www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKzFEXnG70M Κείμενο: middlewave Μισή ώρα πριν τις δύο, όλοι όσοι ασχολούνται με τους αγώνες ξεκινούν την ιδιαίτερη ιεροτελεστία τους. Οι διαιτητές ελέγχουν τις ρυθμίσεις των ρολογιών, ο Μακόλεϊ ενεργοποιεί τις...

I’ll return to Move Two! shortly. But first, something else. Readers of my articles will probably be aware that I stopped most of my chess teaching several years ago because of my frustrations with the whole concept of after-school chess clubs in primary schools. With a successful book for children published and a new book [...]

Not blindfold, but blind. The title "Algorithms" probably won't help most of us find it when it becomes available in our areas, so consider this a heads-up. HT: Narayan

Gawain is at Bundesliga again, today he had a boring draw today against his last FIDE rated opponent from the Icelandic league (also a draw), Tomi Nyback who is the top Finnish player. Gawain is playing for Solingen who unfortunately lost today’s match to Werder Bremen It was a very close match with the final [...]

The 2013 Open Karpos was organized by the Municipality of Karpos and Chess Club Gambit Aseko-See on 9-16th March at the Aleksandar Palace in Skopje. The Tournament was played over 9 rounds of Swiss System and the total prize fund was 20,000 EUR. 234 players from 31 federations competed, including 56 Grandmasters and 24 International [...]

The event is taking place on 16th-22nd March

Carlsen signed a draw with white against Kramnik

Ivanchuk sacrificed his queen but could not save his position

Happily, it didn't take too long to get some decisive wins in the 2013 Candidates. Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov both won with the white pieces to seize the early lead with 1.5/2. The first win of the tournament belongs to Aronian, who won a very nice game against Boris Gelfand. Gelfand chose a line against the English that has long had a reputation of being rather unpleasant, and so it was...

Νίκες του Αρονιάν και του Ρατζάμποβ (Φωτ: Λέβον Αρονιάν). Την πρώτη χρονικά νίκη στη διοργάνωση πέτυχε ο Λέβον Αρονιάν κερδίζοντας τον  Γκέλφαντ, μετά από σοβαρό λάθος του τελευταίου, σε χειρότερη ωστόσο θέση. Ωραία και...

Carlsen and Kramnik drew their game

Article by Magnus Carlsen himself

Candidates Chess Tournament 2013 is taking from March 14 to April 1 in Savoy Place, London. Eight of the top world Grandmasters are participating for a place in the finals against Viswanathan Anand. The games have the traditional daily live coverage on Chessdom.com together with resident commentators GM Christian Bauer, IM Aman Hambleton, and IM [...]

Γράφει ο middlewave Καθώς κάθομαι στο σκοτάδι, κάπου στο βάθος της σκηνής αριστερά, και παρατηρώ τον αγωνιστικό χώρο, δεν μπορώ παρά να νιώσω εντυπωσιασμένος από την ατμόσφαιρα. Η ησυχία είναι τόσο «πυκνή» που θα μπορούσες...

Lazaro Bruzon will not participate