Σκάκι -κατά τις παλιότερες πιο ήσυχες μέρες- με θερμοκρασίες υπό του μηδενός στην Πλατεία Ανεξαρτησίας στο Κίεβο, η οποία βρίσκεται στην καρδιά της ουκρανικής πρωτεύουσας και είναι τους τελευταίους μήνες το κύριο...

Learning elementary checkmates is a first step towards learning endgames. Today I’m going to discuss the checkmate with rook and king against the king. Students must have a prior knowledge of checkmate with a queen and king and also stalemate. In case you need some guidance here is the nice article written by Richard James. […]

The 2014 Commonwealth Championships and 121st Scottish Championships will be held in Glasgow from 30 June to 8 July 2014. The playing venue is Glasgow City College, 320 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G1 2TG. The main event is the Commonwealth Championship which incorporates a number of other events including the Commonwealth Women’s Championship, the Scottish Championship [...]

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In an effort to get my son to combine reading practice with some chess, I recently started looking round for instructive chess books that don’t need a set. There are plenty of books with chess problems and no text and quite a few written about the game but without any meaningful chess content. Could I […]

Η ΤΕΔ-ΕΣΣΝΑ αναζητά διαιτητές γιο το Ατομικό Σχολικό Πρωτάθλημα Π.Ε. Ανατολικής Αττικής (Σάββατο 22/2 , Σταμάτα , Λ. Δροσιας-Σταμάτας 25Α) Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι να αποστείλουν στοιχεία επικοινωνίας στα e-mail tedessna@yahoo.gr και...

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We are pleased to announce that the former World Chess Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, has now confirmed that he’s going to play in Norway Chess Tournament in June. He is currently number three both on FIDE official rating list and on the live rating, with 2787 points. Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) was the Classical [...]

The 6th Batavia Chess Tournament takes place from Friday, February 21th to Sunday, March 2nd, 2014 in Café Batavia 1920, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The games will start each day at 14:00 hrs. The final round starts at 12.00 hrs. Wednesday, February 26th is a rest day. Cafe Batavia welcomes spectators and International Master Yochanan Afek [...]

Δείτε στους παρακάτω συνδέσμους τις τελικες κατατάξεις και τις προκρίσεις στην τελική φάση από τα Περιφερειακά Πρωταθλήματα Π.Ε. Δυτικής Αθήνας που πραγματοποιήθηκαν στις 15-16/2 στα Εκπαιδευτήρια Νέα Παιδεία ...

The 12th Sagaalgan Chess Festival 2014 will take place from 28th February to 2nd March at the Buddhist University “Dashi Choynhorlin” in Ivolga Datsan, near Ulan-Ude in the Russian Republic of Buryatia. The tournament is organized by the Russian Chess Federation, Buddhist University “Dashi Choynhorlin”, Republic of Buryatia and the Chess Federation of Buryatia. The [...]

Important message to the FIDE family: On behalf of the Organizer of the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, it is a pleasure to announce that a travel fund of up to 600,000 EUR will be made available to federations who wants to participate in the Olympiad. The aim of the travel fund is to help [...]

Studies are ideal for training your calculation skills, because they have a unique solution and “there are no positional assessments in studies” (Botvinnik), so there is no argument if your solution is correct or not. But you need to choose the right studies. Many modern studies are unsuitable for the average player, because they are […]

Since the Candidates' Tournament doesn't start for another month and the basic idea is that everyone plays everyone else twice news of the pairings isn't particularly exciting. What is a little interesting, however, is that a bit of anti-Russian paranoia seems to have reared its head, and - per the regulations - the four Russians play each other in the first three rounds of each cycle. Full...