One of the many summer tournaments on the calendar is the Curacao Chess Festival. The tournament follows a tradition initiated almost five decades ago, when one of the most famous Candidates Tournaments ever played was held on the island. This yea...
François Fargère became the convincing winner at the Open Dutch Championship in Dieren. The Frenchman, who changed the FM for a GM title within one year, gave all credits to his trainer Iosif Dorfman. "He learnt me all the opening secrets." Report...
Russell Enterprises has just published: Emanuel Lasker . This 2nd volume of the World Chess Champion Series, takes you on a journey exploring the life and games of the great Emanuel Lasker. The 81 selected games are annotated by Karsten Müller,...
An interview with Nigel Freeman was published this week by different chess media, in which he talks about his achievements in four years as FIDE treasurer, and comments on allegations by the Karpov2010 campain team. Puzzled about a number of issue...
Only three weeks after Nana Dzagnidze won the 4th FIDE Grand Prix in Jermuk, the 5th edition has already started. In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Antoaneta Stefanova and Zhao Xue are sharing the lead after five rounds.The Women Grand Prix series consists...
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On Monday Leonard Barden's chess column was discontinued in the London Evening Standard. It had appeared daily virtually continuously for over 50 years. Now it has been relegated to the online version of the newspaper. Join the support.80-year-old...
In the mass media of newsprint, chess often struggles in Western countries to achieve even a cursory mention. 80-year old chess legend Leonard Barden has been writing chess columns in the UK for over 50 years. Now, his daily column for the Londo...
Ivan Ivanisevic, Bartosz Socko, Loek van Wely, Chanda Sandipan, Emanuel Berg and Levon Babujian are currently sharing the lead at the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø. These six grandmasters won their first four games. Report with videos.The playi...
Save 10% on Killer French Defence Part 1 & 2 Combined. On these DVDs Grandmaster Simon Willliams guides you through black's part in the French Defence covering many variations. Simon's presentation qualities and thorough research is considered ...
This year's Chess Classic Mainz event is a considerably slimmed down version due to difficult economic circumstances. Nevertheless, the show goes on, albeit over just three days between 6-8 August with a large rapid open tournament, the Grenke Ra...
Radoslav Wojtaszek edged out Laurent Fressinet on tiebreak at the 4th Magistral Internacional de San Juan in Pamplona. The tournament saw a disappointing performance for top seed Alexander Morozevich, who finished on 4/9.The Magistral Internaciona...
Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Alexei Shirov and Wang Hao are the participants of the first part of this year's Grand Slam Masters Final, which will be held 3-8 September in Shanghai, China. The top two qualified in Shanghai will play along with...
In the increasingly tense FIDE Presidential election, Anatoly Karpov has now chosen to launch a full frontal attack on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov with two exceptionally sharp articles. Update: another critical article was added.In the two articles on the ...
In an entirely predictable manner, the British #1 Mickey Adams (pictured) is dominating the 2010 British Championship. After six completed rounds of the 11-round Swiss tournament, Adams is leading by a full point on 5.5/6, giving up a single draw...
Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving! I. Bondar 2003 White to play and win Next week the solution.So...
Five rounds have been played at the British Championship, and top seeded player Michael Adams is the only one left with a perfect score. Nicholas Pert, Daniel Gormally, Jovanka Houska and Adam Hunt are trailing by a full point. The event's full n...
The 5th FIDE Women's Grand Prix is underway in Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. The event has the usual format for these Women's Grand Prix events, with 12 players taking part in a single round robin tournament. The top seed is India's Humpy Koneru ...
Which side stands better? How much better? Why? We received new stock of Elements of Positional Evaluation.In this 216-pages book (only € 18.95!) author Dan Heisman teaches how to recognize the various factors that determine the value of your...
Contrary to what was expressed in an open letter last week, Veselin Topalov is, after all, willing to play Candidates Matches in Russia. However, he is "refusing to play a match with a Russian player in Russia, if that match is connected to the ti...
Fabiano Caruana won the Young Grandmaster Tournament in Biel today. The Italian was the strongest in a necessary play-off with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, whom he beat in the final.The play-off final between Fabiano Caruana ...
Fabiano Caruana (pictured) won the Biel Young Grandmasters Tournament after a three way play-off with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. All three finished on a score of 5.5/9, and since the best mathematical tie-break belonged to...
Being a database programmer, perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised when I recently dreamt I had to develop a chess database. But it wasn't an ordinary chess database. Carceri XIV - Giovanni Battista PiranesiI was told by a faceless person to mak...
Now in our shop: 10 Great Ways to Get Better at Chess.Highly regarded chess teacher GM Nigel Davies examines the methods used by a number of club players to improve their game. He studied his own students and shows how any player can improv...
