Apr 4, 2013 The Sidney International Open 2013 is taking place on 2nd – 7th April at the Parramatta Town Hall in the Australian city. It is one of the biggest chess tournaments in Australia. It attracts beginners to grandmasters from all parts of Australia and from several other countries around the world. The tournament has [...]

Welcome to the ChessCafe.com . Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment. Daniel King shows the highlights from round fourteen of the London Candidates tournament.FIDE Candidates 2013, Round FourteenComment on this video via ourofficial Chess Blog!Most Recent Videos (in order of appearance)Jon Stewart Talks ‘Brooklyn Castle’The Queen of [...]

Shock and AweA new twist in the Colle looks shocking and works.Jiri Kabelac from the USA asks via theChessCafe Blog, “I would like to know what to play after 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 against the Colle. The book Dealing with d4 Deviations by John Cox recommends 3…Bf5 and you will get a kind of [...]

Reviewed this MonthWojo’s Weapons:Winning with White, Volume 3by Jonathan Hilton & Dean IppolitoMeet the Nimzo-Indian with 4.Qc2by Rustam KasimdzhanovInside Chess 1988-2000by Yasser Seirawan (ed.)Reference GuidesWojo’s Weapons: Winning with White, Volume 3 by Jonathan Hilton & Dean Ippolito, Mongoose Press 2012, Figurine Algebraic Notation, Paperback, 402pp. $29.95 (ChessCafe Price $22.95) View the Original article

This month I am going close to home via a different route than usual. I am a loyal adherent of the Two Knights Defense, which I have covered for this column before. For April, I am looking at the Giuoco Piano, a name that is fun to hear my students try to pronounce, and part [...]

. I also had no idea what the benefits of failure were supposed to be. Now I would probably talk about a wiring in the brain left over from the caveman, which has little to do with chess. But the cables are still there and we have not yet learned to produce new ones. So, [...]

Candidates Chess Tournament 2013 is taking from March 14 to April 1 in Savoy Place, London. Eight of the top world Grandmasters are participating for a place in the finals against Viswanathan Anand. The games have the traditional daily live coverage on Chessdom.com together with resident commentators GM Christian Bauer, IM Aman Hambleton, and IM [...]

Mar 31, 2013 Convekta Ltd announces the release of Lomonosov Tablebases – the first complete 7-piece endgame database that includes 100%-accurate predictions and optimal solutions to every singe position possible within this limitation. Until December 31, 2013, the tablebases will be available online and for free to all owners of ChessOK Aquarium 2012, Houdini 3 [...]

Mar 31, 2013 The 7th Annual Philadelphia Open is being held over the Easter week from March 27-31, 2013, at the upscale, luxury Loews Philadelphia Hotel, rated Four Diamonds by AAA, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event has 7 sections: Open, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1300 and Under 1000. Fidel Corrales [...]

The complete is now available in the Chessdom chess shop. With ECE you will get four hardback books, three classics and one newest book from the series: ECE Pawn Endings 1. ECE Pawn, 2nd edition, hardback NEW2. ECE Rook 2, hardback with dust jacket3. ECE Queen, hardback with dust jacket4. ECE Minor piece: Knight &Bishop, [...]