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...
Like in any big Swiss, the top half of the Olympiad plays the second half in the first round. With 148 teams in the Open section and 114 teams in the Women section it was clear that there would be many 4-0 and 3.5-0.5 scores, but there was a small...
The 39th Chess Olympiad is underway in Khanty-Mansiysk in Russia. As usual, the opening round provided an opportunity for the lesser known teams and players to make a name for themselves by pulling off an upset against their more illustrious opp...
Today the first round of the 39th Chess Olympiad starts at 15:00 local time (11:00 CET, right now in fact). The colourful pictures from the opening ceremony might have given a different impression, but not everything went according to plan so far....
The 39th Chess Olympiad was officially opened today by the mayor of Khanty-Mansiysk, Andrei Bukarinov. The ceremony included human chess, showing the famous Anderssen-Kieseritzky game, and speeches and anthems.The 39th Chess Olympiad takes place S...
Last Wednesday a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland started that could have enormous consequences for the chess world. Anatoly Karpov has taken Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to court in an attempt to get his ticket at the ...
Kateryna Lahno yesterday won the 2010 Women's World Blitz Championship in Moscow. Ukraine's best female player finished with a 20/30 score in the Final tournament. Tatiana Kosintseva (Russia) won the silver medal and Valentina Gunina (Russia) took...
Very soon, the biggest chess show on earth takes up residence in the Russian town of Khanty-Mansiysk, when the 39th Olympiad takes place from 21 Sept - 3 Oct. This biennial chess olympics features national teams from over 150 countries, taking pa...
Not favourite Rijeka but rival Liburnija (also from Rijeka) won the very strong 19th Croatian Team Championship in Sibenik. In the A group players such as Pavel Eljanov, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergei Movsesian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vugar Gashimov, ...
Yearbook 96 has just arrived! What people say about the Yearbook:"A terrific value for anyone interested in refurbishing and fine-tuning his opening repertoire." - Chess Today"A must-have book for both chess enthusiast and chess professional."...
This news story is straight from the files of "you couldn't make it up". Incumbent FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has made a bid of $10 million to purchase the land at 45 Park Place, New York to build an "International Chess Center". This add...
While one might think he would have other things on his mind, like a court case in Lausanne or an Olympiad that's plagued with problems, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov decided to come up with yet another surprising move. The FIDE President today announced a 1...
This week the organizers of the 39th Chess Olympiad had to disappoint many chess federations once more. Yesterday, just four days before many teams would be travelling to Khanty-Mansiysk, the schedule of the charter flights was seriously changed. ...
What exactly went wrong for the World against Carlsen in that King's Indian? How strong was Shirov's 4.f3 against Kramnik's Nimzo? A new chess season is about to begin and is there a better moment to get your openings up to date? The easiest way i...
Press Release 14 September 2010 Expectation is Building by John Saunders, Press Chief, London Chess Classic Expectation is building for the strongest chess tournament ever to be held in Britain, when eight of the world’s best players meet for th...
The 39th Chess Olympiad starts in six days from now. On Tuesday, September 21st the first round of the biannual mega-event is scheduled. So far we've paid attention to the FIDE presidential elections, and to the worries about accommodation and tra...
After a very successful first edition, the 2nd London Chess Classic will be held on exactly the same dates in December: 8-15. Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David ...
Just in from our printers: The Complete c3 Sicilian .The world's greatest Alapin expert Evgeny Sveshnikov brings you the basic ideas, the plans, the tactical tricks and the latest developments from recent grandmaster practice. With hundreds of g...
Would GM Lubomir Ftacnik like to play an opposite-bishop ending with a pawn down against me straight from the opening? I was left with this question after enjoying his latest work on the Sicilian Defence, published in the Grandmaster Repertoire se...
He was the clear favourite, and he met the expectations. Wang Yue on Sunday won the 11th World University Championship in Zurich with a score of 8.5/9. The super GM finished 2 points clear of the rest of the field.The 11th World University Champio...
In January 2007 the Anglo-Dutch steel company Corus was taken over by the Indian company, Tata Steel for around 12 billion dollars. While proponents of the take-over promoted the synergies between the two steel giants, chess fans were more concer...
Last Wednesday Anatoly Karpov's campaign for the FIDE presidency arrived in London with a press conference at the famous chess venue Simpsons in the Strand. There the 12th World Champion spread his message together with Garry Kasparov and Nigel Sh...
During the World Championship match between Anand and Topalov in May in Sofia suddenly a BBC radio crew appeared in the press room. They were working on a chess documentary and spoke to several journalists, including the ChessVibes editor-in-chief...
