The Russian chess championships for juniors and girls under 20 were held in Loo from 16th to 24th April, 2014. The format of the events was 10-player round robin with the time control 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 sec per move [...]

Ricardo Rain is a Senior International Master (SIM) from Brazil and is the only “titled” player in this section. The loss in this game took me out of temporary first place in this section and gave it to Rain. At the time that I am writing this, Rain is in first place with 3 wins […]

ΕΝΩΣΗ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ Μακροπούλου 93, Λαμία ΣΥΜΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗΑΝΟΙΚΤΟΥ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΑΝΔΡΩΝ-ΓΥΝΑΙΚΩΝ 2014 ΚΑΙ ΝΕΑΝΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΩΝ Κ10-Κ16-Κ18-Κ20 Αρ. πρ. 170...

The 49th edition of the Tournament Capablanca in Memoriam 2014 will take place on 7-18th May at the Habana Riviera Hotel in La Havana, Cuba. The event is organized by the Cuban Chess Federation and the Instituto Nacional de Deportes Educación Física y Recreación (INDER). This chess festival will be played in three groups: The [...]

The 13th Asian Continental Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships are taking place 16th to 26th April 2014 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The top five from the 2014 Asian Open Championship qualify for the 2015 World Cup. The 2014 Asian Women’s champion qualifies for the 2015 Women’s World Championship. In the 8th round GM [...]

It was a great day for the Azeri players at the Vugar Gashimov Memorial: Teimour Radjabov defeated one leader, Magnus Carlsen (who also happens to be the world champion and world #1), while Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Fabiano Caruana, the other leader. After five rounds, the first cycle is complete. Radjabov is at +1 and in clear first, Mamedyarov is -1 and alone in the cellar, and Carlsen...

The The FIDE Women World Rapid Championship 2014 continued today at the Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk. After the exciting battles and many changes on the top of the standings, at the end of the day the defending rapid champion Antoaneta Stefanova, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Kateryna Lagno are joint leaders with 7,0/10 points each. Olga [...]

Stockfish (3135), variation 080414 and Komodo modification 1217 lead the third Stage of the strongest computer competition TCEC – Season 6. They are on 13/18 points each, far ahead of the rest of the field. Stockfish has been a sole leader for a long time, but the reigning TCEC champion Komodo caught up in the [...]

The 17th Bulgarian Children’s Cup “The Queen of Tarnovo” will take place on 1st and 2nd of May, 2014 at hotel “Etar”, in the old Bulgarian capital Veliko Tarnovo. The event is organized by Chess Club “Etar”, Bulgarian Chess Federation and Veliko Tarnovo Municipality and it is the most popular children’s tournament in Bulgaria, gathering [...]

FIDE, the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and the All India Chess Federation announce the Asian workshop for the training of the International Arbiters in English language. The workshop will be held in New Delhi, India, from 27 June 2014 (arrival) to 29 June 2014 (departure). The venue will be Park Plaza Delhi Hotel (4*), where the [...]

Κροατία: Ολολκηρώθηκε, στο Σίμπενικ της Κροατίας το Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Ευρώπης Βετεράνων.  Νικήτρια η πρώτη ομάδα της Ρωσίας που αποτελείτο: GM Dvoirys (2560) 6.5/9 , GM Gleizerov (2531) 7.5/9, GM Gavrilov (2466) 8/9,  GM Balashov (2446) 4/6,IM Zhelnin (2457) 3/3...

New In Chess magazine is now available on all three major platforms for digital magazine publishing. The free New In Chess apps for Kindle Fire and Android Tablets can be downloaded in the Amazon App Store and Google Play App Store respectively. The magazine has been available on iPad since January. All readers will receive [...]

Η ΕΣΣΠ προκηρύσσει το Ομαδικό Κύπελλο 2014. Η πρώτη αγωνιστική θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 10/5/2014. Δηλώσεις συμμετοχής έως την Δευτέρα 5/5/2014 Απριλίου και ώρα 20.00 μμ στο email: esspchess@gmail.com.

The FIDE Women World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014 started today at the Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk, with former Olympic Champion in biathlon Evgeniy Redkin making the first honorary move in the game Gunina – Khotenashvili. 34 female players from 14 countries are competing for the title and prize fund of $50,000. After the [...]

The 13th Asian Continental Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships are taking place 16th to 26th April 2014 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The top five from the 2014 Asian Open Championship qualify for the 2015 World Cup. The 2014 Asian Women’s champion qualifies for the 2015 Women’s World Championship. After seven rounds of play [...]