Ο γραφικός Άγιος Κήρυκος θα φιλοξενήσει και φέτος τις σκακιστικές εκδηλώσεις του 42ου Διεθνούς Σκακιστικού Τουρνουά ΊκαροςΞεκινούν και φέτος οι προετοιμασίες για το 42ο Διεθνές Σκακιστικό Τουρνουά Ίκαρος θα διεξαχθεί...

Προκήρυξη Ομαδικού Πρωταθλήματος Μαθητών Μαθητριών Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Ελλάδας (30 Μαρτίου 2019) και τελικής φάσης Ατομικού Πρωταθλήματος Μαθητών Μαθητριών Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Ελλάδας (31 Μαρτίου 2019) στο Πάρκο Ειρήνης...

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart Our regular homework challenge brings to the surface very interesting contributions. I mentioned a number of them here in previous articles as samples for many aspects … Continue reading "Students Analysis" The post Students...

The player playing White in this game, Grigory Levenfish, wrote a famous book on rook endgames together with Vassily Smyslov. Towards the end of the game there is a nice bit of technique when White sacrifices his f-pawn to make the c-pawn unstoppable: Sam Davies The post A Rook Endgame by Grigory Levenfish appeared first on The Chess Improver.

Tα τέσσερις χιλιάδες χιλιόμετρα της route 66 περάσαν τα διανυκτερεύοντα νυσταγμένα βενζινάδικα στο Κάνσας, τα ασπρόμαυρα γκαράζ στις απομονωμένες κατοικίες του Νέου Μεξικού, είδαν τους κάκτους της Αριζόνας και επιτέλους...

As you might imagine, Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan’s book about AlphaZero, Game Changer (New in Chess 2019), was at the top of my shopping list on my recent visit to the Chess Shop. I was expecting to find a big pile on the New Releases table, and was disappointed to find nothing there. Perhaps … Continue reading "Book of the Century" The post Book of the Century appeared first on...

What would you do if the only light bulb that illuminates your living room suddenly went out, leaving you in the dark? You would change the bulb! What if you didn’t have a ladder but instead had a bunch of two foot square wooden cubes and those cubes provided the only way to reach the … Continue reading "Building Blocks" The post Building Blocks appeared first on The Chess Improver.

When I ask people about their favourite chess personality, many answer that Viswanathan Anand is the most famous & lovable. Yet my work as a chess YouTuber has shown me that Mikhail Tal may be even more popular. So recently I have been looking into more of Mikhail Tal’s games and I came across an … Continue reading "Leonid Stein vs Mikhail Tal" The post Leonid Stein vs Mikhail Tal...

“Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu. Trinity: What did you just say? Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.” The Matrix, 1999 My previous article on the subject can be accessed HERE Please have a look at below’s position from one of our club tournament games and see if there’s anything interesting about it: No, I … Continue reading "Deja Vu (3)" The post Deja Vu (3) appeared...

Written by Guy Haworth and Nelson Hernandez Reading, UK and Maryland, USA Corresponding author: g.haworth@reading.ac.uk This is the latest in our series of analytical articles on past TCEC events. The main text can be read below on this webpage, and at the bottom you will find a link to the full layouted article in pdf [...]

The Kurt Richter book is not the only biography I’ve been reading. I also invested in a copy of Robert B Tanner’s biography of Vera Menchik (McFarland & Co 2016), a very different book about a very different player. (They played once, with Richter winning.) As you’d expect from this source, it’s a beautifully produced … Continue reading "Vera Menchik" The post...

(φωτ. ο κήπος του χώρου αγώνων) Στην πόλη των Τρικάλων, θα διοργανωθούν τα πρωταθλήματα σκακιού Νέων Ανδρών – Νέων Γυναικών(Κ20) για το 2019. Οι αγώνες θα διεξαχθούν σε χώρους του Κέντρου Έρευνας-Μουσείου Τσιτσάνη, στο...

The minor pieces, the Knights and Bishops, often befuddle the beginner because in many ways, they’re as different as night and day. While they both share the same relative value, each being worth three points, and first enter the game during the opening phase, the similarity ends there. Each of these minor pieces has a … Continue reading "The Appropriate Minor Piece" The post The...

I found the 8th game of Korchnoi – Petrosian Candidates Quarterfinal (1977) extremely instructive. Although Victor the terrible won the quarterfinal, I consider this to be one of Petrosian’s masterpieces. After move either the strategy was quite easy to define as Black had a queenside majority against White’s in the center, but the execution was … Continue reading "A Petrosian...

Season 15 of the Top Chess Engine Championship will begin this March 5th at 20:00 CET. It will feature a record number of engines to accommodate the booming sector and a record ELO of the participants. A total of 44 engines will face off in a division based system to determine the current status quo [...]