The 2nd International Chess Festival Cesme Open 2014 is scheduled to take place from 14th to 19th June, 2014 in Cesme, a beautiful coastal Turkish city, situated 85 km west of Izmir, the largest metropolitan center in Turkey’s Aegean Region. The event will be a 9 round Swiss Open, organized by the Turkish Chess Federation and Cesme [...]

Georgian Grandmaster Merab Gagunashvili emerged clear winner of the Elite section of the 6th KIIT International Chess Festival, that was held on 24-31st May in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Gagunashvili concluded the event with 8,0/10 points, half a point ahead of the nearest followers, to take the winner’s trophy and top prize of RS 3,00,000/- The [...]

For the second of what will hopefully be many more years, there will be a wonderfully strong multi-stage event held in Stavanger, Norway. Tomorrow the festivities kick off with a blitz tournament to determine the pairings (blitz pairings are here), and then the "real" tournament runs from Tuesday, June 3 through Friday the 13th. The players: Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik...

This should have been reported a few days ago, but I was waiting (in vain!) for Squarespace to get back in touch with me about the comments problem. Time to stop waiting and start reporting! The sixth season of the TCEC (Thorsen Chess Engines Competition) has come to an end, and in the final match Stockfish (using a build published May 17, 2014) rather handily defeated Komodo 7x by a score of...

The Norway Chess 2014 super-tournament is taking place from 2nd to 13th June, 2014 at the multiple Norwegian venues, including Aarbakke AS factory at Bryne, Vågen Videregående Skole in Sandnes and Scandic Hotel Stavanger Forus. Some of the strongest Grandmasters in the world will be vying in a 10-player round robin with an impressive average [...]

The Norway Chess 2014 super-tournament is scheduled to take place on 2-13th June at the multiple venues, including Aarbakke AS factory at Bryne, Vågen Videregående Skole in Sandnes and Scandic Hotel Stavanger Forus. Some of the strongest Grandmasters in the world will be vying in a 10-player round robin with an impressive average rating of [...]

The reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen is the highest rated player in FIDE Rating list for the record thirty-sixth time. Despite winning the Shamkir Chess (Gashimov Memorial) 2014, the grand champion lost 1,2 ELO point for the new rating of 2881. However, Carlsen is hard to catch with his 66 ELO points advantage ahead of the nearest follower [...]

I’ll return to the history of Richmond Junior Club later, possibly next week, but first I’d like to show you a recent RJCC game played between two of my private pupils. The game started with the French Defence. Black, the older of the two boys, favours this opening. He doesn’t yet know a lot about […]

Πετρούπολη 31.5.2014 οι Ομάδες ΑΕΚ , ΑΣΟΠ ΔΙΑΣ , ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΑΝΟΙΞΗ (Σκαπέρδας , Γκορίτσας , Μεγαλιός , Λογοθέτης) και ΑΜΕΣ Ν. ΕΡΥΘΡΑΙΑΣ λιγο πριν την έναρξη των αγώνωνΗ Σκακιστική Άνοιξη προκρίθηκε το Σάββατο 31/5 για δεύτερη...

  The Nezhmetdinov Rapid Cup 2014 opened the 36th Nezhmetdinov Chess Festival on 29th May and continued to 30th May, 2014 in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. 93 players competed for the prize fund of 186 000 RUB, provided by Sberbank – Tatarstan - the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe and the major [...]

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. After two rounds of play, Grandmasters Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Evgeny Gleizerov (both Russia), Hrvoje [...]

The 32nd International Chess Open in the Principality of Liechtenstein was held on 23-31st May, 2014, at the Gemeindesaal Triesen. The tournament was organized under the patronage by S.D. Erbprinz Alois von und zu Liechtenstein. There were two playing groups – Open and Senior, both held over 9 rounds of Swiss system. German Grandmaster Sebastian [...]

The captains of the Lithuanian national teams have selected the players for the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Open team: GM Šarūnas Šulskis (2550), GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2618), IM Tomas Laurušas (2426), IM Mindaugas Beinoras (2402) and IM Emilis Pileckis (2447). Women team: WGM Deimantė Daulytė (2406), WIM Salomėja Zaksaitė (2192), WFM Laima Domarkaitė [...]

Του Γιάννη Αντωνιάδη Ο Ισαάκ Μπάσεβις Σϊνγκερ γεννήθηκε το 1904 στο Ραμιζίν της Πολωνίας από οικογένεια Χασιδιστών ραβίνων. Το 1935 φεύγει για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες όπου θα μείνει μέχρι το θάνατο του το 1991. Έγραψε...