Testing functionality, but many surprises during the Candidates

Only three days to go! The tournament website is here, and the pairings are on this page. Here's what Friday's first round looks like: Levon Aronian (2809) - Magnus Carlsen (2872) Boris Gelfand (2740) - Teimour Radjabov (2793) Vassily Ivanchuk (2757) - Alexander Grischuk (2764) Peter Svidler (2747) - Vladimir Kramnik (2810) Just for fun, here's round 2: Carlsen - Kramnik Grischuk ...

Improving at chess is all about engraining neural patterns, which means lots of repetition, which means (for most of us earthbound mortals) it’s a long-term project. It will probably be a long, hard slog. So you had better be motivated, not only to start but also to keep going, especially when you encounter setbacks, which [...]

The 1st Jersey International Chess Tournament was staged on 6-10th March at the Hotel Ambassadeur, St Clement Bay, Jersey JE2 6SB. Grandmaster Eduardas Rozentalis (2616) from Lithuania won the Masters section after concluding the race with 8 points from 9 games. GM Mark Hebden (England 2518) is second with 7,5 points, while the top-seeded GM [...]

Greenfeld and Burg got 5.5/9 to share the first place

Here's an app for the 'Droid that can take a picture of a diagram from a book or magazine and convert it into a position that can be analyzed or used to search a database. Looks interesting! HT: Ross Hytnen

The leaders only need a tie against Russia to secure first place

The line-ups will be announced soon

GM Vasile Sanduleac is the first seed

The strong open will take place from March 28th to April 1st

GM Vladislav Tkachiev grabbed the winner’s trophy at the first stage of the French Rapid Grand-Prix 2013 in Nancy. The strong rapid tournament took place on 9-10th March at the Conseil Général de Meurthe et Moselle in Nancy. Tkachiev won the final match against Russian GM Vladimir Dobrov with a 1,5-0,5 score. The qualifiying open on saturday [...]

Φωτογραφία του 1894, Δελφοί. Το άγαλμα του Αντίνοου ανασύρεται από τη γη μπροστά στα συγκινημένα βλέμματα των ανασκαφέων και των χωρικών. Το 3ο Πασχαλινό Τουρνουά της Ένωσης Σκακιστών Άμφισσας θα γίνει στους Δελφούς, στο...

Άσε με να κάνω λάθος Του Ηλία Κουρκουνάκη Όταν ένα παιδί μαθαίνει να περπατάει, δείχνουμε αστείρευτη υπομονή στις προσπάθειές του και αποδεχόμαστε τις αποτυχίες του χωρίς κανέναν απολύτως ενδοιασμό. Ακόμα και οι πιο...

The Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development has released a supplement to the National Curriculum, and made Judit Polgar’s “Skill-building Chess” subject available for elementary schools from September 2013. The Judit Polgar Chess Foundation for Educational Benefits has been working on the “Chess Palace” program for more than a year, running pilot...

Sometimes it’s difficult for a chess player to be objective, especially when external matters start to enter one’s consciousness. These can come from many sources, sometimes being chess related issues (rating, prize money, title norms etc.) whilst at other times they can come from our lives outside chess. Whatever the source they can cause havoc [...]