Last Sunday we posted a video about the Aronian-Kramnik match, held in the last week of April in Zurich, Switzerland. One of the interviewees was Vladimir Kramnik, but in fact we spoke a bit longer with the former World Champion. He said a number ...
The first 4 Nations Chess League (4NCL) competition took place in 1993 and over the intervening years it has developed into the most prestigious team chess event in the United Kingdom. The '4 Nations' name refers to the constituent countries tha...
In exactly one week from today the 2012 World Championship match starts, between title holder Viswanathan Anand of India and challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel. The two will play a match of 12 games, unless someone scores a decisive 6.5 points at ...
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 ...
The 47th edition of the Capablanca Memorial tournament will take place between 4-14 May in Havana, Cuba. There will be an Elite 6-player double round-robin headed by last year's winner Vassily Ivanchuk, a 10-player single round-robin Premier, an...
Yesterday ECU President Silvio Danailov and grandmaster Veselin Topalov finished a small European tour to promote the "Chess in schools" project, a cooperation between the European Chess Union and the Kasparov Chess Foundation. The two v...
Recently the Chess Events EAC website contacted English GM Nigel Short via Facebook for an interview on his African experiences. The website, which focuses on chess in Kenia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, kindly allowed us to cross-post th...
This year marks the 40th edition of the Dortmund Sparkassen chess meeting in Germany, which takes place from 13-22 July. The modern Dortmund tournament has been held continuously since 1973, and over the past decade it has become a firm favourite...
Last weekend Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the second part of the 'Grand Prix FFE'. The French number three, who beat French number one Laurent Fressinet in the final, earned € 4,000 for two days of rapid chess. Despite losing the first ...
The fourth episode of the Extreme Chess Championships was recently published and uploaded to YouTube. In this chess reality TV show, created by Jennifer Shahade, her brother Greg Shahade and Daniel Meirom, a group of young Americans of different c...
I seldom review chess books. To review a chess book one has to read it - at least, I always do - and this immediately presents a problem, for what if the book is no good? In that case one's time is doubly wasted, for not only has one read a wo...
National chess leagues or team championships take place in most countries, not only those with the highest profile events such as the Schachbundesliga and the Russian Team Championships. The Italian Team Chess Championship recently took place in ...
Here we go again. It seems that every time there is a new candidate for the title of world's most dubious leader, our FIDE President sees this as a reason to invite himself for a cup of coffee. Last weekend Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited Syria and...
Magnus Carlsen tops the May 1st FIDE rating list with the same rating as two months ago: 2835. Howevever, his lead has decreased to 10 points as Levon Aronian of Armenia won 5 points to get to 2825. There were few changes in the world's t...
FIDE have published the latest official chess ratings list, and although he didn't play any games during the period, Magnus Carlsen is still at #1 with 2835 Elo. Levon Aronian has made further inroads into Carlsen's lead, gaining 5 points to reac...
This weekend Chess.com hosted its fourth Blitz Death Match. The two participants -- IM Eric Hansen and GM-Elect Conrad Holt -- earned their way into the match via a long qualification process that required them to play hundreds of blitz and/or bul...
Last weekend Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana played in the Italian Team Championship. The world's #6 and #7 were in fact sitting side by side, playing for the same team "Obiettivo Risarcimento" from Padova. While Nakamura pl...
You won't have missed it: in the last week of April, 2012, the world's #2 and #3 chess players Levon Aronian (Armenia) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) faced each other in a 6-game, friendly match. The event was organized by the Zurich Chess ...
The finale of the Xtreme Chess Championships is now available to view - see below. 13-year-old Justus Williams played Stanford student Elliott Liu, 22. All the previous episodes are also available (one, two and three). See also Danny Rensch's p...
Lev Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik ended their 6-game training match with a draw to share the honours with a 3-3 final scoreline. Aronian faced another Berlin defence, but avoided the simplifying main lines by choosing 4.d3. The Armenian held a sl...
The sixth and final game between Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik ended in a draw, again after 43 moves, and so the match in Zurich ended in 3-3. Aronian avoided the infamous Berlin Ending with 4.d3, and like yesterday the game was very interest...
Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the sixth and final game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After an initially quiet then exciting draw in the penultimate game the scores remain level on 2.5:2.5. The players ranked n...
The fifth match game between Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian lasted 43 moves, saw quite some excitement especially in the final phase, and eventually ended in a draw. The match score is 2.5-2.5 with one more game to go, which starts at 13:00 CE...
The penultimate game of the 6-game match between Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian ended in a draw today in Zurich. Vladimir Kramnik switched back to 1.Nf3 and Lev Aronian was able to comfortably gain equality. It seemed that the rest of the g...
