Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the fifth game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After a relatively quick draw in game four the scores remain level on 2-2 with only two games to go. The players ranked number 2 ...
In times of crisis, when tournaments are getting smaller or even disappearing from the chess calendar, it's great news that this year's 40th anniversary edition of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund will have ten participants. They a...
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...
The real world Berlin Wall yielded to external pressure many years ago, but its chess equivalent continues to frustrate the best players in the world. Lev Aronian took on Vladimir Kramnik in his favourite Berlin Defence in game 4 of their 6-game...
The fourth match game Aronian-Kramnik, played today in Zurich, was a rather quick draw in another Berlin Endgame. It ended in under three hours and so the players played a rapid game as well – something that was part of the match conditions....
Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the fourth game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After Vladimir Kramnik won a thrilling battle in game three the scores are now level on 1.5-1.5 with three games to go. The...
Last night Magnus Carlsen appeared in The Colbert Report. The Norwegian grandmaster was Stephen Colbert's special guest during the second half of the show, and talked about himself, his approach to chess and Bobby Fischer. He also became a gra...
Vladimir Kramniik won a pulsating third game to equalise the score in his match with Lev Aronian. Kramnik side-stepped more popular lines with 3.Nc3 and the Four Knights opening resulted. Far from being a quiet alternative, the game quickly tur...
Vladimir Kramnik has won Tuesday's third game of his match against Levon Aronian. The score in Zurich is now 1.5-1.5 with three more games to go. 1.e4 hasn't been too popular at the very highest level recently, but it's been played in ...
Ni Hua of China finished first on tiebreak at the Dubai Open. The 28-year-old grandmaster from Shanghai finished shared first, together with Georgians Baadur Jobava & Mikheil Mchedlishvili as well as Normunds Miezis of Latvia and Chanda S...
Jenbach had been winning all their matches since November 2009. This season the team from the small Tyrolean town had to concede a 3:3 in round four to Baden, the only other team capable of lining up a team with an average rating above 2600. Until...
The second game of the Zurich Chess Challenge ended in a draw today, leaving Levon Aronian ahead by 1½-½ after the opening pair of games in this 6-game match. Aronian sprung a surprise by playing 1.e4 for the first time in many years, and Kramni...
The second game of the friendly match between Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik ended in a draw. To everyone's surprise, Aronian started with 1.e4 and it became a Ruy Lopez, Berlin Ending. The Armenian soon pushed e5-e6, which was the safest ...
The Zurich Chess Challenge started with a decisive result in the first game of the 6-game match. Despite having more match experience and moving first, Vladimir Kramnik suffered a rare loss with the white pieces. World #2 Aronian won the theore...
Levon Aronian has won the first game in his 6-game match against Vladimir Kramnik. Grabbing a lead with the black pieces, the Armenian couldn't have had a better start in Zurich. The second game will be played on Sunday. Vladimir Kramnik and L...
The much anticipated 6-game classical match between Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian kicks off tomorrow in Zurich. Although the Zurich Chess Challenge a friendly match, both players will want to make the most of the opportunity for some valuab...
Vladimir Akopian of Armenia and Ni Hua of China are in shared first place after five rounds at the Dubai Open. Both GMs scored 4.5/5 and will meet each other in round 6 on Saturday. Chief Arbiter Mahdi Abdulrahim watching the top board of round 5:...
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Tomorrow the friendly match between Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik will begin in Zurich, Switzerland and we'll have GM Sergey Shipov's live commentary translated into English here at ChessVibes! The numbers 2 and 3 of the FIDE rating l...
It wasn't quite the "crème de la crème" of the chess world, but English GM Nigel Short dominated the Bangkok Chess Club Open, finishing a full point ahead of the field with a score of 8/9 points. The other leading players in the Open competition ...
Nigel Short won the 7th Bangkok Chess Club Open on Friday. In the last round the English grandmaster drew with IM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam, who earned a GM norm. Short won 3.3 rating points to get to a virtual 2700 Elo exactly. Nigel Short v...
The Russian Chess Federation has announced the line-up for the next Tal Memorial. Luke McShane, who won an online poll, has confirmed his participation. The 7th edition of the Tal Memorial will take place 7-19 June, 2012 in Moscow, Russia. As alwa...
While chess is usually not more than part of a decor in cinema, or – even worse – a way to emphasize a character's twisted mind, it plays a major role in the TV series Endgame which premiered last year on the Canadian network ...
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...
