After two free days the FIDE Candidates matches resumed on Thursday in Kazan, Russia. Both Grischuk-Kramnik and Kamsky-Gelfand ended in draws. These semi-finals are also played over four classical games and, if needed, a tie-break on Monday.Genera...
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've tried hard to resist, but by now it's impossible to avoid the story about Andrey Slyusarchuk, a Ukrainian neurosurgeon and showman who 'beat' Rybka 4 in a 2-game match, playing blindfold, which was shown on national TV. Several Ukrainian gra...
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...
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 ...
Abhijeet Gupta finished clear first at the Dubai Open. The Indian grandmaster scored 7.5/9, half a point more than compatriot Parimarjan Negi, Csaba Balogh of Hungary, Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kazachstan) and Jon Ludvig Hammer (Norway). Abhijeet Gupta...
Meet our brand new, second PDF (+PGN) magazine! It's called... tatatataaaaa... ChessVibes Training. Inspired by the success of our first magazine ChessVibes Openings, we have decided to launch a second, weekly magazine. The first issue will be pu...
In May 2010 the Bulgarian Chess Federation, after organizing the Anand-Topalov World Championship match, took Chessbase to court for "violating copyright rules". Chessbase had transmitted the moves of the match live on their Playchess server, with...
Vishy Anand recently beat his second Rustam Kasimdzhanov 3.5-0.5 in a rapid match in Tashkent. While he was in Uzbekistan, Anand also played a 24-game simultaneous exhibition against the very best Uzbek juniors and women. The world champion achi...
Chess reached mainstream media last week with headlines like 'Chess World Champion loses to 10-year-old'. We received several emails about this news, but what most of the reports failed to mention was that the game was played in a simul. After the...
Last weekend we published a preliminary list of European Championship participants who qualified for the next World Cup. We noted that Vladimir Potkin, Peter Svidler and Rauf Mamedov had already qualified (info that was duly copied by other media)...
When you read an open letter like the one on cheating, signed by a number of participants of the European Championship in Aix les Bains, there are basically two ways to react. The first is to join in the public outrage and bemoan the terrible stat...
Ever been confused by the plethora of chess engines? Fiddled around with Microsoft’s Chess Titans? Do you find Dvoretsky’s books tough going? If so, you’ve got more in common with one super-GM than you might have thought! Ponomariov’s in-depth ans...
With round five of the European Individual Championships in Aix-les-Bains still in progress, Vladimir Potkin of Russia is already assured of the sole lead on a perfect score of 5/5. Potkin crushed co-leader Boris Savchenko in just 24 moves in rou...
Grzegorz Gajewski won the strong open tournament in Cappelle la Grande, France. The Polish grandmaster finished clear first with a score of 7.5/9. In Fajr, Iran it was Dutch GM Sergei Tiviakov who won on tiebreak, after finishing shared first with...
Recently a father and his daughter entered an under 1700 tournament in New Zealand under false names, and duly finished first and second. No great harm was done (their combined prize was $55, or about 40 Euros) but in the Oceania chess scene it...
In 1977 Henrique Mecking was the world's third player, behind Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. The Brazilian chess site Rádio Xadrez's Blog (Radio Chess's Blog) recently did a profile article and interview with the legendary Brazilian chess pla...
Answering reader questions almost a decade after becoming FIDE World Champion as an 18-year-old, Ruslan Ponomariov provides both a revealing insight into the life of an elite player, and a damning indictment of the chess politics that saw his matc...
In what could be loosely described as the unofficial world championship of chess engines, free chess engine Houdini beat commercial engine Rybka. The match lasted forty games and the final score was 23.5-16.5. Organizer Martin Thoresen: "I think o...
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...
One of the less attractive features of many modern chess books is that authors tend to sound rather similar to each other. This is especially the case when the author in question is not an English native speaker and the publisher's editorial team ...
The 2010 Chess Festival in Groningen was won by Dejan Bojkov. The Bulgarian grandmaster won on tiebreak after finishing shared first with GMs Mark Bluvshtein and Sipke Ernst, and IMs Brandenburg, Van Kampen and Nyzhnyk. The latter scored his third...
How well did you do in the 2010 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler? There were 20 chess related questions, and a total of 32 marks to earn, but how many did you answer correctly? Despite the questions being harder this year, the standard of entries was ...
All games in the 6th and penultimate round of the London Chess Classic ended in a draw today. Magnus Carlsen miraculously saved a completely lost ending against Vladimir Kramnik.British under 10 champion Imogen Turvey-Cross making the first moveGe...
