The 10th South Wales International Open is scheduled to take place on 14-19th July at the Penarth Conservative Club, 15, Stanwell Rd, Penarth, South Glamorgan. The Venue is situated just a few hundred metres from Penarth Railway Station. 15 minutes from the M4 (Junction 33) making the venue easily reached by road or rail. The [...]

Whilst it’s fresh on my mind, here’s another trap featuring …Qa5+ which I once managed to land on someone myself in a Bolton Rapidplay tournament. White’s 3.e3 error has been made by quite a few strong players, probably because they identify the position as being strategically similar to the one that arises after 2…d5 and [...]

The winner of the Championship will be part of the Uruguayan National team at the Chess Olympiad 2014

The Championship will take place in Cochabamba, Bolivia on 6-15 May

The event will be played on August 5-11

Georgian GM Merab Gagunashvili is the first seed

IM Pablo Garcia is the first seed

The 14th ASEAN + Age-Group Chess Championships will be held on 5-14th June 2013 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Each country may register any number of players to participate in the U-8, U-10, U-12, U-14, U-16, U-18 and U-20 Age-Groups for Girls and Open. Players who are entitled to participate must not have reached the relevant [...]

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The 2nd Scottish Blitz Championship is an international chess tournament due to be held at Surgeons’ Hall, in Edinburgh, on Saturday 15th June from 9:00am until 5:00pm. The event will be Fide Blitz rated with official Fide blitz rules applying. The time control will be 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment. There will be 15 [...]

Ευχαριστούμε τη μητέρα του Γιάννη, του Γιώργου και του Φάνη Τζαχρήστα για τις φωτογραφίες από το σχολικό πρωτάθλημα της Δυτικής Ελλάδας.Επίσης ευχαριστούμε και την οικογένεια Θεόδωρου για τη φωτογραφία.

Anna Ushenina obtained a crucial victory for her team

Πολύ συχνά περνάει το σκάκι στις ταινίες του Γούντι Άλεν, όπως και στην παραπάνω σκηνή από τις “Σφαίρες πάνω από το Μπρόντγουεϊ ” (1994).  Στη Νέα Υόρκη του 1920, ο μάνατζερ ενός νεαρού ιδεαλιστή σεναριογράφου βρίσκει...

Many players love opening traps, largely because of the promise of a quick and painless victory. Yet very few traps have much chance of success. Why is this? Well first of all a lot of them just tend to be known, so it’s very hard to find hapless victims except amongst the very young or [...]

Alexander Grischuk is one of the eight ready to compete later this month in the Candidates' tournament, the winner of which will face Viswanathan Anand for the world championship. He came close in the last cycle, defeating Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik before getting eliminated by Boris Gelfand in the final game of the final match, so although he's not as big a favorite as Magnus Carlsen, he...