Russell Enterprises has published: Sacking the Citadel.This book by 1997 US Correspondence Chess Champion Jon Edwards chronicles the history, theory and practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice Bxh7+. It holds more than 300(!) annotated games and...
In a press release the Internet Chess Club (ICC) announces its first "ICC Open", an online blitz tournament with a $3,500 prize fund. Besides a main event where IMs and GMs will fight for the prizes, there will be U2200, U2000, U1800 and U1600 sec...
ChessVibes Training is our new weekly magazine (8 pages, PDF + PGN) chuck full of middlegame and endgame tips and a weekly column by Anish Giri. This morning we sent out #4 to our growing number of subscribers. "Really fantastic material. Keep o...
New: Opening for White According to Kramnik 1.Nf3 Vol. 3.Alexander Khalifman’s new edition of Opening for White According to Kramnik 1.Nf3 Vol. 3, focuses on 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3, especially on the line 4...g6, and numerous other vari...
We have just received: Lessons with a Grandmaster.Renowned Grandmaster Boris Gulko, and Dr. Joel R. Sneed, a professor of psychology and an avid chess player, bridge the gap between great player and amateur by discussing 25 of Gulko’s battles ag...
Time flies. We've already published three issues of ChessVibes Training and sent them to a growing number of subscribers. "Really fantastic material. Keep on doing this fine work," a happy chess fan from Germany told us. So... what did we cover so...
Everyman has published: Attacking Chess: The French.GM Simon Williams presents an ambitious opening repertoire for Black in the ever-popular French Defence. By picking the most aggressive, exciting and sound variations playable he combines his a...
This week's CVO #124 is chuck full of hot opening theory, coming from the Candidates matches in Kazan right into your mailbox. Learn more about Kamsky's intriguing attacking concept 8.h3/9.Qf3 in the 6.Be3 Najdorf, or Gelfand's 4.Bg5 Grünfeld. Did...
We have just received two new DVDs: Killer Endgames 1 & 2 .GM Nick Pert presents a series of lessons, categorized according to rating, to familiarise players with basic endgame theory. He provides real-life examples where superior endgame techni...
We have restocked: Formation Attacks .2007 US Sr. Chess Champion Joel Johnson was in search of a book that covered a wide array of attacks against many pawn formations in an organized fashion, but he came up empty handed. As a result, he felt com...
We started our magazine ChessVibes Openings in the first week of January, 2009 and quite often we are asked if it's possible to purchase back issues. Our answer: yes you can! You will receive a ZIP file with all PDFs and PGNs, and also one big PGN...
After a relatively dull war of attrition, the Kramnik – Radjabov match exploded into life in the tie-breaks, and particularly the incident-packed blitz games. The post-match press conference was unmissable, but was conducted in Russian. Here ...
Save 10% on: Karpov’s Strategic Wins 1 & 2 Combined .Tibor Karolyi presents a two-volume work (1961-2010) in which he shows how the 12th World Champion outplayed his opponents by strategic means. Karolyi identifies the tools Anatoly Karpov us...
Grandmaster Vadim Malakhatko of Belgium won the 8th edition of the Balagna Open in Corsica, France with 7.5 out of 9. He finished half a point ahead of Hicham Hamdouchi (France), Christian Bauer (France), Robin van Kampen (the Netherlands) and Tej...
This morning we proudly sent the very first issue of our brand new magazine ChessVibes Training to our early subscribers. Are you one of them? Go check your inbox and have a great weekend! ;-) Not yet? Naturally you can still join the party from w...
We have just received from our printers: The Joys of Chess: Heroes, Battles & Brilliancies .The Joys of ChessFantastic moves, intriguing thought experiments, strange insights and hilarious jokes: author Christian Hesse offers vistas you have never...
Just out: New In Chess 2011/3 – with 106 pages of chess delight .- Levon Aronian absolutely fabulous in Amber farewell - Viktor Kortchnoi: ‘I caused Petrosian’s fatal illness’ - Nigel Short on his worst simul - Genna Sosonko on ‘Magicians’ Bronst...
We're happy and proud to announce that in just six days from now, we'll be delivering the first issue of ChessVibes Training into the inboxes of way over a hundred early subscribers. Guess they're all excited about improving their middlegame and e...
The F.E.B. #9 is out! The FEB tackles Nice... errr... Monaco and the last (sniff, sniff) Amber Blindfold and Rapid tourney, PLUS, find out what's up with the European Championship, with clips from the most famous Frenchman, Sebastian Feller, P...
New: Wojo's Weapons, volume 2.The late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewics scored a stunning 80.2% winning percentage with his Fianchetto King's Indian. IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton make this score accessible to amateur players by clearly demons...
In just two weeks from now we'll be launching our brand new, second PDF (+PGN) magazine ChessVibes Training. Our target audience is the average club player who wants to improve his/her chess. Today wanted to let your know that in the past week we ...
Gata Kamsky, Yuri Shulman, Robert Hess, Irina Krush, Tatev Abrahamyan and Camilla Baginskaite have qualified for the next stage of the U.S. Championships. Today, in two-game rapid matches, Sam Shankland and Alexander Onischuk, and also Anna Zatons...
Just out: The Complete Hedgehog Volume 2.GM Sergey Shipov concludes his monumental work! He covers formations arising from 1.e4 and 1.d4 in depth, presents White’s most promising plans and breathes new life into lines that, according to theory, ...
Last week, the always inspiring Ian Nepomniachtchi used Bobby Fischer's 6.h3 line against the Najdorf to beat Dmitry Frolyanov with a crushing mating attack. Guess what, IM Robert Ris enjoyed analysing this as the Game of the week in ChessVibes Op...
