Youth Movement Continues at U.S. Championships By FM Mike Klein Past the halfway point at the 2011 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship, the students are schooling the veterans. After four rounds at the Chess Club and Scholasti...
This spring, there seems to be a real explosion of new chess puzzle books on the market. Cultural pessimists will hardly find this very puzzling. In these busy times where everyone has his own Twitter, Facebook, ICC and PlayChess account, who has ...
The 2011 U.S. Championships took off on Friday in St. Louis. The tournament has two surprise leaders after three rounds, with Sam Shankland topping the preliminary B group of the men's section and Sabina-Francesca Foisor in first place in the wome...
Field thins out in Round Three  By FM Mike Klein  With players beginning to eye a spot in the semifinals, two-thirds of the games produced winners in round three of the 2011 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship. The tournaments...
Jan 'Gusti' Gustafsson won the 2011 Thai Open in Pattaya, Thailand after finishing in a three-way tie for first place. The German Grandmaster finished equal on points with Paco Vallejo and Nigel Short but was awarded the 11th Thai Open title on ti...
Chess Gets Physical: IM Dean Ippolito’s Simul World Record Attempt written by Donna (RookedOnChess) and Mark (ChessMarkstheSpot)     On April 9, 2011, the energy of expectation and enthusiasm permeated the comfortable and airy cafeteria ...
Only 2 Remain Perfect after Round 2 Â By FM Mike Klein Only a pair of rounds into the 2011 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship and already the whittling of the 24-player field is complete. Only two players have unblemished record...
Meet our brand new, second PDF (+PGN) magazine! It's called... tatatataaaaa... ChessVibes Training. Inspired by the success of our first magazine ChessVibes Openings, we have decided to launch a second, weekly magazine. The first issue will be pu...
At the Russian Team Championship Tomsk-400 (the team led by Ponomariov and Motylev) and SHSM-64 (with Gelfand, Wang Hao, Caruana, Giri, and Potkin) are sharing the lead after four rounds. Other top names active in Olginka, Russia are Ivanchuk and ...
Foisor upsets Krush; Onischuk, Christiansen win By FM Mike Klein The first round of the 2011 U.S. Championship and U.S. Womens Championship concluded late Friday night at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. A scattering of ...
Last night GM Gawain Jones went to the first UK press preview screening of the new documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World, in Soho, London. This film will be in UK cinemas from July 15th, and Gawain, who lives in London, went on behalf of Che...
Chess Stars has just published: The Safest Grünfeld.This brand new book presents a complete repertoire for Black in one of the most quickly developing openings of today. Bulgarian GM, and author of The Safest Sicilian, Alexander Delchev has been...
In May 2010 the Bulgarian Chess Federation, after organizing the Anand-Topalov World Championship match, took Chessbase to court for "violating copyright rules". Chessbase had transmitted the moves of the match live on their Playchess server, with...
This week's ChessVibes Openings #119 provides a deeper look into the brilliant attacking game Zhao Jun-Xiu Deshun and discusses its Sämisch Nimzo along the way. Besides, we have a look at the 5.Nc3 line of the Petroff, the 'Réti Gambit' (1.Nf3 Nf6...
The 2011 US Chess Championships are set to start tomorrow at the St.Louis Chess Club & Scholastic Center. The first round gets underway at 2pm local time (7pm UTC) on 15 April, and the final day's play is on 27 April (or 28 April if a playoff...
Nigel Short (England), Abhijit Kunte (India), Francisco Vallejo (Spain) and Zaw Win Lay (Myanmar) are sharing the lead after five rounds at the Thai Open in Pattaya City, Thailand. Top stars Short and Vallejo both started with four wins, and today...
For the sixth year in succession, the OSC Baden-Baden team have won the extremely strong German chess league, the Schachbundesliga. The final two rounds of the 2010/11 season took place last weekend, and Baden-Baden finished four points ahead of ...
On Friday, April 15 the 2011 U.S. Championship and 2011 U.S. Women's Championship will begin in Saint Louis. Before the start of the first round, chess fans can enter their selections from the combined 24-player field and fill out a championship b...
Last week we already reported that Peter Heine Nielsen was planning to file an official protest against the European Chess Union (ECU). He was one of the players who missed qualification for the upcoming World Cup, as a result of the way the perfo...
FIDE have announced the dates for a new Women's Grand Prix series of tournaments for 2011/12, starting in August. The winner of this series will eventually challenge the winner of the Hou Yifan (pictured) v Humpy Koneru world title match, which i...
We have just received: Experts on the Anti Sicilian. This book includes articles from many writers, such as Boris Avrukh, Jacob Aagaard, Christian Bauer, John Shaw, Milos Pavlovic, Peter Heine Nielsen and Tiger Hillarp Persson, just to name a fe...
Last weekend OSC Baden-Baden secured its sixth consecutive championship in the Schachbundesliga. On the day that their star player became a father, Baden-Baden defeated Werder Bremen 5-3 which more or less secured the title, and a day later they s...
Not many 18 year-olds can say they have won their national chess championship twice, but Ding Liren (pictured) achieved that honour at the recently completed 2011 Chinese Chess Championships in Xinghua. Back in 2009, Ding won his first national t...
On Sunday, 18-year-old Ding Liren became Chinese Champion for the second time in his career, with an undefeated 9/11 score and a 2867 performance. Hou Yifan finished 5th, one place ahead of Wang Yue. In the women's section 21-year-old Zhang Xiaowe...
