Garry Kasparov beat his old adversary Nigel Short in an 8-game blitz match today in Leuven, Belgium. It was a very closely fought contest (previewed here), going right down to the last game which Kasparov won to make the final score 4½-3½ in his ...
(UPDATED) Garry Kasparov beat Nigel Short 4.5-3.5 in the YourNextMove blitz match that took place on Sunday evening in Leuven, Belgium. In a match that wasn't without mistakes, Kasparov had a 2-point lead after five games, but Short levelled t...
(UPDATED) Matthew Sadler won the Oslo Open most convincingly on Sunday, finishing clear first with 8/9. The English grandmaster, who retired from professional chess over a decade ago, also won a strong open tournament in Barcelona in August. In Os...
The semi-retired English GM, and former British Champion Matthew Sadler proved he's still a force to be reckoned with by winning the 2011 Oslo Chess International. Sadler won the 9-round Swiss event with an excellent score of 8/9, 1½ points ahead...
In the Grand Slam Masters FInal Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nalamura narrowed the gap with tournament leader Vassily Ivanchuk to 3 points on Saturday in Bilbao, Spain. Carlsen beat Francisco Vallejo, while Nakamura won against Levon Aronian. Ivanchu...
Vassily Ivanchuk still leads the Grand Slam Masters in Bilbao with just two rounds remaining, but his rivals edged a little closer to keep the competition very much alive. Ivanchuk drew with world champion Vishy Anand to take his score to 14 poin...
A new chess tournament starts today in Saratov, Russia. The inaugural Saratov Governor's Cup is a 12-player single round robin tournament with a strong line-up including Ruslan Ponomariov (pictured), Alexander Morozevich, Peter Leko and Alexei Shi...
Today was round seven of the Grand Slam Masters in Bilbao, and last placed Vallejo Pons shocked Vassily Ivanchuk to keep the race for the title alive. The Spaniard played well and took full advantage of Ivanchuk's time trouble to earn his second ...
In the 7th round tournament leader Vassily Ivanchuk suffered a surprising loss at the Grand Slam Masters Final against tail-ender Francisco Vallejo. Both Anand-Nakamura and Aronian-Carlsen ended in a draw, and so Ivanchuk is now still five points ...
Sergei Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana and Zahar Efimenko are sharing the lead after four rounds at the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky. The 12th edition is a quiet one so far, with a drawing percentage of no less than 80%. The event is a 10-player round...
After declining his opponent's offer to postpone their game (because of the Sao Paulo robbery) Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Hikaru Nakamura on Thursday in Bilbao, Spain. The Ukrainian scored 13/6 and increased his lead to 6 points, the same as tw...
There's just no stopping Vassily Ivanchuk at the moment. Not even a robbery at gunpoint could prevent the Ukrainian maestro from continuing on his winning ways in the Grand Slam Final. Ivanchuk played a vigorous attacking game against Hikaru Naka...
In an interview for Chess-News Vassily Ivanchuk said that his laptop was not stolen, last Monday during the robbery in Sao Paulo. Fortunately my laptop bag was between my feet and they simply didn’t notice it, clearly. Ivanchuk added that no...
The 3rd Grand Prix of the 2011/12 Women's Grand Prix Series starts in Nalchik, Russia on 8 October. The Grand Prix is a series of six tournaments to determine the challenger for the 2013 Women's World Championship. The regulations for the 2011/12...
On Wednesday the second leg of the Grand Slam Masters Final was officially opened in Bilbao, Spain. Five of the six players were present - Vassily Ivanchuk, who was robbed on Monday in Sau Paulo, arrives in Bilbao on Wednesday and has informed the...
Veselin Topalov hasn't played much after he lost the 2010 World Championship match against Vishy Anand last year, but soon he'll be 'back in the saddle'. Yesterday in Dublin he told Jonathan O'Connor, the chairman of the Irish ...
In a clock simul on Monday in Dublin Veselin Topalov scored 2-2 against the four strongest Irish players. Bulgaria's number one player, at 2768 currently ranked 7th in the live ratings, beat IM Mark Quinn, drew with IM Alex Lopez and IM Sam Co...
Former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria has been out of the spotlight recently, but on 3 October he played a clock simultaneous* exhibition with the four top players from Ireland. The exhibition took place in Dublin, and the time l...
Vassily Ivanchuk is currently leading the standings at the half-way point of the Grand Slam Masters tournament in São Paulo, but as he left the hotel with his wife Oksana to take a taxi to the airport, they were robbed at gunpoint. This shocking ...
Just outside their hotel in Sao Paulo, Vassily Ivanchuk and his wife were robbed yesterday. "The robbers were armed with a gun", Leontxo Garcia told us on the phone, "and took two suitcases." The Spanish journalist had contact ...
After becoming a bit depressed this week by reading such chess headlines as Billboard hero Magnus Carlsen blundering and former Soviet hero Mikhail Gorbachev having a friendly meeting with Gadaffi supporter Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, I decided to turn my...
PRESS RELEASE: Chess legends Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short to duel again over the board on Sunday October 9 in Belgium. LEUVEN, Belgium, 3 October 2011 – Your Next Move™, the annual chess and business event, is proud to announce that chess grand...
The 12th edition of the Poikovsky Tournament in honour of the former world champion Anatoly Karpov runs from 4-13 October in Russia. Last year's champion Sergey Karjakin (pictured) is back once again to head an impressive field in the strongest e...
In an interview for 1news.az, Teimour Radjabov suggests a new format for next year's European Club Cup: If the European Chess Union wants to make the tournament more interesting, it is necessary that the top ten teams play each other in a roun...
