The International Chess Festival “Mikhail Chigorin Memorial 2013″ is taking place from 4th to 13th October at the Park Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Festival consists of two events: Blitz tournament which was held on 4th October, and Classic tournament which is a Russian Cup Stage on 5-13th October. The Blitz tournament was played [...]

Ο Παναγιώτης Κονιδάρης έγραψε για το skakistiko.com μια γλαφυρή ανταπόκριση από τους αγώνες λύσης στο ετήσιο Παγκόσμιο Συνέδριο Σύνθεσης, που έγινε στο Batumi Γεωργίας για το 2013.http://www.skakistiko.com/?p=13752

Grand Open Blagoevgrad 2013 was held from 28th September to 5th October at the 22-ri Septemvri Hall in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. The tournament was organized by the Blagoevgrad Municipality, Foundation Moral I Pravo and Victory Blagoevgrad Chess Club. In the last round the overnight leader GM Mladen Palac was defeated by his compatriot GM Ivan Saric, [...]

O Leonid Zakharovich Stein γεννήθηκε στις 12 Νοεμβρίου του 1934 στην μικρή πόλη Kamenets-Podolski της Ουκρανίας. Ήταν Εβραϊκής καταγωγής. Κατά την διάρκεια της σκακιστικής του σταδιοδρομίας κέρδισε τρεις φορές τον τίτλο του Πρωταθλητή της...

Το είχα υποσχεθεί στον Γάτο, και τις υποσχέσεις μου τις κρατάω. Θα προσπαθήσω λοιπόν εδώ να περιγράψω όλο το σκηνικό (και το παρασκήνιο) του 37ου Παγκόσμιου Πρωταθλήματος Λύσης σκακιστικών προβλημάτων και του...

We’ve all read about the importance of studying the games of masters and grandmasters. By playing through their games, we learn to recognize important patterns, how strong players use their pieces effectively, and how they execute plans. Less common advice is to study mismatched games between amateurs. While grandmasters can blunder, they rarely do. Their […]

Grandmaster Tigran Gharamian emerged winner in the grueling chess marathon that was held on 28th and 29th September at the Sports Hall C.O.S.E.C. – Place des Dragons in Saverne, France. The tournament started on Saturday at 4pm and lasted for 24 hours straight! Hot and cold catering was provided to keep the players focused. Gharamian [...]

Latvian Chess Federation has the pleasure to announce the 3rd Vladimir Petrov Memorial, which will be held on 21-23 February, 2014, at the Jurmala City museum or in Jurmala house of Culture (to be decided) in Jurmala, Latvia. The aim of the tournament is to pay the tribute to one of the brightest representatives of [...]

Fabiano Caruana and Boris Gelfand were victorious in the 10th round of the final FIDE Grand Prix to emerge joint leaders with one game to go. Caruana, who is seeking to win the last GP stage to earn a ticket to Candidates Tournament, took advantage of Evgeny Tomashevsky’s careless reaction in the time trouble to [...]

Bilbao will host the 2014 European Chess Club Cup, the ECU decided at its annual meeting in Galicia. The experience of the local chess organizers, who are successfully staging the Grand Slam Final Masters, as well as the quality of touristic and cultural facilities in Bilbao, were the key factors behind the ECU award. The [...]

Υπάρχει ένα όμορφο πρόβλημα του συγγραφέα Αλφρέδου ΝτεΜυσσέ από το 1849 που δείχνει το ματ με δύο άλογα στην άκρη της σκακιέρας. Για να γίνει τέτοιο ματ, χρειάζεται να υπάρχει κι άλλο μαύρο κομμάτι, που ίσως εξαφανίζεται...

A couple of weeks ago I played my first game in the Dutch League for SISSA. SISSA are an ambitious team from Groningen who are gunning for promotion to the top division. In the first game of the season we were playing our rivals for the top spot, Kennemer Combinatie, based in Haarlem. I decided […]

In just its third edition, the Indonesia Open has already established itself as the premier international chess event in South East Asia and arguably the leading or at least one of the top tournaments in Asia. Last year the organisers took great pride that a second event actually took place and were now looking forward [...]

Απο 30/9/13 λειτουργεί το νέο πρόγραμμα του συλλόγου μας. Νέο τμήμα μπορεί να δημιουργείται κάθε μήνα και εφ΄όσον συμπληρώνονται τουλάχιστον 4 άτομα. ΩΡΕΣ ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΔΕΥΤΈΡΑ ΤΡΙΤΗ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ ΠΕΜΠΤΗ ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 4:00-5:00 Α1 Α4...

Last week, I wrote about the psychology of not winning the won game: I gave an example from round 3 in my current tournament in progress, in which I accepted a draw offer after realizing that I had squandered a won game. This week, I write about the round 4 in the tournament, in which […]