After a thrilling and very hard-fought season OSG Baden-Baden won the German championship. The Schachbundesliga was decided on round 14 when the four best teams played each other. Baden-Baden won against Mülheim with 4.5-3.5 and Bremen beat Soling...
Chess Club "64" from Moscow Saturday won the Russian Team Championship. The event was more or less decided on Friday when they held their main rival St Petersburg to a 3-3 tie. As expected, an easy win against Economist II in the last round secure...
The ShSM-64 team (from Moscow) won the 2010 Russian Club Cup in Dagomys, ahead of SPb Chess Fed (St. Petersburg). The winning team consisted of Boris Gelfand, Sergey Karjakin, Wang Hao, Fabiano Caruana (pictured), Boris Grachev, Alexander Riazant...
The German chess league, the Schachbundesliga, is one of the the strongest team championships in the world. The league season comes to its climax this weekend with two rounds to play and three teams still in contention for first place. The curr...
This weekend the 14th and 15th round of the Schachbundesliga will be played. At the playing venues Baden-Baden and Bremen most probably it will be decided who will win the championship.Two rounds before the end of the season Baden-Baden, Solingen ...
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Chess Club "64" from Moscow is the favourite to win the Russian Team Championship. The team with Boris Gelfand on first board leads with a 2-point margin. They play their nearest rival today, St Petersburg, whose women's team won already. Again we...
When the world chess community recently learned of the passing of the seventh world champion Vassily Smyslov, there was heartfelt sadness at the loss of a chess legend. It is therefore shocking to read that reports now suggest that Vassily Vasili...
Australia has a surface of 7,617,930 km², (2,941,299 square miles), making it the 6th biggest country in the world. However, currently there are only three Australian grandmasters on the FIDE rating list (the 4th retired not long ago). How is...
The Philadelphia Chess Open was a nine-round Swiss event held from 31 March to 4 April. Over 100 players, including 15 Grandmasters took part and first prize was shared four ways between Gata Kamsky (pictured), Ray Robson, Sergey Kudrin and Alexa...
The scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL 9000 beats astronaut Frank Poole at chess, as silence before the storm, has become one of the most famous in the history of cinema. It was no coincidence that this scene was included: director Stanley K...
Quality Chess has published the first volume of a new series: The Cutting Edge 1 - The Open Sicilian 1. The idea is to identify the most important theoretical battlegrounds of the moment and then analyse as deeply as possible in search of impro...
Whenever there are holidays, there's chess. The Easter weekend is always good for a few strong opens, and in this report we're looking at three of them. Li Chao won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra (Australia), Pablo Lafuente was the strongest at the N...
The team of the St Petersburg Chess Federation and Chess Club "64" from Moscow are sharing the lead at the Russian Team Championship. After five rounds the two teams scored 9 match points. We selected 14 games and annotated many of them.The 17th R...
Chess.com members will be very familiar with Natalia Pogonina, having recently lost a vote-chess match against this talented Women's Grand Master. That game can be replayed here. Natalia is currently taking part in the Russian Club Cup in Dagomy...
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.)! Dimitri Reinderman, 37, Dutch, and hopeful...
Last week, in an important team match, my opponent played an innocent sideline against my pet-opening. I had prepared quite well for this encounter, but had not looked at this particular variation since it is so rarely played. Over the board, I kn...
Working on an update of the Russian Team Championship, we came across a marvelous game. A game between two current Russian kings of chess: Ian Nepomniachtchi, the reigning European Champion, and Alexander Grischuk, the winner of the Amber Blindfol...
After three rounds out of nine in the Russian Club Cup in Sochi, the men's premier event is being led by the SPb chess federation team headed by Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Svidler (pictured). After three out of seven rounds the women's event is c...
We have just received: Sicilian Najdorf 6.Bg5. On this DVD Alexei Shirov explains all the ideas which underlie the variations. His explanations are all the more valuable because they are delivered by a player who himself has been responsible fo...
As previewed a few days ago, the Russian Club Cup is now underway in the seaside resort of Dagomys, Sochi*. The results - in English - can be found here, and live games are here. (thanks to Mig at the Daily Dirt for the links). Games start at 3...
A 14-year old writing a book on positional chess?! How can that be? This was my first reaction when I received Mastering Positional Chess by Daniel Naroditsky. Sure, he's a World Junior Champion and obviously is a talented youngster, but how could...
Today the 17th Russian Team Championship takes off. In the mens' section ten teams play a round-robin of nine rounds; the women's section has seven teams. Favourites in the men's section are Economist (with Wang Yue and Eljanov on top boards), 64 ...
Just a few weeks ago we learnt that former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov is set to challenge Kirsan Illyumzhinov for the presidency of FIDE. Today, news of a remarkable third candidate has rocked the chess world - none other than the founde...
