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...
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 ...
The ChessVibes team thanks you for your support and your comments, and we wish everyone a healthy 2011 with happy chess and good vibes!
