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...
On Saturday morning, April 9th Aruna Anand, the wife of World Champion Vishy Anand, gave birth to a son. Mother and child are doing well. The name of the baby is not known yet.Aruna Anand is often to be found reading a book, in a hotel lobby or a ...
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...
