One feature of our PDF & PGN magazine ChessVibes Training is that you can send in your games, and IM Thomas Willemze, talent coach for the Dutch Chess Federation, will have a look at it. Who wouldn't want that? Want to improve your chess? See ...
The 26th Universiade (World University Games) took place in Shenzhen, China from 12-23 August. The Universiade is a biennial international event where university students compete in a range of sporting events including athletics, swimming, footba...
At the Manhattan Open in New York IM Vladimir Romanenko and GM Alex Shabalov finished tied at the top of the Open Section. Scoring his third GM norm, Romanenko was declared winner on tie-break after both players finished with an unbeaten 7/9. Desp...
The French Chess Championships 2011 run from 14-27 August in the historic city of Caen. The main event is a 12-player single round robin contest with 20 year-old Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (pictured) top seed, followed by the 6-time winner Etienne Ba...
The French Championship has reached six of its eleven rounds, and top GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is sharing the lead with Romanian-born GM Andrei Istratescu. One of the participants is Sebastien Feller, who again fully denied that he cheated in Kha...
Viktor Korchnoi won the rapid seniors Botvinnik Memorial tournament in Suzdal, near Moscow. The 10-player round robin tournament took place from 15-19 August to mark the 100th Anniversary of the birth of the sixth world chess champion Mikhail Moi...
We haven't mentioned it for a while, but the F.E.B. #10, 11 and now also 12 are out! The last one comes from on-location in Sheffield, England, and has Michael Adams, Nigel Short, ECF President CJ de Mooi, plus Dortmund and Kasimdzhanov's ...
Viktor Korchnoi won the Botvinnik Memorial Veterans rapid tournament in Suzdal-Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The 80-year-old grandmaster finished on 7/9, a full point ahead of Evgeni Vasiukov. The rest of the field included many legends: Lajos Portisch...
All players of the 2011 London Chess Classic have confirmed their participation: Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell. The third edition will take ...
There has been no official announcement yet from FIDE, but the apparently semi-official WhyChess website of GM Vladislav Tkachiev reports that FIDE has decided to scrap Candidates Matches for the next WCC cycle in favour of a double round-robin Ca...
Our weekly PDF & PGN magazines ChessVibes Openings and ChessVibes Training complement each other wonderfully. CVO helps your understanding of openings and keeps your repertoire up to date, while CVT provides instructive middlegame and endgame ...
"Ilyumzhinov has been poisoning the roots of chess since he took office, a steady campaign to trivialize the game and its players," writes Garry Kasparov, in his latest column for New in Chess Magazine. The 13th World Champion is more critical tha...
Today is the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (1911-1995), the sixth World Chess Champion, and one of greatest chess players of the 20th Century. Botvinnik was a patriarch of modern Soviet chess, and in addition to ...
Grassroots Chess Promotions Pvt. Ltd. (in association with the All India Chess Federation) and ICC have joined forces to bring to the worldwide chess community the first India Global Internet Speed Chess Tournament, running 20-21 & 27-28 Augus...
The 1st Metropolitan Chess International will run from 17-21 August at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, US. The Metropolitan Chess organisation aims to promote and support the game of chess through community outreach and partnerships, ...
The 50th World Junior Chess Championships took place from 1-16 August in Chennai, India. Over 120 boys and 60 girls competed for the World U-20 titles in separate 13-round Swiss events. After a thrilling competition, the boy's title went to GM D...
Polish GM Dariusz Swiercz and Peruvian WGM Cori T Deysi emerged champions in the SDAT- Ramco 50th World Junior & 29th World Junior Girls Championship in Chennai, India. Swiercz caught leader Robert Hovhannisyan in the very last round and finis...
In the last round of the Russian Championship Super Final, Alexander Morozevich defeated Peter Svidler, who had already secured the title yesterday. Vladimir Kramnik beat Alexander Galkin after yet again sacrificing a piece with the black pieces. ...
Hou Yifan seemed to be cruising to victory easily, but then she suddenly lost to Kateryna Lahno in round 9. However, draws with Ruan Lufei and Antoaneta Stefanova were then enough to finish clear first at the Rostov Grand Women Prix, a full point ...
Alexander Morozevich beat Peter Svidler in the final round of the 2011 Russian Superfinal to claim a clear second place for himself in the competition. Peter Svidler could afford the luxury of loss, having already sealed his record sixth title wi...
Women's World Champion Hou Yifan finished on a score of 8/11 to claim victory in the first Women's Grand Prix of the 2011/12 series in Rostov. After a tremendous 5½/6 start to the competition, Hou never looked likely to be caught. Second place ...
Peter Svidler has already secured victory at the Russian Championship Super Final. On Sunday he defeated 2010 champion Ian Nepomniachtchi and with one round to go, Svidler has a 1.5-point lead over Grischuk, Karjakin and Morozevich.General info Th...
Peter Svidler secured his sixth Russian championship with a round to spare by beating the defending champion Ian Nepomniachtchi in round six. Svidler's nearest challenger going into the round was Alexander Morozevich who drew with Vladimir Kramni...
Hou Yifan maintained her one point lead with a draw in the penultimate round of the Rostov Grand Prix, for a score of 7½/10. Hou's nearest rival Tatiana Kosintseva drew with Humpy Koneru, and she was joined in second place on 6½/10 by Kateryna La...
