The first round of the upcoming Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk is scheduled for September 21st. A record 160 teams of chess players from all over the globe are expected to travel to Siberia, which makes the organization of transportation, accommodati...
Magnus Carlsen still stands comfortably above his rivals on the latest official FIDE rating list. In fact, due to inactivity during the last two months, the ratings of the top three are unchanged. World #1, and part time fashion model (!) Carlse...
I don't like games (except chess) and I hate puzzles. I'm one of those people who doesn't like to solve something others have solved before, let alone trying this in the presence of someone who already knows the answer.I'm always afraid I won't be...
Just in from our printers: Coffeehouse Chess Tactics. John Healy, the author of 'The Grass Arena' takes you on an astonishing trip into the world of competitive chess. Healy shows how to turn bad positions to our advantage and describes the beau...
Despite world champion Vishy Anand's best efforts, Magnus Carlsen won the final of the Arctic Securities Chess Stars rapid event in Norway. Anand qualified in first place with 5/6 compared to Carlsen's 3.5/6 but he lost the first game of the fina...
Magnus Carlsen won the Arctic Securities Chess Stars rapid tournament by beating Viswanathan Anand 1.5-0.5 in the final. Jon Ludvig Hammer came third after he won his minimatch against Judit Polgar with the same score.The Arctic Securities Chess S...
There was more rapid chess this week, as the traditional match with Peter Leko in Miskolc, Hungary was also held. This year his opponent was Boris Gelfand, who won a very theoretical match 4.5-3.5.Peter Leko played his 6th rapid match in a row in ...
Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen today play the final of the Arctic Securities Chess Stars in Kristiansund, Norway. The bronze final will be played between Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer, who beat Carlsen with White yesterday.This rapid ev...
Peter Leko's sixth annual rapid match in Miskolc, ended in disappointment for the Hungarian #1 as this year's opponent Boris Gelfand won the match 4.5-3.5 after two draws on the final day. In the final game Gelfand generously agreed a draw in a w...
On the second day of the Arctic Securities Chess Stars event in Kristiansund, Norway, World Champion Vishy Anand repeated his strong results from the opening day to finish top of the qualifying rounds with a score of 5/6. Magnus Carlsen also mana...
Escuela International Kasparov Marcote won the Spanish Team Championship. In the final the top seeded team defeated reigning champions Linex-Magic from Mérida 4.5-1.5 with victories for Gashimov against Shirov, Smeets against Sargissian and and S...
Magnus Carlsen and Vishy Anand justified their status as favourites by both beating Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer on the first day of the Arctic Securities Chess Stars challenge in Kristiansund, Norway. However, it was far from plain sailing...
The third day of the rapid match in Miskolc, Hungary, between Peter Leko and Boris Gelfand ended with the Israeli GM taking the lead once again. Gelfand won the fifth game and then held on for a draw in the sixth, where Leko searched in vain for ...
The coming three days world's number one Magnus Carlsen and World Champion Viswanathan Anand meet with the world's best female player Judit Polgar and Norway's number two player Jon Ludvig Hammer in a rapidplay event in Kristiansund, Norway. The N...
One the second day of his match with Boris Gefland in Miskolc in Hungary, Peter Leko won game four to level the scores at 2-2 at the half-way point. Games five and six take place on Saturday and the seventh and eighth games complete the match on ...
The first phase of the Spanish Team Championship has concluded. Today the semi-finals will be Escuela Int. Kasparov-Marcote vs. Reverté Albox and Solvay vs. Linex-Magic. The new system being used this year has led to problems already.Alexei Shirov...
The Dutch Chess Federation has announced its voting for Anatoly Karpov in Khanty-Mansiysk. We bring you another update on the upcoming FIDE elections, including remarkable developments in Argentina and Lebanon.Dutch Chess Federation supports Karpo...
Norway is a chess hot-spot at the moment, including a multi-million dollar bid to host the 2014 Chess Olympiad, and that is largely down to one man - 19 year-old world #1 Magnus Carlsen (pictured). From 28-30 August in Kristiansund, Carlsen will ...
For the new season we offer a variety of chess boards, pieces, clocks, and chess sets. Tournament Chess Set Size No.5 Board No.5 (Size: 48x48x2cm) Mahogany side with coordinates Mahogany & white birch squares Weight: 2.5 kg + Pieces Staunton No.5...
This year's NH Chess Tournament was the fifth, and also the last. Five times, a team of Rising Stars played, and learnt from, Experienced grandmasters. We return one more time to Amsterdam, if only because we don't want you to miss our last video....
Following the successful organisation of Anatoly Karpov's visit to Singapore on 17 July 2010, the Chess is for Everybody (CES) movement in Singapore organized yet another ambitious, action-packed chess promotion programme on 15 August 2010 with th...
Hungarian GM Peter Leko (pictured) challenges Israeli GM Boris Gelfand to an 8-game rapid match in Miskolc, Hungary. The match takes place from 25-29 August, with two rapid games played per day except the rest day on 27 August. The time control ...
Many top players are currently playing in the Spanish Team Championship in Sestao, such as Almasi, Bacrot, Caruana, Gashimov, Harikrishna, Kasimdzhanov, Laznicka, Nakamura, Navara, Ponomariov, Shirov, Short Vachier-Lagrave, Vallejo Pons and Van We...
From 23-28 August the Spanish Team Chess Championships take place in Sestao. Ten international teams will battle over six rounds to decide the destination of the title. Many players in action are over the 2700 Elo mark, including top-ranked Alex...
