Two strong Dutch open tournaments are currently taking place. In Leiden English grandmaster David Howell and GM Deepan Chakkravarthy of India are sharing the lead with 4.5/5. In Amsterdam six players are in shared first place with 3.5/4.Leiden The...
The inaugural Hangzhou Women Tournament runs from 14-23 July in Hangzhou, China. The format is a 10-player single round-robin featuring Women's World Champion Hou Yifan (pictured) as top seed, and an impressive average rating of 2524 Elo. Howeve...
Just in stock: Declining the Queen's Gambit .Author John Cox provides a repertoire for Black based on the sophisticated Tartakower and the easy-to-learn Lasker Variation. With answers to all White's options, explanations of plans and tactics, ta...
In ChessVibes Training #10 Anish Giri looks at his game against Alexei Shirov in Malmö and IM Merijn van Delft shows his first win against an IM in his game quiz. IM Thomas Willemze started a series of three articles op open files while IM Robert ...
The 2011 World Team Chess Championships will take place in Ningbo, China from 15-27 July. Sergey Karjakin (pictured) will lead the reigning champions Russia in the defence of their title in this round-robin team competition. Each team consists o...
After 13 rounds and victory in the last round against Turkish Hava Yollari Sport Club 7.5-2.5, Isek Aquamatch Sport Club became the sole winner of the Turkish League. The team with Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu finished ahead of Y...
The 2011 Paris Chess Championships were held from 2-10 July, and the winner was Indian Grandmaster and popular Chess.com columnist Arun Prasad. Arun won the main Open competition, a nine round Swiss for players rated minimum 2200 Elo, with a scor...
FIDE has released a correction to the latest official chess rating list, issued on 1 July, this time including the games played in the match between Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) and Ruslan Ponomariov in May. As a result, Nakamura rises from #9 to #...
The team of Peristeri retained their Greek title. With Vassily Ivanchuk on first board and Judit Polgar on the women's board (!) Peristeri won six matches and drew one, against S.O. Kavalas (with GMs Papaioannou, D. Antic and Skembris), who came s...
The 2011 Greek Team Championships ran from 3-8 July in Eretria, Greece. The format was a 7 round Swiss team competition with 34 teams taking part. Each team had to consist of 3 men, 1 woman, 2 juniors (U18 and U12) and 2 girls (U18 and U12). Al...
The Leiden Tournament will run from 7 - 17 July in the ancient university city of Leiden in the Netherlands. The A Group is a nine-round Swiss competition with more than 100 players competing, and top seed Nikolić Predrag from Bosnia is back to d...
For more than a decade Grünfeld aficionados have been suffering from a scarcity of complete books on this major and exciting opening. But at last, GM Alexander Delchev and GM Evgenij Agrest wrote an elaborate, comprehensive, and pleasant-to-r...
On Tuesday 5th July London’s Rich Mix cinema hosted the Bobby Fischer Against The World UK premiere event. The day started with chess Grandmaster Nigel Short playing a 20 board simultaneous match. His opponents included children from the Hackne...
The 39th World Open Festival organised by the Continental Chess Association took place from 28 June - 4 July in Philadelphia. This huge chess festival included over a thousand competitors in seven different sections, with the showpiece event bein...
Anish Giri won the Dutch Championship convincingly, scoring 7.5/9 and a 2850 perfomance. The Dutch rising star won 16 rating points to reach a virtual 2717. In the women's section Zhaoqin Peng, as always, reigned supreme and clinched her 13th titl...
Tonight is the UK premiere of the new documentary Bobby Fischer Against The World. You might remember that GM Gawain Jones went to the official press screening on April 14th in Soho, London for us (and bumped into Magnus Carlsen there). Here's...
17 year-old top seed Anish Giri (pictured) won the 2011 Dutch Chess Championships which took place in Boxtel from 26 June - 5 July. Ten players took part in the single round-robin competition, with Giri ending a very convincing winner on 7½/9, a ...
New in our shop: How to beat the Sicilian Defence .In this book, GM Gawain Jones confronts the challenge of meeting the Sicilian head on. He has constructed a comprehensive Anti-Sicilian repertoire for White, which is based on lines that are suc...
Gawain Jones won the Commonwealth Championship on Sunday with a score of 9.5/11. The English grandmaster finished shared first with his compatriot Nigel Short, but had a better tie-break.Gawain Jones wins in South Africa | Photo © Günther van den ...
The English GM Gawain Jones (pictured) won the 2011 Commonwealth Chess Championship, just ahead of his countryman Nigel Short. The championships were part of the South African Open, held at the Emperors Palace Hotel Casino & Convention Resort...
Press Release: Chess in Schools and Communities is delighted to announce that the 3rd London Chess Classic will be staged at the Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington from Saturday 3rd December to Monday 12th December. The 3rd edition of wha...
Fabiano Caruana won the first Airports Authority of India (AAI) International Grandmasters Chess Tournament. The Italian grandmaster finished on 7/10 and a 2799 performance rating. Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran ended second with 6/10 and GM Viktor ...
The line-up for the Bilbao Final Masters 2011 is nearly complete, with five of the six places now filled. The format is a double round-robin and this year's event will be split into two halves: the first from 25 Sept - 1 Oct in São Paulo, Brazil...
A Versailles court has suspended the French Chess Federation's disciplinary sanctions against Sebastien Feller and Arnaud Hauchard, due to a formal defect. The two grandmasters are allowed to play official chess games again, pending a ruling i...
