Το 5ο Διεθνές Τουρνουά Λέρου “Artemis Cup” θα διεξαχθεί από τις 18 έως τις 25 Ιουλίου στο ξενοδοχείο Crithoni’s Paradise. Οι αγώνες θα γίνουν με ελβετικό σύστημα 9 γύρων. Γενικό παράβολο: 30 Ευρώ, Νέοι <18: 25 ευρώ. Το σύνολο των...

I left you on Wednesday with the completion of the Reykjavik Open. We went out for a nice meal at Gandhi, an Indian restaurant (obviously) followed by a few beers in the English Pub and Obladi-Oblada, a bar with three chess boards and clocks which were obviously used for some wind down blitz. Thursday was [...]

The event will take place on 15-23 June

Beginners tend to move the first pawn or piece that crosses their line of sight, paying little attention to their opponent’s position. Of course, this generally leads to disaster with the problem becoming worse as the game progresses. Simply showing demonstration games and highlighting the moves that adhere to sound chess principles isn’t enough to [...]

Excerpted here. (HT: Thomas Richter.) It's in German, but Google Translate does a passable enough job. His prediction (prepare to be shocked...): Magnus Carlsen! Despite the conventional answer, it's worth reading nonetheless.

Regular reader of this blog and intrepid reporter Jaideep Unudurti has interviewed world champion Viswanathan Anand yet again (lucky him!), this time on the subject of the upcoming Candidates. Anand doesn't pick a winners, but has some nice things to say about some of the players. Even more than that, I appreciate some of the comments he makes about the event from a fan's perspective. Some chess...

IM S. Hamed Moovasian and GM Pouria Darini finished second and third, respectively

Μπορείτε να δείτε τη κλήρωση του επόμενου γύρου για το εσωτερικό πρωτάθλημα Ιωαννίνων πατώντας εδώ.

The players rested on Women's Day

The event is set to take place on 27-31 March

Το βιβλίο The KGB Plays Chess κυκλοφόρησε στη Μόσχα το 2009 και μεταφράστηκε στα αγγλικά το 2010 από τις εκδόσεις Russell Enterprises. Περιέχει μαρτυρίες των γκρανμέτρ Μπόρις Γκούλκο και Βίκτορ Κορτσνόι, του δημοσιογράφου Γιούρι...

The winner will qualify for the Vienna state championships

The final of the 82nd Ukrainian Chess Championship is scheduled to take place on 15-26th June in Kiev. The tournament format will be 12-players round robin. The federation has announced that the top national players will compete in the Championship: defending champion Anton Korobov, former World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov, Pavel Eljanov, Andrei Volokitin, Alexander Areshchenko [...]

ChessBase is doing a sort of countdown, profiling the eight Candidates going from lowest-rated to highest. So far they've done three: Peter Svidler, Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Grischuk. The articles present the full record of how each player has done against all his rivals in Classical games, which is quite nice; I wouldn't put much (any) stock in the author's conclusions about what openings...

The strongest rapid tournament of the year in France will take place this weekend, 9-10th March, at Conseil Général de Meurthe et Moselle in Nancy. 232 players from 20 different countries are registered, among them being 23 Grandmasters and 33 Masters. The tournament is the first stage of the French Rapid Grand-Prix 2013. Last year [...]