The F.E.B. #6 is out! The London Chess Classic, Magnus and company, 2800s galore, Gashimov wins Reggio Emilia, previewing Tata, plus, trouble with the law redux, and the F.E.B. gives away its first prize.The Full English Breakfast started life as ...
Humans, like all primates, often show behaviour largely dictated by social status and prestige. This applies to practically everything we do: the way we talk, the way we do business, the way we do politics, and the way we play chess. The photo tha...
Want to know how often your favourite opening or player was covered in ChessVibes Openings? Which variations were covered the most by the CVO editors, and why? ChessVibes Openings #106 gives the answer, with a very useful, 23-page index, which you...
As recently previewed, the re-named Tata Steel tournament (formerly Corus) will run from 14-30 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. The name may have changed, but the format remains the same with three separate A, B and C 14-player round-...
It will hardly be news to the readers out here: the 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament begins with its first round next Saturday. Yet again the organizers have managed to collect very interesting fields of participants for their Grandmaster Groups A...
Chess is not the kind of thing that's regularly covered by a huge sports media network like ESPN. Last week, however, they had a captivating story about 14-year-old chess progidy Phiona Mutesi from Uganda, who leaves the Katwe slum for the first t...
New In Chess asks its readers what they think was the best opening novelty of 2010. The inventor of the novelty will receive a prize of 350 euros. Among those who have voted for the winning novelty, a one-year subscription to the Yearbook will be ...
New: Strategy University Vol. 1: The Central Approach !On this DVD top chess trainer Adrian Mikhalchishin explains the role of the centre and the power of pawns and pieces in it. He especially focuses his attention on how to change the pawn stru...
Jimmy Quon. Photo Credit: Anonymous Jimmy Quon was a beloved chess player from the Southern California Community who taught at La Jolla Country Day School for 14 years. At one time he was teaching 15% of the student body. In the end, he had ...
In a short press release the 4th edition of the Bilbao Grand Slam Masters Final was announced yesterday. A 'preliminary dates forecast' says the tournament will be held from September 20th to October 12th, 2011. Magnus Carlsen is the first...
The great Estonian chess Grandmaster Paul Keres was born on 7 January 1916 and passed away far too soon in 1975 aged just 59. Keres is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players never to have become the world champion. Every year there...
Our co-editor IM Robert Ris spent a few weeks in the United States, where he participated in two open tournaments. In his second and final report Robert tells about the Berkeley International Open, held in the famous university city on the east sh...
Alexei Shirov yesterday won a rapid tournament that was part of a three-day Paul Keres memorial event in Tallinn, Estonia. GMs Anatoly Karpov, Lajos Portisch and Genna Sosonko also participated in the festivities dedicated to the 95th birthday of ...
In a small match for the Russian State Social University (RSCU) championship, Sergey Karjakin took a mini revenge for his lost tie-break final of the Russian Championship Superfinal last month. Again his opponent was Ian Nepomniachtchi, again the ...
Dutch GM Loek Van Wely (pictured) took first prize in the 4th Berkeley International, organised by Arun Sharma and David Pruess of Chess.com which ran from 2-8 January. Over 50 players competed in a 10-round Swiss format, with many being familiar...
The historic Hastings Chess Congress still survives after more than a century, albeit not as such a high-profile event, thanks to the support of the Hastings Borough Council and local businesses. The 2010/11 congress was held from 28 December - 5...
Teimour Radjabov will not dispute FIDE's decision to replace Magnus Carlsen with Alexander Grischuk for the upcoming Candidates matches in Kazan, Russia. Earlier the Azeri grandmaster had stated that this replacement might be against current regul...
The 40th Rilton Cup took place in Stockholm, Sweden from 27 December - 5 January. The competition was a 9-round Swiss event with several GMs in attendance, including top seed Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany. However, it was the Russian Sergey Volko...
Last month we already informed you about the excellent Q&A sessions at Crestbook with famous GMs like Khalifman, Krasenkow, Grischuk, Shirov and Svidler. The second part of the big 'interview' with Peter Svidler has now been published - don't miss...
This is what some reviewers said about Daniel Naroditsky's Mastering Positional Chess ."Is it possible that an author so young has sufficient wisdom to impart such knowledge? As far as this book goes, the answer is an unequivocal 'yes'." - Marsh...
This week it's already two years ago that we started our publication ChessVibes Openings. Guess what? We had never before covered the Evans Gambit! Romantic openings is the main theme of this week's issue #105. The latest novelties in your mailbo...
Vugar Gashimov won the 53rd Torneo di Capodanno in Reggio Emilia. The grandmaster from Azerbaijan edged out Paco Vallejo from Spain on tiebreak. The two both won in round 8 and then drew quickly in the final round, with Gashimov having the highest...
The historic city of Reggio Emilia in Italy has hosted an annual chess tournament since 1958, held over each New Year. The 2010/11 edition ran from 28 Dec - 6 Jan and produced some sparkling chess, with the Azerbaijani Vugar Gashimov (pictured) e...
Yesterday was the last round of two open tournaments with a very long tradition: the Hastings Chess Congress and the Rilton Cup. In Hastings Indian GMs Deep Sengupta and Arghyadip Das emerged as the winners after a dramatic last round, while in St...
