Just in from Hamburg: A Modern Way to Play the KID .In this DVD Bulgarian GM Dejan Bojkov presents the topical way to play the KID: with 6...Na6. The Knight heads for the centre without obstructing its own bishop. Bojkov gives the key strategic ...
Next Saturday already is the first round of the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. This year Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Grischuk, Vasily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Boris G...
Just in stock: The Cutting Edge Sicilian Najdof.This book is part of a new series from Quality Chess on the most important theoretical battlegrounds. GM Milos Pavlovic concentrates on 6.Be3, heading for the English Attack, and has found many imp...
Sometimes a top player has cooked up a nice surprise for a strong opponent. It won't stay unnoticed, and so it can only be used once. But who cares, when the point has been scored? Last weekend Nisipeanu won a nice game in the Bundesliga with 1.e4...
In 1977 Henrique Mecking was the world's third player, behind Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. The Brazilian chess site Rádio Xadrez's Blog (Radio Chess's Blog) recently did a profile article and interview with the legendary Brazilian chess pla...
We have just received: Boost your Chess 3 - Master .This is the latest volume of Yusupov's award-winning training course in which he guides the reader towards a higher chess understanding, using carefully selected positions and advice. This new ...
Vienna 1922 , not just another tournament book...With players such as Alekhine, Tarrasch, Tartakower Réti, and Rubinstein Vienna 1922 is one of the great tournaments in chess history. This book marked the beginning of the writing career of legen...
Answering reader questions almost a decade after becoming FIDE World Champion as an 18-year-old, Ruslan Ponomariov provides both a revealing insight into the life of an elite player, and a damning indictment of the chess politics that saw his matc...
The most important match of the weekend will take place in Bremen. The only serious contender of Baden-Baden is facing the strong team of Mülheim. Bremen needs to win in order not to loose the contact to the top of the table. The match starts on S...
Le Quang Liem again won the strongest open in the world, despite a loss in the eighth round against the ever-uncompromising Bulgarian Cheparinov. This fascinating King's Indian (a Main Line with 11.g4) is the Game of the Week in ChessVibes Opening...
SAVE 50% on all 4 issues of the 2009 Yearbook . The 2009 Year Volume (90–93) of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News has now become available at an amazingly low price. We are offering the complete picture of the opening developments in 20...
Two talented juniors from Hendon Chess Club were the heroes of the evening as chess Grandmaster and World Championship candidate Nigel Short took on 47 players at the Middlesex University Real Tennis Club on 15th February. The play took place on t...
Our recent report on the Houdini-Rybka match triggered lots of comments about the issue of cloning in the computer chess world. Was Houdini derived from the Ippolit series? Was it plagiarized from Rybka? And what about Rybka, is it largely based o...
We have just received from our printers: Improve Your Chess Tactics .In this book, experienced Russian chess master Yakov Neishtadt reveals the training material that was used in Soviet times to build up young masters. A systematic course on t...
Already this week the ChessVibes Openings subscribers received many opening ideas and novelties, played at the Aeroflot Open, in their mailbox. Have you heard of the Brazilian Taimanov? Why is the Russian System of the Grünfeld popular again? What...
In a short but fascinating interview, Silvio Danailov, Veselin Topalov’s manager and the President of the European Chess Union, shed light on the fate of a number of tournaments, his protégé’s form, and new and controversial plans for the future o...
We have just received: The Meran & Anti-Meran Variations . In this book, opening expert and renowned author Alexey Dreev offers an insider’s view of these popular openings. Dreev has a quarter century of experience in both these variations at ...
"We would have loved to send you a positive email, announcing the dates for another great Chess Classic tournament in 2011, but unfortunately a decade full of passion and dedication for international rapid chess has come to an end in Mainz," write...
The F.E.B. #7 is out! IM Lawrence Trent and GM Steven Gordon analyze Nakamura's triumph by the seaside, what Levon Aronian's missing, Anish Giri's new celebrity, plus Magnus Carlsen's "Wii" habits, Polish tongue twisters, Wes So contemplates unive...
New: Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall.Acclaimed biographer Frank Brady, who first met Bobby Fischer when the prodigy was just ten years old, has written a breathtaking and unique full-length biography containing more than 400(!) p...
For our ChessVibes Openings editors it was not difficult to pick a Game of the Week - of course they analyzed the spectacular Blumenfeld Gambit of Korchnoi-Vallejo, Gibraltar 2011. And there's more romanticism in this week's CVO #110: what to thin...
Open letters... somehow it's the preferred means of communication in the chess world. Today we received an open letter from FIDE Vice President Israel Gelfer, directed to Malcolm Pein, CEO of Chess Promotions Limited. The World Chess Federation re...
By means of a lengthy Word document sent to chess media on Tuesday, the Turkish Chess Federation responds to the open letter written by 18 participants of the 2010 Women's World Championship. "The only good part of this painful incident is that it...
We have just received: The Improving Annotator! Chess master, author, and renowned teacher Dan Heisman started to annotate his own games at the age of sixteen and over the next three years his rating rose 600(!) points. In this book Heisman sh...
