In exactly one week eight days from today, the first games of the FIDE Candidates matches will be played. In Kazan, Russia the first round will have Veselin Topalov vs Gata Kamsky, Vladimir Kramnik vs Teimour Radjabov, Levon Aronian vs Alexander G...
By FM Mike Klein At the 2011 U.S. Championship, the defending champion took a large step Tuesday toward repeating his title. GM Gata Kamsky unearthed a win from seemingly infertile ground against GM Yury Shulman in the first game of their two-...
Hou Yifan won the first 'Women Masters' tournament held in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. The reigning Women's World Champion finished clear first, a full point ahead of Sheng Yang and Ju Wenjun.Tournament winner Hou Yifan on the podium | Photo © Photos by...
The 15th Neckar Open was won by Arkadij Naiditsch. The German grandmaster scored a very convincing 8.5/9 in Deizisau, Germany. This year the tournament might well have been the biggest open in the world, with 753 participants. One of them, French ...
The finals of the U.S. Championship start today in Saint Louis. In the men's final the fight will be between Gata Kamsky, who eliminated Sam Shankland, and Yuri Shulman, who was too strong for Robert Hess. Anna Zatonskih beat Irina Krush in the ti...
By FM Mike Klein After much talk of the youth movement at the 2011 U.S. Championship, the veterans will have the final say. GM Yury Shulman won the second game of the two-game tiebreak today against teenage GM Robert Hess, setting up a repeat ...
The Russian Team Chess Championships took place from 12-23 April in Olginka. Twelve teams competed in an extremely strong round-robin event featuring players from all around the world, including top rated Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured). There was a...
Kamsky Advances, Others Need Tiebreak By FM Mike Klein In round two of the 2011 U.S. Championship semifinals, defending champion GM Gata Kamsky pressed his initiative and broke through against GM-elect Sam Shankland to become the first player ...
Even in the final standings of the Russian Team Championship, 64 and Tomsk-400 were still sharing the lead with 20 match points out of 11 rounds. However, the team from Moscow (with Gelfand, Wang Hao, Caruana and Giri as the top stars) finished wi...
Women’s Games Decisive, Men Decide Nothing By FM Mike Klein After the first round of semifinal games of the U.S. Championship and the U.S. Women’s Championship, two ladies emerged victorious while all four men agreed to peace. IM Anna Zatonski...
In just two weeks from now we'll be launching our brand new, second PDF (+PGN) magazine ChessVibes Training. Our target audience is the average club player who wants to improve his/her chess. Today wanted to let your know that in the past week we ...
By FM Mike Klein For four players at the U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship, the rest day was anything but a leisurely day off. Tied after round-robin play, GM Alex Onischuk and GM-elect Sam Shankland faced off for a spot in th...
Gata Kamsky, Yuri Shulman, Robert Hess, Irina Krush, Tatev Abrahamyan and Camilla Baginskaite have qualified for the next stage of the U.S. Championships. Today, in two-game rapid matches, Sam Shankland and Alexander Onischuk, and also Anna Zatons...
Just out: The Complete Hedgehog Volume 2.GM Sergey Shipov concludes his monumental work! He covers formations arising from 1.e4 and 1.d4 in depth, presents White’s most promising plans and breathes new life into lines that, according to theory, ...
Last week, the always inspiring Ian Nepomniachtchi used Bobby Fischer's 6.h3 line against the Najdorf to beat Dmitry Frolyanov with a crushing mating attack. Guess what, IM Robert Ris enjoyed analysing this as the Game of the week in ChessVibes Op...
Semi-Finals Still Murky, Tiebreaks Await By FM Mike Klein The final round of preliminary group play of the 2011 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship concluded Thursday with only a partial picture of the semifinals. Some players adv...
With three rounds to go, the fight for the Russian Team Championship is mostly fought between Tomsk-400 and 64 (Moscow). Both teams scored 15 match points out of 8 rounds, and St. Petersburg is 3 points behind.Boris Gelfand strolling, Pavel Eljano...
By FM Mike Klein GM Robert Hess and IM Irina Krush kept up their winning streaks in round six of the U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship, respectively. In the penultimate round of preliminary play, Hess won his fourth game in a row...
Last Saturday, the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) in London organized a simultaneous exhibition as part of their centenary celebrations. Ten top English players (GMs Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell, Gawain Jones, Stephen Gordon, Jon Speelma...
With two more rounds to go in the preliminary stage, a desparate push for qualification continues at the U.S. Championships. After five rounds, title holder Gata Kamsky leads with Yuri Shulman in the A group while Robert Hess is in clear first in ...
The fourth Grand Slam Masters Final will be held from September 25th till October 11th, 2011 and like its first edition, there will be six participants. The tournament, a double round-robin, will again be held in both Bilbao, Spain and a partner c...
Desperate Push for Qualification Continues By FM Mike Klein Round five of the U.S. Championship produced the most fighting chess so far at the 2011 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship. Players of the Black pieces won an astounding ...
This is what some reviewers said about: Chess Opening Essentials, Vol. 1 – 4 .Chess Opening Essentials, Vol. 1 – 4"I like the way it handles information for club players." - Gary Lane, Australasian Chess Magazine"It gives an outline of each open...
Abhijeet Gupta finished clear first at the Dubai Open. The Indian grandmaster scored 7.5/9, half a point more than compatriot Parimarjan Negi, Csaba Balogh of Hungary, Murtas Kazhgaleyev (Kazachstan) and Jon Ludvig Hammer (Norway). Abhijeet Gupta...
