After more than a one-year hiatus, Chess.com's legendary Death Match series will return October 5 for a special event. GMs Simon Williams and Ben Finegold will put their differences aside, or perhaps amplify them, by settling their recent war of w...
The Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson made the first move of the 2016 world chess championship, but his principled 1. d4 wasn't the story. Rather, it was what followed one move later. Less than a minute into the biggest chess match of the yea...
Magnus Carlsen had a good sleep, recovered well from his first-round loss and today defeated Wei Yi. The world champion is now in clear second place behind Hikaru Nakamura thanks to the “football” score system at the Bilbao Master...
What happens when a leading comedian hosts a talk show, invites a U.S. presidential candidate, and creates a panel comprising a female grandmaster and two imposters? This month's "In Other News" once again covers the gamut of the weird, extraord...
On Thursday the 2015 FIDE World Cup was officially opened in Baku, Azerbaijan. For this edition the players are facing unprecedented anti-cheating measures — or so it seems. It's finally starting! The first round of the FIDE Worl...
On Saturday, GM Garry Kasparov received an honorary doctor of law degree from Saint Louis University. The former chess champion addressed this year's graduates during SLU's spring commencement. “If you always have a dream, t...
The first supertournament of 2015 has just started. The second was announced a few days ago: the Grenke Chess Classic. The 2015 Grenke Chess Classic will be held February 2-9 in the Kulturhaus LA8 in Baden-Baden, Germany. It is the same loc...
The 2014 World Championship match, won by Magnus Carlsen, has set records in online viewership. Chess.com asked main organizer Ilya Merenzon: what's next? According to the official website the 2014 Championship Match is Sochi has set r...
Computer Chess is a remarkable film about a computer vs. computer chess tournament in 1980. It has begun its theatrical run on July 17th, after it has screened at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Berlin. The reviews have ...
Field, Prizes Increased for 2012 U.S. Junior Closed Championship PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS, June 26, 2012 -- The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis has increased both the size of the field and the prize fund for the 2...
A real chess training revolution! Last week we wrote about Chessity.com, and on May 13th Chessity organized an amazing chess tactic battle. Users where thrilled about this chess training competition! (Advertorial) Here's what some of...
Want to improve your chess? See more combinations, understand middle game plans, hear about useful endgame motifs? Receive the best chess tips available with ChessVibes Training, a weekly PDF magazine (+ PGN!) co-authored by International Masters ...
Chessity.com is a brand new chess portal offering a wide range of services for chess players that want to improve their game skills. With a simple interface and running on great backend software, Chessity is a hassle-free training environment. You...
Time flies: last Saturday issue #52 of ChessVibes Training was sent to our subscribers, and tomorrow we'll distribute #53 already. We celebrate this with the following offer: if you subscribe before May 10th*, you'll receive the last five ...
In issues 50, 51 and 52 of our PDF & PGN magazine ChessVibes Training Anish Giri treats the readers with a deep analysis of a very exciting game played at the European Championship in Plovdiv: Niclas Huschenbeth (2509) vs. Erwin l'Ami (261...
Chessity.com is a brand new chess portal offering a wide range of services for chess players that want to improve their game skills. With a simple interface and great program behind, Chessity is a hassle-free training environment. You will never n...
Want to improve your chess? See more combinations, understand middle game plans, hear about useful endgame motifs? Receive the best chess tips available with ChessVibes Training, a weekly PDF magazine (+ PGN!) co-authored by International Masters ...
FIDE has signed an agreement with the companies CNC and Agon for the next World Championship cycle. CNC will be responsible for media, web and software rights, while Agon will be organising and funding the events. The contract with the Tretyakov G...
In the latest issue of ChessVibes Training you can find loads of interesting and instructive chess material. Let's have a look! Giri's Grab Bag - In his weekly column, GM Anish Giri discusses the first game he played after Tata Steel:...
In all modesty, we're actually pretty proud of today's issue of ChessVibes Training! After sending #39 to our subscribers this morning, the editorial team agreed that it actually contains a number of classics: In Giri's Grab Bag t...
Magnus Carlsen is the new leader at the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. The Norwegian defeated Levon Aronian on Monday. Other victories in the A group went to Sergey Karjakin and Teimour Radjabov, who won against...
Today we start our series of three interviews, with players from the Tata Steel A, B and C groups, who all make some sort of comeback. In the first interview we have Matthew Sadler, two-times British Champion and Olympiad Gold Medal winner. (...
In June 2010 Vasik Rajlich, the author of the strongest commercial chess software program - Rybka, was sensationally accused of plagiarizing code from other programs, especially Fruit. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) stripped ...
In two recent top level games (Kramnik-Nepomniachtchi and Nakamura-Carlsen) an opposite-coloured bishop ending appeared. Such endings are infamous, not only for their drawing tendency, but also for their hidden complexity. In ChessVibes Training i...
