The 18th Voronezh International Chess Festival Alekhine Memorial is taking place from 10th to 21st June, 2014 at the Voronezh Chess Club, in the city of Voronezh, Russia. The Festival is split into 6 tournaments: Chess 960 (Fischer Chess) on 10th June – 7 round Swiss with a time control 15′ + 3” and a first [...]

The 9th International Chess Tournament Open Teplice 2014 will take place on 14-22nd June at the Estrade Hall in Culture House of Teplice, Czech Republic. Top seed is the Armenian GM Hrant Melkumyan, 2011 European Blitz champion, while last-year’s winner GM Nidjat Mamedov is here to defend the title. More information here Follow daily with [...]

On countless occasions, I’ve seen chess students start to make a good move, only to second guess themselves, making an inferior move that costs them the game. For many beginners serious about improving their chess skills, the idea of using intuition to guide them runs against the grain of logical thinking. After all, the learning […]

Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin repeated the last year’s success and clinched another trophy at the Norway Chess super-tournament after concluding the race with 6,0/9 points, leaving the World Champion Magnus Carlsen half a point behind. The final round was rather dramatic as Carlsen pressed against his former trainer Simen Agdestein in an attempt to catch [...]

The 2nd International Chess Festival Cesme Open 2014 is taking place from 14th to 19th June, 2014 in Cesme, Turkey. The event is a 9 round Swiss Open, organized by the Turkish Chess Federation and Cesme Municipality with time control 90 minutes plus 30 seconds increment per move starting from move 1. The main sponsor of the [...]

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia, the World Chess Federation (FIDE), as well as the Armenian Chess Federation and the Chess Academy of Armenia, in cooperation with the Armenian State Pedagogical University named after Kh. Abovyan, are organizing an International Conference, entitled “Chess in Schools” which will be held in [...]

The Russian Individual Chess Championship – Higher League took place from 3rd to 13th June, 2014 in the city of Vladivostok, the largest Russian port on the Pacific Ocean. In the Men’s section GM Igor Lysyj shared first place with GM Vadim Zvjagintsev and GM Dmitry Jakovenko on 6,5/9 points each. However, Lysyj emerged winner on [...]

The FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship 2014 will take place from 16th to 18st June, 2014 in Dubai, the most populous city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The event will gather 122 of the strongest chess players in the world, including the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen. The hefty prize fund of 400 000$ attracted [...]

The FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship 2014 will take place from 16th to 18st June, 2014 in Dubai, the most populous city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The event will gather 122 of the strongest chess players in the world, including the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen. The hefty prize fund of 400 000$ attracted [...]

The Cuban National Chess Commission has announced the teams which will represent Cuba in the upcoming World Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. Open: Leinier Dominguez, world No. 11 (2760 Elo), Lazaro Bruzon (2694), Yuniesky Quesada (2642), national champion Isan Ortiz (2588) and Yuri Gonzalez (2557). Women: Lisandra Ordaz (2359), national champion Sulennis Pina (2335), Yanira [...]

The 9th International Chess Tournament Open Teplice 2014 will take place on 14-22nd June at the Estrade Hall in Culture House of Teplice, Czech Republic. The 9-round Swiss event offers 161.500 CZK (approx 5900 EUR) in prizes. Currently 167 players from 24 countries are registered to take part in the tournament. Among them are 17 [...]

The following game is one of the first correspondence chess games that I played at the Internet Chess Club (ICC). I don’t know when this game was played nor do I know the ratings of both players at the time that this game was started. According to my notes on this game I lost most […]

The Grand Europe Cup Albena took part from 1st to 9th June, 2014 in Albena, one of the most beautiful resorts at the Bulgarian seaside. The 9 round Swiss open gathered 154 players from 31 different countries, including 30 GMs, 28 IMs, 4 WGMs, 3 WIMs, 10 FMs and 3 WFMs. The participants were vying [...]

It was a crazy round at the Norway Chess tournament today, with big swings in most of the games. The most pronounced drop came in Peter Svidler vs. Magnus Carlsen, where Carlsen was coasting to a quick and easy win until the very bad and wholly unnecessary 24...Rfxf4; plenty of other moves would have maintained a winning advantage. Levon Aronian didn't have quite the advantage Carlsen did...

FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2014 will take place from 15th to 21st June, 2014 in Dubai, the most populous city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The event will gather 122 of the strongest chess players in the world, including the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen. The hefty prize fund [...]