Metropolitan Chess is hosting an International Master norm round robin tournament from April 6th to 10th of 2011. The tournament is sponsored by California Market Center, Fashion Business, Inc, MonRoi, Chess.com, LawyerFy, and Betty Bottom Showr...
On April 9th and 10th the 14th and 15th round of the Schachbundesliga will be held. The fight for the title will take place in Baden-Baden where the German champion faces its strongest rival, Werder Bremen. As always, you can follow all games live...
Now that's what we call hard core theory: one of the seconds of World Champion Vishy Anand playing the Poisoned Pawn variation of the Sicilian Najdorf. Learn all the ins and outs in ChessVibes Openings issue 118, which analyzes the theoretical gam...
Apparently it's the season of tournament announcements, and especially the second half of 2011 is becoming more and more promising. Today the organizers of the annual Biel Chess Festival proudly announced the participation of Magnus Carlsen (who w...
Vishy Anand recently beat his second Rustam Kasimdzhanov 3.5-0.5 in a rapid match in Tashkent. While he was in Uzbekistan, Anand also played a 24-game simultaneous exhibition against the very best Uzbek juniors and women. The world champion achi...
Hot news from Germany: the participants and full pairings of Dortmund 2011. We just received a press release which announced the 39th Sparkassen Chess Meeting. From 21 to 31 July Vladimir Kramnik, Ruslan Ponomariov, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Le...
Chess reached mainstream media last week with headlines like 'Chess World Champion loses to 10-year-old'. We received several emails about this news, but what most of the reports failed to mention was that the game was played in a simul. After the...
Last weekend we published a preliminary list of European Championship participants who qualified for the next World Cup. We noted that Vladimir Potkin, Peter Svidler and Rauf Mamedov had already qualified (info that was duly copied by other media)...
Rumours of the death of international chess events are greatly exaggerated! Despite the latest sad, and hopefully temporary, loss of another international chess tournament, Linares, there is more cheerful news from world champion Vishy Anand's ho...
No more Amber, the end of Mainz, Linares skipped for a year, no news about MTel... some chess fans have already claimed in our comments that "chess is dead". We won't go that far, but still it's good to see that elsewhere new tournaments are poppi...
It appears that recent rumours regarding the famous Linares chess tournament have proved to be well founded, with recent press reports* now confirming that the 2011 edition has been cancelled. The tournament had already been delayed, but the canc...
In chess, the history of the Simultaneous Exhibition (“Simul”) is a rich one. As with all World Records, many have sought to break the Simul record, setting a new and higher level with each attempt. To mention a few: · In 1922, the...
There will be no super-tournament in Linares this year. At first the event was postponed till the fall. However, the organisers had difficulties in finding a venue in another country (which would cover a share of the costs) and couldn't find dates...
Since last week more than 1,500 people like ChessVibes on Facebook. To celebrate this, we're giving away three copies of The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3: Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill by Karsten Mueller and Merijn van Delft!Together with GM Ka...
Metropolitan Chess will host an International Master norm round robin tournament on April 6th to 10th of 2011. The tournament is sponsored by California Market Center, Fashion Business, Inc, MonRoi, Chess.com, LawyerFy, and Betty Bottom Showroom...
When you read an open letter like the one on cheating, signed by a number of participants of the European Championship in Aix les Bains, there are basically two ways to react. The first is to join in the public outrage and bemoan the terrible stat...
Long-time leader Vladimir Potkin of Russia took the European Individual Chess Championship title on tie-breaks after taking a quick draw with Judit Polgar in the final round. That turned out to be enough for Potkin to take first place thanks to a...
On Saturday Vladimir Potkin won the European Championship in Aix les Bains, France. In the last round the Russian grandmaster drew quickly with Judit Polgar, and eventually edged out Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Alexander Moiseenko and Polgar on tie-break....
In January 2010 we already mentioned the film Queen to Play, in which a housemaid sees two people playing chess, and then falls in love with the royal game. Starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline, the film opens today in US cinemas.The officia...
After ten rounds have been completed in the European Individual Championships, three players stand above the rest with just one round remaining. Long-time leader Vladimir Potkin was caught by the pack when his pace slowed, but he won again in rou...
Chess.com is very excited to announce its future in the "online gaming community" as the world wide leader in... Checkers! Erik, the owner and CEO of Chess.com had this to say about the coming changes: "We are SO excited to make this transitio...
An interesting new event has appeared on the chess calendar that, we believe, deserves a mention here. We're talking about the 1st International Chess Cultural Festival which will take place on the island of Corfu from June 18–27. It is intended f...
Six long years after his premature retirement from active chess competition, Garry Kasparov is finally returning to the game! The former world champion, and still the highest rated chess player of all time has struggled to launch a political ca...
With a third consecutive draw, Vladimir Potkin allowed five GMs to join him in the lead in round 8 of the European Championship. In the 9th round the first five boards split the point, and so with two rounds to go 12 players are sharing the lead w...
