Twelve times Icelandic champion GM Hannes Stefansson is the sole leader in the Icelandic Individual Chess Championship 2014. He is the only player in the strongest Icelandic Individual Championship ever, who has 2/2 points, half a point ahead of the nearest contenders IM Bragi Thorfinnsson and GM Hjorvar Gretarsson. The participants are vying bitterly for [...]

The 9th Edmonton Chess Festival is scheduled to take place from 20th to 29th June, 2014 at the Edmonton Chess Club in the city of Edmonton, Canada. The main event will be a 10 player round-robin with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus [...]

On 17 and 18 May 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Melbourne, Australia, by the Chess Victoria in cooperation with the Australia Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue was the seminar hall of the University of Third Age (U3A) Knox, in Melbourne. The lecturer was IA N.Y. Wong (SIN), [...]

Έφυγε χτες σε ηλικία 72 ετών ο Σέρβος γκρανμέτρ Ντραγκουλιούμπ Βελιμίροβιτς. Γνωστός για το ιδιαίτερα επιθετικό στυλ παιχνιδιού του και για τη βαριάντα της Σικελικής που φέρει το όνομά του. Ήταν γιος της παλιάς...

The Attica Cup – Final Four 2014 will be played from 31st May to 1st June, 2014 in one of the world’s oldest cities Athens, the capital and largest city of Greece. The tournament, organized by ASOP Dias Chess Club and the Union of Attica Chess Clubs, will consist of 4 teams with 4 boards [...]

GM Dragoljub Velimirovic passed away at the age of 72

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Asian Continental Chess Championships 2014 played at Sharjah, UAE on its DD Sports Channel from 26-29th May. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 26 May 2014 from 11pm [...]

The 36th edition of Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov Cup is scheduled to take place from 30th May to 9th June, 2014 in Kazan, the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The event will be a a 9 round Swiss with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes [...]

The 36th edition of Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov Cup is scheduled to take place from 30th May to 9th June, 2014 in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The event will be a a 9 round Swiss with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of [...]

Beginning players tend to look at their progress during a game in terms of making aggressive attacking moves that lead to checkmate. Beginners, especially younger ones, love to attack and capture pawns and pieces. In this context, the beginner has a rather one sided or simplistic view of the game. For these players, attacking is […]

The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission announces the list of participants of the Chicago workshop for the training of the International Arbiters. The workshop will be held from 31 May to 1 June 2014 in Skokie, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The venue will be the Chess IQ Academy & Chess Center, located at 5500 W Touhy Ave Suite [...]

The Icelandic Chess Championship 2014 (Candidate Section) is taking place from 23rd May to 1st June, 2014 in Kopavogur, Iceland. Top seed is FM David Kjartansson (2342). See the full list of participants here or visit the official website. Follow the event daily with triple engine analysis.

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IM Vikramditya Kulkarni staved off a grim challenge from top-seeded IM Aditya Udeshi in the final round of Kotak Mahindra Bank International Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament to win the championship with a score of 7.5 points. Playing White, Vikramaditya went for the solid set-up of English opening and a draw was sufficient for him [...]

This game is one of my recently completed games at ICCF. My opponent in this game was rated about 50 points above me at the start of this game. I found plenty of his games in my database and thus I knew that he liked to play the French Defense. I don’t remember finding any […]