The European Rapid Chess Championship 2013 is set to take place on 14-15th December at The Palace of Culture and Science, Plac Defilad 1, in Warsaw, Poland. The Championship is organized by the Gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski Chess Foundation in cooperation with the Polish Chess Federation and MetLife Amplico, under the auspices of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz – [...]

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The 2013 US Class Championships were held on 27-29th September at the Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas 77017. The event was played in eight sections over five rounds of Swiss system. A total of 452 players competed. The prize fund was $11,500. The main Master section had 32 participants. IM Andrey [...]

The 9th Ciudad de Zaragoza de Ajedrez tournament will take place on 5th October at the Estadio Miralbueno El Olivar in Zaragoza, Spain. The playing format is 9-round Swiss with the quick time control 12′+3” per player. Top Spanish player GM Francisco Vallejo Pons will take part in the main tournament, then in the bullet-chess [...]

The European Blitz Chess Championship 2013 is set to take place on 13th December at The Palace of Culture and Science, Plac Defilad 1, in Warsaw, Poland. The Championship is organized by the Gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski Chess Foundation in cooperation with the Polish Chess Federation and MetLife Amplico, under the auspices of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz – [...]

Ο ΑΣΟΝ ΕΠΑΧΤΟΣ στο πλαίσιο εορτασμού της Ναυμαχίας της Ναυπάκτου διοργανώνει το 5ο τουρνουά blitz το Σάββατο 5 Οκτωβρίου. Το φετινό τουρνουά θα διεξαχθεί σε συνεργασία με την Ένωση Σκακιστικών Σωματείων Πελοποννήσου...

Last Saturday, I was bored when the kids I was teaching were doing their class work. I had very little role in that, but I did take the opportunity to watch what they were doing and saw that some of kids were solving the puzzles by doing self questioning, some of them doing it with […]

The Reykjavik Chess Club will host one of the strongest round-robin tournaments in recent years in Iceland. From October 1st through October 8th Reykjavik Chess Club (Taflfélag Reykjavíkur) is holding an invitational ten-player international tournament. It is the Club’s hope that the tournament will become an annual event. Participants: 1. GM Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR 2667) [...]

Sportverein Werder Bremen organized a Grandmaster round robin tournament on 21-29th September at Werder Halle. This was the strongest event in Bremen since 1927. Most of the field was comprised of members of Werder chess club, plus a group of young talented IMs. Experienced Czech Grandmaster Vlastimil Babula won the tournament with 6,5/9 points. The [...]

Hikaru Nakamura scored his second consecutive victory to emerge sole leader after the 8th round of the final FIDE Grand Prix that is taking place at the Chapelle de la Villedieu in Paris, France. Nakamura played black against Vassily Ivanchuk but his position was inferior in the middlegame. However, Ivanchuk first forfeited the advantage and [...]

I was watching this a lecture giving a contemporary view of dyslexia and it got me thinking about how we go about trying to improve our chess, and how rather ineffective random learning can be. Dyslexia is a multi-dimensional disorder, not a ‘diagnosis’. Dyslexia has a variable behaviour manifestation. There is evidence that dyslexia can […]

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Ο Σπύρος Σκέμπρης στο Σ.Ο.ΣΑΧΈνας εκ των κορυφαίων ελλήνων σκακιστών, ο Γκραν Μαιτρ και τέσσερις φορές πρωταθλητής Ελλάδος, Σπύρος Σκέμπρης θα βρεθεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη για τρεις μέρες.Τρίτη 8, Τετάρτη 9 και Πέμπτη 10...

Grandmasters Maxim Matlakov and Anastasia Bodnaruk are the winners of the St. Petersburg Rapid Cup final, which was held on 28-29th September at the Overtime Chess Club. After the preliminary qualification earlier this month, 32 men and 16 women gathered this weekend for the final knockout event. GM Maxim Matlakov beat GM Daniil Linchevski 1,5-0,5 [...]

Grandmaster Humpy Koneru drew Olga Girya in the last round of the FIDE Women Grand Prix in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for the convincing overall victory with 8,0/11 points. Her closest rival Harika Dronavalli, also from India, was defeated by Zhao Xue. Kateryna Lagno and Bela Khotenashvili used the opportunity to move ahead to the shared second [...]