Πριν λίγα λεπτά έλαβα μια επιστολή από το σκακιστικό Όμιλο Παγκρατίου την οποία μπορείτε να διαβάσετε παρακάτω.   Παγκράτι, 27 Δεκεμβρίου...

The most prestigious 51st National Premier Chess Championship, organised by Jain Sports Academy and Jalgoan District Chess Association and sponsored by Bhavarlal Kantabai Multipurpose Foundation was held at Jalgoan from 16th to 30th December 2013. For the first time after several years, the Championship was played under 14-players round robin format, comprising top four rated [...]

Κατά την διάρκεια του τουρνουά Κ.ΓΩΓΟΥ που θα γίνει στην Λαμία 4 - 6 Ιανουαρίου 2014, στο hotel ΣΑΜΑΡΑΣ(τηλ. 2231028971), οδός Διάκου 14, θα γίνει διαγωνισμός λύσης σκακιστικών προβλημάτων, περισσότερες πληροφορίες στο τηλ. 2310866410...

Πίνακας ενεργών σωματείων & αντιπροσώπων με δικαίωμα ψήφου για το 2014. Α.Ο. «ΠΗΓΑΣΟΣ» ΑΓ. ΚΩΝ/ΝΟΥ:  ΔΟΓΑΝΟΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΣ Σ.Σ.ΛΑΡΙΣΑΣ:  ΒΙΤΤΩΡΑΤΟΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΗΣ Σ.Ο.Β.ΕΥΒΟΙΑΣ:   ΠΗΤΤΑΣ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ-ΜΠΑΡΜΠΗΣ...

Two back-to-back international open chess tournaments will start the year 2014 in India. The 2nd Gurgaon Open and the 12th Delhi Open will be held between 1st and 16th January in the Indian capital and nearby Gurgaon (20km distance). The 2nd Gurgaon International Open Chess Tournament will take place on 1-8th January, 2014, at the [...]

The 7th Open Agusta Aragón Stadium Casablanca was held from 26th to 31st December 2013 at the Stadium Casablanca in Zaragoza, Spain. The 9-round Swiss event featured a prize fund of 6000 EUR with 1500 EUR dedicated to the winner. 144 players from 14 countries competed and among them were eight Grandmasters. Top-seeded GM Fernando [...]

One of the sub-events in Groningen over the Christmas holiday was a 4-game match between former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov and Dutch great Jan Timman. The match commemorated their FIDE World Championship match 20 years prior, and finished with the same result: Karpov won. The first three games were drawn, but Karpov won a nice technical game to close out the match - have a look.

In the previous post and this older one I presented a pair of games from the SportAccord World Mind Games; in this one I will recap the results and present still another game. It was a very strong event with 16 elite GMs participating. The event had three stages: a 7-round Swiss in rapid chess, a double round-robin in blitz, and finally five rounds of Basque System chess. (The Basque System...

I didn't cover the Mind Sports event in Beijing much for the blog, but I did follow it to some degree on my own. One game really caught my eye, and I will share it with you in a moment. The game was an unlikely candidate as an attention-getting: a rapid game that reached a drawn rook and pawn vs. rook endagme after 64 moves and that ended, appropriately enough, in a draw 68 moves later. The...

Best wishes to everyone for a peaceful and prosperous 2014, and of course for pleasure and success at the chessboard.

Many of us do daily tactical exercises to polish our tactical skill, but how many of us get such positions in a game? On top of that, how many of us try to achieve those positions and successfully reach them? I think very few amateurs get those positions in a real game. What is the […]

Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran became the new Champion of India after winning the Bhavarlal and Kantabai Jain 51st National Premier Chess Championship that was held on 17-30th December in Jalgoan. Sasikiran concluded the tournament in style, by defeating IM Shyam Nikil for the total score of 10,5/13 points. Sasikiran’s nearest followers GM Adhiban and GM Lalith [...]

Η Ένωση Σκακιστών Πελοποννήσου σας εύχετε το νέο έτος να πραγματοποιήσει τα καλύτερά σας όνειρα.

Η τελευταία καλλιτεχνική δημιουργία για το 2013 έρχεται από τη μακρινή Cracovia και το Θάνο Μαστροβασίλη! Στις 2 / 1 / 2014 παίζει τον 7ο γύρο. Με νίκη αγωνίζεται για την πρώτη θέση!Να του ευχηθούμε καλή επιτυχία στο τουρνουά και...

The 23rd Annual North American Open was held on 26-30th December at Bally’s Casino Resort, 3645 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, Nevada. The event had 7 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500 and Under 1250. The Open Section was a 9-round Swiss event with 78 participants held over [...]