During his game against FM Benjamin Bok at the Dutch Championship in Eindhoven, GM Loek van Wely today was involved in an experiment to measure his stress levels. And indeed, in a game that saw a repetition of the position between moves 14 and 37,...
We have just received: Rybka 4 Opening Book.Veselin Topalov had the upper hand on opening preparations in his world championship match against Anand. By choosing Jiri Dufek, the author of this Opening book, as one of his seconds he gained unlimit...
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu made headlines in the local newspapers after beating Teimour Radjabov in the first round of the Kings Tournament in Medias, Romania. Carlsen and Ponomariov drew relatively quickly, and Boris Gelfand defeated Wang Yue in the ...
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.)! Emanuel Berg, 28, living in the town Arvik...
Sergey Karjakin (pictured) has followed up his recent win in the World Rapid Cup with victory in the 11th Poikovsky tournament in Russia. Viktor Bologan ended the tournament with three wins in a row to finish level with Karjakin on 7/11, but Karj...
He needed a little help from his opponent in the last round, but after winning the ACP World Rapid Cup Sergey Karjakin also managed to finish first in Poikovsky. Finishing with three out of three, Viktor Bologan also scored 7/11, but the Moldav GM...
Today the opening ceremony and drawing of lots of the Kings Tournament in Romania took place. Tomorrow we'll have Gelfand-Wang Yue, Nisipeanu-Radjabov and Carlsen-Ponomariov. Your editor-in-chief writes this brief, first report in Bazna, from wher...
The 45th edition of the Capablanca Memorial tournament in memory of the third world champion is underway in Havana. The tournament format is the increasingly popular six-player double round-robin, with the top two Cuban players Leinier Dominguez ...
This week Silvio Danailov and Robert von Weizsäcker, who are both running for the European Union presidency, presented their teams. Von Weizsäcker is joined by three chess grandmasters.Not only will the new FIDE President be chosen during the upco...
Today the Dutch Championship started at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In the first round Nijboer beat Van Kampen and Bok upset Reinderman.The Dutch Championship takes place June 11-20 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The rate o...
Just out: New In Chess 2010/4.Includes a World Championship special, interviews with Anand and Topalov who does not mince words, Kasparov shines his light on the match. Judit Polgar reports, Bent Larsen looks back, Andor Lilienthal and Florencio ...
The 4th Bazna Kings Tournament in Romania will run from 14-25 June and top billing goes to world #1 Magnus Carlsen. The format is a six-player double round-robin at the standard time control of 2 hours for the first 40 moves, 1 hour for the next ...
Dmitry Jakovenko leads the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky with 5.5/8. In round 8 he beat Alexander Motylev with Black, while co-leader Alexander Riazantsev lost to Sergey Karjakin with the white pieces in a spectacular game. The top seed is now ha...
The fourth Kings Tournament takes off on Sunday with the opening ceremony and on Monday with the first round. This year Carlsen, Gelfand, Nisipeanu, Ponomariov, Radjabov and Wang Yue play in Medias, Romania and ChessVibes will be there too!The fou...
The line-up for the second London Chess Classic in December has been announced, and it's an even stronger field than last year's very successful inaugural event. Last year's winner Magnus Carlsen (pictured) will be defending his title, with Vladi...
Chalons en Champagne, led by Loek van Wely and Anish Giri, Sunday won the French league. The team finished just ahead of Evry Grand Roque, who played with Eljanov, Gashimov, Svidler and Vachier-Lagrave. The winners | Photo French Chess FederationT...
Yearbook 95 has just arrived! In this issue of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News you will find answers to urgent questions like: - Who still dares to offer Alexander Grischuk the Poisoned Pawn in the Najdorf? - What does Magnus Carlsen...
The 11th Poikovky Tournament has reached the one and only rest day after 6 rounds of this 11-round event. So far the tournament has seen a relatively high percentage of drawn games, some of them without a fight. However, there has also been plen...
Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Riazantsev lead the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky with 4/6. In a tournament where 24 of the 35 games ended peacefully, Ivan Sokolov is not joining the feast of draws but instead plays uncompromising chess.The 11th e...
While FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Presidential Candidate Anatoly Karpov are involved in a political skirmish that will last until the day of election, the latter has a famous and active supporter. Garry Kasparov visited Nicaragua, one of...
The 2010 Copper State International, presented by Abstrax Inc, has reached the midway point of the tournament. It has certainly been an exciting few days of chess in Arizona, with many ups and downs for both our top seeds and our "Norm Hunters"...
Boris Gelfand won the 23rd annual Leon Magistral Rapid by beating Lev Aronian in the final after a blitz tie-break. Gelfand (pictured) had overcome Franciso Vallejo in the semi-final, while Aronian had beaten Dominguez in the other semi-final. L...
World Champion Viswanathan Anand will play in this year's London Chess Classic, where he will face Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik as his main rivals. Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell complete the fiel...
Boris Gelfand Sunday won the 23rd Ciudad de Leon by beating Levon Aronian in the final. The Israeli grandmaster had knocked out Francisco Vallejo Pons in the first semi-final on Friday, and the Armenian had defeated Leinier Dominguez the next day....
