Η ΕΣΣΠ θα μισθώσει λεωφορείο για όσους επιθυμούν να μεταβούν στην Ερέτρια για τα σχολικά πρωταθλήματα. Ενημερωθείτε για τις λεπτομέρειες....

The Limhamn Chess Club is announcing that the 22nd Annual Sigeman Chess Tournament will take place on 15-19th May at the classical Hipp Theater in central Malmo, Sweden. Participants: GM Laurent Fressinet 2709, France GM Jon Ludvig Hammer 2647, Norway GM Jan Timman 2626, Holland GM Nils Grandelius 2600, Sweden GM Erik Blomqvist 2497, Sweden [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 held at Zurich, Switzerland on its DD Sports Channel. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 1 April 2014 from 11pm to 11:30 pm (GMT [...]

The Georgian Chess Federation sent an official bid for the Chess Olympiad 2018 and the World Cup 2017 to FIDE today, with all the necessary guarantees. Thanks to the personal efforts of the Deputy Minister of Sports and candidate for the post of ECU President, GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili, more than 20 millions USD are allocated [...]

Καλούνται να δηλώσουν συμμετοχή με e-mail στο tedessna@yahoo.gr μέχρι την Πέμπτη 10/04/2014 όσοι διαιτητές είναι διαθέσιμοι για τα Πανελλήνια Σχολικά Πρωταθλήματα (Ερέτρια,25-27/4/2014), αναφέροντας όνομα,τηλέφωνο επικοινωνίας και...

From "glasskey": Even though he has withdrawn from competitive chess as far as I know, Korchnoi is still in good enough shape to play exhibition matches. He won two games against Uhlmann in Leipzig this weekend. (Uhlmann is only 6 years younger, but still played in the Bundesliga two years ago and in Snowdrops vs Old Hands last year.) Here are the games with annotations in German. Thank you for...

Την πρώτη θέση κατέλαβε ο αθλητής του συλλόγου μας Ανδρέου Ανδρέας στο Ατομικό Πρωτάθλημα Rapid Αττικής 2014. Σε 6 αγώνες έκανε 5 νίκες και μία ισοπαλία. Μετά την απονομή και στα πλαίσια της Chessnale Athens 2014 που γίνεται στο Mall...

The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014 will be held at the Dubai Culture & Chess Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 15th June to 21st June 2014. The events will be both Swiss pairings tournaments and will be held over two days for Blitz and three days for Rapid. The Blitz will [...]

Αναμνηστική φωτογραφία με το Στράτο Γρίβα και όλους τους συμμετέχοντες στο σεμινάριο (κλικ για μεγέθυνση) Από τις 25 έως τις 30 Μαρτίου, στο πλαίσιο των εκδηλώσεων της Chessnale, έγινε προπονητικό σεμινάριο με διδάσκοντα τον...

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); widows: 2; orphans: 2; } Ο Χρήστος Μπούσιος θα βρίσκεται μαζί μας, στο «Αλλοστρόπος», την Κυριακή 6 Απριλίου και ώρα 18.00 για να μιλήσουμε για το Σκάκι με τυχαία τοποθέτηση των κομματιών στην...

For those fortunate enough to have the language, the Russian live commentary on the Candidates was a treat. Sergey Shipov is the best live commentator in the world, and is well worth the price of admission by himself, but he also had some great guests. I was especially pleased to hear Evgeny Sveshnikov, an early […]

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The most important business of the 2014 Candidates' tournament was settled yesterday when Viswanathan Anand clinched first and a world championship rematch with Magnus Carlsen, but cash and honor remained at stake for the other seven players. In the end, only one game was decisive, and it saw Sergey Karjakin grind out the full point against Levon Aronian to take clear second and a sizable payday...

Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa of Philippines edged out MR Lalith Babu of PSPB on better tiebreak to win the 19th International Open GM Chess Tournament, organised by Alekhine Chess Club. Both scored 7.5 points in ten rounds. Oliver also won a cash prize of four lakh rupees and Lalith Babu had to be content with the [...]

The other day one of my pupils showed me a recent tournament game in which he had the black pieces. I can’t remember the exact move order, but it started something like this. White opened with the queen’s pawn but neither player really demonstrated much understanding of the subtleties of the opening. At move seven […]