Tornike Sanikidze is the winner of the 8th LGA Premium Cup in Nürnberg, Germany. In the last round the 22-year-old Georgian beat opponent Roman Vidonyak and caught Arik Braun in the standings. Braun had earlier drawn with David Baramidze and ...
On Sunday the first Kings vs. Queens tournament started in St. Louis, USA. It's a Scheveningen-paired tournament with a men's team (GM Hikaru Nakamura, IM Marc Arnold, GM Ben Finegold, IM Jacek Stopa and Kevin Cao) against a women's te...
It's all down to Russia versus Ukraine in the World Cup semi-finals as Alexander Grischuk and Vassily Ivanchuk joined their respective compatriots Peter Svidler and Ruslan Ponomariov in the last four. David Navara blundered away his first tie-bre...
(FULL REPORT) Alexander Grischuk and Vassily Ivanchuk will face each other in the semi-finals of the World Cup after winning their round 5 tie-break matches. Grischuk won his first game against David Navara with Black and then drew the second. Iva...
The Kings took a substantial 7-3 lead against the Queens on the first day of the innovative challenge at the St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center. Only Kateryna Lahno won her mini-match against young St.Louis NM Kevin Cao. Cao is taking the...
On the second day of the World Cup quarter-finals, two matches were decided and two will need tie-breaks tomorrow. Judit Polgar pushed too hard for a win with white against Peter Svidler and paid dearly for her ambition. So the strongest female p...
(FULL REPORT) Peter Svidler was the first player to reach the World Cup's semi-finals after Judit Polgar reached a nice position, then avoided a move repetition and then collapsed in timetrouble. Winning yet another fine endgame, Ruslan Ponoma...
GMs Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue and IM Anna Muzychuk are sharing the lead after four rounds at the Women Grand Prix in Shenzhen, China. It's already the second event in the second Women GP series, less than four weeks after the first one in Rostov ...
Hot on the heels of the first Grand Prix in Rostov, the second Women's Grand Prix of the 2011/12 series in underway in Shenzhen, China. The contest was delayed by a week to allow Women's World Champion Hou Yifan (pictured) the chance to participa...
It was briefly mentioned in a press release from Saint Louis, and today the confirmation came: Anatoly Karpov is going politics. WhyChess quotes a number of Russian language sources that brought the news today: The 12th World Chess Champion is ...
Two players have withdrawn from the Kings vs. Queens tournament, which is scheduled to begin this week in Saint Louis. Former World Champion Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov and Grandmaster Judit Polgar are both unable to attend, and tournament organize...
The quarter-finals of the 2011 Chess World Cup got underway today in Khanty-Mansiysk. Vassily Ivanchuk found a big hole in Teimour Radjabov's Dragon to win the opening game of their match. Radjabov will need to hit back immediately in the second...
(FULL REPORT) Vassily Ivanchuk beat Teimour Radjabov on the first day of the World Cup's fifth round. The other three games of the quareter-finals (Svidler-Polgar, Grischuk-Navara and Ponomariov-Gashimov) ended in draws. General infoThe 2011 F...
PRESS RELEASE SAINT LOUIS, September 8, 2011 -- Two players have withdrawn from the Kings vs. Queens tournament, which is scheduled to begin this week in Saint Louis. Former World Champion Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov and Grandmaster Judit Polg...
Garry Kasparov recently visited Brazil, where he gave a lecture, a simul and was guest in a TV show. Kasparov had accepted an invitation to open the 1st ADX festival. ADX is a non-profit organization that sees the game of chess as a powerful tool ...
The tie-breaks in round four of the 2011 World Cup were completed today, leaving just eight players remaining out of the 128 that started just eleven days ago. Vassily Ivanchuk had the easiest passage through the tie-breaks, winning both rapid ga...
(FULL REPORT) Judit Polgar, Vassily Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Vugar Gashimov and Alexander Grischuk qualified for the World Cup's quarter-finals after winning their tie-break matches on Thursday. The pairings for the quarter-finals, which s...
GM Maxim Turov is the first player who qualified for the Tata Steel C group in January 2012 after winning the BDO Tournament in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The Russian grandmaster shared first place after nine rounds with Dutch GM-elect Robin van Ka...
It looks like the Russian Chess Federation will not limit its excellent video services to their own events. As Chess-News discovered, this Wikipedia article mentions a cooperation between the RCF and FIDE to launch a Chess TV Channel on November...
The LGA Premium Cup starts today in Nürnberg, Germany. It runs until September 11th and boasts over 180 participants who fight over a 11,650 Euro prize fund (first prize 2,000 Euro). Top players (top 30) below. Official website. NrTeilnehmerT...
Peter Svidler eliminated Gata Kamsky on a thrilling day in the fourth round at the 2011 World Cup. Svidler missed Kamsky's plan with 18. Bb1, but he came out on top in the complications that followed, finding the spectacular 26...Re2!! to win the...
FULL REPORT After losing their first games of the FIDE World Cup's 4th round, Alexander Grischuk, Peter Heine Nielsen and Judit Polgar all managed to level the scores. David Navara, Teimour Radjabov and Peter Svidler reached the quarter-finals...
The 82nd FIDE Executive Board 2011 is scheduled for 15 to 22 October 2011 in Krakow, Poland. Today FIDE published the Agenda and the first item, Press-release on the Commission on Modernisation, is interesting. We give the full text of the press r...
It's taken months of hard work by different designers and developers, lots of testing, some postponing of deadlines and too much coffee, but now it's here. It's my pleasure to present the all-new, completely redesigned ChessVibes. It m...
