my life, as a new unrated player in 1980: I lost the first upon being attacked effectively in the middlegame. I won the second in a very uneven game in which both players simplified quickly and reaching an endgame which I […]

Vijay Kumar presents the video from day three of the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Dubai, including the press conference with the World Rapid Champion Magnus Carlsen. Replay games from FIDE World Rapid Championship FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2014 LIVE FIDE World Rapid Championship – Day 1 video FIDE World Rapid Championship – Day [...]

Magnus Carlsen added another title to his name, by winning the gold medal at the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship in Dubai. Carlsen concluded the event with 11,0/15 points, half a point ahead of Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian and Alexander Morozevich. Caruana is awarded with the silver, thanks to the best tie-break score [...]

Για ενημέρωσή σας, αλλά και για να προπονηθούν οι λύτες σκακιστικών προβλημάτων, δίνουμε εδώ τα προβλήματα που τέθηκαν στο Γερμανικό Πρωτάθλημα Λύσης Προβλημάτων 2014, στο Illertissen.Πρώτος γύρος, Δυάρια --- Λύσεις πρώτου...

The 5th tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 18th June to 2nd July in Lopota, Georgia. Twelve players will compete in the round robin tournament. The event is organized by the Georgian Ministry of Sport and Youth, FIDE and Georgian Chess Federation, and sponsored by SOCAR. The Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 will give [...]

Recently I have observed that a few of my young students get confused when they face an opening other than 1. e4 e5 and it is not wise to teach them particular opening when you have just introduced opening principles. So I’ve come to the conclusion that when we teach opening principles we should focus […]

World N2 Junior and European Rapid Champion GM Richard Rapport will spearhead the challenge at the 7th International Chess Festival “Sport Summer 2014″, scheduled to take place on 4-11th July in Paraćin, Serbia. The main event in Paraćin is Open A – International Championship of Central Serbia, a 9-round Swiss tournament with FIDE time control [...]

Vijay Kumar presents the video from day two of the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Dubai, UAE. Live video broadcast from the FIDE World Rapid 2014 Games FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2014 LIVE FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2014 LIVE FIDE World Rapid Championship – Day 1 video

The 5th tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 will take place from 18th June to 2nd July in Lopota, Georgia. Twelve players will compete in the round robin tournament. The event is organized by the Georgian Ministry of Sport and Youth, FIDE and Georgian Chess Federation, and sponsored by SOCAR. The Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 [...]

This summer in Erice, Sicily there will be a nice international chess festival – the 5th Terre degli Elimi Open. It will be one intense chess week on 19-25th July. Erice is a magic ancient place and in the afternoons the players are free to visit places of incomparable beauty and charm as Segesta, the [...]

The European School Chess Championships are scheduled to take part from 13th to 27th June, 2014 in the beautiful city of Kavala, situated on the Bay of Kavala in the northern Greece. More information and list of participants here

Vijay Kumar presents the video from day one of the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Dubai, UAE. Live video broadcast from the FIDE World Rapid 2014 Games FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2014 LIVE FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2014 LIVE