Παραδοσιακό αλλά και σύγχρονο, σε ευδιάκριτα φιλικό κλίμα αλλά και με έντονη αγωνιστική διάθεση, με συμμετοχή παικτών από 6 μέχρι 85 ετών και από γκραν μετρ έως αρχάριους, το Διεθνές Σκακιστικό Τουρνουά «Ίκαρος»...

Imagine, I ask my pupils, that you were a caveman living in the Stone Age. You’d have a choice of two jobs. You could be a hunter or a farmer. Which would you prefer? I don’t need to know very much about them to predict which children will choose each job. Now the two jobs [...]

Cuban top Grandmaster Leinier Dominguez will visit Webster University in Saint Louis to participate in a blitz chess tournament and give a lecture on the development of chess in Cuba, local media reported. At 2757 Elo Dominguez is currently ranked as 13th player in the world. This will be the second trip to the U.S. [...]

Minsk Open 2013 is taking place on 13-21st July at the capital of Belarus. The 9-round event has 128 participants from six countries, including ten Grandmasters and ten International Masters. Official website Participants: 1 GM Zhigalko Andrey BLR 2604 2 GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ARM 2582 3 GM Brodsky Michail UKR 2562 4 IM Kovalev Vladislav [...]

The 18th Annual Pacific Coast Open will be held from July 18-21, 2013, at the Sheraton Agoura Hills Hotel, 30100 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, California. The event has 7 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Adult Under 1200 and Junior Under 1200. The Open-Under 1500 sections have either 4-day (July 18-21), [...]

Και έρχεται μια στιγμή που ραγίζει η καθημερινότητα. Λόγω θλιβερού οικογενειακού συμβάντος, το skakistiko δε θα ανανεωθεί για λίγες μέρες με νέες αναρτήσεις. Επίσης, δεν θα ανανεώνονται οι στήλες “πρόβλημα της ημέρας”...

(* Non-greek speaking visitors, please scroll below)   Πρόγραμμα: Το πρόγραμμα των αγώνων διαμορφώνεται ως εξής:1ος Γύρος: Σάββατο   13/7, 7.00 μ.μ.  2ος Γύρος: Κυριακή   14/7, 7.00 μ.μ. 3ος Γύρος: Δευτέρα   15/7, 7.00 μ.μ. 4ος Γύρος...

Του Παναγιώτη Κονιδάρη Πολλές φορές έχω μιλήσει για τις σπουδές, την κατηγορία αυτή των προβλημάτων που προσομοιάζει στο αγωνιστικό σκάκι όσο καμιά άλλη. Αξίζει τελικά τον κόπο να ασχολείται κανείς μαζί τους; Έχει...

I mentioned the topic of bad habits in my last article and thought I’d expound on this subject a little further. I decided to do so because it’s a big problem in beginner’s chess. I did a lot of research to see just where these bad chess habits come from before writing my last article [...]

The 2013 Corporation Cup is taking place on 12th-21st July in the region of Samara in Russia

The tournament is taking place on 10-17th July

Isan Ortiz and Marc Narciso finished on second and third place, respectively

With three more rounds to go in Beijing, the fight for first place seems to be reduced to the two leaders

The Belgian Blitz Championship 2013 was held on 12th July in Lindner Hotel, Antwerpen. The event is a part of the Belgian Chess Championships that are ongoing until 14th July at the same venue. 52 players took part in the 9-round Swiss event. IM Tanguy Ringoir won a clear first place with 7,5 points. The [...]

The 6th International Chess Festival “Sport Summer 2013″ took place on July 5-12th in Hotel Petrus in Paraćin, Serbia. The main event was International Championship of Central Serbia, a 9-round Swiss tournament with FIDE time control. There were three events, OPEN A for players rated higher then 2100 and OPEN B for the lower rated [...]