Co-leaders Pavel Eljanov and Mateusz Bartel faced each other in the penultimate round of the 2012 Aeroflot Open, but neither could land a decisive blow and the game ended in a draw. That allowed early leader Anton Korobov to join them at the top ...
In the latest issue of ChessVibes Training you can find loads of interesting and instructive chess material. Let's have a look! Giri's Grab Bag - In his weekly column, GM Anish Giri discusses the first game he played after Tata Steel:...
This season's 4NCL has reached its 6th round, after three weekends of play. Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher is leading Division 1a while Cheddleton tops the standings in 1b. After seven rounds, the top four and bottom four teams in each prelimi...
After seven completed rounds out of nine at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, Pavel Eljanov (pictured) of the Ukraine and Mateusz Bartel of Poland share the lead on 5½ points. They will now meet in a crucial showdown in round eight. Former leader Ant...
Anton Korobov leads the Aeroflot Open after six rounds. The Ukrainian grandmaster won four games and drew two, and is half a point ahead of his compatriot Pavel Eljanov, Mateusz Bartel of Poland and Fabiano Caruana of Italy. Anton Korobov in round...
The diversity of registered players at the Reykjavik Open is quite amazing. There is close to an equal number of players in each “century” ELO bracket. For example, there are 10 players with 2600+, 14 players 2500-2600 and 16 players w...
2012 marks the 25th Anniversary of the León chess festival in Spain, and to celebrate the occasion there will be a rapid match between Veselin Topalov and Spanish #1 Francisco Vallejo Pons. The match will consist of 6 rapid games played over 3 da...
The 25th edition of the annual chess festival in León, Spain will include a 6-game match between Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain. Press release by Leontxo Garcia Fans cherish chess players who take risks and ...
After four rounds of the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, Anton Korobov (pictured) is the sole leader with 3½ points. The 17th seed Korobov from Ukraine beat Fabiano Caruana in round four to claim the lead, just half a point ahead of a pack of 11 players...
The ever-fascinating 6.Bg5 Najdorf saw a number of theoretical developments in the past week. Few of you will have missed the spectacular game Berg-Vachier-Lagrave (in Gibraltar), which started with 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4 Qb6 (the Delaye...
Believing 'news' that you read on Twitter can be a foolish pastime, so despite days of speculation on the popular micro-blogging site, chess fans and press alike have understandably waited for official confirmation of a remarkable rumour. Now it ...
This week there were rumours about the next Candidates Tournament being held in London, as a result of a tweet by the assistant of the FIDE President. These rumours seem to have been confirmed now by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. In their own...
Fabiano Caruana of Italy is in shared lead with seven more grandmasters at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, Russia. The group scored 2.5 points out of 3 games. Caruana is now 7th in the live ratings. The playing hall in Moscow | Photo © ...
PRESS RELEASE Zurich Chess Challenge: Kramnik vs. Aronian The Zurich Chess Club announces a six-game chess match between Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and Levon Aronian (Armenia) from 21 to 28 April 2012. The numbers 2 and 3 of the World ranking wil...
The friendly match between Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian will be held from 21 to 28 April in Zurich, Switzerland and will consist of six games played at classical time control. A first press release was distributed today by the Zurich Chess C...
The Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) is moving from from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas to Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri in June this year.Susan Polgar (pictured) confirmed the move, adding that 8 leading m...
Yuri Lvovich Averbakh was born in Kaluga, Russia on 8 February 1922. He became a Grandmaster in 1952, competed in the legendary 1953 Zurich Candidates tournament, and won the USSR Chess Championship in 1954. Â In a long and successful chess car...
Next year a new super tournament will be organized in Stavanger, Norway. The country's top player Magnus Carlsen will both participate and assist in promoting the event, which will be by far the strongest chess tournament ever held on Norwegia...
Only a week after Boris Spassky, the oldest living former World Champion, turned 75, we have another legend celebrating a special birthday. Yuri Averbakh, the oldest living grandmaster in the world, turned 90 today. Yuri Averbakh at his 80th birth...
NEWSFLASH Details are emerging of a new Super-tournament which will be added to the chess calendar next year in Stavanger, Norway. The inaugural tournament will be called Norway Chess 2013, and the #1 ranked Magnus Carlsen will naturally be ta...
I am thrilled to announce the lineups for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Chess.com Death-Matches! Each match will be a three hour marathon of speed chess, testing the combatants' chess abilities, quick thinking, determination, preparation, and endurance, b...
The second episode of the Extreme Chess Championships was recently published 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 ...
The Turkish Chess Championship was held 29 January-5 February, 2012 in Kemer, Antalya (Turkey). There were 309 participants (52 more than last year), including 19 titled players (4 GMs, 6 IMs, 6 FMs and 3 CMs). By Anastasia Karlovich Dragan ...
The 34th Bulgarian Open Chess Championship 2012, also known as the Georgi Tringov Memorial, was won by Ivan Cheparinov. The tournament was organised by the Bulgarian Chess Federation, the Chess Club Lokomotiv Plovdiv and the Plovdiv Municipality. ...
