In sport there is always a winner and draw outcome is considered weakness. In chess however the draw is result of perfect game by both players. It is boring result, but when first explaining it to young student you need to emphasize that it is a normal outcome. We are …
The Estonian Sports Association Kalev organized the 21st Paul Keres Memorial on 6-8th January in Tallinn, Estonia. The Preliminary 7-round Swiss tournament with the time control 15′+10” was held on Friday and Saturday. Top four finishers qualified for the Main tournament which was played on Sunday. Total 86 players competed. …
Dallas University UTD has a chess program long time ago. They have tradition to invite some strong players for their annual training tournament before the important team competition at the end of the year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_Intercollegiate_Team_Chess_Championship There were two round robin tournaments the A and the B group in November …
Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 17,508 islands. It encompasses 34 provinces with over 238 million people, making it the world’s fourth most populous country. The most famous island is most likely Bali which is heaven for tourist. Years ago I was lucky to play some tournaments over there and …
Because of local elections coming soon there are more social activities in Tallinn. I was asked to promote one of the electoral alliance to give a simul. It took place in Nõmme center building in the Von Glehn pub. Pariticipants were mostly old and young. It makes some hopes that …
It was long and cold summer. Everybody is back in business and I owe some information. My chess summer took me to Heart of Finland tournament which took place in Jyväskylä http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyv%C3%A4skyl%C3%A4 It was nice to win again after so many years, I won the tournament in 1997 http://www.shakki.net/turnaukset/hof11/eng/hist.html
I was invited to give a simul in Estonian cultural days event. http://www.lep-esto2013.com/ in San Francisco at the end of June. The simul was held in Grand Hyatt hotel where other events took place as well. Because of busy schedule and timing not so many chess aficionados took part, but …
The tournament was held in Riviera hotel. Full information about the festival may found on http://www.vegaschessfestival.com/natlopen/ At the end I shared first place, but I did not expect to win in the last round against Gelashvili. However he was also tired and played not his best. In fourth round being …
Dear chessfriend, I am glad to inform everybody that we have book signing and simul by Jaan Ehlvest in Zollikon Switzerland on 14th of April in local chess club for kids