16-year-old Polish GM Dariusz Swiercz and Dutch IM Roeland Pruijssers were the last two players to qualify for the C group of the upcoming Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Strong players like Pavel Eljanov and Ruslan Ponomariov partici...
Just minutes ago we proudly sent issue #100 of our PDF/PGN magazine ChessVibes Openings to our subscribers. We know, it's just a number, but still. It was cool. Wanna improve your openings in a fresh, new way? Subscribe easily via Paypal, credit c...
Available in our shop: The ABC of the Benko Gambit. On this 2nd edition DVD, containing 6 hours of video lessons, IM Andrew Martin describes the main themes and ideas of the gambit and gives sound guidelines. He also advises in all critical li...
The 2010 Women's World Chess Championship will take place in Hatay, Turkey from 3-24 December. Alexandra Kosteniuk will be defending the title she earned two years ago in Nalchik, Russia. The format is once again a 64-player, 6 round KO event, w...
Today we present the third and last part of our big interview with Mark Dvoretsky, which we conducted during the Tal Memorial based on questions from visitors of this site. In this section we spoke about training tactics, the usefulness of endgame...
Some computer chess tournaments aim to determine the best chess program by running all the engines on the same hardware to create a level playing field. The Open Dutch Computer Championships in Leiden, now in its 30th year, dispenses with such li...
While translating Sergey Shipov’s commentary on the recent tournament in Bilbao, Colin McGourty came up against a minor problem – how best to convey Magnus Carlsen’s Russian nickname, “Malysh”? He went with “the Kid”, but his uncertainty was picke...
The world's #1 ranked player* turns 20 years old today. Magnus "The Kid" Carlsen is no longer a teenager, let alone a kid. To find out how he got the nickname "The Kid", look here. Carlsen became a Grandmaster at age 13, broke the 2800 Elo bar...
The F.E.B. #5 is out! Jam packed with coverage of Levon Aronian's ascent to 2800, the Tal Memorial and World Blitz Championships, Magnus Carlsen's withdrawal from the World Championship Candidates matches, the U.S. Chess League -- we talk to IM Sa...
Things weren't decided until the very last minute, but eventually it was Luke McShane who proved to have the strongest nerves. The English grandmaster won the 3rd Remco Heite Chess Tournament in Wolvega, The Netherlands with a score of 3.5/5 and f...
The traditional Women's versus Veterans match sponsored by Czech Coal ran from 20-27 November in Marienbad. The women's team (the "Snowdrops") beat the veterans team (the "Old Hands") by a fairly comfortable score of 18-14 after eight rounds. Th...
Hikaru Nakamura was top seed by some distance at the BNBank Blitz tournament in Oslo, Norway, and duly won, but not without a fight in the final. The opening stage featured two groups of six players in double round-robin contests, with the top tw...
In the traditional Czech Coal Chess Match in Marianske Lazne this year the "Snow Drops" (Humpy Koneru, Viktorija Cmilyte, Arianne Caoili and Tereza Olsarova) defeated the "Old Hands" (Vlastimil Hort, Lajos Portisch, Wolfgang Uhlmann and Dragoljub ...
Today one of the biggest sports events in Asia finishes: the 16th Asian Games. Similar to the Olympics, the Asian Games is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. For the second time, chess was one of the sport...
Dutch amateur player Nick Bijlsma (FIDE rating: 2133) says ChessVibes Openings helped him to become stronger. "I see many interesting and good ideas in CVO and as a result my rating increased in a short time!" At the recent Univé Open in Hoogeveen...
Tomorrow the Financial General Assembly of the Turkish Chess Federation will be held. No doubt on the agenda will be an audit, published on the federation's own website, which reveals that the TCF paid for votes to win the 2012 Chess Olympiad. Whi...
New: The Zukertort System: A Guide for White and Black . The Zukertort System is a dynamic 21st-century opening, offering White chances to launch a sharp kingside attack or to work up a slow squeeze on the queenside. Grigory Bogdanovich explai...
In this second and last report we return once more to the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. We give even more games and videos than last time, one edited by Macauley Peterson - Nakamura-Andreikin, a nice King's Gambit Accepted, Muzio Gambit. Enj...
The world chess governing body FIDE has announced the dates for the candidates matches to determine the next challenger for Vishy Anand's world title. The matches will take place between 3-27 May 2011 in Kazan, Russia. Interestingly, FIDE seems ...
Today we present the second part of our big interview with Mark Dvoretsky, which we conducted during the Tal Memorial based on questions from visitors of this site. In this section we spoke about the young talents of today, the 'Russian/Soviet che...
The second weekend of games from the Metropolitan FIDE Invitational are complete. The tournament was organized by Metropolitan Chess inside the California Market Center in downtown Los Angeles, and was sponsored by www.chess.com, LawyerFy, Fashion...
The World Chess Federation has announced the dates for the 2011 Candidates matches on its website. From 3 to 27 May 2011 the matches between the eight World Championship contenders will take place in Kazan, Russia. Interestingly, no new pairings (...
During the World Blitz Championship, won by Levon Aronian last week, we filmed quite a lot of games. So many, that it wasn't possible to produce and present them in time for the final report, in which we concentrated on photos. But this week in tw...
SAVE 15% on: Attacking Manual Volumes 1 & 2. It took Jacob Aagaard no less than eight years to fulfil his personal ambition, but all the hard work paid off. From the ECF jury report: “He has written a significant and original treatise on the fi...
