The world’s top rated player Magnus Carlsen faced Grandmaster Borki Predojevic from Bosnia & Herzegovina in a four games rapid match in Lillehammer this Friday and Saturday (28-29th June). The match was played at the Radisson Blu Lillehammer Hotel, and with the rapid time control 25 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. In the first [...]

The second tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 took place from 16th to 28th June in Dilijan, Armenia. Indian Grandmaster and former World Championship challenger Humpy Koneru took a clear first place with 8,0/11 points, leaving the nearest followers a full point behind. Anna Muzychuk was in contention for the first place but Koneru [...]

Once the beginner has learned how to develop their pieces correctly by moving them to active squares that control the greatest amount of space, it’s time to make those moves more dangerous for their opponents. How does the beginner do this? By creating threats! However, before we consider the concept of threatening moves we need [...]

The European Chess Club Cup 2013 will take place on 19-27 October, 2013, in the conference center of the 5-star Rodos Palace Convention Resort which is regarded as one of the finest deluxe hotels on the island of Rhodes. The club registration has been open for a couple of weeks and already 20 teams signed [...]

Saudi Chess Association in cooperation with Qatar Chess Federation and NGiT is holding the Saudi Riyadh International Chess Championship on 26-28th June at the cultural cafe in Riyadh. The 11-round Swiss tournament will be played with the rapid time control on 10′+5”. International panel of arbiters is helping the local chess federation, which recently joined [...]

Σε ποδοσφαιρική ακαδημία του Σάο Πάολο της Βραζιλίας, παιδιά παίζουν μετά την προπόνηση σκάκι.  Έκπληξη, προσμονή, αλλά και αμφιβολία για το πότε και το πώς θα τεθεί σε εφαρμογή το φιλόδοξο πακέτο μεταρρυθμίσεων, που...

While studying Alekhine, Morphy, Tal or Fischer’s games, you might have spotted the correct attacking continuation but often failed to understand how they reached to the particular position. How do you build up an attack? Well here I am going to give some general aspects which might be helpful to you in practical chess game [...]

                                   ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΑ ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΑ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΟΙΞΗΣ (2007 - )Τίτλοι Σκακιστικής Άνοιξης (Αττική): Α) Πρωταθλήματα Κατηγοριών ΕΣΣΝΑ: 1η θέση: 2007(Β Τοπικη) , 2008(Α...

The 3rd International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra took place on 15-22nd June, 2013, in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps. The A section was a nine-round Swiss event available to players rated above 2000. 72 players competed in this group. [...]

Brazilian Grandmaster Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian convincingly won the open tournament in Varna, Bulgaria, after concluding the event with 7,5 points from nine games, leaving the chasing pack a full point behind. The 7th International Chess Tournament Varna Open was held on 19-27th June. The tournament was organized by the Chess Club “Veselin Topalov”. 89 players [...]

Το εισιτήριο για το ανοιχτό πρωτάθλημα Ελλάδας κέρδισε ο κ. Μάνος Ναθαναήλ αφήνοντας πίσω του πολλούς φιλόδοξους κερκυραίους σκακιστές. Και λέμε μόνο κερκυραίους μιας και το 95% των συμμετεχόντων ήταν από το νησί. Η...

It was interesting to read that the strong Russian player, Andrei Deviatkin, was planning to give playing chess up. It seems that the turning point was one particular game in which a pet line of his against the Sicilian ran into some very serious computer based opening preparation. and he felt that this wasn’t the [...]

The world’s top rated player Magnus Carlsen (2864) faces Grandmaster colleague Borki Predojevic (2616) from Bosnia & Herzegovina in a four games rapid match in Lillehammer this Friday and Saturday (28-29th June). Background of this match is that the two know each other from some chess events since childhood, and their first game took place [...]

The final of the 82nd Ukrainian Chess Championship took place on 15-26th June in Kiev. 12 players competed in the round robin tournament. Grandmasters Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Ruslan Ponomariov shared the first place with 7,5 points each. Kryvoruchko is declared new national champion thanks to the better tie-break score. Last year champion Anton Korobov finished [...]

The 2013 Nordic Women’s Championship is scheduled to take place on 17-23rd September at the Nordic House on Iceland. The Championship is open to all female participants regardless of nationality. Total prizes are 250.000 ISK, while the Nordic Champion will receive 50.000 ISK. The tournament will be played over nine rounds of Swiss system. More [...]