Live games with analyisis

The event will take place on 21st - 28th March

The AICF KIIT Cup, the first of its kind in India, started here on 17th March at the Banquet of Hall of KIIT Campus, Bhubaneswar. The prestigious event carries a prize pool of Rs.9.20 lakhs is being jointly organized by the All Odisha Chess Association and the KIIT University. The 10 day event is co-sponsored [...]

WGM Elena Partac and WGM Karolina Smokina finished in second and third place, respectively

In advance of the 2013 College Chess Final Four April 5-7 in Rockville, Md., Webster University chess coach Susan Polgar was invited to play outside in New York City on the “Fox & Friends” morning news show Monday, March 18. Braving some brisk temperatures in Manhattan, the hosts challenged Polgar to a 90-second game on [...]

WGM Mirjana Medic finished in clear second place

The 22nd Annual Eastern Class Championships were held from March 15-17, 2013, at the Host Hotel at Cedar Lake, 366 Main St, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Grandmasters Mikheil Kekelidze and Alexander Fishbein finished at the top of the standings in the Master Section completing the tournament with 4,0/5 points each. Kekelidze was awarded the 1st place bonus [...]

FIDE Chess in Schools Chairman Ali Nihat Yazici has made an official visit to Bangkok, Thailand from 9 to 11 March 2013. Members of the board of Thailand Chess Association and Yazici have discussed a detailed Master Plan for the TCA. The President of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov had already launched the CIS project of Thailand [...]

Καθαρή Δευτέρα, Αθήνα 1975.Φωτογραφία: Κώστας Μπαλάφας.(Φωτογραφικά Αρχεία Μουσείου Μπενάκη).Η δύσκολη καθημερινότητα και η "γραμμή της επιβίωσης" έχουν αναγκάσει τον "καφετζή" του Σκακιστικού Καφενείου να το...

It didn't take long for the Candidates tournament to heat up. There were four draws in round 1, but all the decisive results the last two days have really stratified the field. Levon Aronian's score of 2.5/3 will pressure the other players to push a bit harder to keep up, while Boris Gelfand and Vassily Ivanchuk's score of half a point out of 3 leaves them almost out of contention already, even...

My post today is inspired by a quote from Steal My Art; The Life and Times of Tai Chi Master T. T. Liang: Every teacher has something to offer. Take what is good and discard what is bad. Then you can learn something. It’s not everyone who has such a sensible approach, many people slavishly [...]

The Western Pacific Open is scheduled to take place on 26-28th April at the Radisson LAX, 6225 West Century Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045. The tournament will be held over 5 rounds of Swiss system and in five sections – Open, Premier, Amateur, Reserve, Booster. Time control is 40/2, SD/1, d/5 (2-day option, rounds 1-2, [...]

Webster University chess coach and founder of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) is scheduled to be on “FOX & Friends” (the #1 national cable morning show in the U.S.) Monday morning on the Fox News cable channel. Exact details for live TV are always subject to change, but the plan is for [...]

Νίκες των Αρονιάν, Κάρλσεν και Σβίντλερ Συναρπαστικός ο τρίτος γύρος, στο τουρνουά των διεκδικητών που διεξάγεται στο Λονδίνο. Ο Αρονιάν, ως μαύρος, κέρδισε τον Ιβαντσούκ, σε μια παρτίδα που ο λευκός ήταν χειρότερος έως...

Svidler and Carlsen share the second place after winning their games today