Due to financial problems and organizational failure by the German Chess Federation, the four German top players won't play at the upcoming Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. This is what Arkadij Naiditsch tries to make clear in an angry open letter whi...
Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave are sharing the lead in Biel with one round to go. The two are on 5/8. After five more draws in round 7, the 8th round saw much more spectacle.The Young Grandmaster Tournament is part of the Biel Chess Fe...
The 97th edition of the British Chess Championships is underway in Canterbury, England. The championship runs from 25 July - 7 August and features a number of events based on age or rating, as well as the main championship which is an 11-round Sw...
According to a report in Sport Express by chess journalist Yuri Vasiliev, the FIDE Presidential Board in Tromso decided that the Candidates will be moved from Baku in Azerbaijan to Kazan in Russia. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov retains his position in the...
From January 2 to January 8, a strong international tournament will be held in Berkeley, California. The ten round swiss follows in the tradition of the 2005, 2006, and 2008 events organized by IM David Pruess, who will assist the principal orga...
Ruslan Ponomariov from the Ukraine Sunday won the 2010 Sparkassen Chess Meeting, keeping his full point margin and strengthening his return to the world's elite. Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem finished on a splendid sole second place.I must admit tha...
Breaking news has emerged from the FIDE Presidential Meeting held today, that the venue for the 2011 candidates matches is to be switched to Kazan in Russia. The original venue had been the Azerbaijan capital, Baku, but Lev Aronian's qualificatio...
Ruslan Ponomariov drew rising star Le Quang Liem in the final round to secure his first Dortmund title. Ponomariov made the pragmatic choice of the exchange variation against Le Quang Liem's Caro-Kann defence, and scored the draw he required. ...
Today is an official rest day in Biel, but yesterday, the young stars looked determined to make it not one but two breaks in a row.After the fourth round, we expressed the hope that the youngsters would play more enterprising chess in the rounds t...
The key game in the penultimate round at Dortmund was the clash between leader Ruslan Ponomariov and one of his closest pursuers, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Mamedyarov clearly had murder in mind as pulled out the utterly astonishing 5. g4 in a mainli...
In the pentultimate round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, Arkadij Naiditsch upset Vladimir Kramnik while Peter Leko came tantilizingly close to beating Le Quang. Ruslan Ponomariov took no risk and secured his first place in the standings...
A few days ago, we published an open letter by GM Sutovsky about the current FIDE Candidates Matches problems. Yesterday, Veselin Topalov published an open letter in response to the news that part of the matches might be played in Kazan, Russia.Ac...
The Young Grandmasters Tournament at the Biel International Chess Festival is currently ongoing, with five rounds completed out of the scheduled nine. Italian American Fabiano Caruana leads with a score of 3.5/5 after beating early pacemaker Wesl...
Former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov extended his lead to a full point at Dortmund with just two rounds to go. Ponomariov beat local hope Naiditsch, while both other games were draws in the Catalan. That makes seven Catalans so far in the...
New: Grandmaster Repertoire Volume 6 - Lubomir Ftacnik . In this latest volume of the outstanding Grandmaster Repertoire series acclaimed expert GM Lubomir Ftacnik presents a complete repertoire for Black in the Sicilian. The backbone of t...
In the fourth round of the Young Grandmasters Tournament in Biel, the players showed their mature attitude by collectively avoiding too much risk.Report and analyses by IM Robert RisWith the help of a Tartakower Defence in a Queens Gambit Declined...
After blundering in the previous round, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov hit back in round seven at Dortmund. He defeated Peter Leko in fine style to move up the leaderboard once more to within half a point of the leader Ponomariov. Shak attack! Leko suffe...
In round 7 of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov took revenge for yesterday's sad loss while Anatoly Karpov visited the tournament he won seventeen years ago.Perhaps the most exciting event of the day was not one of the g...
Wesley So won his second game in the third round of the Young Grandmasters Tournament in Biel, grabbing the sole lead in an extremely strong field.Report and analyses by IM Robert RisAfter a long hard working day yesterday, fellow countrymen Dmitr...
The Israeli GM Emil Sutovsky was recently invited by President Ilyumzhinov to discuss the current problems in the FIDE Candidates Matches cycle. Here is his open letter to the participants, with some radical solutions.Dear colleagues!On July 20 I ...
Just published: New In Chess 2010 issue 5!Only a handful of people have ever been allowed a look at David De Lucia's astonishing chess collection. Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam shows the treasures and tells the story. Further on-the-spot reporting from ...
Whatever happens in the remainder of Dortmund 2010, Le Quang Liem has already made a big impact in this elite event. In round six Quang Liem made former world champion Vladimir Kramnik sweat by establishing a dream knight at d6. Kramnik eventual...
After yesterday's rest day, Arkadij Naiditsch scored his first victory of the tournament while the other two games ended in relatively quiet draws.In today's round, Naiditsch did excellent business after a slightly bleak tournament so far, while P...
The US Junior Championship ended in a three-way tie between Ray Robson, Parker Zhao and Sam Shankland on a score of 6/9. Ray Robson had the best score on mathematical tie-breaks, so Parker Zhao and Sam Shankland faced off first in a rapid sudden ...
