This chess night was devoted to the Kaissa Award, aimed at popularizing and developing chess, taking place on December 17 in the Central House of Literature. Photo gallery bellow The tradition of the CHL hosting chess nights was renewed after a long break in April of this year thanks to the charity Our Heritage Fund, [...]

The Event, Rose Valley Open International was held at Kolkata, India scheduled from 3rd December 2012 to 13th December 2012 with total prize money of approx 21500 USD. Summary of the Participants  Title CM FM GM IM WFM WGM Other Total Total 1 8 29 34 1 3 24 100 GM Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan [...]

Το ΔΣ της ΕΣΣΝΑ εισηγείται στην ΓΣ της 21-23/12/2012 το Αγωνιστικό Απολογισμό των ετών 2011-2012 και τον Αγωνιστικό Προγραμματισμό του έτους 2013: Αγωνιστικός Απολογισμός 2011-2012 (Αρχείο Excel) Κατά τα έτη 2011,2012 η ΕΣΣΝΑ πραγματοποίησε...

Το Δ.Σ. της ΕΣΣΝΑ εισηγείται στη Γ.Σ. της 21-23/12/2012 τον Διοικητικό Απολογισμό των ετών 2011-2012:

With an overnight lead of 5.5-2.5 and needing just 3 points from the remaining eight games, the Indonesia team started the third round determined to immediately finish off the Rapid series. With winning or advantageous positions on all four boards arising from their pre-game preparation, a big victory looked likely, and when Medina Warda Aulia [...]

Ga played  448 moves which averaged to be 56 moves per a game. And our winner Chris Dossett gussed 444 which wasn’t such a bad guess. I’m going to try and write a final update on the classic before we head of for a much deserved Christmas break. This is a hectic time of year [...]

Riding on the success of World Champion Vishwanathan Anand, the Indian Chess is on an all-time high with its players tasting success regularly at the international chess events. The chess fever is certain to grip the country as the strongest chess event in the country, the AICF-AAI Cup, the six player double round-robin format category-18 [...]

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Οι έξι συνθέσεις εδώ είναι του Νίκου Περγιάλη. Είναι όλες βοηθητικά προβλήματα με ιδεώδη ματ.Στην πρώτη ο έσχατος ρεμπέτης μας λέει τα κάλαντα με τον δικό του τρόπο.Πρόβλημα-640Νίκος ΠεργιάληςΠρόβλημα-640bΝίκος...

Δείτε τους 2 υποψήφιους συνδυασμούς για τις αρχαιρεσίες της ΓΣ της ΕΣΣΝΑ 21-23/12/2012

Μία κίνηση στο κλείστρο της φωτογραφικής μηχανής, μιά αποτύπωση στιγμής, ανθρώπων και αντικειμένων που πλέον θα διαρκεί γιά χρόνια...  Φωτογραφία– Πώς να σταθούμε;– Εσύ μπροστά ο πιο καλοντυμένος.Η χρονιά πήγε καλά...

As Ecclesiastes reminds us, “Of the making of many books there is no end.” Frankly, there are simply too many good chess books for most of us ever to come close to reading them all: at a certain point you simply have to choose an armful and drive on with your studies. Don’t be like [...]

In the first day of Rapid chess of the MAKITA Women Match between Indonesia and France held at the Grand Ballroom of Sekolah Catur Utut Adianto (SCUA) which translates as Utut Adianto Chess School, the Indonesian girls took a commanding 5.5-2.5 lead. Wins by Medina and Citra helped to edge the first match for Indonesia [...]

The city of Cacak and chess club Borac have organized the Gran Pri Rapid Cacak 2012 on 16th December in restaurant Radovanje in Preljina. 108 players took part in the 9-round Swiss tournament with the rapid time control of 15 minutes per player. Reigning Serbian champion GM Ivan Ivanisevic emerged winner after topping the standings [...]

The World Cities Chess Team Championship will take place on 22-28 December in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. The teams will be grouped into four categories. The host city is seeded into the 1st Category quadrant among the top 6 teams. Next 6 teams form the 2nd Category followed by teams 13 to 18 in [...]