Viswanathan Anand has won the Yearbook Novelty of the Year 2010 award, put up by New In Chess. Last week editor Genna Sosonko presented the World Champion with his prize of 350 euros in Wijk aan Zee. Of exactly 600 voters (not counting illegal dou...
Just out: New In Chess 2011/1 – bigger format and completely restyled!. Let me whet your appetite with a couple of highlights: • London is Carlsen’s call • Vugar Gashimov keeps promise • Our new columnist: Nigel Short • Just checking: Garry Kasp...
Vassily Ivanchuk won the Masters tournament of the 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. The Ukrainian scored of 9 points out of 10 games. English grandmaster Nigel Short finished with half a point less; GMs Kulaots (Estland) and Roiz (Israel) ...
Chess events organising body Chess Promotions Limited today withdrew their bid to organize the World Chess Championship in 2012. After lengthy negotiations with the World Chess Federation (FIDE), a deadline was set on Saturday 29th January 2011 fo...
Neither fans of hyper-sharp variations or those who prefer positional defences will be disappointed by ChessVibes Openings issue #109. You're updated on Nepomniachtchi's Najdorf with 6.Be3 e5 7.Nf3, Kotronias' Chinese Dragon (10...Rb8) and Shirov'...
Vassily Ivanchuk won his last three games at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival to win the Masters event with a fantastic score of 9/10. Only Nigel Short had a chance of catching the Ukrainian, but his loss against him in round six (as shown ...
No, not the Olympics, they're still going ahead. The London bid for the 2012 World Chess Championship has been withdrawn by the potential organisers. A great shame, since Malcolm Pein has shown himself to be an excellent organiser, establishing...
Spanish railway company Renfe thought of an original way to introduce their new high-speed connection between Madrid and Valencia. On Tuesday reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand played against former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. The two le...
After our two tournament reports from the U.S.A. by IM Robert Ris, we now have GM Dejan Bojkov writing for us about American tournaments. In January the Bulgarian played in both the Golden State Open in Concord, California and a round-robin GM nor...
Vassily Ivanchuk is still on top at the Masters tournament of the 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. The Ukrainian grandmaster scored 7 points out of 8 games, and is followed by Nigel Short (England) and Viktor Mikhalevski (Israel) who have ...
Because of the sensitivity of the subject, so far almost no details have emerged about the French cheating case. However, the French news website Europe-Echecs keeps on adding bits and pieces, and some of these were kindly translated into English ...
SOS – Secrets of Opening Surprises 13 is out!Good news for thousands of chess players all over the world, who will be eagerly hunting its pages for early deviations from main stream chess openings.Because SOS is for chess players who like to ge...
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"73","attributes":{"alt":"","title":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","wysiwyg":1}}]] We have just received from our printers: The Modern Scandinavian.Matthias Wahls’s Modernes Skandi...
After seven completed rounds of the ten-round Gibraltar Masters, Vassily Ivanchuk is leading on a score of six points. Ivanchuk is half a point ahead of a pack of six players on 5.5 points, including English GM Nigel Short who he beat in round si...
One of the less attractive features of many modern chess books is that authors tend to sound rather similar to each other. This is especially the case when the author in question is not an English native speaker and the publisher's editorial team ...
After six rounds Vassily Ivanchuk is leading the Masters tournament of the 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. Yesterday the Ukrainian beat English grandmaster Nigel Short, who had started with 5 out of 5. The playing field includes many top ...
Hikaru Nakamura won the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In the last round the American grandmaster drew with Black against Wang Hao from China. His main rival Vishy Anand from Indian also drew his game with Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi. In the ...
Hikaru Nakamura has won the 2011 Tata Steel tournament, surely the best tournament result from an American since Bobby Fischer graced the 64 squares many decades ago. In the best result of his career, Nakamura finished with a tremendous +5 score,...
Hikaru Nakamura maintained his slim lead in the A group of the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. In the 12th round the American grandmaster drew quickly with Vladimir Kramnik, and saw Vishy Anand escaping with a draw against Anish Giri many hours ...
With yet another victory in round 11 of the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament Hikaru Nakamura seized the lead. The American grandmaster beat Russian Champion Ian Nepomniachtchi and afterwards explained the game in the press room, and answered the p...
A draw against Vladimir Kramnik was enough to ensure that Hikaru Nakamura will lead by half a point going into the final round of the Tata Steel tournament. Kramnik, having lost to Carlsen in the previous round was in no mood for fireworks and Na...
This week's ChessVibes Openings has the spectacular Carlsen-Nakamura as Game of the Week - a sharp Sicilian Najdorf with an early g4. Furthermore, we give the latest updates on the Ruy Lopez Moeller/Archangelsk, the Scotch Mieses and the hot Gruen...
Hikaru Nakamura is in sole first place at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament after eleven rounds. On Friday the American grandmaster beat Ian Nepomniachtchi with the black pieces; co-leader Viswanathan Anand drew against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Magnu...
Hikaru Nakamura surged to the top of the standings yet again in Tata Steel after beating Ian Nepomniachtchi with the black pieces in round eleven. Anand is half a point behind the American after drawing with Vachier-Lagrave, while Lev Aronian is ...
