This is it. Your moment of glory. As your eyes are transfixed on the board before you, your mind is on overload. It's been busy calculating variation after variation. But you know the truth. Only one road leads to victory. Every other road leads to a...

In the World Youth Championships concluded recently, Bobby Cheng came in first in the U12 category. My best of congratulations to him and his family! There was a sudden and marked improvement in his results over the course of the year. This was the...

We've all heard the talk before. How this new chess book will solve all your woes. Will increase your rating by a gazillion Elo points. That your opponents would be floundering with your new found secret "opening"/"trick"/"tactic". The one that would...

Looks like the #1 on live rating list still has a few things to learn when it comes to understanding blitz chess rules and common board courtesy. This is what happened in last night's game v Gashimov in the World Blitz Championships currently held in...

Round 1 results: U-8 Open: Smirnov Anton (1853) (AUS) 1 - 0 Kesgin Halit Kaan (0) (TUR) U-10 Open: Gray Callum James (0) (AUS) 0 - 1 Shurunov Andrei (1887) (RUS) U-12 Open: Akhmetov Ayan (KAZ) 1 - 0 Koh Cedric (0) (AUS) Terzi Alexei (BLR) 0 - 1...