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...
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...
