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...
In their annual match, China beat Russia 128-122 this year. On home ground, Yinzhou, Ningbo the Chinese were the strongest over five classical games and twenty rapid games.Bu Xiangzhi, who scored 4/5 in the classical games, receives the 2010 Yinzh...
In the fourth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team convincingly hit back after yesterday’s 1-4 rout. Thanks to three wins by Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Peter Heine Nielsen and Peter Svidler, they defeated the Rising Stars 3½-1½ and broug...
As a follow-up to Anatoly Karpov's proposal to organize the 2011 Candidates matches in Kiev, the Ukrainian Chess Federation has announced a guaranteed prize fund of EUR 500,000. "The UCF is also ready to review other formats for the Candidates mat...
In the third round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars swept the Experience team 4-1. Hikaru Nakamura improved his personal score to 2½ from 3 with a win over Peter Heine Nielsen, Fabiano Caruana successfully exploited a strong opening nov...
Rounds two and three produced more exciting games at the NH Tournament in Amsterdam. David Howell collected the full point against Ljubomir Ljubojevic, who imploded in the time-trouble to which he is sadly addicted. Ljubo used his 2 hour time all...
In the second round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars team took the lead over the Experience team thanks to a win by David Howell over the luckless Ljubomir Ljubojevic. The other four games were drawn, which resulted in a 3-2 win for the...
There are three kinds of chess players in this world: casual players, players that want to make money and players that want to win tournaments. In 2007 Tyler Fraser set out to photograph the players that want to make money.Kings of California is a...
In the first round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team and the Rising Stars each won one game, while the remaining three games were drawn. Hikaru Nakamura defeated Ljubomir Ljubojevic, who lost track in time-trouble. Boris Gelfand balan...
Hou Yifan won the 5th FIDE Women Grand Prix in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. In the final round the Chinese GM drew with her closest rival Antoaneta Stefanova from Bulgaria, who missed an excellent opportunity.The 5th FIDE Women Grand Prix tournament too...
From 12 - 22 August the Rising Stars v Experience tournament makes a welcome return in Amsterdam. This year's event is even stronger than last year, with Boris Gelfand replacing Alexander Beliavsky for the Experience side, and Wesley So, Anish Gi...
Hou Yifan may only be sweet sixteen, but she is already a deadly force at the chess board. The talented Chinese prodigy (pictured, from the official site) won the latest FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Ulanbaataar with an undefeated score of 8/11 desp...
One of the nice things about chess is that it's a game played between humans. Despite an understandable tendency to approach chess as a rational game, I think there are a lot of irrational - human - things going on behind the scenes. One of th...
Last month we reported about Magnus Carlsen's new career as a fashion model for G-Star. On September 10th he will play against a world team (you can play too!) helped by three top GMs. They were selected by RWCC ambassador Garry Kasparov and prese...
With a score of 8.5/10 Pavel Eljanov finished clear first at the 2010 Politiken Cup in Helsingør, Denmark. Two Peters, Denmark's number one Heine Nielsen and Russia's number four Svidler, celebrated Bent Larsen's 75th birthday with several matches...
We have just received: Chess Words of Wisdom. This one-of-a-kind textbook by Mike Henebry is a digest of hundreds of years of chess knowledge from the greatest chess minds in history. 534(!) pages of must-know information for chess players of al...
The Politiken Cup was a 10-round Swiss Open held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 31 July - 8 August. In a similar fashion to the recent British Championships, one player was rated around 150 Elo points above the rest of the field and dominated to win...
Mikhail Kobalia won the 5th Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø, Norway. The Russian grandmaster beat Loek van Wely in the final round to edge out Manuel Leon Hoyos on tiebreak after both finished on 7.5/9. This report includes many photos and videos...
Next Thursday the NH Chess Tournament starts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 12-22 you can watch Gelfand, Svidler, Heine Nielsen, Van Wely and Ljubojevic (the Experience team) against Nakamura, Caruana, So, Giri and Howell (the Rising Stars)...
The city of Tromsø in Norway is so far north it is one of the few major habitations in the Arctic Circle. That means that from late November to the middle of January every year there is a Polar Night, and from the middle of May until late July th...
Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates might seem unlikely flashpoints in the current campaign for the FIDE Presidency, but in the last few days the two candidates have fought a fierce PR battle over their support. Meanwhile, Karpov has proposed movi...
Gata Kamsky today won the super strong Grenke Open rapid tournament in Mainz, Germany. The reigning US Champion started with a stunning 9/9 and then drew with Gashimov and Grischuk to clinch the title smoothly.Gata Kamsky, the unofficial Rapid Wor...
As expected, Michael Adams won the 2010 British Championship in Canterbury convincingly. The Englishman finished on 9.5/11, 1.5 points clear of Nicholas Pert. And while were at English chess, why not watch Stornoway's new clip? Final round: Micke...
Gata Kamsky won the Grenke Rapid World Championship at the 2010 Chess Classic Mainz. After the first day there were 12 players on a perfect 5/5 score, but only Kamsky made it to 8/8, helped by crucial wins against Lev Aronian and Sergey Karjakin....
