The powerful Ukraine team lead the 39th Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk after eight rounds, helped in no small part by six wins from Vassily Ivanchuk. Ivanchuk's win against another in-form player, Baadur Jobava (conqueror of Carlsen earlier in the e...
On the first day of the 81st FIDE Congress the FIDE Presidential elections have immediately led to chaotic situations. The meeting in Khanty-Mansiysk started with protests about unfair procedures, an agitated Kasparov trying to make his point and ...
Ukraine is the sole leader at the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk after seven rounds. The team is on 13 match points, followed by Azerbaijan, Hungary and Russia with one point less. Ukraine's top board Vassily Ivanchuk won all his games so far.General...
Russian media report that Boris Spassky is conscious, and his condition is stable. More than a week ago the 10th World Champion suffered from a stroke and was taken to hospital.The Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that Boris Spassky is in t...
The case against Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland has been dismissed. The court decided that FIDE failed to properly verify the validity of the nominations, but ruled against Karpov and its backing ...
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Co-leaders Georgia and Armenia drew their 6th round match at the Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad to share the lead. Joining them at the top, thanks in no small part to Vassily Ivanchuk, are Ukraine who defeated previous joint-leaders Hungary. Ivanchuk ...
Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine are sharing the lead at the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. After six rounds these teams are on 11 match points. In the women section Russia 1 is the only team left with a hundred percent score.General info The 39th Chess...
An Australian documentary from 1998 about the Russian republic of Kalmykia and its leader Kirsan Ilyumzhinov created fuss among chess fans and journalists of countries where it was broadcast. Its significance stems from an interview with Larisa Yu...
Chess politics is back - in just three days, after a long and memorable election race, we'll finally know if Anatoly Karpov will be the next FIDE President. In truth, politics has always played an important role in the chess world, especially in R...
Saturday was a bad day for Russia at the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. The top team played without Vladimir Kramnik and lost 2.5-1.5 to Hungary - Peter Leko beat Alexander Grischuk on board one. With the same score Russia 2 went down against Armeni...
After round five of the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, just three countries are left that have won all their matches so far. Hungary beat Russia 1, Armenia beat Russia 2 and Georgia crushed Vietnam in crucial matches in the Open event. ...
After round four at the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, seven teams have won all their matches in the Open section so far. There were few surprises in round four, with team results going to form. However, there was a big individual scalp claim...
The world's best female player has been playing an important role thus far for her team in the Open section of the Olympiad. Today Judit Polgar's win against Bu Xiangzhi was decisive in the Hungary-China match. The Netherlands beat Spain with a wi...
Exactly a week before the FIDE Presidential elections in Khanty-Mansiysk, the incumbent president was interviewed by leading newspaper The Independent. Ilyumzhinov saw no reason to avoid making chess players look like idiots.With just five days le...
This is what reviewers had to say about Ivan Sokolov's The Ruy Lopez Revisited . "This is simply a great opening book, probably one of the best ever on the Spanish Opening." - Arne Moll, ChessVibes "A well-written, well-structured book with a...
In the third round of the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk Ukraine dropped its first match point. Playing without Ivanchuk they were held 2-2 by Croatia. Albania also drew 2-2 with Kazachstan and in the women section, Germany managed to tie 2-2 with Ru...
After three completed rounds at the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk in Russia, 14 teams have won all their matches. Upsets so far have included the Bulgarian team led by Topalov losing to Croatia in round two, and the Azerbaijani team gett...
Russian media report that Boris Spassky on Saturday suffered from a stroke and is in critical condition. Medics are said to have found the 10th World Champion lying on a bed in a semiconscious state. He was taken to hospital and doctors are said t...
Is it still possible to answer the sharp 6.Bg5 Najdorf with the 6...e6 7.f4 Nc6 line? How did Karjakin use the theme of opposite-coloured bishops in the middlegame, in the first round of the Olympiad? In ChessVibes Openings #90 you can find the an...
Russian news sources are reporting that the former world champion, Boris Vasilievich Spassky is seriously ill, having been hospitalized after suffering a stroke. Spassky, now 73 years old, fully recovered from a previous stroke in 2006, but the t...
The second round of the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk saw a number of upsets. Azerbaijan lost 1½-2½ to Vietnam and with the same score (and Topalov on board one) Bulgaria went down against Croatia. The Armenian ladies lost to the Czech Republic, als...
Elo vs the Rest of the World is a competition that aims to discover whether other approaches can predict the outcome of chess games more accurately than the workhorse Elo rating system. Scheduled to end on November 14th, the competition and has re...
Everyman has just published: How to play against 1d4. In this book Richard Palliser examines the Czech Benoni and the Closed Benoni, both uncomplicated, low-maintenance but effective openings in which the importance of understanding ideas and ta...
