Six men were arrested in October for playing chess in a playground in a park in New York City. Two of them decided to fight the charges. Macauley Peterson, who went to the New York City Criminal Court in lower Manhattan yesterday, reports.By Macau...
The Turkish Chess Federation has withdrawn from hosting the upcoming European Individual Women's Chess Championships, which were due to be held in March 2011. In an open letter posted on its website, the TCF expresses disappointment about the corr...
In the seventh round of the Torneo di Capodanno in Reggio Emilia Vugar Gashimov defeated Paco Vallejo with the black pieces. In doing so, the Azeri GM caught the Spaniard in the standings; both are on 4.5/7 now, with two rounds to go.Vugar Gashimo...
From March 11 to 25, 2011 Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Grischuk, Vasily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Boris Gelfand, Hikaru Nakamura, Vugar Gashimov and Anish Giri will play in the 20t...
We have just received: A Universal Weapon 1.d4 d6! . In this book, Vladimir Barsky analyses two original opening schemes: 1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 and 1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Bg4. Both are solid defensive lines in which the opponent is forced to make important de...
They say all good things must come to an end, but it's still a shock when it happens. The 20th Amber Tournament will take place from 11-25 March 2011, but it will also be the last. This year the venue reverts to Monaco, but the combined rapid/bl...
Chess, of course, is an abstract game. Its ultimate, objective truth is probably more mathematical than intuitive. Still, the game has so many subjective sides that it's almost impossible not to have arguments about the relative aspects of che...
The 2010 Chess Festival in Groningen was won by Dejan Bojkov. The Bulgarian grandmaster won on tiebreak after finishing shared first with GMs Mark Bluvshtein and Sipke Ernst, and IMs Brandenburg, Van Kampen and Nyzhnyk. The latter scored his third...
Several months ago IM Robert Ris decided to visit his relatives in the US for Christmas. Our co-editor couldn't resist participating in at least one of the American open tournaments, and reports from America for ChessVibes. In part 1 he tells abou...
At 2814 Magnus Carlsen is officially the highest rated player again. On the January 1st FIDE rating list the Norwegian switched places with World Champion Viswanathan Anand from India, who has 2810. Sergei Karjakin climbed further to a 5th place, ...
It's January again, so all roads for the top GMs lead to a small seaside resort in the Netherlands for the traditional start to the new year in top flight chess. The Tata Steel Tournament (formerly Corus) runs from 14-30 January in Wijk Aan Zee a...
How well did you do in the 2010 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler? There were 20 chess related questions, and a total of 32 marks to earn, but how many did you answer correctly? Despite the questions being harder this year, the standard of entries was ...
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Francisco "Paco" Vallejo Pons is in sole lead at the 53rd Torneo di Capodanno in Reggio Emilia. The Spanish GM scored 2.5/3. The tournament also sees big names like Vassily Ivanchuk, Vugar Gashimov, Nigel Short, Fabiano Caruana and... Alexander Mo...
Another two months have flown by, and FIDE have released the latest official rating list. The January 2011 rating list confirms Magnus Carlsen (pictured) as the world's #1 rated player, but he is very closely followed by world champion Vishy Anan...
As the 'Euwe year' comes to an end, we pay tribute once more to the 5th World Champion. Because Euwe won the world title exactly 75 years ago, Dutch broadcast corporation VPRO made available a big number of videos in which you can see Euwe togethe...
Get it before the new year starts! It's still there, until tomorrow: our Holiday Special. As a subscriber to ChessVibes Openings you can now get your hands on all back issues 0-100 in a nice package with a complete PGN database file, worth 47 Euro...
Earlier this year a special, big 'Rotterdam Chess Set' was presented during the Rotterdam Museum Night, and this month the tabletop version came on the market. You can now win such a chess set! Schaaksite, a Dutch site for chess fans, announces a ...
We have just received: Chess Informant 108 .This volume brings together a refined selection of 301 annotated games and 413 accompanying game fragments from January till April 2010. Featuring games from top tournaments such as Wijk aan Zee, Linar...
A reviewer's task is never done. A constant stream of new books is produced every month, but a reviewer can't possibly have something meaningful to say about each and every book that is sent to him. In this review, the last one of 2010, I want to ...
What would Bobby Fischer’s life and career have looked like had he received appropriate mental health services throughout his life? And is there a way for society to help troubled, often defiant prodigies become less troubled, without diminishing ...
One of the reasons the 2010 London Chess Classic was so special, was its live coverage. Every round chess fans from all over the world could enjoy GM commentary about the games, and as soon as one was over, interviews with the players. That last b...
Today more footage from the Euwe 75 years World Champion memorial day in Amsterdam last week. World Champion Vishy Anand discusses some endings deeply, like Bacrot-Anand, Nanjing 2010 and also Kramnik-Carlsen, London 2010. Enjoy!On Wednesday, Dece...
We still have some unpublished footage of the Euwe 75 years World Champion memorial day in Amsterdam last week. World Champion Vishy Anand showed some of his games, and some positions which were related to games of Euwe. Today we publish the first...
