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...
In recent years former FIDE World Chamion Alexander Khalifman, together with his students in St Petersburg, released the famous series Opening for White According to Anand 1.e4. In 13 volumes, a complete repertoire for 1.e4 is presented and almost...
The 2012 San Sebastian Open was held from 31 March - 7 April in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain. The tournament was a 9 round of Swiss which attracted a field of more than 150 players. The Czech Grandmaster Igor Rausis took a first place and a pri...
Metropolitan Chess, Inc. will be hosting IGM and World Champion Viswanathan Anand in August 2012. He will be leading as an instructor at the Metropolitan 2012 Invitational Camp. This will mark the first time in 17 years that Viswanathan Anand will...
Ding Liren successfully defended his Chinese Chess Championship title in Jiangsu Province, China with a score of 8/11. Remarkably, this is the third national title for the 19 year old talent who won his first national championship in 2009, and hi...
Ding Liren won the Chinese Championship today in Xinghua, China. It was the third national title in four years for the 19-year-old (!) grandmaster. In general the tournament was a succes for the new generation, with 17-year-old Yu Yangyi finishing...
Between 6 and 15 July you will have an opportunity to play a 9-round Swiss in Dubai. The tournament, which will take place in the luxurious Jebel Ali Golf Resort & Spa, is organized by the Amateur Chess Organization (ACO), a new chess body for...
India beat Israel 29.5-18.5 in a friendly match organized as a curtain raiser to the upcoming Anand-Gelfand World Championship match. GM Krishnan Sasikiran paved the way for India's victory scoring a massive 7.5 out of a possible 8 on the fina...
The 2012 European Senior Teams Chess Championship were held from 26 March to 5 April in  Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia. The competition attracted 46 teams from around Europe, with teams representing national federations or a regional structure of a ...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov celebrated his 50th birthday today, a reminder of how young he was when he emerged from nowhere to become FIDE President 17 years ago. In recent days he was in Baku to sign an agreement which saw Azerbaijan officially confirmed ...
The 6th Annual Philadelphia Open is underway at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. The event takes place from 4-8 April and has a $80,000 projected prize fund with $60,000 guaranteed. In addition to the main Open there are many other section ranging...
The first team from Russia won the European Seniors Team Championship in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia. Their team consisted of GM Evgeni Vasiukov (2455), GM Oleg Chernikov (2415), IM Nikolai Mishuchkov (2431), IM Anatoli Shvedchikov (2405) and GM Nik...
From October 12th till 16th, the second edition of a unique tournament will be held: Chess Train 2012! This year the train will follow the route Prague – Dresden – Wroclaw – Piestany – Vienna - Prague. Don't miss it! Yo...
An Indian team defeated their Israeli counterparts in a curtain raiser for the World Chess Championship which starts on 10th May in Moscow. The friendly match in New Delhi pitted four players each from the home countries of the world champions...
PRESS RELEASE: 2012 U.S. Junior Closed Championship set for Saint LouisThe 2012 U.S. Junior Closed Championship will be held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis July 6-20 this year.This marks the third consecutive year this pres...
Lajos Portisch celebrates his 75th birthday today. The legendary Hungarian grandmaster, currently rated 2523, was born on April 4th, 1937 in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. Portisch was one of the strongest non-Soviet players from the early 1960s into...
We started our magazine ChessVibes Openings in the first week of January, 2009 and quite often we are asked if it's possible to purchase back issues. Our answer: yes you can! You will receive a ZIP file with all PDFs and PGNs, and also one big...
In a match organized as a curtain raiser to the upcoming Anand-Gelfand World Championship match, host country India leads against Israel 9.5-6.5 after the first day. The India-Israel match under way in the Airport Authority of India Officers&...
With the sad announcement that Linares is cancelled for another year, it is worth celebrating a tournament which reaches its unbroken half-century this year. The 50th Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia runs from 5-9 April. The main event is the '...
Now that the European Championship is behind us, the chess calendar seems a bit quiet until the big Anand-Gelfand match which starts May 10th. However, April won't be completely empty, with e.g. the Russian Team Championship and Aronian-Kramni...
For the second year in a row there will be no super tournament in the town of Linares, Spain. The reason is not a lack of financial means, but of proper dates in the chess calendar. This was confirmed to us today by the organizers. During the fina...
The Russian Team Chess Championship has been in a tough competition with the Bundesliga for years for the title of the strongest national team chess championship. This year it will be held in Loo district of resort city Sochi (the host of 2014 Ol...
The Spanish newspaper Diario Jaen reports that the 2012 edition of the famous Linares tournament is cancelled. After the 2011 tournament was sadly cancelled, there had been hopeful noises from the organisers that the 'Wimbeldon of Chess' would re...
Not for nothing is chess known as "the game of kings." No doubt the rulers of empires and kingdoms saw in the game fitting practice for the strategizing and forecasting they themselves were required to do when dealing with other monarchs...
