The Tata Steel 2013, taking place in Wijk Aan Zee 12-28 January, is officially opened. The drawing of lots gave interesting pairings right from the start. Carlsen – Caruana and Anand – Nakamura in group A, Naiditsch – Movsesian in group B, and Peralta starting vs Goryachkina in group C are the headliners of the [...]

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The opening phase of a chess game is extremely important because it builds a foundation for the rest of your game. How well your game goes is more often than not based on the foundation you build during the opening (roughly the first 8 to 14 moves). It’s just like building a house. Build it [...]

Cyrus Lakdawala, Kramnik: Move by Move (Everyman Chess, 2012). 416 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos.   While IM Cyrus Lakdawala has been a prominent figure on the California chess scene for at least three decades, it's only in the last several years that he has turned his hand to writing chess books. He has been remarkably prolific in that time, cranking out no fewer than nine...

Century West Chess Open, a renewed Southern California Chess Federation event, is taking place on 11-13th January at the Radisson LAX in Los Angeles, California. Boston Chess Congress is taking place on 11-13th January at the Hyatt Harborside Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. Tennessee Winter Open Chess Tournament is scheduled to take place on 12-13th [...]

Welcome and welcome to another segment of chess tips and tricks. For today’s tip of the day we will be talking about “Three pieces is a mate” which is an adage that teaches us how to count attackers and defenders in a position. Typically when we have more attackers than defenders we can rely on the [...]

Or rather today, for some of you. Whatever your time zone, we're just a few hours away from the 75th Wijk aan Zee tournament, currently sponsored by Tata Steel. As usual it features three 14-player round-robin events, starring above all an A-group tournament including some of the world's greatest players. It includes seven of the world's top nine (only Vladimir Kramnik [#2] and Teimour Radjabov...

With one week left to register for the Moscow Open 2013 there are already more than 700 players signed to participate in the 113,000 USD worth Chess Festival. The Festival will run during the student holidays from January 31st to February 10th. It includes eight competitions: Russian Cup events for men and women, MCF Amateur [...]

Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus defeated overnight leader Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri to be in joint lead along with Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan after the end of the eighth round of the premier section of Parsvnath International Chess Festival now underway here. Round 8 video by Vijay Kumar Dzhumaev accounted for Commonwealth champion M R Lalith [...]

The 3rd International Tournament Split Chess Open 2013 is set to take place from 10th to 18th August in Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia. The 9-round Swiss event is organized by the Chess Club “Brda” and City of Split. This year the prize fund is increased to 10,000 EUR. Top prizes are: 2000, 1200, 700, [...]

Live blog from the opening day of Tata Steel 2013

International master and GM norm holder Aman Hambleton is the new member of the Chessdom.com commentators team. He will be commenting the 2013 Tata Steel Chess together with GM Christian Bauer, GM Damian Lemos, and IM Miodrag Perunovic. Visit IM Hambleton official website IM Aman Hambleton is one of the big hopes of Canadian chess. [...]

Έπειτα από σχεδόν 3 μήνες γεμάτους σκάκι, ολοκληρώθηκε χτες η διοργάνωση του Europa League.Μεγάλος νικητής ο Νίκος Τσιλιάς της ΧΑΝ Καλαμαριάς,ο οποίος κατάφερε να κερδίσει τον Θανάση Μπαρμή στον τελικό με σκορ 1,5-0,5.

Live: Tata Steel 2013 live / Tata Steel B / Tata Steel C News and participants All news about Tata Steel Chess 2013 / Tata Steel 2013 Group A /Tata Steel 2013 Group B / Tata Steel 2013 Group C / Official website   Round 1 – Saturday the 12th Aronian, L. – van Wely, [...]

Today is the official opening ceremony of Tata Steel 2013. It will be covered with live blog on the main page of Chessdom.com, following all events from Wijk Aan Zee. As the tradition goes, one day before the official start the pairings and the schedule of the Tata Steel C Group were published. All news [...]