2018
1st Pelion Open 30 games Update
2nd Hersonissos Open 38 games Update
European Amateur Championship 4 games Update
First Saturday Jun 9 games
Cyprus Closed Championship 57 games
29th NATO...
1st Pelion Open 30 games Update
2nd Hersonissos Open 38 games Update
European Amateur Championship 4 games Update
First Saturday Jun 9 games
Cyprus Closed Championship 57 games
29th NATO...
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New Developments of your MCA Web Project
With the end of the season 207/2018 I took the chance to merge both our websites. The reason we had two websites was that the old Chess League Manager...
European Amateur Championship 3 games Update
First Saturday Jun 9 games New
Cyprus Closed Championship 57 games
29th NATO Championship 25 games
Greek Cup Team (Quarter Final) 4 games
23rd...
Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian was named a leading player of the Grand Chess Tour 2018 tournament being held in Leuven, Belgium.
Women's World Championship Match 2018 took place in Shanghai/Chongqing, China from 2nd of May 2018 to 20 of May 2018.
Official website: china2018.fide.com
Ju Wenjun became the new Women`s World Champion!
Those of you know your computer chess well can help me with this: I know that increasing an engine's "contempt factor" will make it less likely to accept a draw or to go down a path that will lead to a forced draw (presumably including tablebase draws).
Those of you know your computer chess well can help me with this: I know that increasing an engine's "contempt factor" will make it less likely to accept a draw or to go down a path that will lead to a forced draw (presumably including tablebase draws).
It's rapid & blitz time in the chess world, as not one, and not two, but three elite quick-play events transpired today.
Team Blitz and Lightning
Ilford CC - Sunday 1 July 2018
The Entry Form for the above events is published. Synopsis below, see Entry Form for full details.
Team Blitz - R1 10.00 am - For Clubs
Teams of four...
Congratulations to the Komodo team, which has not only qualified for the season 12 superfinal but even won the qualifying stage, half a point ahead of defending champion Stockfish! Stockfish went undefeated in the qualifier and went +1 in its eight-game mini-match against Komodo...
No time this week for detailed blogging - sorry - so I'll just offer a quick update on Leuven, the first stop on this year's Grand Chess Tour, and then on TCEC.