The organizers will broadcast all boards live

Once beginners learn about the relative values of the pieces, we explore the concept that a minor piece’s relative value can change based on a game’s positional aspects. To explain this idea, we look at open and closed games. While there are further subdivisions, semi open and semi closed games, its best to start the […]

Την πολύ γνωστή και ιδιαίτερη παρτίδα ανάμεσα στον Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine και στον Nikolay Dmitrievich Grigoriev θα παρακολουθήσουμε σήμερα.Η παρτίδα παίχτηκε στην Μόσχα το 1915. Το ιδιαίτερο στοιχείο της παρτίδας αυτής δεν είναι μόνον...

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Είναι γνωστό ότι το σκάκι αποτελεί την κατ’ εξοχήν πνευματική δραστηριότητα που απευθύνεται στο σκεπτόμενο άνθρωπο. Διεθνείς μελέτες έχουν καταγράψει τα σημαντικά πλεονεκτήματα που εξασφαλίζει στα παιδιά η...

In the sixth and final round of the Pittsburgh Chess Club Tuesday night tournament that I just completed, I experienced a pleasure that is very rare in my games: the strange pleasure of drawing a lost game. In a way, this game was the game of my tournament that I was most proud of, because […]

The International Chess Festival “Mikhail Chigorin Memorial 2013″ took place from 4th to 13th October at the Park Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Classic Tournament, valid as a Russian Cup Stage, was played over nine rounds of Swiss system on 5-13th October. There was a huge tie on the first place as eleven players [...]

The 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship (IOCC) 2013 held from 9-18 October at the Sahid Jaya Hotel in Jakarta proved to be a great success. At the grand closing ceremony which featured an evening of traditional dance which was joined in enthusiastically by the participants, Hashim Djojohadikusomo, President of the Indonesian Chess Federation who also [...]

Interesting final round games

By GM Christian Bauer Chess and Shogi took place in Marseille with the participation of multiple chess and shogi players. It was the first edition of such double event and created much interest in the local board games community. Among the invited Shogi players Madoka Kitao, who took part in the biathlon, is a professional [...]

Το τραγούδι του συγκροτήματος iLiKETRAiNS με τον τίτλο "A rook house for Bobby" θα ακούσουμε σήμερα.Οι iLiKETRAiNS εμπνεύστηκαν τον τίτλο του τραγουδιού από την συνέντευξη που είχε δώσει ο Bobby Fischer στον Ralph Ginzburg γιά το περιοδικό Harper's Magazine...

The second season of British Webserver Team Tournaments in four divisions is well underway and our winning team in Division 1, “Pawn Stars”, is battling against “ICCF Warriors” and five other teams, “Scheming Mind A”, “Scheming Mind B”, “BCCA Kings”, “BCCA Griffins” and “White Rose A”. It is always difficult to...

Antoaneta Stefanova has a rating of 2496 which ranks her first amongst the many women playing in IOCC 2013. The 34 year old Bulgarian native is former World champion who last year was again a finalist but unlucky loser in the 2012 World Championship against Ukraine surprise winner Anna Ushenina. Chessdom: How many times have [...]

The island of Rhodes will host the European Chess Club Cup from 19-27th October in the conference center of the 5-star Rodos Palace Convention Resort which is regarded as one of the finest deluxe hotels on the island of Rhodes. The 29th European Club Cup 2013 will feature 95 Grandmasters, 75 International Masters and 43 [...]