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Λίγοι είναι αυτοί που πιστεύουν στον Boris Gelfand και ότι μπορεί να καταφέρει μεγάλα πράγματα… Λίγοι είναι αυτοί που είχαν πιστέψει ότι μπορεί να κερδίσει το παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημα ενάντια στον Vishy Anand.Και όμως ο Ισραηλινός...

On the eve of his 45th birthday, Boris Gelfand added another major success to his already packed resume by winning the extremely strong 2013 Tal Memorial. After six rounds he was in second place, half a point ahead of Magnus Carlsen (and others) and half a point behind Hikaru Nakamura. In round 7 he defeated Nakamura with Black, and as Carlsen only won one game in the last three round (in round...

Silver Lake open chess tournament was held on 14-20th June at the Silver Lake resort (Srebrno Jezero) in Serbia. The Open A group was reserved for the players rated above 2200 FIDE, although some exceptions have been made to include the lower rated participants. 27 players competed over nine rounds of Swiss system. Grandmasters Miroslav [...]

The second tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 16th to 28th June in Dilijan, Armenia. Former World Championship challenger Humpy Koneru outplayed the overnight leader Anna Muzychuk to take the top position after round six. Nana Dzagnidze recovered from the earlier setback and is again in the contention for the [...]

Grandmaster Dmitry Bocharov stormed through the tournament to convincingly take the first place with 8 points from 11 games. Vadim Zviagintsev (Moscow) and Rinat Jumabaev (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan) shared the second place with 7 points each. Siberian bank “Sberbank of Russia” organized the round robin blitz tournament on 21st June in Novosibirsk, Russia. Twelve players from [...]

A few months ago Nigel and I had an interesting discussion on Facebook about whether or not children should be taught the Fried Liver Attack. This is a question that, unless something more pressing arises, I’ll consider in a lot more detail next week. For the moment, I’ll just say that many children who play [...]

The U.S. Junior Championship boasts an impressive field, all the more so considering that only one player is at the maximum age of 19. Two players are 17, and two of the players - both near 2500 USCF - are only 12. Yikes. With one round to go Daniel Naroditsky and Luke Harmon-Vellotti are tied for first with 5.5/8, half a point ahead of one of the 12-year-olds, Samuel Sevian. I don't know any of...

Sergei Tiviakov became the first champion to ever repeat with his second successive victory at the DYTM Raja Dr Nazrin Shah Invitational Masters. After a slow start with a draw in the first round against Malaysia No. 1 Mas Hafizulhelmi, the determined Netherlands resident played himself into form and with less mistakes than his opponents [...]

(* Non-greek speaking visitors, please scroll below)  Όπως κάθε χρόνο, έτσι και φέτος η οργανωτική επιτροπή του Διεθνούς Σκακιστικού Τουρνουά «Ίκαρος», βρίσκεται σε επαφή με τις ακτοπλοϊκές εταιρείες που δραστηριοποιούνται στη γραμμή της...

Alexander Ipatov jumps for chess

Ο Σ.Ο Περιστερίου γιορτάζοντας την επέτειο  των 4Ο  χρόνων λειτουργίας του σε συνεργασία  με το Δήμο Περιστερίου διοργανώνει  ένα εντυπωσιακό χάπενιγκ για μικρούς και μεγάλους τη Δευτέρα 1η Ιουλίου στο άλσος...

Once the beginning player has learned the basics of chess, he or she faces the daunting task of finding good moves within their games. While age old principles help in the decision making process, they can only guide the novice player so far. With so many possibilities in a given position, how does the beginner [...]

As if Luke Harmon-Vellotti didn’t get enough cake from his sixth-round match versus WFM Sarah Chiang, he got to eat it, too, when Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura helped analyze the game afterward. Report by Brian Jerauld. During his off day from the Tal Memorial in Russia, America’s No. 1 “called in” to the live stream of [...]

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