Official Website Round 4 Report A fine technical victory with white over Gata Kamsky of the U.S. in fourth-round action brought Armenia’s Levon Aronian back on top of the standings in Grandmaster Group A of the 74th annual Tata Steel Chess Tourna...
Levon Aronian rejoined Magnus Carlsen in the lead at the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. On Tuesday the Armenian grandmaster defeated Gata Kamsky with White, while tournament leader Carlsen drew with the black pi...
Official Website Round 3 Report Magnus Carlsen of Norway, the world’s highest ranked chess player, replaced Armenia’s Levon Aronian on top of the standings in grandmaster group A of the 2012 Tata Steel Tournament after an exciting third-round due...
Magnus Carlsen is the new leader at the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. The Norwegian defeated Levon Aronian on Monday. Other victories in the A group went to Sergey Karjakin and Teimour Radjabov, who won against...
Last Thursday the Russian website Crestbook published a new Q&A session in their series of KC-Conferences. In earlier editions players like Aronian, Khalifman, Krasenkow, Grischuk, Shirov and Svidler answered questions and this time the subjec...
The 2012 Queenstown Chess Classic runs from 15-23 January in New Zealand. The competition is a nine-round international open incorporating the 119th New Zealand Chess Championships, with a guaranteed prize fund of NZD 30,000 (approx USD 24,000). ...
Official Website Round 2 Report In round 2 of Tata Steel Chess, world number two Levon Aronian took sole lead by beating last year's winner Hikaru Nakamura. The American grandmaster had little to complain about a Dutch opening, as Aronian freel...
Levon Aronian is the sole leader after two rounds at the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. On Sunday the Armenian grandmaster defeated Hikaru Nakamura to get to a 2/2 score. In the only other decisive game of the A...
Official Round One Report World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway defeated Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in the opening round of the 74th edition of the annual chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee . Defending himself with a Hedgehog that arose from...
Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri won their games in the first round of the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. Carlsen grinded down Vugar Gashimov in an ending while Levon Aronian used a pawn sacrifice wi...
The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament was officially opened on Friday, January 13th in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. The opening ceremony included the drawing of lots for Grandmaster Groups A and B, as this was already done for the C group on Thur...
Today we finish our series of three interviews, with players from the Tata Steel A, B and C groups, who all make some sort of comeback. In the third interview we have Veselin Topalov, winner of the San Luis FIDE World Championship in 2005 and chal...
The 2012 Tata Steel Chess tournament runs from 14-29 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. Once again some of the best players in the world converge on this small Dutch seaside town for three separate tournaments - the A, B and C Groups. Ea...
We continue our series of three interviews, with players from the Tata Steel A, B and C groups, who all make some sort of comeback. In the second interview we have Dutch chess legend Jan Timman, one of the world's leading players for two decad...
In his latest column for ChessVibes Training, to be published next Saturday, Anish Giri shows his spectacular win against NIkita Vitiugov. His excellent Petroff against Hikaru Nakamura was discusses in this week's ChessVibes Openings. Seriousl...
The Estonian Grandmaster Paul Keres (1916-1975) is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players never to attained the title of World Champion. There is an annual memorial chess tournament held every year in Tallinn, and this year Alexei ...
From the Webmaster! Yes, indeed! ALL members are invited to join us Wednesday morning (10 am Pacific) for the ultimate showdown: a thrilling non-stop marathon of bullet-chess stamina! Blunders will certainly NOT be "pardoned" as our two sometime...
Today we start our series of three interviews, with players from the Tata Steel A, B and C groups, who all make some sort of comeback. In the first interview we have Matthew Sadler, two-times British Champion and Olympiad Gold Medal winner. (...
Sarkhan Gashimov, the older brother and manager of top GM Vugar Gashimov, won a strong blitz tournament in San Sebastian last week, ahead of many grandmasters. Rated 2351, the amateur player from Azerbaijan defeated Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru in ...
Next Saturday the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament begins in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands. Today we give a preview, and we'll post three interviews with distinguished participants in the coming days! EventTata Steel Chess Tournament | PG...
Three open tournaments with a long tradition have recently finished: events in Groningen, Hastings and Stockholm. Alexander Kovchan en Robert Hess finished shared first in the north-east of The Netherlands, already before the end of 2011. In Hasti...
The 2012 Northern California International ran from 2-8 January at the NorCal House of Chess at Northwestern Polytechnic University. The competition was a 9-round Swiss organised by Arun Sharma and Ted Castro, giving GM and IM title norm opport...
The recent 4-part defence (part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4) of the banned Rybka program, published by Chessbase and authored by Dr. Søren Riis, a computer scientist at Queen Mary University, has received a swift response from the International...
Rybka's disqualification and ban from computer chess last summer by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) is being disputed. In a 31-page article, a computer scientist working at London's Queen Mary University,...
