Following the qualification process, the Nigeria Chess Federation has announced the players which will represent the country at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. Open team: Akinseye Abiola Balogun Femi Kigigha Bomo Olape Bunmi Ajibowo Olamide Women’s team: Enarevba Mandy Olatunji Tobiloba Rabiu Bisi Coker Labake Aramude Sandra Source, thanks to Bidof Koyo

The Whitsun Grandmasters 2014 is taking place from 3rd to 7th June, 2014 in Copenhagen, the capital and most populated city in Denmark. The 10-player round robin consists of 3 GMs, 5 IMs and 2 FMs. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 [...]

The Whitsun IM Tournament 2014 is taking place from 3rd to 7th June, 2014 in Copenhagen, the capital and most populated city in Denmark. The event is a 10-player round robin with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from [...]

Chess Informant 120 Maracana Paperback 336 pages, English  FREE Worldwide delivery by DHL Express Order here at the Chessdom Chess Shop The four times-a-year publication Chess Informant aspires to be an arena that gathers together the very best in present day chess. With the Football World Cup in Brazil only a short time away, we are [...]

Issue 1 of Chess Insider Norway Chess magazine has been published. The subscribers already have the pdf and pgn files in their mailbox. One more titled player besides GM Chatalbashev has joined the commentators team. This is the young talent IM Yanev, making 12 the total number of titled players that have commented for the [...]

The Mitropa Cup 2014 was organized by the Slovak Chess Federation from 22nd to 31st May at the City Hotel Kultura Ruzomberok, Slovakia. The traditional team championship of Central Europe consisted of two Sections – Open and Women, played by round robin system. The team of Hungary (GM Ruck Robert 2572, GM Acs Peter 2572, [...]

When you read the title of this post you might think that I am going to talk about candidate moves, the tree of analysis or concrete variation. But actually that’s not true. One day Nigel told me that human thinking appears disorganized, everyone has their own thinking style and it’s difficult to think in an […]

Fabiano Caruana may not have had much fun in yesterday's blitz event, but on day two of the Norway Chess event - the first day that really mattered - he wound up the only player with a win. The four draws were in each case the natural result, as none of the eight players was ever in serious trouble. Magnus Carlsen played a nice exchange sac against Anish Giri, but his pressure and passed c-pawn...

Branicevo Chess Union, municipality Veliko Gradiste, chess club VGSK and chess club Nestor are organizing the Chess Festival “Srebrno Jezero 2014″ on 21-29th June at the Restaurant Sidro on Srebrno Jezero (Silver Lake), Serbia. The Festival consists of Open A (for players rated above 2200), Open B (U2200), Open C (U1700) and Chess Camp with [...]

The 44th International Chess Tournament “Bosna 2014″ is taking place from 30th May to 6th June, 2014, at the Hotel Radon Plaza, Sarajevo. The event has two sections – Group A for players rated over 2300 and Group B for U2300 players. In round 6 the top games Jovanovic – Rakhmanov and Kovacevic – Gleizerov [...]

The 5th Marathon International Rapid Chess Tournament will be held on 7th-8th June, 2014 at Mega Mall Rabat in Rabat, the capital and the fifth largest city of Morocco, situated on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the river Bou Regrer. The event will be played in 21 rounds with a time control 5 [...]

The 11th International Chess Festival Orlova 2014 took place from 26th May to 1st June, 2014 at the Cultural House in the town of Orlova, situated in the Czech Republic. GM Alexey Kislinsky (CZE) emerged clear winner of the 9 round GM Orlova round robin tournament, finishing with 6,5/9 points, leaving the runner-up a full point [...]

Seasoned GM Abhijit Kunte and fast emerging star GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi of Maharashtra jointly earned the distinction of being ‘Most Valuable Players’ at the Player Auction for the 2014 Johnson Tiles Maharashtra Chess League.

Being able to completely immerse yourself in chess, either during games or when studying, is clearly going to benefit your chess development. It is well known that some children can suffer from attention deficit disorder or something similar, but actually children can be much better than adults at focusing on one thing. This might be partly why they […]

Ken Regan needs no introduction to long-time readers of this blog. He is an International Master and an associate professor in computer science professor at SUNY Buffalo, and is best known nowadays within the chess community for his work on "intrinsic performance ratings" or IPRs. His work has been mentioned regularly on this blog, and he has also been a frequent commentator here and has guest...