Αρχίζει σήμερα στο Γερεβάν της Αρμενίας, στη 1 το μεσημέρι ώρα Ελλάδας, το Ευρωπαϊκό Ατομικό Πρωτάθλημα 2014. Ελβετικό 11 γύρων με συνολικά έπαθλα 160.000 ευρώ (20.000 για τον πρώτο). 23 σκακιστές θα προκριθούν από το τουρνουά για...

Meaning tomorrow or today, depending on where you live, assuming you read this post shortly after it's completion. It's a very strong 11-round Swiss taking place in Yerevan, Armenia, and the field includes plenty of 2700-rated GMs. For the moment the tournament website seems to be down (or TWIC posted the wrong address), so I'll direct you to TWIC's page for now.

So reports TWIC; Festival da Uva tournament website here. It's a strange amalgam of time controls, with everything from g/5 to g/60. Looks like it should be a nice and relaxing event for him, while his potential rivals are doing their last bits of preparation for the Candidates' tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, starting March 13. (In olden days I would have typed "brrr" or some such thing after...

Story here. You might recall a few months ago that Garry Kasparov applied for Latvian citizenship, but that fell through. He's still a Russian citizen too, but his aim in acquiring Croatian papers is to help him maintain his freedom to travel. This seems a good move for him, and altogether apart from any ambitions he has for the FIDE presidency. Vladimir Putin seems to have the brass knuckles out...

Here, excerpts here. (AMA = "Ask Me Anything".)

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Garry Kasparov, the 13th World Champion, needs no introduction: a truly great chess player, who has tremendously influenced the development of chess with his games, his analyses, his writings, Garry is well known everywhere. In this Informant’s column, Garry’s Choice, he is annotating select games from recent practice, in his trademark style, casting his critical [...]

This is the beautiful opening ceremony of the EICC 2014. The championship has been officially opened today in Yerevan. See the full pairings of round 1 here Live games with analysis tomorrow at Chessdom Arena – start 15:00 local time. Photos courtesy of the official site http://www.eicc2014.am/ and http://www.president.am

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Άρθρο από την εφημερίδα “Ελεύθερος Άνθρωπος” (φ.της 22.11.1932) που εκδιδόταν από τον Δ. Πουρνάρα και υποστήριζε το Αγροτικό Κόμμα. Αργότερα επρόκειτο να συνεργαστεί μαζί της ο Βάρναλης. Ο Θαλής Γ. Παπαγεωργίου, ο...

ΕΝΩΣΗ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ Ε.Σ.Σ.Κ.Ε.ΑΤΟΜΙΚΑ-ΟΜΑΔΙΚΑ ΣΧΟΛΙΚΑ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΑ 2014ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑΣ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ αρ. πρωτ: 162 / 28-2-2014 1. ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗ: Η Ένωση Σκακιστικών Σωματείων Κεντρικής Ελλάδας...

Bulgarian Grandmaster Kiril Georgiev stormed through the Alkaloid Blitz Open to take a clear first place with 12,0/13 points, leaving the nearest followers two points behind. The Alkaloid Blitz Open was held on 1st March at Hotel Continental in Skopje. The tournament format was 13 round Swiss with the time control 3 min + 2 [...]

The 12th Rapid Chess Tournament “Pet Dvojki” took place on 1st March in Krusevac, Serbia. 104 players participated in the 9-round Swiss event. The tournament is valid for the Grand Prix of Central Serbia Chess Federation. GM Branko Tadic emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points to take the top prize of 200 EUR. Final standings: [...]

In 1953, French masters Georges Renaud & Victor Kahn published The Art of Checkmate, a popular primer demonstrating 23 different mating patterns (with some further sub-types delinated) upon which readers were subsequently quizzed. As with many books of that era, it was written using the now largely defunct descriptive notation. As they have done with a number of other oldies but goodies the...

A very simple question for you today. If your pupils talks about ‘killing’ rather than capturing or taking a piece, should you correct them? I recall at least one book which says you should, ‘for obvious reasons’. When I’m teaching a class I’ll use ‘capture’ or ‘take’ rather than ‘kill’, and will usually continue to […]