Gata Kamsky defeated Veselin Topalov in the second game of his Candidates match in Kazan, Russia. With two more games left, the American leads 1.5-0.5. The games Grischuk-Aronian, Gelfand-Mamedyarov and Kramnik-Radjabov ended in draws. General inf...
Perhaps you've seen it already, but in case you haven't: one of our readers pointed out to us the Italian chess documentary Chess me out - talk on board, which was posted on the internet already three years ago. Among others, Alexandra Kosteniuk, ...
We have just received from our printers: The Joys of Chess: Heroes, Battles & Brilliancies .The Joys of ChessFantastic moves, intriguing thought experiments, strange insights and hilarious jokes: author Christian Hesse offers vistas you have never...
On the second day of the quarter-final Candidates matches in Kazan, Gata Kamsky scored a vital win with the black pieces against his adversary Veselin Topalov. Topalov opened with 1. Nf3 and the game developed into a Grunfeld where the Bulgarian ...
All games in the FIDE Candidates matches, which started today in Kazan, Russia, ended in draws. Levon Aronian seemed to be close to a victory but his opponent Alexander Grischuk managed to reach a drawn pawn ending. In Radjabov-Kramnik, Mamedyarov...
And they're off! The Candidates started their campaigns today in Kazan to find the next challenger for Vishy Anand's World Chess Championship title. The favourite to win according to the pundits and our Chess.com poll is the popular Armenian Lev ...
According to the ChessVibes readers, Levon Aronian is the clear favorite to win the FIDE Candidates matches which start tomorrow in Kazan, Russia. Based on 1,000+ votes, Armenia's number one grandmaster gained an astonishing 65.19%, followed by ex...
Just out: New In Chess 2011/3 – with 106 pages of chess delight .- Levon Aronian absolutely fabulous in Amber farewell - Viktor Kortchnoi: ‘I caused Petrosian’s fatal illness’ - Nigel Short on his worst simul - Genna Sosonko on ‘Magicians’ Bronst...
Anton Korobov won the strong Nakhchivan Open in Azerbaijan. The Ukrainian grandmaster was the only player to finish on 7/9, half a point ahead of Zoltan Almasi (Hungary), Paco Vallejo (Spain), Ivan Sokolov (The Netherlands) and Alexander Ipatov (S...
Nakamura and Korchnoi Headline in St. Louis  Press Release: Nakamura vs. Ponomariov, Korchnoi vs. Finegold  ST. LOUIS, May 2 -- For the first time ever, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will host an international chess m...
My previous review, in which I discussed three recent chess puzzle books, was admittedly somewhat grumpy and pessimistic about the future of this particular genre, and some readers took offence at this. So this time round I'm going to look at thre...
We've tried hard to resist, but by now it's impossible to avoid the story about Andrey Slyusarchuk, a Ukrainian neurosurgeon and showman who 'beat' Rybka 4 in a 2-game match, playing blindfold, which was shown on national TV. Several Ukrainian gra...
The European Chess Union (ECU) has rejected the protest of Peter Heine Nielsen about the way the performance ratings were calculated at this year's European Championship in Aix les Bains. Admitting that their calculations were flawed, the ECU&...
We're happy and proud to announce that in just six days from now, we'll be delivering the first issue of ChessVibes Training into the inboxes of way over a hundred early subscribers. Guess they're all excited about improving their middlegame and e...
The FIDE Candidates Matches start 5 May in Kazan, Russia. Eight players will fight for the chance to be the next challenger for Vishy Anand's world title. The competition consists of a series of short knockout matches, with the quarter-finals and...
Today the World Chess Federation already published its May 1st Elo rating list. With the absence of rated super tournaments in March and April, it's no surprise that the top 10 has barely changed. U.S. Women's Champion Anna Zatonskih entered the f...
The F.E.B. #9 is out! The FEB tackles Nice... errr... Monaco and the last (sniff, sniff) Amber Blindfold and Rapid tourney, PLUS, find out what's up with the European Championship, with clips from the most famous Frenchman, Sebastian Feller, P...
The official FIDE rating list for May 2011 has been published. With the list now being published every two months rather than quarterly, it's more up-to-date but sometimes barely changes. There is only one change to the top 10 since the March 201...
A few rounds into the preliminaries she was almost knocked out, but eventually she won the 2011 U.S. Women's Championship: Anna Zatonskih. It was her fourth U.S. Women’s Championship title and second since 2009 when the U.S. Women’s Championship w...
Andrei Deviatkin won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia. The Russian grandmaster finished on 7.5/9, half a point clear of GMs Dejan Bojkov of Bulgaria and Sune Berg Hansen of Denmark. As in previous years, Australia's retired GM Ian Rogers pro...
Zatonskih Wins Fourth Title By FM Mike Klein After two weeks of almost non-stop playing, IM Anna Zatonskih needed a few more hours to win the 2011 U.S. Womens Championship. She won her first rapid game as Black on Thursday against WFM Tatev Abra...
New: Wojo's Weapons, volume 2.The late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewics scored a stunning 80.2% winning percentage with his Fianchetto King's Indian. IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton make this score accessible to amateur players by clearly demons...
Only Bobby Fischer, Sammy Reshevsky, Lev Alburt and Walter Browne did it before him: retaining the U.S. Championship title. Yesterday Gata Kamsky beat Yuri Shulman 1.5-0.5 in the final to remain U.S. Champion for at least another year, a prize he...
Kamsky Reigns Supreme, Women Head to Tiebreak By FM Mike Klein After an opening miscue led to a struggle for equality, GM Yury Shulman conceded a draw to GM Gata Kamsky and with it the title of 2011 U.S. Champion. Kamsky also won the title las...
