The 12th International Istanbul Chess Festival is scheduled to take part on 11-18th October at the YTÜ Beşiktaş Campus in Beşiktaş, Istanbul. The Festival is organized by the Turkish Chess Education and Development Foundation (TÜRSEV), Turkish Chess Federation, Yildiz Technical University The Festival will consist of three events: Open A (for players rated over 1600), [...]

Lviv Chess Federation with GM Adrian Mikhalchishin and Bank of Lviv with its Director GM Margeir Petursson are putting up lots of effort to promote chess in the region. They regularly organize friendly blitz tournaments for local Grandmasters and the line-ups are usually quite decent. The last tournament was organized on 10th September in the [...]

FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2013 for boys & girls under 20 will be held in Kocaeli, Turkey, from 12th September (arrival) to 27th September (departure) 2013. The event was originally supposed to take place in Hatay, but due to the proximity of the Syrian border and the escalation in the region, FIDE called a [...]

Hi guys. I’ve been home for a few weeks now recovering from my busy Summer and sorting out this and that. Of course I’ve also been gripped by the World Cup. Congratulations to Vladimir Kramnik on his deserved victory and well done to the slightly younger Dmitry Andreikin on qualifying for the Candidates. This weekend […]

Yifan Hou takes early lead in the Women's World Chess Championship

Το πιο ισχυρό τουρνουά κλειστού τύπου (Round robin) ξεκίνησε στις 8 Σεπτεμβρίου και θα ολοκληρωθεί στις 15 του ίδιου μήνα. Τα συνολικά έπαθλα (170,000 δολάρια) προσέλκυσαν τους κορυφαίους παίχτες Carlsen (2862), Aronian (2802), Nakamura (2774) και Kamsky...

Photos from the start of the game

Του Σωτήρη Μπούζα Με την ευκαιρία της συναυλίας «ΜΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΟΔΩΡΑΚΗΣ – Αυτή είναι η ζωή μου» που προγραμματίζεται να γίνει στη Μακρόνησο το Σάββατο 14.9.2013 όπου υπήρξε το κολαστήριο ψυχών των ηττημένων του εμφυλίου...

4 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 1970: Εκλογική νίκη της «Unidad Popular» (Σoσιαλιστές, Κομμουνιστές, Χριστιανική Αριστερά). Ο υποψήφιός της, σοσιαλιστής Σαλβαδόρ Αλιέντε, αναλαμβάνει το Δεκέμβριο την προεδρία της χώρας. ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ 1971: Εθνικοποίηση...

Live games with analysis

Analyzing a game with your coach is perhaps the best way to improve chess for adult players as they need only guidance rather than teaching. On the other hand I think that analyzing kids’ games with them is actually not very important as they play games with so many mistakes and a lack of knowledge […]

DD Sports Channel will telecast two exclusive programmes as a prelude to the forthcoming Anand – Carlsen World Championship Match 2013 to be held in Chennai from 7th November 2013. The Programmes produced and directed by Vijay Kumar will be telecast as under: 1. Magnus Carlsen in Chennai, telecast on 17th September 2013 from 23:00hrs [...]

The 2013 ACP Cup is set to take place on 13-15th September at the Rietumu bank headquarters in Riga, Latvia. The tournament is organized by the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) and Latvian Chess Society. The ACP Cup will be a Knock-Out tournament with sixteen participants. Regular Match games will be played according to the [...]

Saint Louis District Chess Championship took place from 31st August to 1st September at the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, 4657 Maryland Ave., Saint Louis, MO 63108. The tournament was played in one section over 5 rounds of Swiss system with the time control G/120, d5. 72 players took part in the [...]

Νεανικό τουρνουά για σκακιστές και σκακίστριες ηλικίας έως 16 ετών σε δύο γκρουπ δυναμικότητας διοργανώνει η ΝΕΠ το διάστημα 22/9 - 13/10. Οι αγώνες θα πραγματοποιούνται κάθε Κυριακή απόγευμα. Δηλώσεις συμμετοχής έως και...