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The 5th International Villach Open will take place on 8-15th February, 2014, at the Volkshaus Völkendorf, Neubaugasse 9, A-9500 Villach, Austria. The event is organized by the ESV ASKÖ Admira Villach Sektion Schach and is valid as the 32nd open championship of the city of Villach. The tournament format is 9-round Swiss and the top [...]

Στην Ερέτρια από 25 έως 27/4/2014 η τελική φάση του πανελλήνιου ατομικού - ομαδικού πρωταθλήματος μαθητών-μαθητριών 2014

In the first round of the annual Pittsburgh Chess Club Championship, I played a game as White in which my aim out of the opening was to acquire the Bishop pair against the Nimzo-Indian and nurse it to victory, as I have done many times successfully before. Unfortunately, I played carelessly and ended up drawing […]

Moscow chess players Alina Kashlinskaya and Daria Charochkina have maintained perfect scores after winning their games in round 5 of the the Moscow Open 2014 Russian Women’s Premier Cup. The two talented players are sharing the lead in the event with 155 participants. They are paired against each other for round 6 on Thursday. Grandmasters [...]

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has placed a request to get Croatian citizenship. The Russian chess Grandmaster now expects a reply from Croatian authorities, daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija reveals. Garry Kasparov is often spending his holidays in sea resort Makarska, where he owns a house and where he had training session with Magnus Carlsen. [...]

Last night saw the fourth and final Master Class of the Tradewise Chess Festival. It was a presentation by former World Junior Champion, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FIDE 2745). He showed a remarkable game he played versus Chinese Grand Master Ding Liren last year. The programme was once again broadcast LIVE from the built-for-purpose webcasting suite [...]

Another tough week of competition has been successfully completed. The second 2014 Tradewise Chess Festival prizegiving took place yesterday afternoon ahead of round 9 in the Gibraltar Masters. Once again Festival Organiser Brian Callaghan, OBE presented the prizes. Well done to the winners and thank you to all the competitors for making the tournaments so [...]

Του Ηλία Κουρκουνάκη Ζυρίχη, 2 Φεβρουαρίου 2014 (4ος γύρος) παίζουν τα λευκά Το υλικό παραμένει ίσο, αλλά δεν μπορεί να υπάρχει καμία απολύτως αμφιβολία για την ποιοτική διαφορά των Σα7 και Σδ5, καθώς και για την διαφορά...

Δυο αγόρια παίζουν μια παρτίδα σε χωριό του Νεπάλ. Η χώρα της Ασίας διακατέχεται από μια διάσταση μυστηριακή, είναι μια από τις 20 φτωχότερες του πλανήτη και ονομάζεται επίσης “στέγη του κόσμου” γιατί απλώνεται...

Magnus Carlsen had a very bad time of things in the (quick) rapid games on Tuesday, and came close to losing his lead at the Zurich Chess Challenge. Close, but not close enough for Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruana to catch him. All three players won their first game - Carlsen over Boris Gelfand, Aronian over Viswanathan Anand and Caruana over Hikaru Nakamura - and it looked like the deal was...

An enormous amount of research has been done on chess players’ selective thinking (humans don’t need to calculate each and every move) and as a result we are now in the era where computers can beat humans. Along with this they have researched how experts play in familiar positions as well as random positions (see […]

World Champion Magnus Carlsen emerged winner of the Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 in combined standings after classical and rapid games. The Zurich Chess Challenge 2014, the strongest tournament in history with average elo 2801, started with a blitz event on Wednesday 29th January at Hotel Savoy in Zurich, Switzerland. Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian shared [...]

The traditional Blitz Pairs event at the 2014 Tradewise Chess Festival took place at the Caleta Hotel on Sunday night. Once again this very popular six round contest drew in the players. There were 38 teams competing of two players each. This included five Grand Masters and eight International masters and other titled players. As [...]

The 12th Khazar International Open Chess Tournament is set to take place on 11-18th February at the Yadegar Imam Sport Complex in Rasht, Iran. The tournament will be played in four sections: - Open A for players rated above 2100 - Open B for players rated under 2100 - Open C for women - Open [...]