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...
Mikhail Chigorin (1850 - 1908) was one of the founding fathers of Russian chess, and one of the great contemporaries of players like Steinitz, Lasker and Tarrasch. Little seems to be known, however, about his life outside chess. We bring you the t...
The 2010 French Championships were held in Belfort from 9-21 August. The men's championship was a 12-player single round robin event, and the women's a 6-player double round-robin. The men's championship was closely contested, with a tie-break n...
In the tenth and last round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team defeated the Rising Stars 3½-1½, but couldn’t prevent the youngsters’ overall win of 26-24. In a blitz play-off for a direct invitation to the 2011 Amber Blindfold and Rapi...
The Experience Team went down fighting at the NH Tournament in Amsterdam, winning two games in the final round to restrict the Rising Stars' margin of victory to just two points. Even more dramatic was the finish of the race to be the highest sco...
In the ninth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars maintained their four-point lead over the Experience team as today’s match ended in a 2½-2½ tie. David Howell defeated Peter Heine Nielsen in a game with a unique final position, while...
In the increasingly fierce election race between Anatoly Karpov and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the 12th World Champion has now for the first time suggested a link between the current FIDE President and the murder of activist Larissa Yudina, in 1998.The a...
With just one round remaining of the NH Tournament in the Netherlands, the Rising Stars look set for victory with a four point lead over the Experience team. In round eight Anish Giri defeated Ljubomir Ljubojevich with the black pieces in the onl...
German #1 Arkadij Naiditsch (pictured) narrowly defeated the Ukrainian Zahar Efimenko 3.5-2.5 in a match in Mukachevo, Ukraine from 12-18 August. The match was part of a larger chess festival with many other events for players at all levels. In ...
In the eighth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars further increased their lead over the Experience team with a 3-2 win. In the only decisive game Anish Giri managed to outplay Ljubomir Ljubojevic with the black pieces.The NH Chess To...
It was about time, with dozens of chess apps already available for the highly popular iPhone from Apple. Since Thursday, August 12 the official Internet Chess Club (ICC) app "Chess at ICC" is available in the App Store. You can play and observe ga...
Round seven of the NH Tournament in Amsterdam brought renewed success for the Rising Stars, as they won two games to stretch their lead to a more comfortable three points. On target for the Rising Stars were Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) and Fabiano...
In the seventh round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars increased their lead over the Experience team to three points. Thursday the ambitious youngsters won 3½-1½. Hikaru Nakamura defeated Loek van Wely in a most remarkable miniature, whi...
In the 4th in a series of matches held in Mukachevo, Ukraine Arkadij Naiditsch beat Zahar Efimenko 3.5-2.5. Naiditsch won the second game of the match, while five other games were drawn.The 4th rapid match in Mukachevo, Ukraine was organised by th...
Almost as soon as I opened Nunn's Chess Endings Volume 1, I realized the book was probably an 'instant classic', ignoring J.M. Coetzee's definition of a classic as 'that which survives'. My intuition proved to be correct in that I think this reall...
In the sixth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team defeated the Rising Stars 3-2. Boris Gelfand had a relatively easy day against David Howell, while Loek van Wely scored his first point for the Experience team in his 16th attempt....
Robert J. Fischer is not the biological father of Jinky Young, a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines. This was the result of DNA tests after tissue samples were taken from the 11th World Champion's remains in July.On Monday, July 5th the tissue s...
After a slow start in the first few rounds at the NH Tournament in Amsterdam, the Experience team has clawed back ground against the Rising Stars to trail by just a single point after six rounds. The fourth round saw wins for Svidler, Ljubojevic ...
The 49th World Junior Chess Championships took place in Chotowa, Poland from 2-17 August. The relevance of junior titles in the modern era of prodigies competing in mainstream events is arguable, but that in no way diminishes the achievement of D...
The annual match between China and Russia was won by the Chinese team by a score of 128-122. The match took place from 4-15 August in Ningbo, China, with teams of 5 men and 5 women from each country competing over 5 classical games and 20 rapid g...
Top seed Dmitry Andreikin won the World Junior Championship (under 20) in Chotowa, Poland. The Russian finished shared first with compatriot Sanan Sjugirov but had a better tiebreak. Local hero Dariusz Swiercz won bronze. In the girls section favo...
In the fifth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars and the Experience team split the points. Anish Giri’s win over Peter Heine Nielsen was compensated for by Boris Gelfand’s win over Hikaru Nakamura. Halfway through the event the Risin...
"What I see are two of the candidates becoming victims of political games, tying themselves and the future of European chess with the choice of one or another personality for FIDE President", says Silvio Danailov in his official statement for runn...
The venue, dates and line-up for this year's Grand Slam Final have been announced. For the first time, the venue for the tournament will be split, with an initial stage in Shanghai from 3-8 September serving as a qualifier for the main event in B...
