Last weekend the magic of chess seized the city of Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Expectations for the First International Chess Festival Tribute to IM Wiston Boada fell short as no less than 800 participants from all 24 states and 7 countries joined. W...
We have just received from our printers: The Four Knights Game. The Four Knights Game is one of the oldest chess openings and continues to be a popular choice among beginners, club players and grandmasters. Russian International Master Andrey Obo...
New in our shop: The Koltanowski Phoenix Attack. In this strategy guide for Colle players, David Rudel proposes a new idea, meeting 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.Nbd2 c5 5.c3 Nc6 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O O-O with 8.dxc5 Bxc5 9.b4! Putting the fire back into...
New in our shop: Play the Benko Gambit. In this book, Nicolai V. Pedersen presents a complete repertoire for Black. He examines the critical main lines, the tricky sidelines and also explains how to meet the various options White has of avoiding ...
We have just received: The Slav: Move by Move. Move by Move is a new series of opening books which uses a question-and-answer format to replicate chess lessons. In this volume IM and chess coach Cyrus Lakdawala shares his experience and know...
Li Chao and Tan Zhongyi are the winners of the chess section at the 26th Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China. This huge event can easily be described as the Olympic Games for students, and for the first time chess was included. On-the-spot repo...
One feature of our PDF & PGN magazine ChessVibes Training is that you can send in your games, and IM Thomas Willemze, talent coach for the Dutch Chess Federation, will have a look at it. Who wouldn't want that? Want to improve your chess? See ...
We haven't mentioned it for a while, but the F.E.B. #10, 11 and now also 12 are out! The last one comes from on-location in Sheffield, England, and has Michael Adams, Nigel Short, ECF President CJ de Mooi, plus Dortmund and Kasimdzhanov's ...
All players of the 2011 London Chess Classic have confirmed their participation: Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell. The third edition will take ...
Our weekly PDF & PGN magazines ChessVibes Openings and ChessVibes Training complement each other wonderfully. CVO helps your understanding of openings and keeps your repertoire up to date, while CVT provides instructive middlegame and endgame ...
Grassroots Chess Promotions Pvt. Ltd. (in association with the All India Chess Federation) and ICC have joined forces to bring to the worldwide chess community the first India Global Internet Speed Chess Tournament, running 20-21 & 27-28 Augus...
Is that Ruy Lopez a bit too complicated for you? No worries! In this week's issue of ChessVibes Openings our editors show alternatives for the white player, which are both romantic and state of the art. The Evans Gambit, the Two Knights and the Sc...
Now shipping: Fighting the French: A New Concept. Do you sometimes wonder what to play against the French Defence? In this book GM Denis Yevseev suggests a new concept of combating it. White plays 3.Nd2 and then deploys his pieces accordin...
Michael Adams won the 2011 British Championship on Saturday. The 39-year-old grandmaster defeated Nigel Short 1.5-0.5 in a rapid play-off match after the two had finished shared first with 8.5/11. Macauley Peterson reports from Sheffield, England....
New in our shop: 888 Miniature Studies . Genrikh Kasparyan (1910-1995) was one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies. His last book remained unfinished, but Genrikh's son Sergey decided that this brilliant collection of min...
It's interview week! :-) At the end of June we mentioned the first part of the interview with Levon Aronian at Crestbook. Recently the second part was added, and again it's an entertaining read. "The first thing I look at is whether I can take any...
The King's Indian is hot again. While Garry Kasparov once said goodbye to his favourite opening, Hikaru Nakamura still plays it at the highest level. His last-round game in Dortmund against Vladimir Kramnik is the Game of the Week in this week's C...
We've added even more titles to the Combined Items section of our webshop: 1. Opening for White According to Kramnik - Book 1a, 1b, 2 & 3 1.Nf3 by Alexander Khalifman SAVE 15% - Our Price: €99,95 €77.00 2. B...
Wanna know about the future of the Jänisch Ruy Lopez? Having a hard time keeping track of the latest Grünfeld developments? Receive the latest opening novelties right in your mailbox with ChessVibes Openings, our weekly PDF magazine (+ PGN!) cover...
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Want to improve your chess? Thinking about subscribing to ChessVibes Training? This week make available for download two more sample pages of CVT, which means you'll have a complete free sample issue to decide! Want to improve your chess? See more...
A new DVD in our shop: Beating the Sicilian. In Volume 1 of GM Repertoire, a series covering the Open Sicilian for White, Victor Bologan presents the plans and reactions in the Sveshnikov/Cheliabinsk Variation, the Rauzer Attack, the Maroczy Bi...
You can now save 35% on the complete set (4 volumes) of Chess Opening Essentials! It presents, explains and illustrates the ideas and plans behind ALL chess openings. If your rating is < 1900, then you should get these manuals before you buy ...
Former FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzanov from Uzbekistan has sent an open letter to the World Chess Federation with quite a revolutionary idea: to abolish the draw in chess altogether. "This way the expectations of the crowd will never b...
