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The 5th edition of ShahhiNet Chess Tournament takes place from 9th to 17th June, 2014 in Helsinki, the capital and largest city in Finland. The event is a seventh category 10 player round robin with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 [...]

The final”creeping move” in our series is from a game between two top GMs nowadays, who at the time were leading junior talents in the then USSR. I saw this example in an outstanding book I have just translated, by the Azeri GM Sarhan Guliev, called “Ideas in Chess”, which will be published by New […]

Susan Polgar informs about the letter that Filipino chess prodigy Wesley So sent to the President of National Chess Federation of the Philippines. Wesley offered last year to represent the Philippines one last time at the upcoming Olympiad in Tromsø if the NCFP consents for him to switch federation immediately after the Olympiad. This offer [...]

The 36th Nezhmetdinov Cup 2014 took place from 30th May to 9th June, 2014 in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. GM Dmitry Kokarev emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points, half a point ahead of the runner-up GM Boris Savchenko. The champion was awarded 120 000 RUB, while Savchenko earned 100 000 [...]

Two games down, two to go. (More here.)

There were two heavyweight battles today at the Norway Chess tournament, one between Magnus Carlsen (world champion and world #1) and Levon Aronian (world #2), the other between the Fabiano Caruana (the tournament leader and world #3) and Vladimir Kramnik (ex-world champion, [now] #4 in the world and in second in the tournament). Both games were long, both games were tough, and both games had a...

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. The event is starting with the 1st Individual World Schools Rapid & Blitz championships, organized by FIDE, the International Chess School Union (I.C.S.U.) [...]

Tα σωματεία μέλη τις Ε.Σ.Σ.Π καλούνται την Παρασκευή στις 11 Ιουλίου 2014 στις 19:00 σε Γενική Συνέλευση στο εντευκτήριο της ΝΕΠ. Σε περίπτωση μη απαρτίας η συνέλευση θα πραγματοποιηθεί το Σάββατο 12 Ιουλίου 2014 στις 11:00 στον...

Adam Dzwonkowski, Vice President of Polish Chess Federation, informed about the lineups for the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Men’s team will be led by GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2715), followed by GM Grzegorz Gajewski (2650), GM Mateusz Bartel (2641), GM Bartosz Soćko (2622) and 16-years old Polish chess prodigy GM Jan Krzysztof Duda (2587), [...]

Δείτε ζωντανα την προσπάθεια της ομάδας μας απέναντι στην Πρωταθλήτρια Ελλάδος Σκακιστική Ακαδημία "Αργοναύτης" Κορινθίας  για το Κύπελλο Ελλάδος στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμοhttp://peristerichess.gr/2014/05/17/live-games/

Two weeks ago I left you at the 1983 Richmond Junior Club Under 14 Championship, where a host of potential or actual future GMs and IMs vied for their club championship. It soon became clear, though, that this generation was something of a flash in the pan. We were at the end of the English […]

Yaroslav Srokovski, Chess Training for Post-Beginners: A Basic Course in Positional Understanding (New In Chess, 2014). 221 pp. $21.99/€19.95. Reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos. If you've been browsing some of the major chess sites around the web you've probably seen the ads for this book, featuring the author's claim that "[e]very player who studies my book intensively will gain at...

Larry Kaufman, Sabotage the Gruenfeld: A Cutting-Edge Repertoire for White based on 3.f3 (New in Chess, 2014). 187 pp., $24.95/€19.95. Reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos. The Gruenfeld Defense may be Black's #1 choice against 1.d4 at the top level, and this has been so for the last several years. Important books have been coming out defending Black's cause (not to mention Peter Svidler's...

World No.2 tennis player Novak Djokovic employed special preparation before the final match against Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros Grand Slam. On the rest day Djokovic played chess against his trainer Boris Becker. On the photo posted on Twitter, Djokovic appeared to have more pieces in the play, but he hasn’t castled and Becker was [...]