Most of us would like to see the chess games which involves sacrifices (immortal games), bold attacks, heavy tactics and deep calculations. Books are sold with the ‘winning’ tag (winning Strategy, winning tactics etc etc). Even when someone ask us that which is your best game ever played, we show the game which we win [...]

Ανάλυση της παρτίδας Κάρλσεν – Γκρίσουκ.Η επίσημη σελίδα των αγώνων βρίσκεται εδώ.Πατώντας εδώ μπορείτε να δείτε δωρεάν αναλύσεις από κορυφαίους παίχτες.

Κείμενο:  middlewave Κοιτάζοντας δίπλα μου, στη μικρή σκοτεινή αριστερή γωνιά της σκηνής, συνειδητοποιώ ότι βιώνω από πρώτο χέρι το φαινόμενο της παγκοσμιοποίησης. Ο Τζάιλς είναι νεοζηλανδός, η Μίννο βιετναμέζα, ο Τοντ...

Magnus Carlsen is now fully awake, so his fellow Candidates had better stay (or get) sharp if they hope to compete with him. With his second consecutive win, Carlsen has caught up with Levon Aronian; both are +2 after four rounds. Carlsen got there by defeating Alexander Grischuk on the white side of a 4.d3 Berlin. Grischuk played very aggressively, hoping that his bishops and space would offer...

The event is taking place on 15th - 26th March

The 17th Annual Mid-America Open took place on March 15-17, 2013, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Louis-Clayton, 7750 Carondelet Ave., St. Louis, Missouri. Indian IM Priyadharshan Kannappan, studying at Lindenwood University in St. Louis, beat out a strong field that included 7 Grandmasters to top the Open Section. A final round win against GM [...]

The Geneva Chess Masters will take place on 24-30th June, 2013, at the Theatre Pitoeff in Geneve, Swizerland. Vladimir Kramnik, Judit Polgar, Hikaru Nakamura, Etienne Bacrot, Romain Edouard, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Yannick Pelletier will compete alongside with the 8th player who will be announced soon. The 30th Geneva International Open will be held concurrently with [...]

The event will be played on 5th - 14th July 2013

Έπιασε ο Κάρλσεν τον Αρονιάν στην κορυφή Τέταρτος γύρος στο τουρνουά των διεκδικητών που διεξάγεται στο Λονδίνο και ο Νορβηγός Μάγκνους Κάρλσεν σημείωσε σημαντική νίκη επί του Ρώσου Αλεξάντερ Γκριστσούκ . Ο Κάρλσεν...

Carlsen defeated Grischuk and caught up with Aronian at +2

Magnus used his trademark positional style to beat the Russian

Svidler surprisingly used the Queen's Gambit Accepted

Μόναχο 1932 κατά τις τελευταίες τραγικές μέρες της Δημοκρατίας της Βαϊμάρης.  Σκακιστές παίζουν το αγαπημένο τους παιχνίδι στο Cafe Stefanie και αρκετοί θεατές στέκονται και παρακολουθούν στη τζαμαρία.  Το συγκεκριμένο καφέ...

Once I found myself inside a cigar-shaped windowless pod, about twelve feet by six feet, made of some sturdy space-age off-white material, with two other people who happened to be female. We were floating many miles above the Earth, on the edge of space, as part of a NASA experiment. We were waiting patiently to [...]

Daniel Wium and IM Johannes Mabusela finished second and third