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Changes of the article 11.3.b.of the Laws of Chess During a game, a player is forbidden to have a mobile phone, electronic means of communication or any device capable of suggesting chess moves on their person in the playing venue. However, the rules of the competition may allow such devices to be stored in a player’s bag, as long as the device is completely switched off. A player is forbidden to carry a bag holding such a device, without permission of the arbiter. If it is evident that a player has such a device on their person in the playing venue, the player shall lose the game. The opponent shall win. The rules of a competition may specify a different, less severe, penalty. The arbiter may require the player to allow his/her clothes, bags or other items to be inspected, in private. The arbiter or a person authorized by the arbiter shall inspect the player and shall be of the same gender as the player. If a player refuses to cooperate with these obligations, the arbiter sh

“Every missed opportunity to play better - even in a drawn game, or a difficult game to win - is your loss. That is why it is necessary for you to return again and again to study your oversights, regardless of how the game turned out.” - Garry Kasparov

How To Study Chess? And become an even better chess player... Discover how to study chess in an organized way... As I see it, there are two ways in which you can "study" chess. 1. You can study passively. Like looking at a football match to see where the players succeed and fail. This includes reading chess-books, go over chess-games, watch live chess games on the internet etc. This way you hope to store information in your brain. This information is written or produced by someone else. Someone else made mistakes and you try to learn from them. While you may profit from this kind of study, it's not the same as your own experience. It wasn't painfull making the mistakes (because  you  didn't make them), so the knowledge might not stick... It's a little like trying to learn riding a bike by looking at someone who already succeeded. When you've looked long enough you try it yourself, only to find yourself falling down again and again. You've se

Top 5 Qualities every Chess star has... Do you? Hello chess blog friends, here are 5 chess qualities every Grandmaster has. Do you think you could develop these qualities as well? You can, if you train properly, love chess and are committed to improving your game. 1 - Determination:  Losing hurts plenty, but you can make a long list of Grandmasters who bounce back. They lose and then get back to winning everything. The most obvious name from contemporary GMs is of course former World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand he totally dominated the Candidates when everyone wrote him off after his loss to Magnus Carlsen at the World Chess Championship 2014 in Chennai. Stay determined and never give up in the face of failure in chess... and life. 2 - Hard work:  Loads and loads of it. There's not a single Grandmaster on the planet who has not worked hard - with a trainer, or without. Grandmasters work just as hard as any other sportsperson to hone their talent and skill. This

Acceding to world champion Magnus Carlsen’s request to extend the last date for signing of the players’ contract for his world championship title-match against challenger Viswanathan Anand, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has set September 7 as the new deadline. The previous deadline was August 31, but Carlsen, currently busy playing in the elite Sinquefield Cup (that ends on September 7) in St. Louis, USA, had asked for more time. However, Carlsen’s manager Espen Agdestein was not entirely happy with the new date. ‘Not very helpful’ He told Norwegian television channel  VG  that the September 7 date was “not very helpful” because “now (Magnus) has to think about this the whole tournament.” He also stated that Team Carlsen had asked for September 17 as the new deadline. Anand has already signed the players’ contract for the $1.5m match to be held at Sochi, Russia from November 7 to 28 this year. Only two days ago, FIDE vice-president Israel Geller told a leading ches