Magnus Carlsen retained his three-point lead in Biel after his game with Alexander Morozevich was drawn relatively quickly today. In the 8th round of the Accentus GM tournament Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated Yannick Pelletier and after many hours...
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The seventh round of the Accentus GM tournament in Biel saw three decisive games. Magnus Carlsen beat Alexei Shirov with Black, but runner-up Alexander Morozevich kept pace with a win against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. In the last game to finish, Fab...
Magnus Carlsen started the second half of the Biel Chess Festival with a win against Yannick Pelletier. The Norwegian increased his lead in the standings to three points as both Vachier-Lagrave vs Caruana and Morozevich vs Shirov ended in draws. C...
Magnus Carlsen suffered his first loss at the Biel Chess Festival on Saturday. With the white pieces Maxime Vachier-Lagrave held a small advantage for long, and eventually managed to break through the Norwegian's defence with a pawn sac, to score ...
Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana at the Biel Chess Festival on Friday. The Norwegian strengthened his lead to 4 points in the football scoring system. The games Alexei Shirov vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexander Morozevich vs Yannick Pel...
The ChessVibes editors are enjoying their summer holiday in various ways. While Peter and Robert played an open in Ikaria, Greece, and Merijn participated in the annual Wine tournament in Naujac sur Mer, France, I'm on parental leave in my hom...
In the third round of the Biel Chess Festival Alexei Shirov scored his first victory, against Fabiano Caruana in a Bishop's Opening. Alexander Morozevich and Magnus Carlsen drew after a good Grünfeld 4.Bg5 fight while Yannick Pelletier and Maxime ...
Magnus Carlsen also won his second game in Biel. On Tuesday he beat Alexei Shirov in a Meran Slav. Vachier-Lagrave had Morozevich on the ropes, but missed the win and then even lost. Caruana and Pelletier drew in a Rubinstein French.General info T...
On Monday the 'Accentus Grandmaster Tournament' of the Biel Chess Festival started. In the first round Magnus Carlsen defeated Yannick Pelletier on the black side of a Grünfeld. Alexei Shirov and Alexander Morozevich split the point in an interest...
It seemed that Vasik Rajlich, the programmer of Rybka, had been silent ever since he had been disqualified and banned by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), at the end of June. However, as it turns out he gave a half an hour inter...
After Moscow FIDE has now also received a bid from Chennai to host the Anand-Gelfand World Championship Match next year. This was announced yesterday afternoon in Chennai by the FIDE President and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State Mme J. Jaya...
In ChessVibes Training #10 Anish Giri looks at his game against Alexei Shirov in Malmö and IM Merijn van Delft shows his first win against an IM in his game quiz. IM Thomas Willemze started a series of three articles op open files while IM Robert ...
This morning we sent issue #9 of our new PDF + PGN magazine ChessVibes Training to our subscribers. Interested in subscribing, but not sure yet? Today we make available for download more sample pages: IM Thomas Willemze's middlegame column of issu...
After a rest day dedicated to indoor football, on Friday the King's Tournament in Medias, Romania resumed. The fight between Nakamura and Carlsen, an uneventful Breyer Ruy Lopez, ended in a move repetition at move 34. Radjabov-Ivanchuk was a Semi-...
This week we'll be sending issue #7 of our new PDF + PGN magazine ChessVibes Training to our subscribers. Interested in subscribing, but not sure yet? Today we make available for download another sample page: Anish Giri's column of issue #4. Go ah...
Here's the second and final part of the (video) interview we did with Vishy Anand, just after he won his semi-rapid match against Alexei Shirov in León last week. In this part the short questions of the first part are discussed, and we talked abou...
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...
It was a most unlikely scenario for the first Bahia Feliz tournament on the Gran Canaria island, but it happened anyway: tournament leader Paco Vallejo of Spain, undefeated in the first eight rounds, lost his last game with the white pieces and......
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...
For the ChessBase founders it is not easy to determine the exact date when their company was born, but in the end they decided that it was on May 19th, 1986. In other words: exactly 25 years ago. We congratulate the Hamburg based company with reac...
Wang Yue and Yu Yangyi had a good start at the Hainan Dangzhou Super GM tournament. Both GMs scored 3/4 in this second edition that has the full Chinese top 10 playing, including stars like Wang Hao, Hou Yifan, Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi.As we mention...
In Kazan, Russia yet again both games ended in a draw. On the third day of the FIDE Candidates semi-finals, Alexander Grischuk switched to 1.e4 but was held to a draw by Vladimir Kramnik in a Petroff. Gata Kamsky played the ambitious 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb...
While the whole chess world is following the developments in Kazan, obviously there's more in chess than the Candidates matches. Baadur Jobava finished first at the strong Bosna open, and Pentala Harikrishna won the Asian Individual on tie-break. ...
