Η φωτογραφία δημοσιεύτηκε στο τεύχος Νοεμβρίου 1946 του British Chess Magazine και εικονίζει τον Ντμίτρι Σοστακόβιτς να παίζει σκάκι. Για τον ιδιοφυή Ρώσο συνθέτη το σκάκι ήταν μονάχα ένα νεανικό πάθος. Του άρεσε το παιχνίδι αλλά...

Κείμενο: Σπύρος Ιλαντζής Πριν λίγες ημέρες, γράψαμε (σε κείμενο του Κοσμά Κέφαλου) για το 3ο Σκακιστικό Πρωτάθλημα Ηθοποιών, που θα ξεκινήσει, με το 1ο προκριματικό τουρνουά ράπιντ (προκήρυξη  ε δ ώ ) στο Κάισσα Cafe...

We are happy to inform you that Mr.Israel Gelfer, Vice President FIDE and member World Chess Championship Match committee has come to Chennai to finalize the arrangements in organizing the World Chess Championship Match 2013 between World Champion GM V.Anand and Challenger GM Magnus Carlsen. In this connection an MOU will be signed between World [...]

Ο διακεκριμένος έλληνας συνθέτης Δημήτρης Καπράλος κατασκεύασε το 1957 το παρακάτω πρόβλημα με τίτλο “Ο Θησέας στο Λαβύρινθο”. Ματ σε 20 κινήσεις. Το εμπνεύστηκε από την Ελληνική Μυθολογία, όπου ο Θησέας, εδώ...

The passing of Robert Byrne last week was a sad loss the the chess World. I met him only briefly but he impressed me with his calm demeanor and great knowledge. He also played a significant role in my cogitations on the Modern Defence (1…g6 against just about anything), his system against the Saemisch Variation [...]

Katrina Skinke leads the women's event

Bacrot defeated Fressinet on the final match

Alexander Alekhine, My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 (Russell Enterprises 2013). $34.95. 454 pp. Reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos. So-called descriptive notation offers an inelegant and ugly way of recording the moves of a chess game, but that's the way things were in English-language chess publications for at least the first 2/3 to 3/4 of the 20th century. That it is gone is progress, and not...

The qualifier for the Russian Rapid Championship will take place on 1-2 May

Nakamura could not squeeze a win against Karjakin

There weren't going to be many bloodless draws in any case at the FIDE Grand Prix in Zug due to the lineup of dynamic, fighting players, but the anti-draw rules in effect offered some overkill just in case. There were four draws, two agreed shortly before move 40 and the other two going many more moves. Giri-Topalov was a Fianchetto Gruenfeld where Giri seemed to have a slight advantage with...

Kanch­e­epuram was opted as model district to implement the program

The championships will be held on 19th - 25th April

The Thailand Open 2013 – 13th Bangkok Chess Club Open – is now two thirds way through with six rounds having been played. It was an unfamiliar line-up at the top boards in this Asia leading international event being played at the Dusit Thani Pattaya with Rogelio Antonio against Levente Vajda, Ralf Akesson against Mark [...]

Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana among the participants