Sergei Karjakin, who declined an invitation for this year's Grand Slam Masters Final, is the top seed at the 12th Karpov tournament in Poikovsky, Russia. The event takes place October 4-13, with a rest day on the 9th. In this strong 10-player,...
Garry Kasparov will play an 8-game blitz match against Nigel Short, on October 9th in Leuven, Belgium. Venue is the Leuven city hall and the match will start at 18.30 local (Central European) time. Chess-news reports that the time control will be ...
The 'St. Petersburg Chess Federation' team (Svidler, Vitiugov, Movsesian, Efimenko, Zvjaginsev, Khairullin and Matlakov) won the 2011 European Club Cup on Saturday in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia. In the last round World Cup winner Peter Svid...
In a close fought competition the 2011 European Club Cup in Slovenia was won by the St.Petersburg team led by Peter Svidler. Name Elo Nat Svidler Peter 2740 RUS Vitiugov Nikita 2726 RUS Movsesian Sergei 2715 ARM Efimenko Zahar 2703 UKR...
Is it safe to speak of a comeback by now? Apparently his victories in two Haarlem weekenders and a real Swiss in August in Barcelona tasted sweet, and Matthew Sadler can now be found on the list of participants of another open tournament. The Engl...
Dejan Bojkov is giving two online fundraiser simuls tonight on Chess.com. The Bulgarian grandmaster, whose blog can be read at ChessVibes, is helping the father of one of the best female chess players in Bulgaria, Elitza Raeva. Her father needs a ...
Magnus Carlsen won his first game of the Grand Slam Final Masters tournament in round 5 to bring Vassily Ivanchuk's undefeated run to an end. Despite this first loss by Ivanchuk, he still leads the event by 3 points (using the 3-1-0 scoring syste...
Vassily Ivanchuk lost his first game at the Masters Final on Saturday. The Ukrainian was defeated by Magnus Carlsen but still leads the tournament at half-time with 10/5. Hikaru Nakamura, who beat Vallejo in round 5, is now clear second with 7 poi...
Vassily Ivanchuk won his third game in a row in the Grand Slam Final Masters to claim a huge 5-point lead in the event. Ivanchuk achieved a winning game against Aronian with the black pieces, but fell into desperate time-trouble. In the ensuing m...
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On its website, FIDE today to reports about a meeting between its President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev. The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate shared with Mr. Ilyumzhinov his creative plans on writing a new book ...
Top seeds Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen found themselves propping up the standings in São Paulo after both lost their games in a remarkable third round at the Grand Slam Final Masters. Vishy Anand was met with a bold opening challenge when Vassi...
World Cup finalist Alexander Grischuk, who is currently playing in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia for the European Club Cup, was recently interviewed for the Russian Chess Federation website. WhyChess has an English translation. One quote: The ma...
On the day when both Anand and Carlsen went down in Sao Paulo, more big names lost on a different continent: Boris Gelfand, Hou Yifan and Ruslan Ponomariov. Four teams won all of their four matches: Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation, OSG Baden Bad...
The top seeds in the 2011 European Club Cup (previewed here), SOCAR Azerbaijan faltered in the third round of the competition, losing to 11th seeds Bosna Sarajevo. Mamedyarov's loss by a blunder to Predojevic was the decisive result, and this sho...
The Full English Breakfast #13 is out! Svidler and the World Cup, "noble" Navara, Chess Queen Kosteniuk, and Marc Arnold for the Kings. About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess news analysis. VERY serious, and not...
Today the Russian Chess Federation announced a new super-strong tournament to be held October 7-20 in Saratov. It's called the 'Governor's Cup of the Saratov region' and it will be a 12-player round robin with Evgeny Tomashevsky, D...
Vassily Ivanchuk beat Francisco Vallejo in the second round of the Grand Slam Masters Final on Tuesday. The Ukrainian joined Levon Aronian in the lead: both players have 4 points out of 2 games. Event4th Grand Slam Masters Final | PGN via TW...
What a difference a day makes! After an underwhelming start to the Grand Slam Final Masters on the first day, day two exploded into life with three thrilling games. Hikaru Nakamura and Vishy Anand clashed swords in a razor-sharp theoretical line,...
After two rounds at the European Club Cup in Slovenia the strongest teams haven't faced each other yet. In the men's section the favourites haven't dropped points so far, but the reigning champions in the women's tournament surpris...
The Russian Chess Federation has announced the line-up for the 2011 Tal Memorial, and barring any late withdrawals it promises to be the tournament highlight of the year. The 2011 Tal Memorial will run from 16-25 November in Moscow, and will feat...
The 4th Grand Slam Final Masters got underway in São Paulo, Brazil today (preview here). The first round pairings pitted world champion Vishy Anand against world #1 Magnus Carlsen, but it was not a game that will live long in the memory. Carlsen...
Levon Aronian took an early lead at the Grand Slam Masters Final on Monday. At the Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paulo, the Armenian grandmaster defeated Francisco Vallejo of Spain in round 1. The games Vishy Anand vs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura v...
Veselin Topalov (with 2768 currently the world's number 6) is missing in all of the current and upcoming super-tournaments this year, but the Bulgarian grandmaster will be in action soon. On Monday, October 3, Topalov will be playing a clock s...
