White to move. How should white proceed? Source: William Harvey
GMs Bauer & Degraeve lead French Championship after 8 rounds
http://saintquentin2015.ffechecs.org/live-2/suivez-le-direct/ Round 8 results GM Lagarde, Maxime vs GM Bauer, Christian [1/2-1/2] GM Degraeve, Jean-Marc vs GM Bacrot, Etienne [1/2-1/2] GM Edouard, Romain vs GM Cornette, Matthieu [1-0] IM Moussard, Jules vs GM Gharamian, Tigran [1/2-1/2] GM Gozzoli, Yannick...
IMs top First Saturday in Budapest
IM-s on top at First Saturday Budapest August events Balanced fight in the GM group resulted in no title norms this month. However, two of the IM-s, were close to it. The winner, Lizak Peter (HUN), one of the...
Goryachkina and Tomashevsky lead Russian Superfinals after 8 rounds
The games of round 8 of the Russian Championship, the 68th for men and the 65th for women, were played in Chita on August 17. In the men’s section, Alexander Motylev and Denis Khismatullin played the only decisive game....
Vienna Open 2015
The 19th Vienna Chess Open is taking place from 15-23rd August, 2015, at the Wiener Rathaus in Vienna, Austria. The event is organized by the Wiener Schachverband and has attracted over 800 chess players accross four sections. The...
Chess is a great option for kids
Smart moves for parents of sporting kids Matthew Engel Football is too competitive, tennis too neurotic and swimming, too boring. Chess is the way forward. Children with aspirations of a sporting career used to make their own way without...
Chess was used to train young princes
Shelby Lyman on Chess: Instrument of Survival Sunday, August 16, 2015 (Published in print: Sunday, August 16, 2015) Yuri Averbach, a former Soviet champion and the world’s oldest grandmaster at 93, is also a chess historian. Assuming that chess...
Sisters taking on the world in chess
These young Cardiff sisters are taking on the world at chess 19:03, 16 AUGUST 2015 BY HUW SILK Shayanna, 12, and 10-year-old Venetia Sivarajasingam will travel to Greece after their success at the British Championships Two chess prodigy sisters...
2015 French Championship LIVE!
The 90th French Chess Championship is taking place from August 9-20, 2015, in Saint-Quentin, France. The event is an 11-round round-robin tournament with the participation of: GM Etienne Bacrot (2694), GM Tigran Gharamian (2644), GM Romain Edouard (2634), GM...
Leko – Li Chao Match 2015 LIVE!
The City of Szeged and the Hungarian Chess Federation organize a six-game match between GM Peter Leko(Hungary) and GM Li Chao (China) from 14 to 20 August 2015, at the IH Event Center. The match is aimed to help Leko...