In the first round of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing Magnus Carlsen defeated Etienne Bacrot just before the first time control. Soon after that Viswanathan Anand and Wang Yue drew their game and the encounter between Veselin Topalov and Vu...
There are lots of new features in ChessBase 11.- Repertoire database completely revised - On playchess.com the last 40 games of a player can be downloaded as a database - 'Try out' moves - Improved functions 'Opening report' and 'Dossier' - Gener...
Vladimir Kramnik today took an early lead at the Masters Final in Bilbao with a smooth win against Magnus Carlsen in a Queen's Indian. Alexei Shirov and Viswanathan Anand drew a Berlin Wall.Tournament info The 3rd Masters Final takes place 9-15 Oc...
We return to Magnus Carlsen's modelling career once more, as the time has come that his photos are actually reaching us. In shops, in magazines and... at bus stops. Have you spotted them already?On July 7th we reported that next to his chess activ...
Today the first round of the 39th Chess Olympiad starts at 15:00 local time (11:00 CET, right now in fact). The colourful pictures from the opening ceremony might have given a different impression, but not everything went according to plan so far....
This week the organizers of the 39th Chess Olympiad had to disappoint many chess federations once more. Yesterday, just four days before many teams would be travelling to Khanty-Mansiysk, the schedule of the charter flights was seriously changed. ...
Gata Kamsky today won the super strong Grenke Open rapid tournament in Mainz, Germany. The reigning US Champion started with a stunning 9/9 and then drew with Gashimov and Grischuk to clinch the title smoothly.Gata Kamsky, the unofficial Rapid Wor...
One of the many summer tournaments on the calendar is the Curacao Chess Festival. The tournament follows a tradition initiated almost five decades ago, when one of the most famous Candidates Tournaments ever played was held on the island. This yea...
After weeks of speculation and uncertainty we now know that the 2010 FIDE Presidential Election will be contested between the incumbent, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, and former World Chess Champion, Anatoly Karpov. The deadline for nominations passed on 28...
Magnus Carlsen leads with a score of 3.5/5 at the halfway point of the double round-robin Bazna Kings Tournament in Romania. After winning with the King's Gambit in round four (see previous report), Carlsen used the Dragon to win against Nisipean...
IM Daniel Rensch, and his company American Chess Events LLC, will be hosting the 2010 Copper State International from June 3rd-9th in Arizona. IM and GM Norms will be possible at this elite chess event! IM Pruess and IM Shankland (to name a few...
Dmitry Jakovenko and Sergey Karjakin today play the final of the ACP World Rapid Cup in Odessa, Ukraine. Friday Karjakin eliminated Shirov and Grischuk, while Jakovenko was too strong for Eljanov and Gurevich. Update: After four draws in the rapid...
Gata Kamsky, Alexander Onischuk, Hikaru Nakamura and Yury Shulman Thursday reached the quad finals of the U.S. Championship in St. Louis. After a rest day, the tournament resumes today with the first of the decisive three rounds.The 2010 U.S. Ches...
Five countries, 2000 kilometres, about a million potholes, an unexpected ferry and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A member of the Anand team wrote a report of a crazy roadtrip through Europe.The following report describes the travelling of the A...
Viswanathan Anand has arrived in Sofia. In the last days he and his team travelled for 40 hours by bus, from Frankfurt to the Bulgarian capital. "You can imagine he's very tired, so at the moment he's sleeping," delegation leader Hans-Walter Schmi...
We haven't given much attention to the upcoming FIDE presidential elections in Khanty-Mansiysk yet, but the recent news that the United States Chess Federation and the German Chess Federation have given their support to Anatoly Karpov, there's no ...
In round 9 of the Amber tournament, Vasily Ivanchuk defended first place in the overall standings with two draws against Vugar Gashimov. With two rounds to go the Ukrainian grandmaster has a half-point lead over Magnus Carlsen, who defeated Leinie...
Michael Adams defeated Francisco Vallejo 1.5-0.5 in the play-off final that decided the 2010 Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar. Adams was almost knocked out by Gustafsson in the semis when he lost the first game, but the Englishman came back to leve...
Vladimir Kramnik moved to shared second place in the standings of the Corus Chess Tournament. In round 8 the Russian defeated Hikaru Nakamura, who again went for the Leningrad Dutch. Alexei Shirov and Magnus Carlsen drew in a sharp variation of th...
Getting to 4 out of 5 by beating another favourite was enough reason to invite 15-year-old Dutch champion Anish Giri to do Thursday's round 5 press conference. Giri explains his smooth endgame win over Sutovsky and after watching the video a compa...
Due to some technical problems it took a bit longer than normal, but finally we can present you the first press conference from Wijk aan Zee, in which Loek van Wely explains is smooth win against Nigel Short in the first round. Hikaru Nakamura's r...
With one round to go, Russia is leading the World Championship in Bursa with 13 match points out of 8 rounds. Yesterday they defeated Egypt 3.5-0.5, while the USA lost 1.5-2.5 to Armenia. The top encounter between Aronian and Nakamura, a 9.Ne1 Kin...
The World Team Championship is just three rounds old an already there's no team left that hasn't suffered a loss. Yesterday Russia recovered and defeated the USA while Azerbaijan lost to India.The 7th World Team Championship takes place at the Mer...
This year's Groningen Chess Festival saw a sensational victory of 13-year-old Ilya Nyzhnyk (Ukraine), who finished clear first, a full point ahead of GMs Reinderman and Werle. In the match between a former Junior Champion and the reigning Junior C...
