Last Saturday, the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) in London organized a simultaneous exhibition as part of their centenary celebrations. Ten top English players (GMs Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell, Gawain Jones, Stephen Gordon, Jon Speelma...
The fourth Grand Slam Masters Final will be held from September 25th till October 11th, 2011 and like its first edition, there will be six participants. The tournament, a double round-robin, will again be held in both Bilbao, Spain and a partner c...
This is what some reviewers said about: Chess Opening Essentials, Vol. 1 – 4 .Chess Opening Essentials, Vol. 1 – 4"I like the way it handles information for club players." - Gary Lane, Australasian Chess Magazine"It gives an outline of each open...
Jan 'Gusti' Gustafsson won the 2011 Thai Open in Pattaya, Thailand after finishing in a three-way tie for first place. The German Grandmaster finished equal on points with Paco Vallejo and Nigel Short but was awarded the 11th Thai Open title on ti...
Meet our brand new, second PDF (+PGN) magazine! It's called... tatatataaaaa... ChessVibes Training. Inspired by the success of our first magazine ChessVibes Openings, we have decided to launch a second, weekly magazine. The first issue will be pu...
Chess Stars has just published: The Safest Grünfeld.This brand new book presents a complete repertoire for Black in one of the most quickly developing openings of today. Bulgarian GM, and author of The Safest Sicilian, Alexander Delchev has been...
This week's ChessVibes Openings #119 provides a deeper look into the brilliant attacking game Zhao Jun-Xiu Deshun and discusses its Sämisch Nimzo along the way. Besides, we have a look at the 5.Nc3 line of the Petroff, the 'Réti Gambit' (1.Nf3 Nf6...
We have just received: Experts on the Anti Sicilian. This book includes articles from many writers, such as Boris Avrukh, Jacob Aagaard, Christian Bauer, John Shaw, Milos Pavlovic, Peter Heine Nielsen and Tiger Hillarp Persson, just to name a fe...
Now that's what we call hard core theory: one of the seconds of World Champion Vishy Anand playing the Poisoned Pawn variation of the Sicilian Najdorf. Learn all the ins and outs in ChessVibes Openings issue 118, which analyzes the theoretical gam...
Last weekend we published a preliminary list of European Championship participants who qualified for the next World Cup. We noted that Vladimir Potkin, Peter Svidler and Rauf Mamedov had already qualified (info that was duly copied by other media)...
ChessVibes Openings issues 116 & 117 are out! In just two weeks we covered the Semi-Slav (Anti-Meran). the Italian, the Modern, the Exchange Slav, the English Four Knights, the Classical French, the Najdorf with 6.Bg5 Nbd7, the Sicilian Taimanov, ...
We are delighted to announce the publication of: The Rossolimo Sicilian .Chess players all over the world play 3.Bb5 in the Sicilian, because you can sidestep theory, play your own creative game – and still put your opponent in trouble. Three ...
Ever been confused by the plethora of chess engines? Fiddled around with Microsoft’s Chess Titans? Do you find Dvoretsky’s books tough going? If so, you’ve got more in common with one super-GM than you might have thought! Ponomariov’s in-depth ans...
New from Russell Enterprises: New York 1927.This work is unlike any other tournament book ever written. Not only do you have one of the greatest annotators of all time rendering brilliant analysis, but he melds it with an exceptional agenda, an ...
The death of the 7th World Champion, Vasily Smyslov (1921-2010), was one of the greatest chess losses of the last year. Today Smyslov would have celebrated his 90th birthday, and for this occasion we cross-post an article published on Chess i...
The 73rd edition of the Wijk aan Zee festival in: New In Chess 2011/2 .Other highlights from its more than 100 pages: Nakamura: "I am a threat to European dominance" Vasily Ivanchuk unstoppable in Gibraltar Our new book reviewer: Luke McShane Wh...
Just arrived: YEARBOOK 98. In this issue of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News you will find answers to urgent questions like: Why did Anish Giri play the Grünfeld Indian against Magnus Carlsen? Just how risky is Vladimir Kramnik’s 4...a6 i...
Contrary to what's been said over the years, the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament is a place where lots of opening novelties occur. In the first week of the last edition, the strongest players in the world have been playing the most critical l...
On March 19th and 20th the 12th and 13th round of the Schachbundesliga will take place. We present the pairings at the venues Muelheim, Delmenhorst, Munich and Emsdetten - it's already known that Baden-Baden will show up with Alexei Shirov and Pet...
We have just received from our printers: Grandmaster Chess Strategy. One of the most effective ways to improve your chess is to take a world class-player as your example and to analyse in depth his games to understand his choices.This is what G...
Levon Aronian, Vugar Gashimov, Alexander Grischuk and Boris Gelfand all had an excellent start at the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament, winning their mini-matches 2-0. Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand won 1.5-0.5 against Hikaru Nakamura an...
We have just received: The Scotch Game .In this book, Yelena Dembo and Richard Palliser team up to take a modern-day look at this popular opening. They provide thorough coverage of the critical main lines, recommend the best options for both sid...
The F.E.B. #8 is out! French cheating, open letter feuds, Carlsen in New York, Cappelle la Grande, and the best team names from the World Amateur Team Championships. With special guest Malcolm Pein, plus a Kiss parody band's ode to bughouse an...
Please note that you now can download the full index of ChessVibes Openings 0-114 in PDF for free. Click here to know what we covered so far. For fans of the Ruy Lopez, CVO #114 is a must. And who isn't? The opening of all openings comes along dif...
