It has begun! The 2010 Copper State International, presented by Abstrax Inc is officially underway. It has been a whirlwind 48 hours -- between player arrivals, the opening ceremony on Thursday night, and the first two rounds -- there is a lot ...
That's the Chinese "Chess Championships", not the "Chinese Chess" Championships! The event took place in Xinghua, in the Jaingsu province, from 24 May - 4 June. China is a powerful force in chess these days, and this national event had a good tu...
The battle for the FIDE Presidency took another lurch towards chaos on Thursday when FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced he was suing Presidential Candidate Anatoly Karpov. Meanwhile, the Ilyumzhinov campaign has just declared its ticket a...
Wang Hao and Ju Wenjun became the new Chinese Champions on Friday in Xinghua, China. Wang Hao edged out Bu Xiangzhi and Zhou Jianchao on tiebreak after the three ended on 7.5/11. Ju Wenjun ended clear first with 8/11.The Chinese Championship took ...
New from Russell Enterprises: José Raúl Capablanca.Russian chess historians Isaak and Vladimir Linder cover all aspects of the great Cuban world champion's life, from his development as chess prodigy, to becoming world champion and beyond. A magni...
The talented young Filipino grandmaster Wesley So has won the 3rd "Battle of the GMs". So has won all three of these annual all-Filipino events, this time scoring 7 wins, 3 draws and no losses. An particularly attractive win came in round nine a...
Very few top tournaments have been played for 23 years in a row, like the City of Leon (Spain), where chess has strong social roots that not even the financial crisis has broken. Four stars: Levon Aronian (Armenia), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Leinier...
The annual rapidplay event in Leon, Spain runs from 3-7 June and features Lev Aronian, Boris Gelfand, Leinier Dominguez and Paco Vallejo. The format is a KO system, with paired players playing four rapid games (20 minutes plus 10 second increment...
Viktor Bologan, Dmitry Jakovenko, Sergei Karjakin and Alexander Riazantsev started with one draw and one win at the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky, Russia. The other participants are Ivan Sokolov, Emil Sutovsky, Alexander Onischuk, Baadur Jobava, ...
Alexei Shirov will play in the Crown Group in Hoogeveen this year. At the annual Univé Tournament, the world's number 10 will meet Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and Sergei Tiviakov. This was confirmed in a press release by the organization to...
With the sort of press coverage that our royal game gets from popular newswires, you could forgive the average man in the street for thinking, like Sherlock Holmes, that all chess players have a scheming mind. Recent developments will do nothing ...
IM Daniel Rensch, and his company American Chess Events LLC, will be hosting the 2010 Copper State International from June 3rd-9th in Arizona. IM and GM Norms will be possible at this elite chess event! IM Pruess and IM Shankland (to name a few...
The Bulgarian organizers of the Anand-Topalov World Championship match take Chessbase to court for "violating copyright rules". Chessbase transmitted the moves of the match live on their Playchess server, against the will of the Bulgarians.During ...
Loek van Wely won the Chicago Open tournament in Wheeling, Illinois. In the 9-round Swiss, the Dutch GM was the only player to score 7.5 points. Adams, Najer, Mikhalevski and Stocek ended shared second with 7 points. Interview with Van Wely added....
We have just received: The Modern Philidor Defence.This book follows the structure of other Chess Stars publications, like 'The Sharpest Sicilian' and 'The Scotch Game for White'. Each chapter comprises of a "Quick Repertoire", then a thorough th...
The 11th edition of the Poikovsky Tournament in honour of the former world champion and prospective FIDE president Anatoly Karpov runs from 2-13 June. Last year's winner Alexander Motylev (pictured) will defend the title he won in last year's eve...
Last week Dmitry Jakovenko defeated Ernesto Inarkiev at the ACP World Rapid Cup, using the devastating 12.Ncb5!! - a theoretical novelty that won on the spot. Inarkiev could have prevented this disaster as the move was mentioned the day before 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.)! Roland Schmaltz, 35, German currently livi...
Rybka this weekend won the 10th edition of the International Computer Chess Tournament (ICT10) in Leiden, The Netherlands.By Eric van ReemIn the 10th edition of the International Computer Chess Tournament (ICT10) the latest Rybka version by Vasik ...
Rybka has been the dominant force in computer chess for nearly five years, and despite some recent pretenders (possibly reverse-engineered clones), the "little fish" still sets the standard to beat. The programmer, Vasik Rajlich has been tweaking...
Anish Giri today defeated co-leader Jon Ludvig Hammer in a direct encounter to win the 18th Sigeman & Co tournament with a score of 4.5/5 (and a 2920 performance rating). Hammer finished clear second with a point less. The 18th Sigeman & Co Chess...
Despite being one of the youngest GMs in the world today, 15-year old Anish Giri doesn't seem to have quite captured the imagination of chess fans just yet. That will surely come very soon now. Giri was born in St.Petersburg on 28 June 1994 to a...
GMs Tigran Gharamian and GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko ended shared first at the Limburg Open, a strong 7-rounder during the Pentecoste weekend. The 4th ENCI Limburg Open was held May 21-24 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. This year the tournament was ...
It took an Armageddon decider to separate Sergey Karjakin (pictured) from Dmitry Jakovenko in an all Russian final of the 4th ACP World Rapid Cup (previous report here). After the four rapid games and two blitz tiebreak games ended in a draw, Kar...
