The 2011 FIDE Women's World Team Championships are underway in Mardin, Turkey. The championships feature 10 national teams taking part in a round-robin competition from 18-27 December. Each team has four players (and usually a reserve) and the r...
Many chess clubs have informal Christmas blitz events, some of these may have a rating difference of roughly 1000 points between the strongest and weakest player in a single group, but generally none are mentioned at ChessVibes. We make an excepti...
Hrant Melkumyan of Armenia won the European Blitz Championship while Georgian Baadur Jobava finished first in the Rapid tournament. The events were held 16-18 December in Warsaw, Poland. The top boards in Warsaw | All photos courtesy of the offici...
The 2011 European Rapid and Blitz Championships took place in Warsaw, Poland from 16-18 December. The separate rapid and blitz events were both 13-round Swiss competitions (double rounds with alternating colours for the blitz), and both attracted...
The Zadar Open was also a qualifier for the Croatian championship, and might itself be considered an open Croatian championship: 27 of 45 players in the A group were from the host country, including 8 from the Croatian top 10 – with strange ...
At the World Mind Games in Beijing, China Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France won the blitz event while Zoltan Almasi of Hungary finished first in the blindfold tournament. World Champion Hou Yifan of China won both the blitz and the blindfold women&...
The 2011 SportAccord World Mind Games were held in Beijing from 9-16 December. SportAccord is an umbrella organisation for all sports which aims to promote the visibility of less high-profile sports by organising multi-sports games on a worldwide...
After less than a year of co-operation, and barely six weeks since it was officially confirmed, Hikaru Nakamura is parting company with part-time trainer Garry Kasparov. Freelance mediamaker Macauley Peterson, who was responsible for the video co...
The cooperation between Hikaru Nakamura and Garry Kasparov was short-lived. Just before the start of the London Chess Classic the American grandmaster decided to continue working on his chess without the assistance of the 13th World Champion. This...
Now that the recent super-tournaments have finished (the London Chess Classic and the Tal Memorial) it is worth revisiting the latest 'live' chess ratings of the elite players. The next official FIDE ratings list on 1 January 2012 is unlikely to ...
Yesterday Jan Timman turned 60 years old. Two decades among the very best, many times World Championship contender and once second in the world rankings, he is still the most successful Dutch professional chess player ever. Recently a biography on...
The fourth annual "Snowdrops versus Old Hands" tournament was won by the Old Hands by a convincing margin of 21-11. The tournament was organised by the Prague Chess Society with sponsors Czech Coal and pitted a team of veteran chess players (the ...
The grandmasters Hübner, Hort, Gulko and Vaganian proved to be too strong for the female team in the Snowdrops vs. Oldhands Czech Coal Chess Match 2011. The match became a one-sided affair in its second half. After the grandmasters won 3.5-1....
Following the successful conclusion of the 3rd London Chess Classic the players were treated to dinner and prize-giving ceremony at the historic chess venue of Simpsons-In-The-Strand. Ray Morris Hill provided pictures for the media throughout the...
In the FIDE Open held alongside the London Chess Classic Abhijeet Gupta emerged as sole winner. The Indian grandmaster finished on a splendid 8/9 and a 2785 performance rating. His compatriot IM Sahaj Grover couldn't complain either with a cle...
Metropolitan Chess, Inc. Â Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted an International Master norm and a International Grandmaster norm round robin tournament in tandem from December 7th to December 11th of 2011. The tournaments were sponsored by Ca...
Vladimir Kramnik had no problems achieving the draw he needed in the final round with white against Lev Aronian to win the 2011 London Chess Classic. Kramnik had an excellent tournament, winning all his games against the English players in the fi...
Vladimir Kramnik won the 3rd London Chess Classic on Monday. The Russian grandmaster finished on 16 points, one more than Hikaru Nakamura who beat Mickey Adams in the final round. Magnus Carlsen finished third, one point behind Nakamura. Kramnik r...
The Memorial E. Crespi in Milan is the strongest and biggest Italian open, with 290 players in various categories including 58 in the Master Group. Before the event, the organizers proudly announced top seed Baadur Jobava with the words "...
At the Sport Accord World Mind Games, which currently take place in Beijing, China Wang Hao won the rapid tournament in the men's section and Alexandra Kosteniuk in the women's section. The chess part of the World Mind Games continues afte...
The dramatic showdown between Luke McShane and Vladimir Kramnik was the key game of round eight at the London Chess Classic. Hoping to secure the outright lead, McShane took the game to Kramnik with an exchange sacrifice to create a powerful bish...
Thanks to a win against Luke McShane on Sunday Vladimir Kramnik is the sole leader at the London Chess Classic with one round to go. The games Anand-Carlsen, Nakamura-Short and Howell-Aronian ended in draws; Mickey Adams had a free round. Kramnik ...
With less than a month until the event, the Northern California International is shaping up to be one of the strongest tournaments recently held in the US. With the field now having ten GMs along with eighteen IMs, the competition shoul...
An amazing round seven in the London Chess Classic saw the lead change hands in spectacular fashion! It was the turn of leader Hikaru Nakamura to sit out the round, but little could he have known that he would be caught and passed by not one, not...
