Rounds 1 and 2 in Andorra are completed

Ikaros 2013 – Stathes Gazis is the winner, Eva Kondou and Panagiotis Frendzas are the Aegean Champions! Stathes Gazis is the sole and unbeaten winner of the 36th International Chess Tournament “Ikaros 2013″ – Aegean Open Championship! Gazis with 8/9 (7 wins, 2 draws) finished half a point ahead of the Czech grandmaster Petr Velicka [...]

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In the West there has been a belief that confidence and self esteem are essential factors in producing achievement and that creating these traits via praise is a good thing. Yet studies (such as this one) have shown that this is not the case, and that building false confidence can in fact have a destructive [...]

Έχετε βάλει ποτέ αντηλιακό για να παίξετε σκάκι; Αν όχι τότε θα χρειαστεί να το κάνετε την επόμενη Κυριακή ( 28 / 07 / 2013 ) γιατί το πιο «καυτό» τουρνουά σκάκι θα γίνει πάνω στο κύμα…            Σας...

Μόνος πρώτος και αήττητος τερμάτισε ο Στάθης Γαζής στο 36ο Διεθνές Τουρνουά «Ίκαρος 2013» - Ανοιχτό Πρωτάθλημα Αιγαίου. Συγκέντρωσε 8 βαθμούς σε 9 αγώνες (7 νίκες, 2 ισοπαλίες), μισό βαθμό μπροστά από τον Τσέχο γκραν μετρ...

Norwegian Grandmaster Simen Agdestein completely dominated the main section of the International Open Sant Marti 2013 to take the first place with 8,5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers point and a half behind. Agdestein earned 28 elo points (performance 2901) and 1200 EUR money prize. Alexander Kovchan, Nazar Firman (both Ukraine) and Mauricio Flores Rios [...]

WGM Iva Videnova, current Bulgarian national champion and coach at the Online Chess Lessons Academy, won the 2013 edition of the traditional women chess championship Thracian Princess. WGM Videnova finished 6,5/9, with the same result as WIM Elitsa Raeva, WGM Margarita Voiska, and top seeded WGM Elena-Luminita Cosma, but grabbed the first place with better [...]

Rapid tournament dedicated to the memory of legendary Grandmaster Igor Bondarevsky was held on 19-20th July at the VertolExpo Сongress & Еxhibition Сentre in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The event was completed over 11 rounds of swiss pairings with the rapid time control 15′+10”. The results are valid for the Rapid Grand Prix Cup of Russia. Grandmasters [...]

Τρεις παίκτες με ιστορία στο ελληνικό σκάκι βραβεύτηκαν από τον πρ. δήμαρχο Γ. Κρητικό (αριστερά), για τις πρώτες θέσεις στο Ατομικό Πρωτάθλημα Αιγαίου: Π. Φρεντζάς, Ε. Κόντου και Χρ. Πούντας (δεξιά). Στο άκρο αριστερά η...

After a brief diversion we return to Move Two! We’ve now reached Chapter 10: Simple Combinations. Earlier tactics chapters introduced the idea of looking ahead and applied the concept to finding checkmate combinations. Now we extend the idea to consider combinations which win material by COMBINING the tactical ideas introduced earlier in the course: forks, [...]

According to the data released by the Internet company “Yandex”, the greatest number of sports-related search queries in Odessa, Ukraine, is associated with football, boxing and chess. News portal Timer points that the top ranking places for football and boxing are quite logical, given the periodic successes of local sportsmen and Football Club Chornomorets Odesa, [...]

Altai Krai and its capital Barnaul have celebrated the International Chess Day with a rapid tournament at the Altai Youth Theatre. European Rapid Champion Alexey Dreev won the tournament with 7,5/9 points ahead of 40 players in the field. Dreev was earlier announced as top seed in the Pacific Meridian in Vladivostok, but he took [...]

Grandmaster Boris Savchenko from Krasnodar walked through the 4th blitz tournament Kavkaz-Сhess to take a clear first place with 10/11 points in the competition of 50 players. Grandmaster Alexander Lastin is second with 8,5 points. Standings below. The 4th blitz tournament Kavkaz-Сhess 2013 was held on 14th July at the resort-city Teberda in Karachay–Cherkess Republic, [...]

I know it’s been a long time since the website was last updated and for that I apologise. It’s been a very busy couple of months; Sue started a full time job that has given her very little time to write anything while we moved out of our flat share and into a little 2 [...]