ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΤΟΥΡΝΟΥΑ ΣΚΑΚΙ (Blitz)¨ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ 2013 ¨(100 χρόνια από την απελευθέρωση της Δράμας)ΧώροςΓρασίδια Αγίας Βαρβάρας στη Δράμα Τετάρτη 26 Ιουνίου 2013Διοργάνωση : Μορφωτικός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος ΓΑΛΑΞΙΑΣ...

Ο Γάλλος συγγραφές Ερίκ Φενώ στο πρώτο του μυθιστόρημα που κυκλοφόρησε στη Γαλλία του 1999 και μεταφράστηκε στην Ελλάδα το 2001 με τον μακροσκελή τίτλο Όπου γίνεται λόγος για το σκάκι, την πανουργία του Κασπάροφ, τα...

The 2013/14 season is about to begin for the British Correspondence Chess Championship, the British Veterans Championship and the British Ladies Championship. The championships are only open to full members of the British Federation for Correspondence Chess (BFCC) and its member organisations who were born or are currently residing in the United Kingdom, a Crown [...]

The second Server24 Chess Festival Ortisei 2013 is taking place on 1-9th June in Ortisei, Val Gardena, South Tyrol, Italy. In the 6th round top seeded GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu was held to a draw by GM Eric Hansen, while GM Sergey Volkov won his game to catch the Romanian on the shared first place with [...]

Mamedyarov and Khairulin trail half a point behind

The beautiful city of Chiangmai is playing host to 400 children and their families for the 14th ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess Championships, and the first rounds of the Rapid tournament are under way. Friday promises to be “organised chaos” as we switch from Rapid to Blitz, while the main tournament begins on Saturday, sponsored by drinks [...]

The strong tournament runs until June 9th

Croatia leads in the open section, while Slovakia does it in the women's category

The Commission for Women’s Chess is going to organize an Internet Based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, from 25 to 30 June 2013, under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Santiago Garcia Ramos (MEX), FIDE Lecturer. The Technical Organizer will be WGM Martha Fierro. The lectures will be in Spanish language. The Seminar will [...]

The 1st International Conference on the Applications of Chess and Education will take place in Buitrago de Lozoya from June 25th to June 29th at the GSD Buitrago Campus. It will be organized by the Gredos San Diego Cooperative and by the National Distance Education University (UNED). A International School Chess Tournament, subject to official [...]

Last week in “Fischer and You” I touched on Bobby Fischer and Endgame, a biography by Frank Brady. Brady writes that Fischer played “12,000 games a year, most of them speed games” from age 11 to 13, and as is well known, within two more years Fischer qualified as a World Championship Candidate at the [...]

The event begins on June 25th

Axel Rombaldoni and Mihail Marin are leading after six rounds

Tomashevsky is in sole second place half a point behind the Bulgarian

The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2013 will take place on 4st – 11th June in Khanty-Mansiysk, Ugra Region, Russia. Live: All games World Rapid Chess 2013 / All games World Blitz Chess 2013 62 chess players from 18 countries have arrived to Khanty-Mansiysk for FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships. The traditional opening [...]