Top seeded Grandmasters Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania) and Sergey Volkov (Russia) concluded the second Ortisei Open on the top of the crosstable with 7,0/9 points. The 2nd Server24 Chess Festival Ortisei 2013 was held on 1-9th June in Ortisei, Val Gardena, South Tyrol, Italy. Five players shared the third place with 6,5 points, including the talented [...]

Grandmasters Robert Markus, Aleksandar Kovacevic and Predrag Nikolic completed the tournament on the shared first place with 6,0/9 points each. Markus earned the winner’s trophy on best tie-break score. The 43nd International Chess Tournament Bosna 2013 took place on 1-8th June at the Hotel Saraj in Sarajevo, BIH. 29 players participated in the A tournament, [...]

Ηλικιωμένοι σκακιστές στον Κήπο του Λουξεμβούργου, κοντά στο πανεπιστήμιο της Σορβόνης.  Στο μεταξύ,  σάλο προκάλεσε στη Γαλλία o θάνατος ενός νεαρού ακτιβιστή της Αριστεράς, μετά από βίαια επίθεση που δέχτηκε από...

I wrote last time about the importance of basic knowledge of pawn endings. There’s a point when students have learnt how to avoid simple tactical oversights but not how to form plans in the opening and middle game, when they suddenly find themselves reaching lots of endings. Here, taken from the RJCC master database, about [...]

The 15th International Open Sant Marti is scheduled to take place from 13th to 21st July, 2013, at the Centre Civic Sant Marti: c/ Selva de Mar, Barcelona, Spain. There will be two competitions: group A, for players with FCE, FEDA, FIDE elo bigger than 2000 and group B for players with FCE, FEDA and [...]

Ivanchuk blundered in the second classical game

Mamedyarov finished with five straight victories to overtake Nepomniachtchi, Grischuk finished third

Indian GM Akshayraj Kore missed out on the chance to finish among the joint winners when he failed to capitalize on an advantage in the middle game and was held to a draw by IM Swayams Mishra in the final round of the Rs 21.5 lakh prize money 6th Mumbai Mayor International Chess Tournament 2013, [...]

Ένας σπουδαίος αγώνας πρόκειται να διεξαχθεί αύριο μεταξύ των ομάδων των Ιωαννίνων και της Πτολεμαΐδας, για το Κύπελλο Ελλάδας.Ο αγώνας θα ξεκινήσει στις 12:00 στην αίθουσα του Συλλόγου μας και η είσοδος φυσικά είναι...

Ask a non chess playing child what a fork is and they’ll tell you it’s something their parents make them eat food with. Ask a chess playing child the same question and they’ll tell you it’s a tactical device that wins games! The fork is one of the most devastating tactical devices a chess player [...]

Karjakin got his second straight tournament victory and will be playing at the Tal Memorial next week

Khairullin and Cheparinov share second place

The 30th Geneva Chess Open will be organized by the La Fédération Genevoise d’Echecs on 24-30th June, concurrently with the Geneva Chess Masters. The playing venue will be Salle Communale de Plainpalais, 52 rue de Carouge, 1205 Genève, Switzerland. The Open A is reserved for the players rated above 1800 and will be played over [...]

Yuniesky Quesada obtained the unfortunate third place

Topalov is on 4.5/6 with three rounds to go