Italian superstar Fabiano Caruana started the Dortmund Sparkassen Tournament with a victory against the Russian champion Dmitry Andreikin to reach the magical 2800-elo mark in the live rating list. Caruana was already established on the third place in the FIDE world rankings and now he joins the elite club of players who have reached the [...]

Wang Hao surprisingly blundered to give Kramnik his first full point

Ψάχνοντας στο διαδίκτυο για βάσεις δεδομένων μπορούμε εύκολα να βρούμε ένα από τα κορυφαία επαγγελματικά προγράμματα. Την chessbase. Το 2010 αριθμούσε πάνω από 5 εκατομμύρια παιχνίδια και ο αριθμός αυτός αυξάνετε...

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave missed a big chance to defeat Alexander Moiseenko

The 114th Annual United States Open Chess Championship will take place on 27 July – 4 August 2013 at the Madison Marriott West, 1313 John Q Hammons Drive, in Middleton, Wisconsin. The top US player not otherwise qualified will qualify for the 2014 US Championship. The tournament will be played as a single section with [...]

Ατομικό Blitz - Rapid "ΕΥ ΑΓΩΝΙΖΕΣΘΑΙ" 2013 - 1ο Ανοιχτό Πρωτάθλημα Ελλάδος Blitz – Rapid.  Η Σκακιστική Ακαδημία Πύργου προκηρύσσει το Ατομικό Blitz - Rapid “ΕΥ ΑΓΩΝΙΖΕΣΘΑΙ” 2013 – 1ο Ανοιχτό Πρωτάθλημα Ελλάδος Blitz - Rapid από την 29η...

The Maccabiah International Chess Festival is taking place on 21-28 July 2013 in Jerusalem

The 6th Paleohora Open Chess Tournament took place on 19-26th June at the Municipality of Kandanos – Selino Community Centre, in Paleohora, Crete, Greece. Russian Grandmaster Andrey Rychagov is obviously enjoying Crete as he won the tournament for the second year in a row. Rychagov emerged clear winner after concluding the event with 7,5/9 points, [...]

Cuban Grandmaster Lazaro Bruzon maintained the lead after six rounds of play in the 2013 Quebec Open in Montréal. Yesterday he drew GM Elshan Moradiabadi with black pieces for the overnight count of 5,0/6 points. As many as eight players are sharing the second place half a point behind the leader. The Quebec Open Championship [...]

The event is taking place on 24th – 28th July

The national championship finishes on July 28th

Του Βασίλη Τσαρουχά ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΑ  ΠΡΩΤΗ ΕΩΣ ΤΡΙΤΗ ΘΕΣΗ  ΟΙ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΤΕΣ   ΑΓΟΡΙΑ ΕΣΣΝΑ (2, Κοκολακης Π, κ8, Αιγλη Παπαγου, Κατωποδης Δ κ10, ΠΣ Περιστερι), Κρητη (2, Θεοδωρου Ν, κ 14 Ρεθυμνο, Ναουμ Σπ κ 16 ΣΑ Χανιων), ΕΣΣΝΘ-Χ (1...

There are equal forces on the chess board initially but not all outcomes are draws. The side that wins is the one who make penultimate mistake. It wouldn’t be too much if I say that chess is game of mistakes. In order to win you need not make many brilliant moves but rather avoid mistakes [...]

Alexander Moiseenko and Etienne Bacrot are the leaders after four round

Dortmund Chess 2013 will be held from July 26th to August 4th as a single round robin with 10 participants. Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com The field will be led by ten-times champion of the event Vladimir Kramnik and last year winner Fabiano Caruana, both searching for their 2800 rating. Hungary’s [...]