Yesterday Vasily Smyslov was buried in Moscow. Many friends and fans visited the Moscow Central Chess Club to say goodbye to the 7th World Champion. We also say goodbye, with video footage, links and some games. (We invite you to contribute!)The f...
There will be no MTel Masters this year. The sponsor is not willing to support both the tournament and the upcoming World Championship match in Sofia, between Anand and Topalov. This was revealed already five days ago by Silvio Danailov in an inte...
We have just received: Me & Bobby Fischer. A documentary featuring Sæmi Rock Palsson, Bobby´s friend and bodyguard. His struggle to liberate Bobby from prison in Japan and how he managed to provide Icelandic citizenship. Contains interviews...
The economic downturn in many parts of the world has adversely affected some major tournaments expected to take place this year. The Mainz Chess Classic in July normally lasts for a full week with a plethora of events, including Chess960 competit...
Have you ever had the situation where your opponent broke the rules, you considered calling an arbiter, but you thought it might not be worth it because of the bother and distraction it causes? At the European Championship in Rijeka I had two such...
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.)! Stelios Halkias from Greece, 30 years old ...
Arguably the strongest national team chess championships in the world starts on 1 April in Dagomys. The powerful Russian Team Chess Championships (a.k.a. the Russian Club Cup) is an event which produces the highest quality games, featuring as it...
In this week's The New Yorker, James Surowiecki calls Apple's launch, next week, of the expensive iPad 'a fundamental gamble, namely that people will pay for quality'. In today's world, free (digital) stuff is indeed so easy to...
We return once more to the 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament, which finished a few days ago. The final round was a thrilling affair, and the closing ceremony a pleasant one, when both Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus gave a brief speech. Final ...
Every week we present you an endgame study - instead, this week we selected ten studies by Vasily Smyslov, who was the most productive World Champion as it comes to endgame studies. It was an early love of his, and after he stopped playing tournam...
7th World Chess Champion Vasily Smyslov died on Saturday of heart failure, Russian television reported. Smyslov, who turned 89 on Wednesday, was taken to a Moscow hospital earlier in the week after complaining of heart problems. He died on Saturda...
Very sad news from Moscow, where the seventh world chess champion, Vasily Vasilievich Smyslov has died. He had celebrated his 89th birthday just a few days ago. Vasily Smyslov was born in Moscow on March 24, 1921 and learned to play chess at the...
We have just received: Starting Out: the Réti. In this book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald examines the Réti by going back to basics, introducing the key moves and ideas, and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them. Ideal for improvers, clu...
Magnus Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk shared first place at the Amber tournament in Nice. Carlsen blundered a full queen in his blindold game against Alexander Grischuk, but then won the rapid game convincingly. Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Boris Gelfa...
A thrilling last round at Amber ended with Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen emerging as deserved joint winners of Amber 2010. Disaster struck early on for Carlsen his blindfold match with Grischuk. Mistakenly believing his opponent's queen wa...
Magnus Carlsen today reclaimed first place in the overall standings of the Amber tournament with a 2-0 win over Ruslan Ponomariov. With one round to go the Norwegian grandmaster is half a point ahead of Vasily Ivanchuk, who drew twice with Vladimi...
In 2010 the Mainz Chess Classic will be a much smaller event than in other years. Financial woes have hit the annual Rapid and Chess960 event hard: only two simuls, by Anand and Kosteniuk, and the Grenke Rapid World Championship will be held. Pres...
Magnus Carlsen had an excellent day in the penultimate round at Amber. He defeated former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov 2-0 to take the lead from Vassily Ivanchuk. Although this was a great result for Carlsen, it's hard to understand how...
In round 9 of the Amber tournament, Vasily Ivanchuk defended first place in the overall standings with two draws against Vugar Gashimov. With two rounds to go the Ukrainian grandmaster has a half-point lead over Magnus Carlsen, who defeated Leinie...
Dos Hermanas has always been considered the biggest, best and strongest online blitz tournament in the world - and fittingly, the latest edition, the 11th Dos Hermanas online tournament, hosted exclusively on www.chessclub.com, was won in convinci...
Another two draws for Vassily Ivanchuk were enough for him to retain first place at Amber, but Magnus Carlsen won his rapid game against Dominguez to reduce the lead to half a point with just two rounds to go. Vladimir Kramnik also won in the rap...
"If one piece is badly placed, your whole game is bad" - this is the core concept of The Tarrasch Formula. This book offers a straight-forward and effective method for improving your decision-making and move selection. You will learn how to reduc...
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.)! Hi, I'm Gawain Jones, 22, GM. English but ...
While there are numerous competing theories on how to improve one's chess, one thing that is absolutely undisputed in chess training philosophy is how to stay sharp in chess: by regularly solving tactical chess puzzles. It doesn't much matter how ...
