Vassily Ivanchuk’s stunning win in Gibraltar reminded us all of his enormous chess talent, while his recent long interview with the Ukrainian Zaxid.net addressed the missing piece of the jigsaw – why is it that a genius like Ivanchuk has failed to...
This weekend two matches of the 7th round and the regular matches of the 8th and 9th round of the Schachbundesliga are played. The playing venues are Eppingen, Wattenscheid, Remagen and Mülheim. All pairings and information.At Eppingen the host an...
Viswanathan Anand has won the Yearbook Novelty of the Year 2010 award, put up by New In Chess. Last week editor Genna Sosonko presented the World Champion with his prize of 350 euros in Wijk aan Zee. Of exactly 600 voters (not counting illegal dou...
Just out: New In Chess 2011/1 – bigger format and completely restyled!. Let me whet your appetite with a couple of highlights: • London is Carlsen’s call • Vugar Gashimov keeps promise • Our new columnist: Nigel Short • Just checking: Garry Kasp...
Neither fans of hyper-sharp variations or those who prefer positional defences will be disappointed by ChessVibes Openings issue #109. You're updated on Nepomniachtchi's Najdorf with 6.Be3 e5 7.Nf3, Kotronias' Chinese Dragon (10...Rb8) and Shirov'...
Spanish railway company Renfe thought of an original way to introduce their new high-speed connection between Madrid and Valencia. On Tuesday reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand played against former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. The two le...
SOS – Secrets of Opening Surprises 13 is out!Good news for thousands of chess players all over the world, who will be eagerly hunting its pages for early deviations from main stream chess openings.Because SOS is for chess players who like to ge...
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This week's ChessVibes Openings has the spectacular Carlsen-Nakamura as Game of the Week - a sharp Sicilian Najdorf with an early g4. Furthermore, we give the latest updates on the Ruy Lopez Moeller/Archangelsk, the Scotch Mieses and the hot Gruen...
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Just out: A Ferocious Opening Repertoire .This book presents a range of vicious weapons for White. The repertoire's backbone is provided by the aggressive Veresov Opening (1.d4, 2.Nc3 and 3.Bg5) and is accompanied by equally hostile options agai...
We have just received in our webshop: CT-ART Mating Combinations .The people who brought you the world famous tactics program CT-ART 4.0 have created an entirely new course, with 1200 instructive examples and 700 carefully selected exercises. Th...
While the fashion career of his former protégé, Magnus Carlsen, continues apace, Garry Kasparov has recently been involved in an advertising campaign of his own. It’s fair to say his promotion of the Polish divis...
New: Strategy University Vol. 1: The Central Approach !On this DVD top chess trainer Adrian Mikhalchishin explains the role of the centre and the power of pawns and pieces in it. He especially focuses his attention on how to change the pawn stru...
This is what some reviewers said about Daniel Naroditsky's Mastering Positional Chess ."Is it possible that an author so young has sufficient wisdom to impart such knowledge? As far as this book goes, the answer is an unequivocal 'yes'." - Marsh...
This week it's already two years ago that we started our publication ChessVibes Openings. Guess what? We had never before covered the Evans Gambit! Romantic openings is the main theme of this week's issue #105. The latest novelties in your mailbo...
Six men were arrested in October for playing chess in a playground in a park in New York City. Two of them decided to fight the charges. Macauley Peterson, who went to the New York City Criminal Court in lower Manhattan yesterday, reports.By Macau...
From March 11 to 25, 2011 Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Grischuk, Vasily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Boris Gelfand, Hikaru Nakamura, Vugar Gashimov and Anish Giri will play in the 20t...
We have just received: A Universal Weapon 1.d4 d6! . In this book, Vladimir Barsky analyses two original opening schemes: 1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 and 1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Bg4. Both are solid defensive lines in which the opponent is forced to make important de...
We have just received: Chess Informant 108 .This volume brings together a refined selection of 301 annotated games and 413 accompanying game fragments from January till April 2010. Featuring games from top tournaments such as Wijk aan Zee, Linar...
One of the reasons the 2010 London Chess Classic was so special, was its live coverage. Every round chess fans from all over the world could enjoy GM commentary about the games, and as soon as one was over, interviews with the players. That last b...
Dozens of chess fans have already enjoyed it, and you can too, for one more week: our Holiday Special. As a subscriber to ChessVibes Openings you can now get your hands on all back issues 0-100 in a nice package with a complete PGN database file, ...
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