In previous years the chess festival in León, Spain has featured a 4-player rapid tournament. This year we have just two players taking part - but what players they are! World champion Vishy Anand will be the favourite in the 6-game rapid match ...
The German Chess Championships 2011 are currently underway in Bonn. The format is a nine-round Swiss event with 34 players taking part. The competition started 26 May and continues until 3 June. This year's championship is the 20th since the sepa...
The Candidates Maches in Kazan, Russia led to lots of controversy: many chess fans and media criticised both the participants and FIDE for the high number of draws. The subject has led to a verbal dog fight between ECU President Silvio Danailov an...
ChessVibes Training is our new weekly magazine (8 pages, PDF + PGN) chuck full of middlegame and endgame tips and a weekly column by Anish Giri. This morning we sent out #4 to our growing number of subscribers. "Really fantastic material. Keep o...
While the Candidates matches in Kazan held the attention of the chess world, they produced few exciting or decisive games, and crowded out some other interesting events. Besides Vasilly Ivanchuk's win at the Capablanca Memorial, there was also so...
It was a most unlikely scenario for the first Bahia Feliz tournament on the Gran Canaria island, but it happened anyway: tournament leader Paco Vallejo of Spain, undefeated in the first eight rounds, lost his last game with the white pieces and......
New: Opening for White According to Kramnik 1.Nf3 Vol. 3.Alexander Khalifman’s new edition of Opening for White According to Kramnik 1.Nf3 Vol. 3, focuses on 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3, especially on the line 4...g6, and numerous other vari...
Hikaru Nakamura and Ray Robson won their matches held this week in Saint Louis, Missouri (USA). Nakamura defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the last classical game to score 3.5-2.5, and won the rapid games 3-1. Robson defeated Ben Finegold 4-2 in the c...
Metropolitan Scholastic Chess Camp Promo Link GM Michael Adams, GM Loek Van Wely, and GM Melikset Khachiyan (along with the support of several other titled instructors) will be coming together for a rare opportunity at a scholastic camp i...
On the final day of the international chess match in St. Louis, Hikaru Nakamura won another rapid game against his Ukrainian opponent to take the match victory by a score of 6.5-3.5. Ray Robson also won a rapid match on the final day to emerge th...
Boris Gelfand (Israel) defeated Alexander Grischuk (Russia) in the 6th and final game of the Candidates final in Kazan, Russia. The grandmaster from Israel won a superb strategical game on move 35 and thus became the opponent for World Champion Vi...
Saint Louis GMs Prevail in First Rapid Showdown By Ken West SAINT LOUIS, May 25, 2011 -- The two Saint Louis grandmasters prevailed in the first day of rapid chess in the international match Tuesday at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of ...
Not Wang Hao, not Wang Yue nor Bu Xiangzhi nor Chinese champion Ding Liren, but 16-year-old Yu Yangyi won the Hainan Dangzhou Super GM tournament. The ten best Chinese chess players were present and Yu Yangyi finished clear first, 1.5 points ahead...
At last! After five straight draws the odds on a decisive result in the last game of the Candidates final in Kazan were not looking good, but Boris Gelfand broke the deadlock to win with some excellent play! Gelfand switched to 1.d4 and Grischuk ...
Alexander Grischuk (Russia) and Boris Gelfand (Israel) also drew their 5th game of the Candidates final in Kazan, Russia. Grischuk got an advantage in a Queen's Gambit Declined but then allowed a tactic by Gelfand that held the balance. One more c...
Why do most Sicilian players dislike all the "Anti-Sicilian" variations? Is it because they can't rely on their preparation and have to think for themselves right from the start? Is it because their opponents refuse to go for the ...
We have just received: Lessons with a Grandmaster.Renowned Grandmaster Boris Gulko, and Dr. Joel R. Sneed, a professor of psychology and an avid chess player, bridge the gap between great player and amateur by discussing 25 of Gulko’s battles ag...
The penultimate game in the final of the Candidates matches in Kazan ended all square and the prospect of rapid playoffs to decide the next challenger looms ever closer. Grischuk managed to achieve a satisfying space advantage against Gelfand in ...
Time flies. We've already published three issues of ChessVibes Training and sent them to a growing number of subscribers. "Really fantastic material. Keep on doing this fine work," a happy chess fan from Germany told us. So... what did we cover so...
Boris Gelfand (Israel) and Alexander Grischuk (Russia) also drew their 4th game of the Candidates final in Kazan, Russia. It was a quiet game that again started as a Symmetrical English and at move 18 the point was split. Two more classical games ...
Alexei Shirov won a strong GM round-robin in Lubin, Poland with a score of 5/7. He finished half a point ahead of Boris Grachev and Sergei Zhigalko. As so often, the tournament winner played a number of fascinating games that reminded us why chess...
Another day, another draw in the final of the Candidates event in Kazan. The game started half an hour late due to some noise disturbance at the venue. Once they finally got underway Boris Gelfand had the white pieces for the second time and was...
Nakamura, Robson Pull Ahead in Round 6 By Ken West Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Ray Robson each won with white Sunday to take the lead going into the rapid portion of their international matches at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of ...
On Saturday Vassily Ivanchuk won the Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba. The Ukrainian grandmaster defeated Le Quang Liem (Vietnam) in the final round and was just in time to catch his opponent in the standings. Both players ended on 6.5/10 but I...
