Armenia narrowly defeated hosts China 2½-1½ on day five of the World Team Chess Championships in Ningbo. A lone win by Gabriel Sargissian (pictured) on board four was enough to keep the Armenian team in gold medal position. Russia achieved the e...
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (pictured) is a Grandmaster from Uzbekistan, and a former FIDE World Chess Champion (2004-05). He has published an open letter to FIDE making a proposal to eliminate draws from chess in order to make it more popular as a sport...
The ChessVibes editors are enjoying their summer holiday in various ways. While Peter and Robert played an open in Ikaria, Greece, and Merijn participated in the annual Wine tournament in Naujac sur Mer, France, I'm on parental leave in my hom...
Our printers just delivered: Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes by Yuri Averbakh.A publisher's dream has come true: Yuri Averbakh, the quintessential insider of Soviet chess for over half a century, has written his personal memoir.After winning...
In the third round of the Biel Chess Festival Alexei Shirov scored his first victory, against Fabiano Caruana in a Bishop's Opening. Alexander Morozevich and Magnus Carlsen drew after a good Grünfeld 4.Bg5 fight while Yannick Pelletier and Maxime ...
In a very interesting 4th round Armenia regained the lead at the World Team Championship in Ningbo, China. On Wednesday they defeated Egypt 3.5-0.5 while Russia lost 1-3 to Azerbaijan. Ukraine also lost, to Hungary, as Peter Leko defeated Vassily ...
Alexei Shirov won his first game at the 2011 Biel International Chess Tournament in the third round, beating Fabiano Caruana in a long struggle. Magnus Carlsen was held to a draw in a complicated and interesting game with Alexander Morozevich, an...
Leaders Russia tumbled to a surprise 3-1 defeat to Azerbaijan in round four of the World Team Chess Championships in Ningbo, China. Vugar Gashimov (pictured) beat Alexander Grischuk, and Gadir Guseinov beat Peter Svidler. Russia's loss was very ...
Magnus Carlsen also won his second game in Biel. On Tuesday he beat Alexei Shirov in a Meran Slav. Vachier-Lagrave had Morozevich on the ropes, but missed the win and then even lost. Caruana and Pelletier drew in a Rubinstein French.General info T...
Russia is leading the World Team Championship in Ningbo, China after three rounds. After today's clash with Armenia ended in a 2-2 tie, the Russians have one match point more than Armenia, Ukraine and Israel. Nepomniachtchi beats Polgar in round ...
Being the clear favourite can be a burden to some, but no-one seems to have told Magnus Carlsen, who crushed Alexei Shirov in the second round at Biel. Never one to shy away from a fight, Shirov went looking for trouble and found it big time. Car...
In the third round of the World Team Chess Championships in Ningbo, China, the Russian team drew with rivals Armenia to hold on to their early lead. Despite Sergey Karjakin's loss to Lev Aronian on top board, a win for Peter Svidler on board 4 le...
On Monday the 'Accentus Grandmaster Tournament' of the Biel Chess Festival started. In the first round Magnus Carlsen defeated Yannick Pelletier on the black side of a Grünfeld. Alexei Shirov and Alexander Morozevich split the point in an interest...
Strong ratings favourite Magnus Carlsen lived up to his billing by beating Yannick Pelletier in the opening round of the 2011 Biel Grandmaster Tournament. Carlsen quickly gained the upper hand with the black pieces, but it took nearly 90 moves to...
Russia scored their second consecutive 3-1 match victory to take the lead in the World Team Chess Championships in Ningbo, China. Ian Nepomniachtchi (pictured) beat Judit Polgar to record his second win, and Alexander Grischuk beat Zoltan Almasi....
Armenia took an early lead at the World Team Championship in Ningbo, China. In the first round the team, with Levon Aronian on board one and Sergey Movsesian on two, defeated Israel (without Boris Gelfand) 3.5-0.5. Russia beat USA 3-1.The World Te...
Armenia, the wildcard entry into the 2011 World Team Chess Championships, took an early lead by thrashing a Gelfand-less Israel 3½-½ in the first round. Lev Aronian (pictured) won on top board against Emil Sutovsky, and Vladimir Akopian and Gabri...
It seemed that Vasik Rajlich, the programmer of Rybka, had been silent ever since he had been disqualified and banned by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), at the end of June. However, as it turns out he gave a half an hour inter...
The Biel International Chess Festival runs from 16-29 July in Biel, Switzerland. There are many chess competitions during the festival, but the headline event is the Grandmaster Tournament, a 6-player double round-robin featuring Magnus Carlsen (...
We've rolled back the price of: New In Chess 2010 complete year volume. .You pay only €49.95 for 8 volumes with over 800 pages of the very best in chess. The 2010 complete volume includes: Anand beats Topalov for world title, Magnus Carlse...
We do have stuff designed for chess travellers!Stuff to make sure that you can analyse your game, sharpen your wits, match your play, be thoroughly entertained without bothering your travel companions ... For chess players who...
The Lev Polugayevsky Memorial ran from 5-13 July 2011 in Samara, Russia. The competition was a nine-round Swiss event, won by Russian GM Semen Dvoirys with a score of 7½ points. Natalia Pogonina won the prize for the best placed woman on 6/9. Th...
After Moscow FIDE has now also received a bid from Chennai to host the Anand-Gelfand World Championship Match next year. This was announced yesterday afternoon in Chennai by the FIDE President and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State Mme J. Jaya...
BREAKING NEWS - Chennai bid received for World Championship match between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand. FIDE have reported that a bid to host the 2012 world championship match has been received from the All India Chess Federation. The bid is be...
