The next Zurich Chess Challenge is set to take place from 29th January to 4th February, 2014, in the largest city in Switzerland, Russian Chess Federation announced. Last year’s winner Fabiano Caruana will be back to defend the title. He will be challenged by Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen, in their first meeting after the [...]

Chess club Etyud from Yekaterinburg celebrated its 25th anniversary. On this occasion 32 strongest chess players from the Sverdlovsk region gathered for a nine round tournament. Preceding the main event there were two qualifying competitions: first for the junior members of Etyud, second for the public. Alexander Motylev took a clear first place with 7,5/9 [...]

Στιγμιότυπα από την κλήρωσηΧθες το βράδυ πραγματοποιήθηκε η εκδήλωση για την έναρξη της αγωνιστικής χρονιάς.Ξεκινήσαμε με την κλήρωση για τους αγώνες του Champions League. Οι όμιλοι όπως σχηματίστηκαν μπορείτε να τους...

Looking at the games of elite players, a club player is often bewildered by the nature of some of these games, in which development and castling are sometimes ignored in favor of weird flank attacks and the like. Sometimes this way of playing succeeds and sometimes it fails; furthermore, sometimes it succeeds when it is […]

As predicted, Essex are the County Champions with an emphatic 16/20 victory in the Ward-Higgs Division well clear of their nearest rivals. Runners up were Yorkshire with 13.5; Third were Warwickshire with 12.5; Fourth equal were Hertfordshire and Northumberland with 12. Unfortunately, my own county, Hertfordshire, who were placed second for quite a while, were […]

Hou Yifan scored the third victory in game six of the FIDE Women’s World Championship Match and is now leading by 4,5-1,5. Yifan only needs one point from remaining four games to recapture the title of World Champion. The reigning Women’s World Champion Anna Ushenina deviated from the Nimzo-Indian defence, which earlier brought her two [...]

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The Aquaprofit-Polgar Chess Festival returns again this year, featuring the most famous women in the history of this mystical game. Last year’s Festival emphasized the cooperative efforts among EU member states to integrate chess into the public school curriculum. Last year’s event also highlighted the connections between chess and other sports – with a live [...]

FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2013 for boys & girls under 20 are taking place in Kocaeli, Turkey, from 12th to 27th September 2013. In the Open section top-seeded GM Yu Yangyi of China defeated the co-leader SP Sethuraman to take a clear first place with 5,5 points. There follows a group of players who [...]

The World Chess Composition Tournament is a long-established team event enabling composers from all over the world to compete at international level with new chess problems and studies on set themes. Nine such tournaments have been held to date, with enthusiastic worldwide participation. The recent edition, 9th World Chess Composition Tournament (WCCT), organized by the [...]

The 2013 edition of Oslo Chess International will take place in Norway, 29 September – 6 October 2013. The tournament organized by Hans Olav Lahlum and Akademisk Sjakklubb Oslo is a 9-round Swiss open for all players having the official titles GM, IM, FM, WGM, WIM or WFM from FIDE. Also qualified are other male [...]

Α GROUP Galopoulos Nikolaos  2346 Lagopatis Nikolaos  2161 Mourelatos Ilias  2154 Hrisomalis Theodoros  2069 Athanasiadis Mihail  2066 Gountras Klearhos  2059 Spirliadis Achileas  2044 B GROUP Vlassis Georgios  2038 Vatkali Dimitra  2004 Barbis Athanasios  2001 Bribos ...

Μια παρουσίαση από τον μεγάλο Γάλλο συνθέτη Michel Caillaud, (01 Αυγούστου 2013, Marianka, Slovakia).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh3wXcrlWB4Όταν υπάρχει καλή διάθεση και ενδιαφέρον, τα προβλήματα γλώσσας παραμερίζονται. Εδώ ο Γάλλος (που φοράει την...

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