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Viswanathan Anand became the sole leader in Wijk aan Zee today. In the 5th round of the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament the World Champion beat Jan Smeets with Black, while co-leader Hikaru Nakamura drew with Ruslan Ponomariov. Magnus Carlsen won...
The players got back to work after their first rest day of the Tata Steel tournament and there were three winners in round five of the A Group. Vishy Anand won his second game with the black pieces, this time overcoming Jan Smeets to push his sco...
While the fashion career of his former protégé, Magnus Carlsen, continues apace, Garry Kasparov has recently been involved in an advertising campaign of his own. It’s fair to say his promotion of the Polish divis...
Theory moves faster than ever in Wijk aan Zee. Can you keep track? With ChessVibes Openings it's 'yes you can'! Already in this week's issue we update you on the theoretical status of Shirov's Archangelsk Ruy Lopez, and discuss both the topical 4....
Round 9 of the Jimmy Quon Memorial, second in the Metropolitan GM/IM norm invitational series, concluded this evening. Round 9 games were broadcast. Some photos from round 4 are available here: http://www.chess.com/photos/view_album/NGASCC/2nd-...
'Not much happened', Viswanathan Anand ended his press conference about his win against Chinese grandmaster Wang Hao. For Anand it might have been a smooth win with few things to say about, but for the chess fans it was an impressive demonstration...
After four rounds Viswanathan Anand and Hikaru Nakamura share the lead at the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament. World Champion Anand beat Wang Hao from China, while Nakamura escaped with a draw against Anish Giri. Wednesday is the first rest day.G...
Vishy Anand scored his second win in the Tata Steel tournament in round 4 at Wijk Aan Zee to join Nakamura as joint leader with 3 points out of 4. Anand sacrificed a piece against Wang Hao and obtained devastating compensation leading to a fine ...
For most of the day, it was the story of the day - especially for Dutch chess. Even TV news service Teletekst had a headline on its starting page 101: "Dutch chess player beats world's number one." Here's Anish Giri's press conference after he bea...
Hikaru Nakamura grabbed the lead in the A group of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament on Monday. The American grandmaster beat Alexei Shirov and is the only player on 2.5/3. Magnus Carlsen blundered and lost against Anish Giri. In the B group Luke Mc...
After the second round of the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Anish Giri and Jan Smeets together showed their hypersharp Botvinnik Semi-Slav in the press room. It was one of the many draws on Sunday, but in fact quite an attractive game. Enjoy, ...
Many participants of the 2010 Women's World Championship in Hatay, Turkey were quite unhappy about the way it was organized. No less than 18 of them, including former World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, have signed an open letter which addresses s...
The third round at the Tata Steel tournament provided the biggest upset so far in the A Group when 16-year old Anish Giri defeated Magnus Carlsen with the black pieces in just 22 moves! Giri's reaction after the game was "Carlsen will probably no...
After the first round of the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, David Navara entered the press room and gave a spontaneous 'press conference' about his game against Radowslaw Wojtaszek. The Czech GM was happy about his game, and rightly so ...
Open letter regarding the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 We, the players of the Women’s World Chess Championship 2010 in Antakya/Hatay who have signed this document below, would like to share with the chess community and FIDE our thoughts...
Maia Chiburdanidze is one of the most successful female chess players in history, holding the women's world championship title between 1978 and 1991. Maia represented the USSR and now Georgia with distinction in many chess Olympiads, and in 1984 ...
In the only decisive game of the Tata A group's second round, Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated Wang Hao from China. In group B McShane beat Li Chao and is now the only player on 2/2.General info The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is held ...
1st Metropolitan International Over August 17th to 21st of 2011, Metropolitan Chess will be hosting a 9 round Swiss in downtown Los Angeles at the luxurious Sheraton Downtown Los Angeles (711 South Hope Street, Los Angeles CA 90017) that will ...
In round two at Wijk Aan Zee the best chess in the A Group tended to come from the players with the black pieces, but this didn't translate into many decisive games. In the biggest matchup of the day, Vishy Anand ran into some opening preparation...
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011 in Wijk aan Zee has finally kicked off! The first thing any visitor will note when entering the playing hall is that all the red has changed to a sea of blue. Clearly, Tata wanted a different atmosphere for the...
The opening round in Wijk Aan Zee provided plenty of thrills and spills as the top GMs engaged in fierce battles. Nakamura had a dream start against Grischuk, quickly getting a clear advantage out of the opening. Grischuk tried a piece sacrifice...
Continuing his fashion career for G-Star, this spring and summer Magnus Carlsen will be seen on posters together with 'Bond girl' Gemma Arterton. Arterton replaces Hollywood actress Liv Tyler, G-Star's female model in the fall/winter campain. Carl...
The opening ceremony and draw took place today at Wijk Aan Zee, and the first round highlight is arguably the clash between Magnus Carlsen and Lev Aronian in the A Group. The full first round draw for each of the groups is below. The full round-b...
