40 years after the Fischer-Spassky "Match of the Century" in 1972, one of the chessboards that was used during the match is up for auction. Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers in Copenhagen offers the chess board together with the chess tab...
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FLASH REPORT Dmitry Jakovenko (pictured) defeated leader Laurent Fressinet in the last round of the 2012 European Individual Chess Championships to take the title and €14,000 with a score of 8½/11. Despite his last round loss, Laurent Fressinet ...
Laurent Fressinet has grabbed the sole lead at the 2012 European Individual Chess Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria with one round remaining. The 30 year-old Frenchman forced resignation from his Armenian opponent with white in just 26 moves, le...
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In round 9 of the European Championship in Plovdiv Shakhriyar Mamedyarov again lost by default, and then decided to leave the tournament. He agreed to a draw with his opponent Alvar Alonso Rosell before move 40 without asking the arbiter, whereupo...
The 2012 European Individual Chess Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, has reached 9 completed rounds out of 11 and the competition is still very close. Seven players share the lead with 7/9 points, while a further 21 are just half a point behind ...
In the 4...Bf5 main line of the Caro-Kann, one of the critical positions is reached after the moves 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bd2 Ngf6 12. O-O-O Be7 13. Ne4 Nxe4 ...
Vladimir Akopian, Vladimir Malakhov and Maxim Matlakov are leading the European Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The three grandmasters scored 6.5/8 and are half a point ahead of 16 grandmasters. In the 8th round, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov arrived a...
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 Chess 2012 Invitational Camp. This will mark the first time in 17 years that Viswanathan Anan...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament has been postponed until March 2013. The new dates were announced today on the FIDE website. Players and organizers have expressed to be happy with this new turn of events, while Andrew Paulson gives some more explan...
After howls of protest at FIDE's proposed timetable for the Candidates Tournament - in between the Bilbao Masters and London Chess Classic in October/November this year - FIDE have relented and revised the dates to March 2013. That ironically unc...
Nowadays opening books play a different role than before the database era. There is no longer a need for a complete survey of all possibilities. Instead, opening books may have different focuses, supporting or even avoiding the database knowledge....
That's the chess championship of China, not the "chinese chess" championship just to be clear! The 2012 Chinese Chess Championships take place from 27th March - 7th April in the city of Xinghua in Jiangsu Province, China. The format is a single ...
2011 was the "Botvinnik year" in Russia, because Mikhail Botvinnik was born on August 17th, 1911. You'll probably remember the Botvinnik Memorial Veterans rapid tournament, held in August last year and won by Viktor Kortchnoi. I...
Chess.com started in 2007 as two friends working out of our garage. In the last five years though sooooo much has happened: we’ve built dozens of features, added 20 full-time team members, and grown to almost 5 million members! But one thing...
The official website of the world chess title match Anand-Gelfand was launched on Monday. Earlier this month the organizers had already revealed the official logo. The homepage of the official website On Monday we received a press release from the...
The 2012 World Chess Championship match between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand starts on the 11th May, and the official match website is now live at http://moscow2012.fide.com. The 12-game match will take place in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Mo...
Going into the first (and only) rest day, a group of 10 grandmasters is sharing first place at the European Championship in Plovdiv: Sergei Azarov, Laurent Fressinet, Ernesto Inarkiev, Gawain Jones, Denis Khismatullin, Anton Korobov, Yuriy Kuzubov...
Round six of the 2012 European Individual Chess Championships was the first day after the clocks moved one hour forward for the start of Daylight Saving Time in Europe. Sadly, this change seemed to catch out seven players who were defaulted becau...
After five rounds of at the 2012 European Individual Championships, the competition has shown no respect to reputations, as the great strength in depth of the field takes its toll on the supposed favourites. Top seed Fabiano Caruana started brigh...
Gawain Jones is the only player with a 100% score after four rounds at the European Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The English grandmaster, who runs a blog that can be read here at ChessVibes, is half a point ahead of a group of twenty grandma...
The European Chess Union (ECU) won the CAS court case against the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF) regarding the bidding procedure for the European Youth Championship and the European Senior Team Championship of 2013. This was communicated today by ...
