By Ken West Round 2 Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov paid a surprise visit Friday to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis during the second round of the U.S. Junior Closed Championship. His presence allowed him to s...
GM Alex Onischuk, the #3 rated U.S. player (FIDE 2675, USCF 2743), will take on the world in a vote chess match organized and sponsored by chess.com, starting on July 9th. To participate, simply go to the game and click "join." The game will ...
Magnus Carlsen remained the sole leader at the Kings' Tournament in Medias, Romania after all games ended in a draw on Sunday. Two more rounds will follow, the last having the encounter between leader Carlsen and runner-up Karjakin.General info Th...
Ruslan Ponomariov is leading the Ukrainian Championship in Kiev after 8 rounds. The former FIDE World Champion is still undefeated and scored 6/8 and a 2830 performance rating. Pavel Eljanov, Zahar Efimenko and Alexander Moiseenko are close behind...
The #1 Czech player David Navara has played an annual match for several years against a worthy GM opponent, as part of the Čez Chess Festival in the city of Prague. This year Navara played Armenian GM Sergei Movsesian, following previous matches ...
Round eight of the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias, Romania provided more fighting chess, but no decisive results. Magnus Carlsen had the black pieces against Teimour Radjabov, and tried the fashionably reliable QGD, managing to find a clever w...
The 'Higher League' Russian Chess Championships is currently underway in Taganrog, Russia. The championships run from 15-26 June and serve as a qualification event to take part in the full championships later this year (some top players are seede...
Magnus Carlsen is the sole leader again at the Kings' Tournament in Medias, Romania. On Saturday the Norwegian defeated Vassily Ivanchuk, who in the ending played surprisingly fast and lost control. Sergey Karjakin faced another 3...f5 Ruy Lopez i...
Two months ago there was heated discussion regarding the scoring system used at this year's European Individual Chess Championship. During the ECU Extraordinary General Assembly in Aix-les-Bains a new proposal was suggested by the ECU Board, to se...
Magnus Carlsen (pictured) demonstrated his superb endgame skills and his ability to create problems for his opponent, beating Vassily Ivanchuk in round seven of the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias, Romania. Teimour Radjabov showed once again tha...
After a rest day dedicated to indoor football, on Friday the King's Tournament in Medias, Romania resumed. The fight between Nakamura and Carlsen, an uneventful Breyer Ruy Lopez, ended in a move repetition at move 34. Radjabov-Ivanchuk was a Semi-...
Sergey Karjakin (pictured) beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in round six at the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias to join Magnus Carlsen as co-leader. Nisipeanu tried the Schliemann, but he lost his way in the ensuing complications and Karjakin eventua...
Because I started to play chess in the mid-eighties, when Kasparov was increasingly (if marginally) showing his superiority over Karpov in their famous World Championship matches, I never seriously studied Karpov's earlier masterpieces. Whilst...
By Ken West SAINT LOUIS, June 16, 2011 -- The first round of the 2011 U.S. Junior Closed Championship at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis ended with four decisive games and one draw. Even the draw between International Ma...
This week we'll be sending issue #7 of our new PDF + PGN magazine ChessVibes Training to our subscribers. Interested in subscribing, but not sure yet? Today we make available for download another sample page: Anish Giri's column of issue #4. Go ah...
Many chess fans are keeping an eye on Hans Arild Runde's live rating list this week, as Magnus Carlsen has taken over the world's number one position from World Champion Vishy Anand. Another super talented chess player has just entered the list wi...
Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin won their games in the fifth round of the Kings' Tournament in Medias, Romania. Carlsen outplayed Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in a Queen's Gambit Accepted while Karjakin profited from one big mistake by Vassily Ivanch...
Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin won their fifth round games at the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias, Romania. Carlsen made short work of Nisipeanu in a QGA, taking advantage of Nisipeanu's uncoordinated pieces. Ivanchuk allowed the tactical s...
Bobby Fischer as seen by Harry Benson - A revealing interview with the legendary star photographer on one of his greatest stories ever in: New In Chess 2011/4.Other highlights from its more than 100 pages: Candidates Matches: Anand’s dream come ...
Here's the second and final part of the (video) interview we did with Vishy Anand, just after he won his semi-rapid match against Alexei Shirov in León last week. In this part the short questions of the first part are discussed, and we talked abou...
All three games in the fourth round of the Kings' Tournament in Medias, Romania ended peacefully today. Hikaru Nakamura had a pleasant advantage against Vassily Ivanchuk and even won a pawn, but the double rook ending ended in a draw. Magnus Carl...
In a press release, distributed to the biggest chess websites today, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov expresses his disappointment about how people have responded to his visit on Sunday to Libya's leader Muammar Gadaffi. Ilyumzhinov writes that i...
Viva Las Vegas! The 2011 Las Vegas International Chess Festival took place from 9-12 June at the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa. This enormous event played host to a staggering number of players and separate competitions over four days, includ...
After five completed rounds of the 80th Ukrainian Chess Championships, Ruslan Ponomariov (pictured) leads by a full point with a score of 4/5. The 2011 competition in Kiev is the strongest Ukrainian championships for many years, and includes all...
