This year's Grand Slam Masters Final includes the world's top 3 players and starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The first round pairings are Nakamura-Ivanchuk, Anand-Carlsen and Aronian-Vallejo. Who do you think will win? The six participan...
We proudly announce two more grandmasters to our GM blogs section: French grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and English grandmaster Michael Adams! When we launched our redesigned site, we also introduced something completely new: GM blogs. From t...
Sad news reaches us via our co-editor Yochanan Afek, who writes that GM Konstantin Lerner passed away on the evening of Saturday, September 24th, 2011 in Hertzlia, Israel at the age of 61 following illness. Konstantin Zaivelevich Lerner was born 2...
Less than a week after the end of the World Cup two new top events are about to start. On Sunday the first round of the European Club Cup will be played while on Monday the first round of the Grand Slam Masters Final is scheduled. European Club Cu...
"Get me out of this" was how Magnus Carlsen told his father Henrik that he wanted to stop working with Garry Kasparov, after the Corus Chess Tournament in eary 2010. This is written in a new biography about Carlsen which was published la...
The Grand Slam Masters Final 2011 will run from 25 September - 11 October. The tournament is a six-player double round-robin, split into two halves: the first from 25 Sept-1 Oct in São Paulo, Brazil and the second in Bilbao, Spain from 5-11 O...
Today the Russian Chess Federation announced the participants of this year's Tal Memorial at its website. They are: Viswanathan Anand (India, 2817) Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2823) Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2807) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2791) Ser...
On the FIDE website it is reported that on 15 September, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with Mr. Rezart Taci, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 2011 Women's World Chess Championship Match. The leaders signed an agreement o...
VIDEO & PHOTO REPORT On Tuesday chess legend Garry Kasparov, together with European Chess Union President Silvio Danailov, presented at the European Parliament the program ‘Chess in European Schools’. The program is designed to pro...
The timetable for the third London Chess Classic has been announced. The strongest tournament in the history of British chess will be complemented by a chess festival with tournaments for all levels and of course free chess coaching for schools. I...
The 27th European Club Cup runs from 24 September - 2 October in Rogaška Slatina in Slovenia. 65 teams will be competing for the European Club title, team prizes, and individual prizes. Participating clubs must be affiliated to the European Che...
Twenty-one youth chess players played the 2011 Youth Chess Tournament for Peace at the 2nd Global Conference on World’s Religions at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Québec, Canada on September 7, 2011. HHDL holding a...
In a letter to the FIDE Executive Board members, the Dutch Chess Federation expresses its concern about the proposals of the Events Commission for the Executive Board Meeting to be held from 15 to 22 October 2011 in Krakow, Poland. We received the...
In this year's FIDE World Cup, which concluded last Monday, the first three players qualified for the next Candidates event. But what will this event look like? What we know is that, like in Kazan in May this year, there will be eight players....
Hou Yifan also won the second tournament in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series 2011-2012. Just like last month in Rostov, the reigning World Champion from China scored 8/11 and this time she remained undefeated. IM Anna Muzychuk, from Ukraine ...
Last weekend saw the welcome return of the traditional chess match between the great chess cities of Moscow and St.Petersburg. The match marked the centenary of the first match in 1911, but is only the 22nd edition of the event, and the first for...
Women's world champion Hou Yifan (pictured) won the second Grand Prix of the 2011/12 series in Shenzhen, China, a point clear of the field with a score of 8/11. Hou has now won the first two tournaments of the Grand Prix series, having previously...
Press Release: 18th September, GM Sergey Volkov (pictured) - Hotel Lac Salin won the 2nd International Livigno Chess Open. Volkov led going into the last round, but this was no guarantee, as two players were a half point behind and another three a...
Peter Svidler drew the final game of his match with Alexander Grischuk to win the 2011 World Cup and pocket a cheque for 100,000 USD. Svidler had an excellent tournament, beating Caruana, Kamsky, Polgar and Ponomariov on the way to the final, and...
(FULL REPORT) Peter Svidler won the FIDE World up 2011 after drawing the 4th game of the final against Alexander Grischuk today. The grandmaster from St. Petersburg set the final score at 2.5-1.5 and clinched the title and US $120,000 first prize....
Peter Svidler had no trouble holding Alexander Grischuk to a draw in the third game of their World Cup final match. In fact, it was Svidler who had the better position with the black pieces, and Grischuk was replying on the 30 second time increme...
Sergey Volkov finished clear first at the 2nd Livigno Open. The Russian grandmaster scored 7/9 and ended above GMs Peter Michalik, Georgy Timoshenko and Dmitry Svetushkin, who scored 6.5 points. During the final game it was enough for Volkov ...
On Saturday in Clichy, France Garry Kasparov showed that he's still capable of beating today's top players in blitz. The 13th World Champion won a 2-game exhibition match against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1.5-0.5. The match was part of a bigg...
(FULL REPORT) On the third day of the World Cup finals both games ended in draws. This means that in both matches a fourth classical game will be played, and both Alexander Grischuk and Ruslan Ponomariov need to win on Monday to force tie-breaks o...
