By Ken West SAINT LOUIS, June 25, 2011 -- Gregory Young is the 2011 U.S. Junior Champion, taking the title with a win Friday before the final round of play even began. Of the 10 people playing, Young's 2384 rating entering the tournament was...
PRESS RELEASE: New Delhi, June 25: It was mixed luck for the Indian fans as Krishnan Sasikiran won his second successive game but National champion Parimarjan Negi lost his game in the fourth round of the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess Cham...
From his answer to the very first question on why people play chess, it was clear that Levon Aronian’s Q&A at Crestbook was going to be an entertaining read: “For pleasure, peace of mind and the moral torture of their neighbour”.&nbs...
One of the most annoying lines these days against the Sveshnikov is 11.c4, where White gains a firm grip on the centre without giving Black a real chance to employ the dynamic play he's looking for. However, one of the biggest experts in this fiel...
We have just received: Bobby FischerFor the first time ever, 100 rare and exclusive photos of Bobby Fischer, taken by star photographer Harry Benson during the historic World Chess Championship match in Iceland in 1972, are collected in this delux...
PRESS RELEASE - New Delhi, June 24: India’s Krishnan Sasikiran grinded it out for 72 moves before registering his first win over Viktor Laznicka of the Czech Republic in the third round of the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess Championships a...
By Ken West SAINT LOUIS, June 24, 2011 -- With just two rounds remaining, Gregory Young stands alone at the top of the crosstables with a score of 6/7 in the U.S. Junior Closed Championship at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Lou...
Alexander Morozevich yesterday grabbed the lead at the Higher League of the Russian Championship. The former world's number 2 defeated Artyom Timofeev in round 8 to reach 6 points. The first three players will qualify for the main championship lat...
Press Release: Negi trounces Yifan; Caruana and Laznicka share lead New Delhi, June 22: Indian National champion Parimarjan Negi got himself on the scoreboard with a convincing win over women’s world champion Hou Yifan of China in the second r...
The 2011 Commonwealth & South African Open Chess Championships will run from 25 June - 3 July. The venue is the grandly titled Emperors Palace Hotel Casino & Convention Resort in the city of Ekurhuleni, and the prize fund is R205,000 (app...
By Ken West SAINT LOUIS, June 23, 2011 -- Alec Getz pushed d5 in response to John Bryants e4 and went on to win his fourth point Wednesday to move into third at the U.S. Junior Closed Championship at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Sa...
This year's Cez Chess Trophy was a 6-game match between David Navara and Sergey Movsesian. The match was held June 13-19 in Prague and was won 3.5-2.5 by Navara. There were many side activities, including a simul by World Champion Vishy Anand, and...
Ruslan Ponomariov won the the Ukrainian Championship in Kiev convincingly. In his home town, the 27-year-old grandmaster scored 8.5/11 and a 2852 performance rating. Pavel Eljanov finished clear second with 7.5 points.General info The 80th Ukraini...
The inaugural AAI International Chess Tournament (previewed here) is underway in New Delhi, India, and an exciting first round produced a hat trick of decisive results. It was a bad opening day for the hosts, with Krishnan Sasikiran and Parimarja...
By Ken West SAINT LOUIS, June 22, 2011 -- Alec Getz handed Gregory Young his first loss in the U.S. Junior Closed Championship Tuesday, and Daniel Naroditsky won his game against Warren Harper to pull even with Young at 4 points. In other games,...
FIDE recently announced the setting up of a Foundation for Modernisation, with the objective of: "...reviewing the development of chess these last years, and proposing new processes, procedures, regulations, events rating systems, chess in scho...
Ruslan Ponomariov finished a clear winner of the 2011 Ukrainian Chess Championship with a score of 8½/11. Going into the final round Ponomariov only needed a draw to win the 12-player single round robin event, but he secured the title in style wi...
Co-leaders Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin drew their last-round game on Tuesday at the King's Tournament in Medias, Romania. It was Carlsen who finished first on tie-break, and so the Norwegian retained his Kings' title from last year. Vassily...
Sanan Sjugirov is in sole first place after 6 rounds at the 'Higher League' of the Russian Championship. The 18-year-old Russian grandmaster scored 5/6 and is followed by Artyom Timofeev who is the only player with 4.5 points. The tournament is a ...
The final round clash of the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias between joint leaders Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin ended as a draw, which meant that Carlsen finished as winner thanks to his superior tie-break score. The regulations at the off...
Press Release NEW DELHI: Big time chess returns to India with the highest-ever rated AAI International Grandmasters Chess Tournament organized by the Airports Authority of India. The AAI, which is a leading Public Sector Enterprise under th...
The second half of the King's Tournament in Medias, Romania has a dominating theme, and it's not a happy one. We're witnessing a total collapse of Vassily Ivanchuk, who played one of his worst games in years today and lost in just 22 moves, having...
Several chess fans have pointed out to us that many episodes of the old BBC series The Master Game have been posted on YouTube. The series aired back in the 1970's/early 1980's and according to one fan, it's "probably the best chess show ever broa...
In the penultimate round of the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias, Romania, Sergey Karjakin thrashed a badly out-of-sorts Vassily Ivanchuk in just 22 moves. Ivanchuk is well known as a streaky and emotional player and it seems that he is currently...
