Despite some tough fighting chess in the fourth round of the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias, Romania, all three games ended drawn. Hikaru Nakamura pressurised Vassily Ivanchuk in a Nimzo-Indian, winning a pawn but failing to make headway in a d...
The visit of the FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (pictured) to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has caused such a storm of protest that FIDE has released a brief response to the controversy. Tuesday, June 14, 2011PRESS RELEASE I was asked to ...
The 2011 Sigeman Chess Tournament ended in a three-way tie between Anish Giri, Hans Tikkanen and Wesley So. The three GMs finished on 3/5. Alexei Shirov scored 50%, Nils Grandelius 2/5 and Jonny Hector 1.5/5. Final report with photos and video imp...
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu recovered from his painful loss yesterday in Medias, by beating Vassily Ivanchuk in round 3 of the Kings' Tournament. Magnus Carlsen couldn't get any opening advantage and drew in an endgame against Teimour Radjabov. Sergey ...
FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov popped in to see an old friend in Tripoli on the 11th and 12th June; the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi. Gaddafi is struggling to hang on to power in a civil war in Libya, and the International Criminal Court h...
Local favourite Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (pictured) recovered from his disappointing loss in round two to beat Vassily Ivanchuk in round three of the Bazna Kings tournament. Elsewhere, Teimour Radjabov had more luck with the QGD than Nakamura in th...
The short single round-robin Sigeman tournament ended in a three-way tie for first place between Anish Giri, Hans Tikkanen (pictured) and Wesley So. Tikkanen and Giri had an genuine final round clash in a Grunfeld, but neither player could tip th...
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced he held a two-hour meeting on Sunday in Tripoli with the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Libya is currently in a state of civil war, with NATO and allies engaged in bombing raids, and Gaddafi himself acc...
Hikaru Nakamura bounced back with a win in the second round of the Kings Tournament in Medias, Romania. The American grandmaster defeated Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in a game that lasted 78 moves and started as a Closed Ruy Lopez. First-round winners ...
Hikaru Nakamura profited from a blunder from Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu to win the only decisive game of the second round at the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias, Romania. It was a tragic end for the Romanian who held his own until miscalculating at ...
Anish Giri (pictured) and Hans Tikkanen lead the Sigeman & Co tournament with just one round remaining, and will face each other in a final round showdown. After no decisive results in round three, despite a 101 move marathon between Nils Gra...
Magnus Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk both won their first white game at the Kings Tournament in Medias, Romania. Today Carlsen defeated Hikaru Nakamura in a Queen's Gambit Declined, while Ivanchuk beat Teimour Radjabov in a King's Indian. Liviu-Die...
The 5th Bazna Kings tournament opened with convincing wins for Carlsen and Ivanchuk against Nakamura and Radjabov respectively. Carlsen played aggressively against Nakamura's QGD, castling queenside and attacking down the g and h-files, eventuall...
We're currently in Malmö, Sweden where last Thursday the Sigeman Chess Tournament started. After two of the five rounds Anish Giri, Wesley So and Hans Tikkanen are sharing the lead with 1.5/2, followed by Alexei Shirov (1), Johnny Hector (0.5) and...
US Junior Closed Championship Set for Saint Louis PRESS RELEASE: SAINT LOUIS, June 9, 2011 - The 10-player field has been set for the 2011 U.S. Junior Closed Championship, scheduled to be held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint L...
First round winner Alexei Shirov suffered an immediate reversal in round two when he lost to Wesley So (pictured) at Sigeman. Wesley So leaped into shared first place on 1.5/2 thanks to his excellent game! Elsewhere, Anish Giri outplayed Nils Gr...
New: Attacking Chess: The King’s Indian Vol. 2.In this second volume on the King’s Indian, IM and author David Vigorito presents an aggressive repertoire for Black based on the main lines of the Four Pawns Attack, the Fianchetto Variation, the Av...
The 5th edition of the Bazna Kings Tournament runs from 11-22 June in Medias, Romania. Despite being a relatively new event, Bazna Kings has established itself as a firm favourite in the chess calendar. The competition is a six-player double rou...
After he won his semi-rapid match against Alexei Shirov in León, we managed to get Vishy Anand before the ChessVibes camera once again. The World Champion was cooperative enough to agree to an interview after his dinner with the organizers and spo...
If it hadn't been clear before, it's very clear now. The Advance Variation may be the most critical way of playing against the Caro-Kann, but only if White chooses a healthy positional approach with 4.Nf3 or related lines, and not when he goes all...
Alexei Shirov shook off the disappointment of his rapid match loss to world champion Vishy Anand with a win in the first round of the Sigeman tournament in Malmö, Sweden. Shirov 's win came against the oldest competitor in the event, 47-year old ...
The 80th Ukrainian Chess Championships take place from 10-21 June in Kiev. It's not unusual for some national chess championships to fail to attract their best countrymen and effectively become second tier events. However, this year the Ukrainian...
Today, at a press conference in Brussels, Garry Kasparov announced the European branch of the Kasparov Chess Foundation. Operational from September 19, 2011 the foundation attempts to have the European Union include the game of chess in its educat...
The 19th Sigeman Chess Tournament will run from 9-13 June in Malmö, Sweden. The format is a 6-player single round robin, featuring 3 talented Swedish GMs and 3 overseas GMs headed by Alexei Shirov, who seems to be clocking up a lot of air-miles l...
