I was talking to a talented young chess player the other day and the subject of classical games came up. He told me that he didn’t look at any games played before the 1940s. I asked why and he replied that he was into modern, cutting edge chess. He said that there was “no life” [...]

Ολοκληρώθηκαν όλες οι παρτίδες και έγινε η κλήρωση για το δεύτερο. Μπορείτε να δείτε την κλήρωση και τα αποτελέσματα πατώντας εδώ.Βόβας - Σμπόνιας

I know this is Gawain’s website and being a professional player most of our readers will probably just want to hear the insights to a life as a professional but I, as his wife most of the updates and now I’m on a mission to improve myself as a player. I started playing chess when [...]

The 9th Pan-American Teams Championship was held on 24-30 January in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The United States won the tourney after getting an undefeated score of 10 match points. The event was a double round-robin championship with 4 teams. Each country presented a 4 players roster, plus a reserve. Cuba arrived with the strongest line-up [...]

The 18th HIT Open was held on 25-31st January at the Hotel Casino Perla in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The main event with 69 participants was played over nine rounds of Swiss system. Spanish GM Oleg Korneev emerged winner by collecting 7,5 points, leaving the nearest followers half a point behind. The top prizes were 1.100 [...]

The International Chess Festival “Moscow Open 2013″ is taking place from 31st January to 11th February, 2013, at the Russian State Social University (RSSU), B. Pick Street, 4, metro station “Botanical Garden” in Moscow. The opening ceremony was held yesterday at the RIA-Novosti international multimedia press centre. The first deputy head of the Department of Physical Culture and...

(But where will he put it? It's an awfully big rock.) Russian GM Nikita Vitiugov won the 11th Tradewise Gibraltar Festival after tying for first with 8/10 and then winning a four-man blitz(ish) playoff. Vitiugov, who never trailed the field for even one round, wound up tied with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Nigel Short and Chanda Sandipan. It was an extremely strong field, as evidenced by some of the...

The 2nd Salento International Chess Open 2013 will take place in the green oasis of luxury Ecoresort Le Sirenè, Gallipoli (Lecce) in the deep South of Italy from 25th May to 1st June 2013. Tournaments: Open A, Open B, Rapid, Blitz, Youth and FIDE Seminar for International Organizers Prize fund: EUR 5000 + EUR 1000 [...]

Τους ρυθμούς της νέας του πόλης, το Εδιμβούργο, φαίνεται να βρίσκει ο νεαρός Γιάννης Ντάμπος μαζί με την οικογένειά του. Προσαρμόστηκε στο σχολείο του και έκανε πολλούς νέους φίλους. Και πώς να μην γινόταν αυτό, αφού τα...

Πενήντα άτομα στον κόσμο έχουν βαθμολογία πάνω από 2700 ΕΛΟ, τρία άτομα έχουν πάνω από 2800 ΕΛΟ, αλλά το νέο της ημέρας είναι ότι ο Κάρλσεν έφτασε το 2872!!Εξήντα δύο (62) ολόκληρες μονάδες πάνω από το νούμερο δύο… Αυτός λοιπόν...

Αρχίζει σήμερα το διεθνές όπεν της Μόσχας, με συμμετοχή δεκάδων GM, ανάμεσά τους και ο έλληνας GM Στέλιος Χαλκιάς. Το σύνολο των συμμετοχόντων είναι περίπου 1500 σκακιστές και σκακίστριες. Τα μεγαλύτερα έλο Νεπομνιάτσι...

Having the most recent information about opening novelties is an important recommendation for any one tournament player above 2000 who wants to improve his level and thus have greater success in competitions. This time I will present an interesting novelty in the Sicilian Defence that happened in the game played three weeks ago between Spanish [...]

Tener la información más reciente sobre las novedades en las aperturas es una recomendación importante para todo aquel jugador de torneo por encima de los 2000 que desee mejorar su nivel y tener así mayor éxito en las competencias. En esta ocasión presentaré una interesante novedad en la Defensa Siciliana que se dio en la [...]

The Young Grandmasters’ Cup of Russia (women) will take place from 1st January to 11th February, 2013 as part of the International Chess Festival “Moscow Open 2013″, at the Russian State Social University (RSSU), B. Pick Street, 4, metro station “Botanical Garden” in Moscow. This event will offer a prize fund of 250,000 rubles or approximately 8,000 USD, with around [...]

The Young Grandmasters’ Cup of Russia (men) will take place from 1st January to 11th February, 2013 as part of the International Chess Festival “Moscow Open 2013″, at the Russian State Social University (RSSU), B. Pick Street, 4, metro station “Botanical Garden” in Moscow. This event will offer a prize fund of 250,000 rubles or approximately 8,000 USD, with [...]