The amateur English GM Luke McShane has accepted the 2012 Tal Memorial spot that he was offered when he topped an online poll of chess fans arranged by the organisers. The news was revealed by the Russian sport news site rsport.ru which reported ...
Tomsk-400 have won the Russian Team Championship for a fifth time, with Sergey Karjakin posting the tournament’s best performance. Their rivals could only draw against each other in the final round, giving St. Petersburg silver and ShSM-64 b...
Nigel Short defeated M.R. Venkatesh on Monday to take over the lead at the Bangkok Chess Club Open after six rounds. The Indian IM was the surprise leader after five rounds. The Dusit Thani Hotel in Bangkok, venue of the tournament EventBan...
For the seventh year in a row, the Bundesliga team OSG Baden-Baden won the German Team Championship. However, the last Bundesliga weekend was a bit bumpy for the star team from Baden-Baden: after an unexpected 4-4 against the team from Eppingen in...
The Tomsk - 400 team have won the 2012 Russian Team Championship. They beat Nizhniy Tagil Polytechnik 4-2 in the final round to claim the title. Tomsk, the fourth seeds, were led to victory by Sergey Karjakin who also achieved the best overall in...
Leaders Baden-Baden claimed a seventh Bundesliga title in a row after easily winning their final match of the season against SV 1930 Hockenheim by a commanding score of 7-1. Vishy Anand recovered from his shock loss in the previous round to event...
What a difference two days make! Economist’s 100% record now lies in tatters after they lost to their closest rivals in rounds 5 and 6, leaving them out of the hunt for gold medals. Instead Peter Svidler’s St. Petersburg lead by a poin...
Women’s World Chess Champion Hou Yifan in Bangkok for the 12th Bangkok Chess Club Open Official website report by Alexander J. KlemmGM Hou Yifan (CHI, Elo 2639), the 18-year-old rising star in the world of chess, arrived in Bangkok earlier this w...
World champion Vishy Anand suffered a shock loss in the German chess league today, while playing on top board for six-time champions Baden-Baden. Anand lost with the black pieces to the Russian-born GM Sergei Tiviakov, who now plays for his adopt...
April Fools, ECU rules, Jakovenko schools. Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #20 is out! About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess news analysis. VERY serious, and not at all witty. Definitely not tongue in chee...
The final rounds of the Schachbundesliga season 2011/12 take place today and tomorrow. OSG Baden-Baden plays at home and welcomes the teams of Eppingen and Hockenheim. They need only one win to secure their 7th title in a row. The crucial match wi...
This weekend sees the final two rounds of the 2011/12 season of the strongest chess league in the world, the German Bundesliga. Leaders Baden-Baden look set to claim a remarkable seventh league title in a row after narrowly defeating nearest riva...
The 2nd China Women Masters tournament is underway in Xi Shan, China. The event features 10 women players in a single round-robin event from 9-19 April 2012. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes to a finish with...
In a telephone interview Garry Kasparov expressed the opinion that Bobby Fischer’s 1972 rating was 'much more significant' than Carlsen’s current rating. The 13th World Champion said this yesterday to Viktoria Korpan for E...
GM Norm Tournament in Saint Louis The Saint Louis Invitational, a GM norm tournament, is scheduled from 9-13 April at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. This is the second norm tournament held at the CCSCSL (outside of U.S. Cha...
On April 24th, Magnus Carlsen will appear on the popular satirical tv show The Colbert Report. This was revealed today by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang (VG), who also report that Carlsen was asked by the famous film director J.J. Abram...
Normally Boris Gelfand would be playing for ShSM-64 in the Russian Team Championship right now, but we all know that he is busy preparing for the Big Match against Vishy Anand. (And the Moscow team found a good replacement: Peter Leko.) Three days...
The 2012 Russian Team Chess Championships are underway in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. The competition format has changed from previous years - it's now a seven-round Swiss event running from 9-15 April. There are 18 teams chasing the title an...
The Romanian-born GM Andrei Istratescu, now representing France, has won the 2012 Neckar Open in Deizisau, Germany. with a score of 7½/9. Konstantine Shanava also finished with 7½ points, but Istratescu won thanks to a superior tie-break score. ...
During the Easter weekend a number of traditional open tournaments were held on different continents. Adam Horvath edged out Gergely-Andras Szabo, Levente Vajda and K. Rathnakaran on tiebreak at the Doeberl Cup in Canberra (Australia), Andrei...
Frankly speaking, I’ve never been fond of opening books where the author proposes dubious gambits to his readers. Nowadays the growing strength of the engines enables people to refute the recommended lines at a single touch. However, after r...
The 50th Doeberl Cup took place from 5-9 April in Canberra, Australia. The main 'Premier' event ended with 4 players level on a score of 7 points from a 9-round Swiss competition with 80 entrants. The Hungarian GM Adam Horvath took first place t...
GM Magesh Panchanathan took clear first place in the 2012 Philadelphia Open with a score of 7/9, half a point ahead of seven players tied on 6½ points. In a dramatic last round finale, Panchanathan stood worse in his game but turned the tables t...
Top-level chess returns with a vengeance this week as the Russian Team Championship sees Morozevich, Karjakin, Svidler, Caruana and Shirov among over twenty 2700+ GMs in action. The controversial new format – a 7-round Swiss – should g...
