Yesterday the World Team Championship started in Bursa, Turkey. The participating teams are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Egypt, Greece, India, Israel, Russia, Turkey and the USA. Quite a few strong players (such as Aronian, Gelfand, Grischuk and N...
Every chess player, no matter how weak, has a high point in his career. Mine occurred in May 2007, during the last round of the Dutch Team Chess Championship. I was playing in the Master League, the highest level in Dutch chess, and I was surround...
On December 24, 25 and 26 we were running our Big ChessVibes Christmas 2009 Trivia Quiz. Today we give you all answers to the thirty questions. And we have three winners!As we expected, the trivia quiz wasn't easy. In a lot of cases, the answers c...
2009 was a tough year, also for the chess world. Sponsors left, prize funds were lowered and in one (quite important) event the list of participants counted just four players. But it was also an interesting year, with successes for rising stars as...
Today we give you the third and last set of ten questions of our Big ChessVibes Christmas Trivia Quiz. Soon we'll bring you all the answers. Good luck!Today questions 21-30. Send your answers before Sunday, December 27th, 23:59 CET to christmas09@...
Two interviews with World Champion Viswanathan Anand have appeared in Indian newspapers this week, and in one of them he makes a remarkable statement. To the question whether GM Ganguly will again be in his team of seconds for the match against To...
Magnus Carlsen defeated Vladimir Kramnik in the first round of the London Chess Classic. The tournament, which will last for seven rounds, started on Tuesday with the two top seeds immediately paired against each other. Luke McShane beat Nigel Sho...
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock," said Harry Lime in Orson Welles' The Third Man. In FIDE, for twenty years they lacked democracy and love for...
We have just received from Hamburg a new and instructive training DVD: The Magic of Chess Tactics.Originally published as book by Russell Enterprises back in 2002, Claus Dieter Meyer and Karsten Müller have considerably improved and expanded The M...
Three rounds so far have been played in this year's edition of the Czech Coal Match, and the team of "Snow Drops" (Humpy Koneru, Anna Muzychuk, Kateryna Lahno and Jana Jackova) are in the lead: 7 points versus 5 for the "Old Hands" (Jan Timman, Vl...
After a big cull of top seeds at the World Cup on the first two days of the second round, there were no major shocks in the playoffs, although Leinier Domingez lost to 17 year-old Italian-American Fabiano Caruana (pictured). Poor Ivanchuk has cle...
Very deep opening preparation and powerful middlegame play brought Viswanathan Anand a deserved victory against Peter Leko today. The World Champion leads the Tal Memorial together with Vladimir Kramnik, who drew with Boris Gelfand - the same resu...
The 2010/2011 FIDE Candidates matches will be split into two groups and organized in two locations. One part will be held in Azerbaijan, and the other (in which Aronian will play) in a different country. This was decided at the 80th FIDE Congress ...
Despite the fact that a formal bank guarantee still hasn't been provided, FIDE today accepted a bid from Sofia, Bulgaria to host the 2010 World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov. The dates have not yet been confirmed...
Today marks the end of the (extended) deadline for bids from potential hosts for the planned Anand v Topalov match for the World Chess Championship. Although none of the bidders could provide the bank guarantees that FIDE was looking for, the bid...
Anish Giri could enjoy the title for about eight months, but now there's a new youngest grandmaster in the world: Ray Robson from the USA. By winning the Panamerican Junior Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay Robson clinched his 3rd GM norm, just ...
In the week that YouTube let the world know about their new milestone of 1 billion views per day, we discovered several videos posted on the site which are of considerable historical value to the chess world. The videos contain unknown photos of B...
Fans of Chessbase software will no doubt be pleased to hear that the release of the latest version of their flagship playing program Fritz, is due in October. So what is new in Fritz 12? Well, the menu layout has been completely re-designed for...
Evgeny Tomashevsky won the Higher League of the Russian Championship, a super-strong, 11-round Swiss, with a score of 8/11. He qualified for the Russian Championship, which will be held later this year in Moscow, together with GMs Vitiugov, Riazan...
When you're already the fourth highest rated chess player in the world, it must be hard to find coaches who can really stretch you... Magnus Carlsen has solved that problem by the remarkable coup of landing the former world champion, and arguably...
A dream team has come true: one of the best players that ever lived is working with the biggest talent in chess at the moment. Garry Kasparov has started coaching Magnus Carlsen. This was made public today in the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang. ...
Unfortunately I lack the time to comment on all top level games that appear on this site, but this week it's a bit quiet in the chess world and therefore I could have a closer look at some games. In fact two gems were played this week, one by Nige...
Former blitz world champion Alexander Grischuk was the strongest on Sunday in the Moscow blitz championship, held in a park in the Russian capital. Alexander Morozevich shared second place with Sergey Karjakin who is now a Muscovite as well. The 6...
It's an endless - and often pretty boring - debate: are men better in chess than women? But recently, there was an interesting blog discussion about the All Girls US Chess School in which some points where raised that are not usually heard in this...
