Press Release: New Delhi, July 2: Fabiano Caruana took no chances and played a solid 30-move draw against Wesley So of the Philippines to take the title at the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess tournament on Saturday. India’s Krishnan Sasikira...
This morning we sent issue #9 of our new PDF + PGN magazine ChessVibes Training to our subscribers. Interested in subscribing, but not sure yet? Today we make available for download more sample pages: IM Thomas Willemze's middlegame column of issu...
Pavel Eljanov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and Ernesto Inarkiev are the strongest players in the Turkish Isbank Chess League, which started this week in Konya, Turkey. WGM Anastasiya Karlovich is in Konya and sent us a first report...
The 9th György Marx Memorial took place from 16 - 27 June in Paks, Hungary. The main event was a 6-player double round robin tournament which was convincingly won by the Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek with a score of 8/10. Wojtaszek worked as one ...
Press Release: New Delhi, July 1: Krishnan Sasikiran played a draw with teammate Parimarjan Negi in the ninth and penultimate round of the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess tournament on Friday. A little later Czech national champion Viktor ...
New volumes in the Grandmaster Repertoire Series .His two previous books in this series were an instant hit, now Boris Avrukh picks up where he left off with: Grandmaster Repertoire 8 - The Grünfeld Defence Vol. 1 covers lines such as the Fianche...
Magnus Carlsen has regained the #1 position at the top of the official FIDE world chess rankings. Carlsen gained six rating points during the Bazna Kings tournament, pushing world champion Vishy Anand back down to #2. Carlsen tweeted that he was,...
On the new FIDE ratings list of July 1st, 2011 Magnus Carlsen holds the number 1 position. Thanks to his victory at the Kings' Tournament in Romania, the Norwegian passed World Champion Vishy Anand (India) again. Sergey Karjakin from Russia is now...
Not Anish Giri, not Ivan Sokolov, not reigning champ Jan Smeets but Wouter Spoelman is leading the Dutch Championship after five of a total of nine rounds. In the women's section there's no doubt that Zhaoqin Peng will score her 13th victory. A fi...
Press Release: New Delhi, June 30: Parimarjan Negi stopped his run of losses while Krishnan Sasikiran got back to his winning ways in what turned out to be good day for the Indian duo in the AAI Grandmasters Chess Tournament. Negi completed a c...
Gawain Jones is leading the Commonwealth Championship with 6.5/7. With four rounds to go, the English grandmaster is half a point ahead of a group of sixteen players, including three times winner Nigel Short. The tournament also sees a few excelle...
Press Release: New Delhi, June 29: It seemed to be a day for revenge in the seventh round of the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess Tournament as Filipino Wesley So and China’s Hou Yifan avenged their earlier losses in the tournament against Czec...
New: Invisible Chess Moves - discover your blind spots and stop overlooking simple wins.Every chess player knows that some moves are harder to see than others. Why is it that, frequently, uncomplicated wins simply do not enter your mind?In this ...
The computer chess engine Rybka has been sensationally stripped of its multiple World Computer Chess Champion titles and banned from competing in future events. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) took the action after an investig...
The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has disqualified and banned Rybka and its programmer Vasik Rajlich from previous and future World Computer Chess Championships. The ICGA accuses Rajlich of plagiarizing two other programs, Crafty...
Press Release: New Delhi, June 28: Fabiano Caruana of Italy living up to his top billing stretched his lead to a full point as he beat Parimarjan Negi after a marathon 98 moves in the sixth round of the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess Tourn...
Ilya Levitov, President of the Russian Chess Federation Board, broke two pieces of news Monday. The crucial one was that despite the dark musings of many, and above all the FIDE President himself, we now have at least one bid for the Anand-Gelfand...
A performance rating over 2800 is usually not saying that much, but when it's close to 2900, and based on ten games, maybe it is. Radoslaw Wojtaszek yesterday won the 9th György Marx Memorial in Paks, Hungary most convincingly, scoring a stunning ...
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Breaking news: Ilya Levitov, FIDE Vice-President and Head of the Russian Chess Federation Board mentioned that "a serious sponsor has expressed interest in hosting the Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship match in Moscow. The application has a...
At the Airports Authority of India (AAI) International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2011, Fabiano Caruana leads at half-time. The Italian grandmaster is half a point ahead of Viktor Laznicka of the Czech Republic. This six-player, double round ro...
Alexander Morozevich yesterday won the Higher League of the Russian Championship. The former world's number 2 finished clear first with 8/11, half a point more than Artyom Timofeev and Alexander Galkin, who also qualified for the main championshi...
New Delhi, June 26: Krishnan Sasikiran scored a third successive win and in the process avenged his recent loss at the hands of Parimarjan Negi in the inaugural AAI Grandmasters chess tournament that is now halfway through. In another game, Wo...
The 2011 Netherlands Chess Championships runs from 26 June -5 July in Boxtel. Last year's champion Jan Smeets is defending his title in a ten-player single round robin event. There is also a separate six-player double round-robin women's contest...
