Με πολύ κόσμο και πολύ σκάκι διοργανώνεται αυτές τις μέρες το 6ο Μαθητικό φεστιβάλ της ΚΝΕ στα Λιθαρίτσια Ιωαννίνων.Η διοργάνωση θα ολοκληρωθεί σήμερα το βράδυ με πολύ μουσική από τοπικά συγκροτήματα. Όσοι βρίσκεστε...

Let me take you back to the year 1961, the year in which I was fortunate enough to win a free place at a leading London school. The journey required two trains: from my local station to Richmond, and then on the London Underground District Line from Richmond to Ravenscourt Park, a journey of about [...]

The 2013 Politiken Cup will take place from Saturday 27th July to Sunday 4th August at the Konventum Lo-Skolen in Helsingør, Denmark. The tournament format is 10-round Swiss to be completed over nine days. Already more than 100 players are signed to take participation, including members of the 2700-club Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and last year winner [...]

3.     Το γκαμπί της χελώνας Φτάνοντας στις Σκιρωνίδες πέτρες ο Θησέας αναγκάστηκε να βραδύνει το βήμα του. Όχι τόσο επειδή φοβόταν τον περιβόητο λήσταρχο Σκίρωνα που είχε δώσει και το όνομά του στην περιοχή, όσο γιατί...

Grandmaster Boban Bogosavljevic became the new Serbian Champion after the convincing victory at the event held in Vrnjacka Banja on 15-27th April. Bogosavljevic, who celebrated 25th birthday during the final rounds, conceded only four draws to complete the Championship with 10/12 points, leaving the second placed IM Aleksandar Indjic full two points behind. Bogosavljevic earned [...]

For the first time, they included chess as a new discipline

WIM Salomeja Zaksaite and WFM Vesta Kapsute finished in second and third place

Saturday is a rest day for the participants in the FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Zug (we're between playing days there, so is this a zwischenzug?), while the players at the Alekhine Memorial have Friday and Saturday off as their tournament moves from Paris, France to St. Petersburg, Russia.  Let's take the opportunity then for a quick scoreboard update: Zug: After eight rounds of 11, the...

One quotation from the Peter Heine Nielsen interview especially caught my attention: It seems indeed that the days of big novelties are over... You may recall the recent news of Garry Kasparov's offering to work with Magnus Carlsen in the latter's forthcoming world championship tilt with Viswanathan Anand. In my post on the subject (and in the comments section too) I suggested that Kasparov's...

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with Jaideep Unudurti, who not only offers comments here on a regular basis, but is sometimes a featured part of the blog posts themselves. (You might remember his recent adventure playing blitz with Viswanathan Anand, for example.) This is true of this post as well, as we have here an interview with Peter Heine Nielsen, to appear in the May issue of...

So often, when we make a seemingly great move on the chessboard, we fail to examine that move for any potential negative aspects. Each month, I take on a new student, Pro Bono, from another country. They say you can’t keep (in life) what you don’t give back and I take this to heart. I [...]

The event will be held from April 26th to May 1st

WGM Anna Zozulia finished first in the women's event

Serbian GM Miroljub Lazic finished in second place

Ruslan Ponomariov is in sole second place with three rounds to go