After drawing the Rapid playoff Gawain succumbed to his Russian opponent in the Blitz playoff. Gawain played against Alexander Shimanov a young Russian GM who I’ve never heard of but then again I don’t follow chess that often. His opponent to me seemed well prepared and I think that helped him get through the first […]

The 22nd Open International Tournament of Kavala was held on 6-13th August at the Foyer of Kavala Prefecture Amphitheatre in Kavala, Greece. Israeli Champion Tamir Nabaty took the winner’s trophy despite the last round defeat at the hands of GM Alexandr Kharitonov. Six players who won their final games on the top tables caught up [...]

The 100th British Chess Championships took place from 29th July to 10th August, 2013, at the Riviera International Centre, Torquay, England. GM David Howell secured the title with a round to spare and finally concluded the event with 9,5/11 points, full point and a half ahead of Grandmasters Gawain Jones, Mark Hebden and Stephen Gordon. [...]

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. is hosting multiple norm round robin tournaments from August 13th to August 18th of 2013. All the events are being held in Suite C855 of the California Market Center on 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles 90079. The tournaments are organized by Ankit Gupta, FA, IO. One RR tournament, a GM norm [...]

The 2013 International Livigno Chess Open has been canceled. The organizers (from the local chess club, the Circolo Scacchistico Amos Cusini Livigno) had hoped for a last minute rescue solution. Unfortunately – after waiting for several months before replying – Livigno city administration has finally declined its support to this tournament, first through the local [...]

Here’s another in my series on forgotten chess openings, today’s forgotten line being the Steinitz Defence to the Ruy Lopez. It was played with success by three of the greatest World Champions, Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul Capablanca. Yet these days very few people will touch it. Why is this? I believe that […]

After the today’s World Chess Cup 2013 round 1 tie-break matches, the pairings for the 2nd round are officially confirmed. Top-seeded Levon Aronian will play black pieces in round 2 game 1. Live games with analysis here. Round 2 pairings: 1 Lysyj Igor RUS 2648 – Aronian Levon ARM 2813 2 Caruana Fabiano ITA 2796 [...]

After the exciting first round of the 2013 World Chess Cup in Tromso, 32 players will continue the competition on Wednesday. The tie-breaks also attracted huge interest and two matches were decided with Armageddon games: Julio Granda Zuniga eliminated Hrant Melkumyan, while former European champion Evgeny Tomashevsky defeated Alejandro Ramirez. Replay the games with computer [...]

The 2013 Sinquefield Cup will offer live spectators a bevy of options come September. The tournament, which features GMs Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian (top two in the World) and GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky (top two in the U.S.) takes place September 9-15 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis [...]

ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗ 1ο OPEN ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΟ ΤΟΥΡΝΟΥΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ (Από 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013 έως 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013) ΔΙΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΕΣ: Φ .Ο. Ελληνικού, Δήμος Ελληνικού-Αργυρούπολης ΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ: Βασίλης Βάσσιος , Θεόδωρος Φίλιος, Μάριος...

St. Petersburg Chess Federation is organizing one of the most attractive summer festivals. Consisting of multiple events and with total prize fund of over 25 000 USD. The St. Petersburg summer chess 2013 festival is held from 26th August (arrival day) until September 2nd (departure day) 2013 (Rapid chess tournament – 30.08-02.09.2013) at the “Park” [...]

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The Chess World Cup 2013 in Tromso, Norway, presented the chess fans with multiple surprises right from the start. Chessdom warned about the rising star of the Chinese youngster Wei Yi (here, here, and here). Being just 105th seeded out of 128 players, Wei Yi showed spirit in round 1 defeating the 24th seeded and [...]

Το αποκορύφωμα της σκακιστικής δραστηριότητας είναι το καλοκαίρι, όπου μικροί και μεγάλοι μπορούν να συνδυάσουν τη θάλασσα, τις διακοπές τους και τους αγώνες σκάκι.Για να δείτε τη λίστα με όλα τα καλοκαιρινά τουρνουά...

The 23rd FIDE Individual World Senior Championships 2013 will take place on 11-24th November, 2013, at the conference centre Tamaris in Grand Hotel 4.Opatijska Cvijeta in Opatija, Croatia. The Championships are organized by the Chess Club “Rijeka” in agreement with Croatian Chess Federation under the auspices of the Mountain-littoral County, the City of Rijeka and [...]