Today is a bank holiday and it’s also the final round of the Four Nation Chess League. Guildford play Wood Green Hilsmark in what is the match we have all been waiting for! Here’s the lineup for today. In the demotion pool we have another Guildford vs Wood Green Hilsmark line up! You can watch [...]

Κείμενο: rotten Πέρυσι έγινε το πρώτο βήμα. Το «1ο Ιδαίον Άντρον» ήταν ένα τουρνουά με έντονη τη ζεστή διάθεση της παρέας. Το ίδιο φιλοδοξούμε να γίνει και σε αυτό το δεύτερο βήμα. Θα παίξουμε σκάκι, θα μαζευτούμε στις...

A major issue on the road to improvement is in changing bad habits. Chess is not the only sphere in which this is a problem as this article shows. And the proposed solution (specifying ways in which the new habit differs from the old one) seems very good. How can chess players use this? Well [...]

Tuvshintugs Batchimeg surprisingly defeated Hou Yifan

There were seven age categories both for boys and girls

The event will be held on 8th - 12th May 2013

Krystian Jacek and rating favorite GM Miroslaw Grabarczyk finished second and third, respectively

FM Jakob Aabling-Thomsen obtained 5.5/9 points and secured an IM norm

IM Dariusz Mikrut finished second on tiebreaks

Alexandr Fier arrived second and also qualified to this year's World Cup

After two rounds of the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship, there are curiously more perfect scores remaining in the latter tournament, despite having fewer than half the players of the former. Report by FM Mike Klein. Only three women (IMs Irina Krush and Anna Zatonksih and WGM Tatev Amrahamyan) and two men (GMs [...]

FIDE Presidential Board which is in progress at Baku, Azerbaijan, today confirmed Chennai as the venue for the World Chess Championship match between defending champion Viswanathan Anand and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen from 06-26 November 2013. The agreement was signed today at Baku by Bharat Singh, Hony Secretary All India Chess Federation, and FIDE [...]

The International Open Tournament Llucmajor 2013 was held from April 28th to May 5th at the Club Náutico de LLucmajor, 8 kms away from the Palma de Mallorca International Airport, Spain. Grandmasters Salvador Del Rio De Angelis, Vladimir Petkov, Stanislav Savchenko and Karen Movsziszian emerged joint winners with 7 points each after nine rounds of [...]

Ποιο είναι το σχέδιο των μαύρων σε αυτή τη θέση;Σε μια προηγούμενη ανάρτηση, την οποία μπορείτε να βρείτε πατώντας εδώ, μιλήσαμε για τους στρατηγικούς κανόνες. Είπαμε ότι πρέπει να είναι απλοί και να εφαρμόζονται...

You will be relieved to hear that this week’s article will be mercifully short as I’m in the middle of a domestic crisis. My electricity has failed so at present I have minimal power and no internet access at home. It may also be a few days before I’m able to reply to any comments [...]