The World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov has been postponed by one day. We received an official statement by FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos moments ago. Update: the postponement was also announced duri...
Five countries, 2000 kilometres, about a million potholes, an unexpected ferry and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A member of the Anand team wrote a report of a crazy roadtrip through Europe.The following report describes the travelling of the A...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world. Artur is a good friend, a very busy man and as he explained totally not into all sorts of modern socia...
Chess Information and Research Center (CIRC) has just published: Chess Openings for White, Explained . This new, completely revised and updated, 2nd edition includes hundreds of changes, reflecting all relevant opening novelties and the a...
Viswanathan Anand has arrived in Sofia. In the last days he and his team travelled for 40 hours by bus, from Frankfurt to the Bulgarian capital. "You can imagine he's very tired, so at the moment he's sleeping," delegation leader Hans-Walter Schmi...
World champion Vishy Anand (pictured) has reportedly arrived in Sofia for his world championship match with Veselin Topalov, after an epic 40 hour road journey from Germany. The report below is from the All India Chess Federation website. The of...
Nine times already did he win in Dortmund, and this year Vladimir Kramnik will be defending his title, again as the top seed. The organizers announced the participants today; besides Kramnik the field has Mamedyarov, Ponomariov, Leko, Naiditsch an...
The Bulgarian organisers have refused the request from reigning champion Vishy Anand to postpone the start of the World Chess Championship match with Veselin Topalov (pictured) in Bulgaria. It is incredibly unfortunate for the chess world that re...
The organizing committee of the World Championship match between Anand and Topalov has refused Anand's request for a 3-day postponement. This morning the Bulgarian Chess Federarion issued an official statement. Update: more lengthy reaction from t...
Viswanathan Anand and the All India Chess Federation have requested a 3-day postponement of the World Championship match, which is scheduled to start Friday, April 23rd. Due to the volcanic ash from Iceland, which has closed most of Europe's airsp...
Magnus Carlsen is the top seed of this year's Kings Tournament in Bazna, Romania. The 4th edition "replaces the MTel Masters in the Grand Slam circuit", according to the organizers. Besides Carlsen, the field has Gelfand, Nisipeanu, Ponomariov, Ra...
The match for the world chess championship between Vishy Anand and Veselin Topalov has been thrown into doubt - and for once it's not FIDE's fault. The last few days have seen an unprecedented grounding of almost all flights over much of Europe d...
We have just received: Studying Chess Made Easy. If you want to win, you have to put a bit of study in. But studying doesn’t have to be dull. This book contains foolproof ways to help the information go in... and stay in. Packed with tips and t...
According to conventional wisdow, there's no such thing as chance. So was it a coincidence that in the same week in which ChessVibes published two articles on Anatoly Karpov, I suddenly found a copy of Find the Right Plan with Anatoly Karpov, by K...
Just like last week we'll update you on some open tournaments that have finished recently. GM Bojkov won in Sydney, GM Hou Yifan in Kuala Lumpur and GM Iturrizaga in Dubai. Details, standings and games.Sydney Open The Sydney Open was held just aft...
The former world champion and prospective FIDE President Anatoly Karpov (pictured) has released his mission statement as part of his campaign to win support from national chess federations. The German and French federations have expressed their p...
After a lifetime dedicated to playing and promoting the game of chess, 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov is running for the office of President of the International Chess Federation. He has released his main goals and themes of his campaign.A CHA...
The perennial #1 women's chess player Judit Polgar (pictured) will play a rapid match with the #1 Czech chess player, David Navara from 22 -24 April. The match will consist of 8 rapid games at a time control of 25 minutes plus a 10 second increme...
In just nine days the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov will start in Sofia, Bulgaria. The opening ceremony is in exactly one week from now. The two will play a 12-game match and possibly a rapid tiebreak. We b...
As we've mentioned many times already on this site, chess and art go together wonderfully. This is shown once more in the exhibition The Art of Chess, which opens today at the ProjectB contemporary art spaces in Milan.In the exhibition catalog...
SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises, Volume 12 is just out!And you know what that means: with just a minor investment of time you can throw your opponent off balance, right at the start of a game. But it also means danger, because others may use th...
We haven't given much attention to the upcoming FIDE presidential elections in Khanty-Mansiysk yet, but the recent news that the United States Chess Federation and the German Chess Federation have given their support to Anatoly Karpov, there's no ...
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.)! Sune Berg Hansen, 38 years old (soon 39), ...
An exciting final weekend of fierce competition in the Schachbundesliga ended with Baden-Baden taking the title. In the penultimate round the Baden-Baden team defeated Mulheim 4.5-3.5 thanks to wins from Arkadij Naiditch (pictured) and Rustem Dau...
