Bulgarian Grandmaster Ivan Cheparinov leads Politiken Cup 2013 with perfect score after the first 6 rounds. Today he defeated Hrant Melkumyan to maintain half a point margin ahead of Parimarjan Negi and Sergey Erenburg. In the 7th round Cheparinov will play against Negi, who has the white pieces. Erenburg has black against Sabino Brunello. Among [...]

Sergei Tiviakov and Marc Arnold finished second and third, respectively

Maxim Rodshtein obatined second place

As today is my 53rd birthday I thought I’d offer some brief thoughts on age in chess. The average age of top players seems to be declining, and part of the reason may be because expertise can be acquired more quickly in this information age. But another very significant part has to be that playing [...]

Although the world’s 7th ranked player gave up 2 draws and finished with 4 points behind GM Julio Sadorra and GM Bartlomiej Macieja, the 2013 Houston Open will be remembered for Mr. Nakamura’s totally unexpected appearance. Article by FA William Broich The event was held at the Marriott North in Houston, Texas, USA on July [...]

Ο ίππος και ο αξιωματικός είναι τα δυσκολότερα κομμάτια για να συνεργαστούν. Εάν θέλετε να κατανοήσετε σε βάθος πώς συνεργάζονται αυτά τα δύο κόμματα για να πετύχουν  ρουά ματ στον αντίπαλο βασιλιά, θα έχετε κάνει...

The leaders are 1.5 points above their closest followers

Etienne Bacrot is one point behind the Chinese (the Bilbao scoring system is in use)

India won the Youth Chess Olympiad at Chongqing, China, on Monday. In the final round, second-seeded India thrashed Iran 3.5-0.5 to take its tally to 18 points, one point ahead of top seed Russia, which finished runner-up. Turkey came third with 15 points. In the 10th round of the premier World team championship in the [...]

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GM Semen Dvoirys and GM Boris Avrukh won the grandamsters events

The event finishes on August 3rd

French GM Vladimir Lazarev was declared second

Recently I was reminded just how hard it is to win a FIDE-rated swiss tournament if you’re not a clear favourite. When you’re playing people who are more or less the same strength as you it is tough making progress. In addition, quite a few players are under-rated because either they’re juniors or they don’t [...]