Game 1 replay with analysis

3 αγωνιστικές μένουν για να τελειώσει το παγκόσμιο ομαδικό πρωτάθλημα για το 2013. Η Ουκρανία οδηγεί σταθερά την κούρσα με 10 Ομαδικούς βαθμούς. Ακολουθεί η Ρωσία με 9 και έπειτα η Ολλανδία και η Κίνα με 8. Η επίσημη...

Σκάκι δρόμου στην πανέμορφη Πλατεία Μαξ Όιβε που βρίσκεται στο κέντρο του Άμστερνταμ, πολύ κοντά στο περίφημο Rijksmuseum. Ήμουν εκεί πριν μια βδομάδα.  ”Ο Δρ. Όιβε είναι ο πιο υποτιμημένος σκακιστής στον κόσμο”...

Η ακαδημία των Σπορ προκηρύσσει 3 παράλληλα πρωταθλήματα (ρετρό, νεανικό, οπεν) το διάστημα από 26/12 έως 5/1 με χρόνο σκέψεις 90’+30’’. Ακολουθούν οι 3 προκηρύξεις

I organised a practice tournament at a school recently and observed quite a few of the children just couldn’t help touching the pieces as they decided what to do next. Some seemed to want to move so quickly they immediately grabbed a piece as soon as their opponent had moved. But instead of moving it […]

At the World Team Championship Ukraine had gotten off to a rip-roaring 5-0 start, but today they received their come-uppance from the Dutch team, 2.5-1.5. Three games were drawn, and on board 2 Loek van Wely won with Black against Anton Korobov. Korobov had a safe position but went for more, and van Wely outfoxed him in the complications. Ukraine still leads, but the Russians are just a single...

The 4th ITT Jahv McGregor Open Tournament is being held from 4th to 8th December at the Centro Comercial Americas Outlet Factory in Bogota, Colombia. The tournament will be played over nine rounds of Swiss pairings. 239 participants from 16 countries are signed up, including 17 Grandmasters and 44 International Masters. Last year winner was [...]

With just one round remaining, Grandmaster S P Sethuraman with eight points moved closer to clinch the trophy as he defeated compatriot Vidit Santosh Gujarathi in the penultimate round of the 2nd Hyderabad International Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium, Yousufguda on Monday afternoon. Hyderabad Open is sponsored by Oil and [...]

Bangkok Chess Club has the honour of inviting all chess players to participate in the 14th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2014 from 12th to 19th of April 2014 at the 5-star Dusit Thani Bangkok Hotel. The 13th Open hosted more than 300 players from 40 countries, and this year the tournament is expected to be [...]

With 3 engines analysis

Here is one of my old wins from when I was in the US Army and was stationed in Giessen, Hessen, Germany. This game was one of many chess games that I played at the recreation center on the US Air Force base in Frankfurt. My opponent, a 1900 rated player, seemed a bit surprised […]

The 121st New Zealand Chess Congress is scheduled to take place on 2-12th January at the Alexandra Function Centre, Green Lane, in Auckland. Schedule: 2-3rd January – New Zealand Rapid Championship 3rd January – New Zealand Lightning Championship 4th-12th January – 121st New Zealand Championship and Major Open The national championship will be a 9 [...]

Chess Informant 118 (May-September 2013), reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos. The Chess Informant franchise moves on, and the changes keep on coming. For many years the format was fixed: if you have one issue, you knew what the next 10 or 20 would be like. This has changed pretty radically over the past few years, and now the "incidentals" have taken over. The traditional heart of each issue was a...

That's the question - answered affirmatively - in this article in the Guardian. (HT: Marc B.) I have my doubts about this, as there are so many more serious players around the world than there were back in the alleged salad days of the Fischer-Spassky and several Karpov-Korchnoi matches. Maybe there is less newspaper coverage, but various alternative explanations for that phenomenon come to mind...

Andrew Paulson is one of the recent crop of organizers of major chess events, and is profiled rather skeptically in the NY Times. (HT: Marc B.) Any comments from those among you better positioned to have an opinion about him than I (or the NY Times)?