Carlsen - Anand preparations video

Με μεγάλη επιτυχία ξεκίνησε η προπόνησης της ομάδας μας για τη φετινή χρονιά. Δοκιμάσαμε μια νέα καινοτομία για να αποκτήσουμε μεγαλύτερη συνοχή στην ομάδα μας. Έτσι λοιπόν ήρθαν όλοι οι παίχτες, που απαρτίζουν την...

Με νίκες προχώρησαν οι ΣΟΠ, ΝΕΠ και ΑΣΟΝ ΕΠΑΧΤΟΣ στον δεύτερο γύρο του πρωταθλήματος Παίδων Κορασίδων. Αναλυτικά τα αποτελέσματα ου 2ου γύρου και η κλήρωση του 3ου γύρου.

This is another game that I played in the ICC server. My opponent in this game is an International Master from Finland. I rarely answer 1 e4 with 1… e5, but I did in this game because I was expecting the Ruy Lopez. I got the Scotch Gambit instead. On move number 13, I got out […]

Thomas Richter emailed to let me know about some comments by Russian players on the upcoming world championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen. Here's what he wrote, with some comments by me in parentheses: Some things complementary to interviews by Anand and Carlsen themselves. The first is easy as it was already in English: Dreev – “Anand is motivated and...

For those who can't wait until November 9 for their next taste of super-GM chess, good news! There are two attractive events that will give you your fix. The most impressive is the European Club Cup in Rhodes, Greece (anyone want to buy me a ticket to do some on-site reporting?), which includes players like Fabiano Caruana (does this guy ever take time off?), Hikaru Nakamura, Veselin Topalov...

The Indonesia Open and the Entrefaros GM tournament weren't super-tournaments, but both tournaments had participants rated over 2700, and - even better - both were won by players in their 40s. 44-year-old Alexei Dreev won the Indonesia Open with the fine score of 8.5/11, a point better than a group of nine players including Alexander Moiseenko and Nigel Short. The "secret" of Dreev's...

The first round of the 2013 European Chess Club Cup was held today at the Rodos Palace Hotel on Rhodes, Greece. There were no major surprises in the Open section as the top seeded teams were paired against the lower rated opposition. CE De Sprenger Echternach (seeded 39th) beat Schachclub MPO Maria Saal (13) by [...]

The 2013 European Chess Club Cup has started today at the Rodos Palace Hotel on Rhodes, Greece. 53 clubs in Open section and 11 in Women section are competing. In the opening ceremony the players and guests were greeted by Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou, member of the ECU Board, Savvas Diakostamatiou, Deputy Mayor of the Municipal District [...]

WGM Iva Videnova, champion of Bulgaria for 2013 and second board at the Chess Olympiad, will play a Master Challenge at Chess Arena. In a form of a queue, she will play against the active Arena members. Participation is open for everyone, you can join free here So far in the Master Challenge have played [...]

Αρχίζει σήμερα στη Ρόδο (και θα διαρκέσει ως τις 27 Οκτωβρίου) το Ευρωπαϊκό Κύπελλο Συλλόγων. Συμμετέχουν πολλοί από τους κορυφαίους σκακιστές του κόσμου και αρκετοί σύλλογοι έχουν μέσο όρο έλο στη σύνθεσή τους πάνω από...

Final standings

The BBC television quiz A Question of Sport includes a round in which the panellists are shown a clip from a sporting event and are invited to guess what happened next. Here’s one for you: from a game played recently at Richmond Junior Chess Club. It’s Black’s move. You probably guessed correctly: Black played Qxf3, […]

The drawing of lots for the first round was conducted during the technical meeting with the Chief Organizer Nikos Kalesis and Chief Arbiter Sotiris Logothetis. Team pairings for round 1 and the colors for the teams are know: Team pairings (open) / Team pairings (women) / Results page   SOCAR and Cercle d’Echecs de Monte-Carlo [...]

Ο Λευκαδίτης Κυριάκος Φραγκούλης (1935 - 1997) έγινε διάσημος στο παγκόσμιο καλλιτεχνικό σκάκι με τις σπουδές του. Έφτιαξαν κι άλλοι Έλληνες σκακιστικές συνθέσεις, αλλά ο Κυριάκος Φραγκούλης έφτιαχνε αποκλειστικά...