Peter Svidler has excellent chances to win his 6th Russian title. With two rounds to go, the grandmaster from St. Petersburg is a full point ahead of the rest of the field in Moscow. In the 5th round he beat Artyom Timofeev, while co-leader Alexan...
Peter Svidler scored his third win of the 2011 Russian Superfinal to lead by a point with just two rounds remaining. Svidler's victim in round 5 was Artyom Timofeev, who misplaced his queen allowing Svidler to trap it and claim victory. Defendin...
Kateryna Lahno (pictured) of the Ukraine defeated Hou Yifan in the 9th round of the Rostov Grand Prix, but the young Chinese champion still leads the competition by a point with two rounds remaining. Round nine was a particularly bloodthirsty rou...
FM Christoph Natsidis, who was caught cheating at this year's German Championship, was sentenced a two-year ban by the German Chess Federation. The 23-year-old player from Bannewitz, Germany used a chess program on his smartphone during a game...
PRESS RELEASE - SAINT LOUIS, August 11, 2011 -- Former World Champion Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov will join the Kings team in the upcoming Kings vs. Queens tournament, scheduled to be held in Saint Louis September 9-16. The Chess Club and Scholast...
Hou Yifan is well on her way to win the first Women Grand Prix tournament in the 2011-2012 series. In Rostov, Russia the Chinese GM has a two-point lead, with three rounds to play. Hou Yifan and Tatiana Kosintseva at the round 8 press conference ...
Again, Vladimir Kramnik bounced back from a loss with Black to score a win with White at the Russian Championship Super Final. Thursday he avoided a move repetition and beat Ian Nepomniachchti. After four rounds, Alexander Morozevich and Peter Svi...
A thrilling fourth round of the Russian Superfinals in Moscow produced decisive games on all boards, with Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich claiming the joint lead on 3/4 going into the rest day tomorrow. Svidler and Morozevich grabbed wins ...
Is that Ruy Lopez a bit too complicated for you? No worries! In this week's issue of ChessVibes Openings our editors show alternatives for the white player, which are both romantic and state of the art. The Evans Gambit, the Two Knights and the Sc...
By tearing down his Berlin Wall, Sergey Karjakin defeated Vladimir Kramnik with White in the third round of the Russian Championship Super Final. As the other games ended in draws, Karjakin now shares the lead with Morozevich and Svidler.General i...
At the World U-20 Alex Rombaldoni started with six consecutive wins and a draw, before losing his first game today. In Chennai, India the Italian IM is now half a point behind FM (!) Koushik Girish (India) and GM Robert Hovhannisyan (Armenia), who...
Vladimir Kramnik's poor start to the Russian Superfinal continued in the third round with a loss to Sergey Karjakin. Despite recovering from a loss to Peter Svidler in the opening round by winning in round two, Kramnik faltered again when facing ...
Women's World Champion Hou Yifan is dominating the first Grand Prix of the 2011/12 series, in Rostov, Russia. After eight completed rounds, the 17 year-old champion from China has amassed an incredible undefeated score of 7/8, two points ahead of...
Now shipping: Fighting the French: A New Concept. Do you sometimes wonder what to play against the French Defence? In this book GM Denis Yevseev suggests a new concept of combating it. White plays 3.Nd2 and then deploys his pieces accordin...
After beating Alexander Grischuk on Tuesday, Alexander Morozevich joined Peter Svidler in the lead at the Russian Championship Super Final. Vladimir Kramnik recovered from his first round loss and defeated Artyom Timofeev.General info The Super Fi...
Both World Champion Vishy Anand and his challenger Boris Gelfand are happy to play their 2012 title match in Moscow. In a reaction to today's news, Anand said he likes to play for "the knowledgeable and appreciative audience" in Russia. Gelfand: "...
Five-time Russian Champion Peter Svidler (pictured) got off to the perfect start in the 2011 championship by beating in-form Vladimir Kramnik in the only decisive game of the opening round. Undaunted, Kramnik hit back in the second round, beating...
Vladimir Kramnik started the Russian Championship Super Final in Moscow right where he had left the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund: with an unsuccessful piece sacrifice. Peter Svidler defended well and eventually was the only player to claim...
Several chess media published a FIDE press release earlier today with the news that the 2012 World Championship Match between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand has been awarded to Moscow. We were about to go live as well, when we received an intriguin...
Russian GM Igor Kurnosov (pictured) won the 2011 Politiken Cup in Helsingør, Denmark with a score of 8½/10. The competition was a 10 round Swiss event running from 30 July - 7 August which attracted a field more than 300 strong with over 20 GMs. ...
8th August 2011 - PRESS RELEASE The Commission for the Modernization of FIDE (CMF) met between the 6th and 7th of August 2011 in Moscow, Russia to discuss the ideas which would contribute towards the further development of chess and FIDE in th...
Monday, August 08, 2011 - PRESS RELEASE The Federation Internationale des Echecs is pleased to announce that following the evaluation of the bids for the World Chess Championship Match 2012 and the recommendations by the World Championship and ...
Michael Adams won the 2011 British Championship on Saturday. The 39-year-old grandmaster defeated Nigel Short 1.5-0.5 in a rapid play-off match after the two had finished shared first with 8.5/11. Macauley Peterson reports from Sheffield, England....
The Russian Championships "Superfinal" runs from 8-15 August in Moscow. The three qualifiers from the "Higher League" event in June, Morozevich, Timofeev and Galkin, join the rest of the field for a single round-robin competition. Last year's ch...
