The FIDE rating list will appear monthly, the deadline for bidding for the Anand-Gelfand match has been extended, the list of 2011 World Cup qualifiers has been published (with Sebastien Feller on it) and there is now a Foundation for Modernisatio...
The team of Marseille Echecs won the French Team Championship in Mulhouse on Sunday. It was the first title in five attempts for the team with Arkadij Naiditsch, Etienne Bacrot, Andrei Istratescu, Aleksander Delchev, Kamil Miton, Yannick Gozzoli, ...
Last weekend the ChessVibes camera was present in León to capture the match between Viswanathan Anand and Alexei Shirov. Here's a video with some impressions of the town and the match. An interview with Anand will follow soon! The 24th edition o...
The latest FIDE Presidential Board meeting took place from 5-6 June in Abu Dhabi. It was announced that no bids to host the World Chess Championship 2012 between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand had been received, so the deadline was extended to 31...
The 82nd German Chess Championship in Bonn had an exciting finish when Igor Khenkin took the title on a superior tie-break score from Jan Gustafsson after both had finished on 6.5/9.0. The format was a nine-round Swiss event with 34 players taki...
On Sunday Viswanathan Anand defeated Alexei Shirov 4.5-1.5 in their match in León, Spain. On all three playing days the World Champion won one game and drew one to clinch his 8th title in León. Struggling to find his best form, Shirov was no match...
Welcome to the final day of the 2-day coverage of the Chess.com GM Challenge, taking place at the Shelby School in Arizona. In yesterday’s report, I promised that today’s games would be more exciting and electric, and for once, I was right. ...
On the final day of their rapid match in León, world champion Vishy Anand won again with the black pieces to complete a 4.5-1.5 victory over Alexei Shirov. Once more Shirov's attacking intent foundered on the rocks of Anand's Caro-Kann defence. ...
After a full day of chess for our favorite Chess.com IMs Danny Rensch and David Pruess, day one of the Chess.com GM Challenge goes to the GMs, but not without a fight. Taking place over the weekend at the Shelby School ...
A participant of the German Championship, which concluded on Friday in Bonn, was caught cheating. FM Christoph Natsidis used a chess program on his smartphone during his last-round game against GM Sebastian Siebrecht to analyse a position from the...
Vishy Anand extended his lead over Alexei Shirov in their rapid match in León, winning their third game with the black pieces in just 17 moves. Shirov's king was helplessly stuck in the centre and was about to feel the full force of an invading a...
After the first of three playing days, Viswanathan Anand leads 1.5-0.5 against Alexei Shirov. Their 6-game match of 'semi-rapid' games started on Friday in León, Spain. On Saturday games 3 and 4 will be played and on Sunday games 5 and 6 and a pos...
On the first day of their 6-game rapid match, world champion Vishy Anand took the lead against Alexei Shirov 1.5-0.5 by winning their second encounter, with checkmate no less! The official site can be found here. Games start at 16:30 local time i...
We have just received: Rybka Aquarium 2011.This exciting package includes the new and updated Rybka 4.1 engine offering advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing options, a database with 4.7 million ga...
Many chess fans and experts seem to believe that an alternative design of the Candidates Matches would better achieve the goal of selecting the “best” challenger for a match against the current World Champion. David H. Krantz, Professor of Psychol...
Previously known as the 'Grand Slam' final, the Bilbao Final Masters pits the winners of several major chess tournaments against one another, hence the 'Final' moniker. This year's event will take place from 25 September - 11 October and, in a fu...
The teams of Clichy, Mulhouse Philidor and Marseille Echecs have won all of their first seven matches at the French Team Championship. More big names are now playing in Mulhouse, like Michael Adams, Dmitry Jakovenko and Fabiano Caruana. Going thro...
Now that's a spectacular story from the German Championship, which is currently taking place in Bonn. In the 6th round, on Tuesday, IM Niclas Huschenbeth tried the Evans Gambit against well-known theoretician GM Jan Gustafsson, who even wrote a DV...
"I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess." (Alexander Grischuk) "What else do you need? My son’s been born, I’m going to play a World Championship match, tomorrow I’m flying to the Champions League final… Although, to be completely happy, I ...
Russell Enterprises has published: Sacking the Citadel.This book by 1997 US Correspondence Chess Champion Jon Edwards chronicles the history, theory and practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice Bxh7+. It holds more than 300(!) annotated games and...
The new Fischer biopic "Bobby Fischer Against The World" has had its premiere in the US, and will be broadcast on HBO on Monday 6th June. Further details about the film can be found here. The film will have its UK premiere on 15 July, and as par...
Now that the Candidates Matches in Kazan are over, it's time to look ahead and see what the future brings in top chess! We give information about the most important events in June and July: the Anand-Shirov match in León, the Sigeman tournament in...
In a press release the Internet Chess Club (ICC) announces its first "ICC Open", an online blitz tournament with a $3,500 prize fund. Besides a main event where IMs and GMs will fight for the prizes, there will be U2200, U2000, U1800 and U1600 sec...
The French Team Championship has started in Mulhouse and there are some strong GMs participating, e.g. David Navara, Pavel Eljanov, Le Quang Liem, Etienne Bacrot, Arkadij Naiditsch, Anish Giri and Loek van Wely. The three French players who were a...
