Σκάκι στα τραπεζάκια καφενείου της πόλης Ούρφα, στη νοτιοανατολική Τουρκία, η οποία κατοικείται κυρίως από Κούρδους και Άραβες. Προσκυνηματικός τόπος για τους Μουσουλμάνους και σημαντικός σταθμός στο δρόμο της...

Για 9η συνεχόμενη χρονιά διοργανώνεται το Διεθνές τουρνουά Γαζίου-Ηρακλείου  και συγκεκριμένα από τις 27 Ιουλίου ως τις 3 Αυγούστου 2013. Το τουρνουά είναι 9 γύρων και διοργανώνεται από τη Σκακιστική Ακαδημία...

One of the problems with the idea of chess as a ‘spectator sport’ is that the games played tend to be utterly incomprehensible to those who are supposed to be watching them. This is why chess teachers tend to use games which were decided by rather simpler means. A good source of these are games [...]

The blitz event will be played on April 14th

At least a little. It has been a while, but there are a couple of bits of chess news to report, and then I'll offer a brief status update on my condition. So, first, chess! Several people have noted this Vladimir Kramnik interview (Mark Crowther of TWIC was the first), and it's both a very good read in its own right and a balm for the soul to those of us who, like me, may have been pulling a...

The event will take place on April 12-13

The Køge Kyst Skak Alliancen is organizing the Admiral Niels Juel Cup 2013 on 20-27th April at the Asgård Skole, Norsvej 2, 4600 Køge, Denmark. The 10-round Swiss Open will offer opportunities for GM and IM norms. 1. prize DKK 10,000, 2. prize DKK 6,000, 3. prize DKK 4,000, 4. prize DKK 2,000 and 5. [...]

The joint operation from Chess in Schools and Communities, East Village London, Newham Council launched a programme which aims to introduce chess into every school in the borough. On Wednesday 13th of March, we woke up at 4am to be driven to East London where Gawain, Malcolm and Sabrina were going to be live on BBC Breakfast at Ravescroft Primary [...]

Battle on the Rock I would have been pretty happy with 7.5/10 before the event, but it shows how hard it is to win open events these days that 4 players managed to amass 8 points. One of the special appeals of the Gibraltar tournament is the varied array of chess themed evening entertainment. One [...]

The fields are set for both the 2013 U.S. Championship and 2013 U.S. Women’s Championship, scheduled to be held simultaneously May 2 through May 13 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL). This marks the fifth consecutive year that each of these prestigious events will be held in Saint Louis. The [...]

Chessdom.com registered an increase of 93,85% in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, reaching over 3 million visits. That is a total of 1,5 million visits increase, with other major statistics keeping similar levels – each visitor reads on average more than 9 articles daily, while spending 23:36 minutes [...]

Vadim Repin, one of the world’s most famous and popular musicians, will give a concert at the opening of the Alekhine Memorial Chess Super-Tournament, which will take place on 20 April in Paris. Vadim Repin will join with pianist Nikolai Lugansky to perform a programme of works by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano and violin. “It’s [...]

Videos by the renowned producer Vijay Kumar

This issue has already been nicely dealt with by Mikhail Shereshevsky in his book Endgame Strategy, but here I would like to focus the same thing for kids or beginners. While teaching profitable exchanges to children most teachers prefer to teach them by the value of the material; for example if you are getting rook [...]

Kasparov will receive the 2013 Morris B. Abram Human Rights Award