Video by Vijay Kumar

Junior chess may well have been the preserve of independent schools and grammar schools in the past, but it is pleasing to see that more juniors are coming through in England who have not benefited from these education advantages. In the London Borough in which I live, Kingston-upon-Thames, we are very fortunate that about 80% […]

Έπειτα απο το 26ο ακολούθησε το Γένεσης και σήμερα το  5ο Δημοτικό σχολείο... Το σκάκι ενθουσίασε τόσο πολύ τα παιδιά τα οποία συνέχισαν να παίζουν και στα διαλείματα! Ο Σύλλογος Ιωαννιτών Σκακιστών απο την αρχή της...

The defending World Champion Viswanathan Anand drew the seventh match game by repetition of moves against the Challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Teynampet, Chennai. More: Official website / Live games / Live games 2 / Live games 3 / Photos / Play online at Chessdom Arena / Watch TCEC [...]

Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu of India defeated GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel of Armenia and moved into shared lead with 4.5 points, after the fifth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Sharing the lead at 4.5 points [...]

For the third time in four games with Black, Magnus Carlsen chose the Berlin Defense, and Viswanathan Anand has tried a different approach each time. In game 4 Anand went for the Berlin ending, but got in trouble and had to fight for a long time before achieving a draw. In game 6 he played 4.d3 and handled it like a regular Closed Ruy; he lost, but the position was very equal in late middlegame...

The Chelyabinsk State University hosted a rapid chess tournament in honour of the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov on 16-17th November. 88 players from 16 Russian cities, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Slovakia and Latvia took part in the competition. Among them were 12 Grandmasters. After 11 rounds of play, Grandmaster Ivan Bukavshin (2612) took a clear first [...]

This game is the last one that I completed in the 2011 Golden Knights semifinal round. This draw gave me the 4.5 points that I need to advance to the final round. Wayne kept declining my draw requests even though I had a slight positional advantage throughout most of this endgame. I was irritated by […]

Νέο που αξίζει να μάθουν όλοι! Ακόμα και όσοι δεν ασχολούνται με το σκάκι! Η Ελλάδα βγήκε 7η στο πανευρωπαϊκό πρωτάθλημα σκακιού στη Πολωνία! Αποδεικνύει το έμφυτο ταλέντο των ελλήνων γκρανμαστερ παρά τη μικρή ...

Είναι πράγματι εντυπωσιακό πώς ο Κάρλσεν μπορεί να παίξει για νίκη απαντώντας στο 1.ε4 του λευκού με 1…ε5!Εάν θέλετε και εσείς να μάθετε περισσότερα γι’ αυτό το σύστημα, αλλά και να δημιουργήσετε ένα ολοκληρωμένο...

Επισκέψου την επίσημη ιστοσελίδα, πατώντας εδώ: http://www.playchess.com/ Κατέβασε το λογισμικό τους στον υπολογιστή σου. Η εικόνα “download” μπορεί να σε βοηθήσει.Εγκατέστησε το πρόγραμμα στον υπολογιστή σου. Η εικόνα “Install”...

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Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Grandmaster and 1st Deputy Minister for Sports in Georgia, announced at gala dinner in Warsaw his candidacy for the President of ECU in 2014. He first hinted the possibility during the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki and later repeated the intention in an interview with Chessdom. Here is the speech of Zurab Azmaiparashvili. [...]

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I wonder how many of you saw a recent news article about the 2013 inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame? Chess and the rubber duck! Well, that puts chess in its place, doesn’t it? A toy, just like a rubber duck. You can play with it in the bath. So I’ve spent much […]