On the FIDE rating list of November 1st, 2011 Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan climbed to 5th place. Alexander Morozevich continued his strong comeback and is now officially a top 10 player again as well, just like Hikaru Nakamura. There are two maj...
There's a good chance that some of you have missed the recent blog posts by a number of GMs who have a blog on this site. That's why we'll point you to these recent articles: Losing in style GM Ruslan Ponomariov writes about his high n...
Last week we promised to return to Hoogeveen once more, for a report on the Open tournament that took place alongside the Crown Group that was won by Kramnik. The 9-round Swiss finished in a three-way tie between Dutchmen Sergey Tiviakov, Sipke Er...
Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving! --> IM Yochanan Afek's Official Website G. Amann 2009 ...
2ND CHESSVIBES BLITZ TOURNAMENT Keep this date free in your agenda: Saturday, February 4th, 2012 (More info to follow...)
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The 2011 Corsica Masters tournament comes to a finish on 31 October when Vishy Anand and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov will meet in the final. The tournament has an unusual format, starting with a 9 round Swiss event at a standard (long) time control, f...
After he finished shared first with Ivan Salgado Lopez in Barcelona, Yasser Seirawan was interviewed by Ana Matnadze for El Butlletí d'Escacs, the official magazine of the Catalan Chess Federation. Matnadze generously shared the intervi...
The 1st Central Asia Chess Cup took place from 17-27 October in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and was won by the #1 ranked Uzbek player Rustam Kasimdzhanov. This new competition was a 9 round Swiss open to players from the Central Asian countries of Uzbek...
On May 20, 2011, the Croatian Chess Federation filed an Appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the decision of the ECU from March 29, 2011 to award the European Club Cup (men and women) 2012 to Eilat, Israel. In the arbitratio...
The charity Chess in Schools and Communities (CSC) celebrated its first birthday on Tuesday, October 18th in the House of Commons in London. Among the guests were Garry Kasparov, who supports chess in schools through his Kasparov Chess Foundation,...
The World Amateur Chess Championship 2011 took place October 1-11 in Kemer, Turkey. There were 67 players from 16 countries (Albania, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, France, India, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Russia, Sri Lanka, Syr...
Le Quang Liem won the 5th SPICE Cup in Lubbock, Texas. The Vietnamese grandmaster defeated Leinier Dominuez of Cuba in the last round and finished on 17 points (in the football score, which was used in Texas) or 6.5/10 (in the traditional score). ...
The 20 year-old Vietnamese #1 Le Quang Liem has won the 5th SPICE Cup in Lubbock, Texas (15-25 October). Le lived up to his top seed status by dramatically winning his last round game against leader Leinier Dominguez to clinch a last-gasp victory...
Between October 15th and 21st the 82nd FIDE Congress took place in Krakow, Poland. Many important decisions were taken in different areas and on a wide range of topics. However, no official documents, reports or minutes of the meetings and results...
Iranian GM Eshan Ghaem Maghami was excluded from the Corsican Circuit on Monday after he had told the organizers he refused to play against the opponent he was paired for in the 4th round: FM Ehud Shachar of Israel. "I want to emphasize ...
Ivan Salgado Lopez edged out Yasser Seirawan on tie-break at the Casino de Barcelona tournament after both players finished on 5.5/9. EventTorneig Magistral d'Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona | PGN via TWICDatesOctober 12th-20th, 2011LocationBarcelo...
The organisers of the Tata Steel tournament (formerly Corus) have announced details of the line-up for the 2012 edition of this historic tournament. The event will take place from 13-29 January 2012 in the traditional venue of the Dutch seaside t...
Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin and Veselin Topalov are the four highest rated players in the upcoming Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The 74th edition will be held January 13-29, 2012 in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. Despite the abse...
This year's Chigorin Memorial chess festival, in honour of the great Russian chess player Mikhail Chigorin took place from 12-22 October in St.Petersburg. The main event was the "Classic", a nine round Swiss tournament with more than 250 competit...
PHOTO AND VIDEO REPORT - Vladimir Kramnik won the Crown Group of the Univé Tournament in Hoogeveen convincingly. Already one round before the end the Russian was sure of a clear first place. Drawing his last-round game against Judit Polgar,...
Vladimir Kramnik won the Unive tournament in Hoogeveen with a convincing display. After a strong start to the event, Kramnik went on to win all three of his games with the white pieces and drew all three with black to finish on top with a score o...
Zhao Xue won the 3rd Women's Grand Prix tournament in Nalchik, Russia with the super score of 9.5/11. The Chinese grandmaster had even started with 9.5/10 but lost in the last round. Nonetheless she finished 2.5 points ahead of the rest of the...
Zhao Xue (pictured) of China completed a fantastic victory in the Nalchik Women's Grand Prix, demolishing the opposition to finish a full 2½ points ahead of the field. Even a last round loss to her compatriot Ju Wenjun barely dimmed the magnitude...
Here's our second and final report on the train tournament that was held between October 14 and 18 in five different countries. 64 chess players travelled from Prague to Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, Krakow and back to Prague. In the mornings ...
