Happy new chess year
The ChessVibes team thanks you for your support and your comments, and we wish everyone a healthy 2011 with happy chess and good vibes!
Vallejo leads in Reggio Emilia
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...
Jan 2011 FIDE Rating List
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...
Old film footage Max Euwe
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...
One more day: CVO Holiday Special
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...
You can win this Rotterdam Chess Set
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 ...
New: Chess Informant 108
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...
Review: Loose ends of 2010
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 ...
A Psychological Autopsy of Bobby Fischer
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 ...
London Chess Classic: the players' interviews
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...
Christmas treat: Anand lecture, part 2 of 2
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...
Christmas treat: Anand lecture, part 1 of 2
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...
Hou Yifan 13th Women's World Champion
Hou Yifan today became the 13th Women's World Chess Champion. The 16-year-old grandmaster from China beat her compatriot Ruan Lufei in the rapid tie-break of the final with a score of 3-1.General info The 2010 Women's World Championship, organized...
2010 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler
Welcome to the 2010 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler! To help keep yourself entertained over the holiday season, why not try our fun seasonal chess quiz? There should be something for everyone, so you don't need to be a Grandmaster to have a go! But ...
Hou Yifan: Women's World Champion
The 16-year old prodigy Hou Yifan today became the youngest Women's World Champion in history by beating her compatriot Ruan Lufei on tie-breaks in the final. Hou Yifan takes the record from Maia Chiburdanidze who was 17 when she won the crown in...
One more week: CVO Holiday Special
Dozens of chess fans have already enjoyed it, and you can too, for one more week: 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, ...
Painter Kramnik in New In Chess 2010/8
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"68","attributes":{"alt":"","title":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","wysiwyg":1}}]]’Painter’ Vladimir Kramnik meets sculptor in: New In Chess 2010/8 .Other highlights from its more ...
Berkeley International Full Broadcast Coverage
2011 will kick off immediately with what may be the best week of broadcast chess entertainment of the year. Starting with two three-hour broadcasts on January second, the entire 10-round 4th Berkeley International Chess Tournament will have live s...
FIDE confirms participants Candidates
On Thursday the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced on its website that Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, Alexander Grischuk, Gata Kamsky, Vladimir Kramnik, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Teimour Radjabov and Veselin Topalov have all confirmed their p...
Women's World Ch: Ruan Lufei wins 4th match game, tiebreak tomorrow
Yet again Ruan Lufei managed to tie a minimatch and reach a tiebreak at the Women's World Championship in Antakya, Turkey. Today she beat Hou Yifan with White to level the score in the final. Tomorrow the tiebreak, with four rapid games and if nec...
FIDE Confirms Candidates Line-Up
The deadline for acceptance of FIDE's terms for the candidates matches passed yesterday, and the official line-up for next year has now been confirmed. As expected, Magnus Carlsen has declined to take part, so Alexander Grischuk (pictured) is his...
Women's World Championship Goes To Tiebreaks
In a dramatic twist Ruan Lufei won the last game of the Women's World Championship final match against Hou Yifan to equal the scores and force rapid tie-breaks to decide the fate of the title. Hou Yifan had managed to hold on for a draw in a diff...
First Russian title for Nepomniachtchi
Ian Nepomniachtchi won his first Russian Championship on Wednesday in Moscow. The grandmaster from Bryansk emerged as the winner after a tiebreak with Sergey Karjakin in which he drew the Armageddon game with the black pieces.General info The Supe...
Remembering Euwe: Anand lecture & simul in Amsterdam (VIDEO!)
75 years ago, on December 15th, 1935 to be exact, Max Euwe became World Chess Champion. To celebrate this, the Max Euwe Centrum organized festivities on Saturday, December 18th, which included a lecture and a simul by World Champion Viswanathan An...