Century West Chess Open, a renewed Southern California Chess Federation event, was staged on 11-13th January at the Radisson LAX, 6225 West Century Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045. The event was FIDE rated and held in five sections: Open, Premier, Amateur, Reserve and Booster. All sections were played over 5 rounds of Swiss system. A [...]

Μέρες του 1936. Μια σπουδαία σκακιστική παρέα στην αμμουδιά της παραλιακής πόλης Ζαντφοόρτ, στην Ολλανδία. Ο παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής Μαξ Όιβε (δεξιά) δείχνει στη σκακιέρα τσέπης κάποια θέση στους Φάιν, Κέρες και...

We left Friday evening to make it up to Daventry but while we were on the train we realized we weren’t sure which hotel we were going to. Since we don’t have smart phones we couldn’t just google it so we had to call up our flatmates and learnt it was the De Vere hotel [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to round 5 of the Tata Steel 2013 chess tournament. As the tradition goes, daily on Chessdom we have computer analysis by the strongest engine Houdini 3, as well as Grandmaster commentary provided by GM Christian Bauer, GM Damian Lemos, IM Perunovic, IM Hambleton, and IM Ponomarenko. Today, we add yet [...]

Analysis by GM Damian Lemos

They say that a bad bishop is better in attack, than in defense! Lets see how true this is in a fine example between Gata Kamsky (white) versus, Garry Kasparov (black). Enjoy!

The Chess Club Gardena organizes from 1st to 9th of June 2013 for the second time an international chess tournament in Ortisei, Val Gardena, South Tyrol, Italy. The tournament was first held in 2012 with 14 GMs, 9 IMs, and participants from 21 countries and 4 continents. It became a great sporting and cultural success [...]

The 45th Annual Liberty Bell Open will be held over the Martin Luther King weekend from January 18-21, 2013, at the Sonesta Hotel, 1800 Market St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event has 9 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300, Under 1100 and Under 900. The Open-Under 1100 sections [...]

The 2013 Oceania Zonal Chess Championships are set to take place on 4-10th May at the Sonaisali Island Resort, Fiji Islands. Both Open and Women’s Tournaments will be played over 9 rounds of Swiss system with the time control 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to finish, plus 30 second [...]

Η FIDE και η AGON – ο εμπορικός εταίρος της παγκόσμιας σκακιστικής ομοσπονδίας- ανακοίνωσαν τις ημερομηνίες και τον τόπο διεξαγωγής του τουρνουά που θα αναδείξει τον αντίπαλο του Ανάντ για τον παγκόσμιο τίτλο. Η...

Led by top rated Grandmaster Aleksandrov Aleksej of Belarus the seeded players coasted to comfortable victories in the Chennai Super Kings 5th International Grandmaster chess tournament 2013 at Media Hall, Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today. Indian challenge was led by the trio of young Grandmasters Adhiban, Sethuraman and Lalith Babu who all won without much [...]

Δείτε την εκπληκτική παρτίδα Aronian-Anand από το Tata 2013 με ανάλυση από τον παγκόσμιο πρωταθλητή!

Την ειλικρινή μου συγνώμη θα ήθελα να εκφράσω σε όλους εσάς που πήγατε την Κυριακή το πρωί στην αίθουσα του Συλλόγου Ιωαννιτών Σκακιστών για να παίξετε μερικές παρτίδες σκάκι και βρήκατε την αίθουσα κλειστή.Είχαμε το...

The Vietnam Chess Federation has the honor of inviting your Federation to participate in the 3rd HDBank Cup International Open Chess tournament 2013 which to be held from 18th to 25th March, 2013 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Time control and format Swiss System of 9 rounds. Pairings will be made by Swiss-manager program. [...]

Chess is consider as a war over the board, and by reading about chess strategy I came across a book called ‘ The Art of War’ (Book on military strategy) written by Sun Tzu who was an ancient Chinese Military general, strategies and philosopher. He has had a great impact on Chinese and Asian history [...]