New developments on the legal front have turned the fight for FIDE presidency between challenger Anatoly Karpov and current President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov into an even tougher battle. Threatening legal action, the Karpov2010 team has demanded remov...
Nana Dzagnidze has reached an historic score at the 4th FIDE Women Grand Prix in Jermuk, Armenia. The Georgian grandmaster is on 7.5/8, already 1.5 points ahead of the rest of the field with three rounds to play. Her tournament performance rating ...
The World Open 2010 is currently taking place in Valley Forge, Philadelphia. The event runs from 29 June - 5 July and includes several 9-round Swiss tournaments for different rating levels. Each rating level is also (rather confusingly) split int...
New: Chess Training Pocket Book, 3rd Revised Edition. Lev Alburt, three-time US chess champion and renowned chess author, presents and analyzes the 300 most important game positions essential to becoming a strong chess player. This book will save...
A round table conference took place in Odessa on May 29th on the theme “Popularisation of the game of chess: experience, perspectives, plan of action”. Both famous chess players (Ivanchuk, Eljanov, Gashimov, among others) and top-level managers of...
During my holidays I received a lot of chess books from various publishers. There's lot to look forward to! One of the most interesting books is the latest volume of John Watson's ambitious project to explain and analyse all chess openings. But th...
The gap between Magnus Carlsen (2826) and Veselin Topalov (2803) has increased to 23 points on the July 1 FIDE rating list. The Norwegian won 13 points whereas the Bulgarian dropped 9. Third is World Champion Viswanathan Anand, now with 2800 point...
After weeks of speculation and uncertainty we now know that the 2010 FIDE Presidential Election will be contested between the incumbent, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, and former World Chess Champion, Anatoly Karpov. The deadline for nominations passed on 28...
The official July 2010 FIDE rating list has been published and it confirms Magnus Carlsen as the world #1 with his highest rating yet of 2826 Elo. Only the great Garry Kasparov has ever achieved a higher rating, with his peak being 2851 Elo back ...
What qualities does it take to play world-class chess? What’s the appeal of chess? These and other questions were answered by 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov in an interview with Big Think.The following interview with Anatoly Karpov was conduct...
Evgeny Bareev goes into chess politics. The Russian grandmaster is mentioned as 'Vice President' on Ali Nihat Yazici's ticket for the upcoming presidential elections of the European Chess Union. The other nominations, now officially received by EC...
In his book "The Ruy Lopez Revisited", Sokolov referred to it as a fully-fledged variation. Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu surprised world's number one Magnus Carlsen last Thursday, by choosing this gambit to equalize easily in the ninth round of the Ki...
You'll probably remember the 13-fold repetition in the game Bok-Van Wely at the Dutch Championship, two weeks ago. Afterwards Van Wely was fuming that his young opponent didn't use the opportunity to get more experience in a real fight. As GM Luke...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Sebastian Siebrecht, 37 years old but stil...
Summer is back and it's time to look for a place to play chess, possibly without sacrificing the vacation side. In your annual quest to combine 'work and pleasure', chess and holiday fun, you might well consider the open tournament in Bratto, Ital...
Press Release Saint Louis completes the Triple Crown of chess championships next month when it plays host to the prestigious 2010 U.S. Women's Championship and the 2010 U.S. Junior Closed Championship, July 9-20. Right on the heels of the 2010 U...
After four rounds Nana Dzagnidze leads the 4th FIDE Women Grand Prix in Jermuk, Armenia. The Georgian grandmaster is on 3.5/4. The winner of the previous GP, Tatiana Kosintseva from Russia, is trailing by half a point.Hou Yifan from China is curre...
The fourth tournament of the women's Grand Prix series started yesterday in Jermuk, Armenia. The idea of the Grand Prix is not only to bring together the best female players in the world for six round-robin tournaments, but also to define one of t...
Magnus Carlsen finished the Kings Tournament in Bazna, Romania in style. The Norwegian beat Wang Yue with Black in the last round to finish with a 7.5/10 score, two points ahead of the rest of the field. Ponomariov and Radjabov defeated Nisipeanu ...
Magnus Carlsen impressively won the 4th Bazna Kings Tournament in Romania by a clear two points. In a hard fought final round, all games were won by the player with the black pieces! Carlsen employed the Gruenfeld to win against Wang Yue and the...
We have just received: Play the Najdorf Sicilian. In this book, James Rizzitano, a battle-hardened Sicilian warrior, distils the most important ideas and themes from current practice to provide an ideal guide for those looking to succeed as Whit...
All three games of round 9 in Bazna, Romania ended in draw. With one round to go, Carlsen leads the Kings Tournament with 6.5/9. Gelfand, who celebrated his 42nd birthday on Thursday, has a point less. Games commented by GM Dorian Rogozenco & vide...
China is increasingly a force to be reckoned with in world chess, so it's worth keeping an eye on Chinese events. Bu Xiangzhi won the inaugural Danzhou Tournament in Hainan province on tie-break from Li Chao with a score of 6/9. One of the top p...
After a rest day, the ninth and penultimate round of the Bazna Kings tournament in Romania saw no change in the standings with all three games ending in draws. Local star Nisipeanu (pictured) has had a good tournament and held Carlsen to a draw w...
