World Champion Magnus Carlsen will visit Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology on 8th April. The official part of the visit will take place on April 8 at the MIPT Concert Hall, where Magnus Carlsen will meet with MIPT students and guests. The event starts at 10:30 am. The meeting host will be Tina Kandelaki, […]
Latvian Railway Open LIVE!

Riga Chess federation has a pleasure to announce the Latvian Railway Open, one of the strongest rapid chess opens in the World. The tournament will be held on 28-30 March, 2014, at the Latvian railway museum in Riga, Latvia. The tournament will be held in three groups A, B and C. Top participants include Vassily […]
Serbian Women Chess Championship
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Polish Championship LIVE!
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Checkmate in 5

Akobian vs. Ortiz, 2003 White to move and checkmate in 5. 1n4k1/ppq3b1/4p2R/2p2r2/2PrNpQ1/2N3P1/PP6/2K4R w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Candidates tournament 2014 with record breaking interest

Candidates tournament 2013 in London was one of the most successful events of last year. With high interest, good organization, and large media coverage, it became the pillar of the first half of the year and was only surpassed in visitors by the World Championship in Chennai. Candidates tournament 2014 is improving last year’s London […]
Another major chess scandal

Montenegro Directorate of Youth and Sport, a government body, inspected the documents and accounts of 13 sport federations and 7 clubs. The inspection found that the Montenegro Chess Federation broke the law during the organization of 2013 European Youth Chess Championships in Budva, “Sahovska Hronika” quoted the Montenegrin News Agency MINA. Inspector for sport Branislav […]
So simple, it’s SimpleChess!

http://simplechess.com/index.html As you can tell from the name, SimpleChess is simple to navigate around the site. It is designed for amateur players who would like to have a good time by playing and /or learning online. Our playing zone has more than 800,000 members. You can play 24/7 against players from all over the world. […]
Crushing the Scandinavian Defense! with GM Damian Lemos … and more

Double Rooks… Double Trouble! – Presented by FM Alisa Melekhina Double Rooks… Double Trouble! – Presented by FM Alisa MelekhinaPosted on March 27,2014 By OnlineChessLessons.NET Contributor in Strategy & Game Review, All Articles w/ Videos, General Chess Articles. Doubled rooks on the second-rank create a synergistic effect that allows players to harness their power and […]
Candidates Final Two Rounds

Round 13 1 GM Andreikin Dmitry RUS – GM Aronian Levon ARM 72 GM Karjakin Sergey RUS – GM Anand Viswanathan IND 63 GM Svidler Peter RUS – GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 54 GM Kramnik Vladimir RUS – GM Topalov Veselin BUL 8 Round 14 7 GM Aronian Levon ARM – GM Karjakin Sergey RUS […]