The 2011 Magistral Casino Barcelona tournament took place from 12-20 October, and was won by Ivan Salgado Lopez with a score of 5½/8, just ahead of veteran Yasser Seirawan on tie-break. 20-year old Ivan Salgado is currently Spain's #3 ranked play...
FIDE have confirmed the venue and dates of the 2011 Women's World Championship. Reigning champion Hou Yifan of China will face Humpy Koneru of India in a 10-game match in Tirana, Albania from 13-30 November 2011. Hou Yifan became the youngest ev...
Alexander Morozevich has won the Saratov Governor's Cup in Russia with a score of 8½/11. Morozevich dominated the 12-player single round robin tournament, and his powerful performance has lifted him to #9 on the unofficial world live ranking list...
Alexander Morozevich finished the Governer's Cup in Saratov, Russia in style. His tournament victory was already certain when Evgeny Tomashevsky drew in the last round, but Morozevich defeated Michael Roiz to set his final score at 8.5/11. In ...
From the start of this website back in 2006 there has been no clear rule about which content would (should?) be published, except for: what kind of chess article would I, the editor-in-chief, find interesting to read? Five and a half years later I...
Vladimir Kramnik is leading the Crown Group of the Univé Tournament in Hoogeveen after three of a total of six rounds. The Russian grandmaster scored 2.5/3 and is already a full point ahead of number two, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Event15th U...
There are still 3 rounds left in the Nalchik Women's Grand Prix, but incredibly Zhao Xue of China has already guaranteed herself at least a share of first place. After winning the first six games, she managed to avoid defeat in a difficult seven...
Vladimir Kramnik has taken an early lead at the Unive tournament in Hoogeveens, winning his first two games in fine style. Taking full advantage of the white pieces in both games, Kramnik beat Anish Giri and Judit Polgar, and is the only player t...
Playing chess in a train that goes from Prague to Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, Krakow and back to Prague - it is arguably the most unique ever, and currently under way. ChessVibes hopped on the train to join this wonderful experience and see five...
After six rounds of the Women's Grand Prix in Nalchik, Zhao Xue is leading with a sensational perfect score of six points! With the rest of the field at least 2 points behind, Zhao Xue is a commanding position in the Nalchik Grand Prix, the third...
Watching the 7th game of the Kasparov-Short blitz match last week made me realize once again how radical Fischer’s proposal to shuffle all the pieces on the first rank was and still is. If you want to avoid boring theoretical chess duels, al...
The 5th edition of the SPICE Cup runs from 15-25 October in in Lubbock, Texas. This year there are three round-robin tournaments taking place, but the headline event is the A Group, which is a 6-player double round-robin competition. Top seed is...
Friday was a rest day at the Governor's Cup in Saratov. Some of the participants decided to spend the day on their own; others met at the university to play soccer; while three grandmasters agreed to face amateurs over the board. When one is p...
The 2011/12 season of the German chess league, the Schachbundesliga, starts today, with the opening 3 rounds taking place this weekend. The Schachbundesliga is the strongest national chess league in the world, with some of the best players from ...
Alexander Morozevich is continuing the splendid form he's been showing thus far in the summer of 2011. In a new strong tournament in Saratov, Russia he is leading the field with the super score of 5/6. He is 1.5 points ahead of Peter Leko and ...
 The 15th edition of the Unive tournament will take place from 14-22 October in Hoogeveen in the Netherlands. The 'Crown Group' of the Unive festival is a 4-player double round-robin competition. Last year's winner Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is b...
Etienne Bacrot (pictured) has won the 12th Poikovsky Tournament with a score of 5½/9, just beating last year's winner Sergey Karjakin by virtue of a superior tie-break score. The tournament ran from 4-13 October and was the strongest field ever a...
Following his dramatic blitz playoff victory in the Grand Slam Masters, Magnus Carlsen has given an interview to the mass-market Norwegian tabloid newspaper Verdens Gang in which he says he will participate in the next world championship cycle. M...
Etienne Bacrot and Sergei Karjakin finished shared first at the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky, Russia. Both players scored 5.5/9 (UPDATE: it was Etienne Bacrot who was declared the winner on tie-break) and only one player finished on '+1'...
Saratov is a chess city that can boast the highest number of grandmasters in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. The team of the Saratov Social-Economic University won the European Club Cup twice in 2009 and 2010. The general public also ...
There was a thrilling end to the 2011 Grand Slam Final Masters, with a blitz tie-break needed to decide the winner. Magnus Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk drew their final round games against Hikaru Nakamura and Lev Aronian respectively to both fini...
Magnus Carlsen won the 4th Grand Slam Masters Final in Bilbao, Spain after beating Vassily Ivanchuk 1.5-0.5 in a blitz play-off. The two had finished shared first after drawing their last-round games. On the final day, Vishy Anand beat Francisco V...
Magnus Carlsen beat Vassily Ivanchuk in the penultimate round of the Grand Slam Masters in Bilbao to catch the Ukrainian at the top of the leaderboard. Carlsen whipped up an extremely threatening kingside attack to which Ivanchuk had no answer, e...
Magnus Carlsen beat Vassily Ivanchuk in the 9th round of the Grand Slam Masters FInal in Bilbao, Spain. The Norwegian now shares the lead with the Ukrainian, with one round to go. Levon Aronian defeated Vishy Anand but the biggest drama was seen i...
