The fourth game of the Women's World Championship match between Hou Yifan and Humpy Koneru ended in a draw. The reigning champion was better throughout the game, but after five hours of play the Indian grandmaster saved the draw. The match tak...
Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin are sharing the lead after three rounds at the Tal Memorial in Moscow, Russia. On Friday three games were won by Black (Gelfand-Karjakin 0-1, Nakamura-Svidler 0-1 and Ivanchuk-A...
Recently World Champion Vishy Anand started a new series for the website First Post. It will have him explaining his game and posing a puzzle to the readers. The series aims to be interactive, fun and bring out the twin aspects of chess, emotion a...
Round three at the Tal Memorial in Moscow produced a thrilling round with three decisive games - all won by the black pieces! But perhaps the most extraordinary game was the encounter between Vladimir Kramnik and Magnus Carlsen. World #1 Carlsen ...
After taking the lead in game three of the 2011 Women's World Chess Championship, defending champion Hou Yifan had white in the fourth match game today. Humpy Koneru varied from her choice of the Petroff in game 2, this time playing an Open Ruy L...
The third game of the 2011 Women's World Championship in Tirana, Albania produced the first decisive game of the 10-game match. Champion Hou Yifan took the initiative early on with the black pieces and outplayed her Indian challenger Humpy Koneru...
Hou Yifan scored the first win in the World Championship match in Tirana, Albania. The Chinese grandmaster, who defends her world title in a match over 10 classical games against Humpy Koneru of India, won the third game with the black pieces. The...
Magnus Carlsen won against Boris Gelfand in the second round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow, Russia. The Norwegian joined Vassily Ivanchuk and Ian Nepomniachtchi in the lead as the other games all ended in draws. Magnus Carlsen, co-leader after two...
World #1 Magnus Carlsen beat Boris Gelfand in a thrilling clash in round 2 of the Tal Memorial. In an unbalanced game, Carlsen kept the pressure on Gelfand until he was rewarded with victory after 38 moves. Carlsen tweeted: "Extremely complicate...
Yesterday CVO #150 was sent to our subscribers. We started with our PDF & PGN magazine about openings in January 2009. Time flies! To celebrate this nice round number, we give a 15% discount to CVO subscriptions, until we reach #151 so... only...
The first round of the Tal Memorial lived up to its promise as the strongest tournament of 2011 by delivering some very hard fought games, and two decisive results. The lowest ranked player in the competition is Ian Nepomniachtchi (pictured), who...
The first round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow, Russia immediately saw a big upset: last seed Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated Vladimir Kramnik with the black pieces. In the only other decisive game, Vassily Ivachuk beat Peter Svidler. The playing hall ...
Today the strongest tournament of 2011 and highest rated 10-player round robin tournament in chess history starts: the Tal Memoral, in Moscow, Russia. The players' field with Magnus Carlsen (2823, Norway), Vishy Anand (2817, India), Levon Aron...
The 2011 Tal Memorial will run from 16-25 November in Moscow, and will feature 10 of the very best players in the world in a single round-robin competition. There will be one rest day on 21 November, and games start at 15:00 local time (11:00 ...
Hou Yifan had the white pieces in the second game of the 2011 Women's World Chess Championship in Tirana, Albania. The champion opted for 1. e4 and Humpy responded solidly with the Petroff Defence. The resulting symmetrical pawn structure offered...
Humpy Koneru drew the second game in her World Championship match against Hou Yifan most comfortably. If anyone was better in the game it was the Indian grandmaster. The match is played over 10 classical games and if necessary there will be a rapi...
This year's tournament in Reggio Emilia will be very strong. The full list of participants of the 54th edition was sent to us: Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR, 2775)Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2758)Vugar Gashimov (AZE, 2757)Nikita Vitiugov (RUS, (2729)Fabiano...
The dress code and anti-draw rules that were accepted by the ECU General Assembly last week, have been posted online. On Monday, November 14th on the website of the Danish Chess Federation an article was published about this subject with links to ...
The first game of the Women's World Championship match between Humpy Koneru (as White) and Hou Yifan (as Black) ended in a draw. The match is played over 10 classical games and if necessary there will be a rapid (and possible blitz) tie-break....
The first round of the Euwe Tournament saw three draws today in the games Fridrik Olafsson - Paul van der Sterren, Peng Zhaoqin - Pia Cramling and Monika Socko - Robin van Kampen. The game between Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant and Stuart Conquest had to...
The 2011 Women's World Championship between champion Hou Yifan and challenger Humpy Koneru got underway in Tirana, Albania today. Humpy Koneru had the white pieces in the first game, and as the opening moves were played at 15:00 local time (14:00...
Hou Yifan plays black in the first game of the Women's World Championship which starts today at 15:00 CET in Tirana, Albania. The Chinese grandmaster defends her world title against Humpy Koneru of India, who is rated 22 points higher. An imag...
PRESS RELEASEMax Euwe Tournament, 13 – 20 November 2011 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Live Games on www.euwetoernooi.nl On 26th November it will be thirty years since former World Champion Dr Max Euwe passed away. To honour his memory two groups of...
Reigning champion Hou Yifan of China faces Humpy Koneru of India in a 10-game match for the Women's World Chess Championship in Tirana, Albania from 14-30 November 2011. Hou Yifan became the youngest ever women's world champion in December 2010 a...
