Recently a father and his daughter entered an under 1700 tournament in New Zealand under false names, and duly finished first and second. No great harm was done (their combined prize was $55, or about 40 Euros) but in the Oceania chess scene it...
Since Bobby Fischer's death in January 2008, there has been an unpleasant and increasingly unseemly battle to gain control of his estate, estimated at $2 million. An Icelandic Court ruled today that Miyoko Watai was legally Fischer's widow and sh...
Elina Danielian's fantastic performance in the Doha Grand Prix continued in round nine with a fine win against Martha Fierro Baquero to maintain her lead of a full point at the top of the standings. Humpy Koneru's battle to finish first now seems...
Sometimes a top player has cooked up a nice surprise for a strong opponent. It won't stay unnoticed, and so it can only be used once. But who cares, when the point has been scored? Last weekend Nisipeanu won a nice game in the Bundesliga with 1.e4...
In 1977 Henrique Mecking was the world's third player, behind Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. The Brazilian chess site Rádio Xadrez's Blog (Radio Chess's Blog) recently did a profile article and interview with the legendary Brazilian chess pla...
Humpy Koneru (pictured) had to win her game against the runaway leader Elina Danielian today to keep her dream of fighting for the world championship alive. In a nail-biting game the Indian emerged with a winning position after mutual time-troubl...
Elina Danielian is still leading strongly in Doha, Qatar. At the final tournament in the FIDE Women Grand Prix Series, the Armenian GM scored 6.5/7 and is still 1.5 points ahead of the rest of the pack.General info The 6th and final tournament of ...
We have just received: Boost your Chess 3 - Master .This is the latest volume of Yusupov's award-winning training course in which he guides the reader towards a higher chess understanding, using carefully selected positions and advice. This new ...
World Champion Vishy Anand will play his second Rustam Kasimdzhanov in a rapid match on 27th March. Anand's record against Kasimdzhanov in all games is 10 wins, 3 losses and 5 draws. A Kasimdzhanov win is show below. FIDE announcment: The reign...
Recently we published an article by David Levy, President of the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), about the cloning of chess engines. Meanwhile the ICGA Clone and Derivative Investigation Panel has been established, and today we re...
At 2817 World Champion Viswanathan Anand is officially the highest rated player again. On the March 1st FIDE rating list the Indian switched places with Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who has 2815. Vassily Ivanchuk is back on 5th place, while Hikaru ...
FIDE has published the latest official rating list and it confirms that Vishy Anand has regained the top spot from his chief rival Magnus Carlsen. There's not much to choose between them, but Anand's better result in Wijk Aan Zee made the differe...
A day before the 3rd Batavia Chess Tournament in Amsterdam, Gerald Hertneck didn’t know he was going to play chess. But during the tournament, there was never any doubt who would win it. “He’s in a class of his own,” said IM Merijn van Delft after...
The latest edition of the traditional Open event at Capelle-la-Grande in France is underway and this year runs from 26 Feb - 5 March. The format is a nine round Swiss Open with a huge field of more than 550 players! Top seed is the Indian #2 ran...
After five rounds at the final Women's Grand Prix in Doha, Elina Danielian of Armenia is the runaway leader with an amazing perfect score of 5/5. Danielian's success is piling the pressure on Humpy Koneru who needs to win the event to have any ch...
Elina Danielian won her first four games at the final tournament in the FIDE Women Grand Prix Series, held in Doha, Qatar. The Grandmaster from Armenia has a 1.5 point lead, ahead of IM Martha Fierro (Ecuador) and Marie Sebag (France).General info...
Vienna 1922 , not just another tournament book...With players such as Alekhine, Tarrasch, Tartakower Réti, and Rubinstein Vienna 1922 is one of the great tournaments in chess history. This book marked the beginning of the writing career of legen...
Answering reader questions almost a decade after becoming FIDE World Champion as an 18-year-old, Ruslan Ponomariov provides both a revealing insight into the life of an elite player, and a damning indictment of the chess politics that saw his matc...
The most important match of the weekend will take place in Bremen. The only serious contender of Baden-Baden is facing the strong team of Mülheim. Bremen needs to win in order not to loose the contact to the top of the table. The match starts on S...
Last week, in a special, three-day Jeopardy! episode, IBM's participant "Watson" defeated the two most successful human participants ever. The chess fans were curious about one thing: what would Garry Kasparov think of this, fourteen years after l...
He was a world class chess player for decades, but at 88 he returned to his first love. Last Tuesday, the legendary Serbian grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric presented in Belgrade his first music album. Serbian and Spanish media report that the album ...
When the IBM super-computer Deep Blue defeated the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a match in 1997, it made headlines around the world. However, after the match IBM retired their silicon chess monster, satisfied that their objecti...
Le Quang Liem again won the strongest open in the world, despite a loss in the eighth round against the ever-uncompromising Bulgarian Cheparinov. This fascinating King's Indian (a Main Line with 11.g4) is the Game of the Week in ChessVibes Opening...
The morning before the first round of the Batavia Chess Tournament in Amsterdam, Gerald Hertneck received a phone call. "Can you play?" His boss agreed, Hertneck went home, packed his bags and jumped on the train from Munich to Amsterdam. After fi...
