Yesterday chess legend Bent Larsen passed away in Buenos Aires, only six months after his 75th birthday. We received the sad news from Thomas Hauge Vestergård, press officer of the Danish Chess Federation. Update: reactions by Peter Heine Nielsen ...
Now officially communicated in a press release, the Corus Chess Tournament, formerly known as Hoogovens Tournament, will have yet another name in 2011: Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Three big names among the participants have been made public alrea...
The Azerbaijan team will be playing the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk without Vugar Gashimov. Since January there have been problems between him and the Azerbaijan Chess Federation, but the reason he was thrown out of the team is remarkable: because...
New: the 21st century edition of London 1922.London 1922 was a historic tournament in many ways. It was Capablanca's return to chess after becoming world champion. 'Capa' showed his supremacy over players such as Alekhine, Vidmar, Réti, Tarta...
If you've been a living in a cave for the last few weeks you might have missed the fact the Magnus Carlsen is playing a chess match versus the world. The match is sponsored by G-Star and is powered by Chess.com. Magnus has the white pieces and t...
With Alexei Shriov already having wrapped up first place in the Shanghai Masters, it was left to Vladimir Kramnik and Lev Aronian to stake their claim for the second qualifying spot. Both games in the final round were drawn, and as it turns out (...
Vladimir Kramnik will join Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Alexei Shirov at the second stage of the Masters Final in Bilbao. Just minutes ago the Russian defeated Levon Aronian in a blitz play-off; both won their White game and then Kramnik ...
You can still sign up for G-Star’s RAW World Chess Challenge on September 10th, to join the World Team, led by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura and Judit Polgar from Hungary. The Challenge pits G-Star’s new Fall/Winter 2010 campaign model M...
Just out: Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 4. This fourth volume of the series Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess concentrates on ALL the games played between the 'two K's from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth and final World Cha...
After defeating Wang Hao today Alexei Shirov qualified for the second stage of the Masters Final. Vladimir Kramnik beat Levon Aronian with Black and tomorrow it will be clear which of the two players will join Anand, Carlsen and Shirov in October ...
Alexei Shirov beat Wang Hao in the penultimate round of the Shanghai Masters to qualify for the Grand Slam Final proper in Bilbao next month. It was another crazy game from the popular Shirov, who took big risks with black and by rights should ha...
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov will not stand for a 5th term as Head of Kalmykia, the Russian press agency Interfax reports. Meanwhile, on a day when the Argentinian Chess Federation switched their support to Anatoly Karpov, Ilyumzhinov publish...
Alexei Shirov won his second game in a row today in Shanghai. He beat Vladimir Kramnik to reach sole first place in the standings. Aronian and Wang Hao drew. Round 4 video now up.Tournament info The first part of the 2010 Grand Slam Masters Final ...
Alexei Shirov (pictured) took the sole lead at the Shanghai Masters by beating old rival Vladimir Kramnik in round four. Kramnik had struggled to equalise out of the opening, and blundered material in mutual time trouble to allow Shirov to record...
The third round of the Masters Final in Shanghai saw Alexei Shirov defeating Wang Hao in a game where "many things happened that cannot be expained", as the winner said afterwards. He now shares the lead with Levon Aronian, who had a narrow escape...
Two more rounds of the double-round robin Shanghai Masters have seen Alexei Shirov join Lev Aronian as joint leader. Shirov and Aronian had a thrilling encounter in round two, with plenty of "Fire on Board" to entertain the crowds in a 54-move dr...
Levon Aronian felt that he might have been lucky today in Shanghai with his draw against Alexei Shirov, who went for a known piece sac in return for a dangerous kingside attack. In the second round of the Masters Final Vladimir Kramnik was slightl...
No, we're not talking about the G-Star thing on the 10th. This is about Channel Thirteen in New York who interviewed the founder and owner of NYC Chess, Russ Makofsky, for its weekly series, “New York on the Clock.” The channel thought we might be...
Levon Aronian took an early lead at the Masters Final in Shanghai by beating local star Wang Hao in the first round. Vladimir Kramnik had Alexei Shirov on the ropes, but couldn't convert a long-lasting advantage. Round 1 video now available.The fi...
Levon Aronian is the world's number 4 player in the world on the September FIDE rating list. The Armenian is now one place higher than Vladimir Kramnik, who lost ten points in Dortmund this summer. Pavel Eljanov is now 6th while Vassily Ivanchuk i...
"We have to beat the system that they have been building up for 15 years". Anatoly Karpov on his hope to be FIDE president in New In Chess 2010/6. Other highlights from its more than 100 pages: Pono Promo in Dortmund - Genna Sosonko on Savielly...
The 2010 Shanghai Masters is underway, featuring the powerful line-up of Lev Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexei Shirov and Wang Hao in a double round-robin contest. The tournament runs from 3-8 Sept and forms the first part of this year's Grand Sl...
ChessVibes is in Shanghai, for the 2010 Grand Slam Masters Final. The tournament is split in two, and the second part will be held in October in Bilbao with Anand and Carlsen already seeded. The first part has started just a few hours ago here at ...
US Grandmaster Gata Kamsky won the 2010 Baku Open which took place from 23 - 31 August. The competition was a nine round Swiss with over 150 players taking part, and Kamsky took first place, and a prize of $10,000 with a score of 7.5/9 thanks to ...
