With a month to go before the crunch match for the world chess championship between title holder Vishy Anand and challenger Veselin Topalov, the official website is already online. The match will be played at the Central Military Club in Sofia (p...
In the 8th round of the Amber tournament in Nice, Vladimir Kramnik defeated Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5, which should have been 2-0. Vasily Ivanchuk was held to two draws by Dominguez; the Ukrainian did increase his lead in the combined standings to a ...
Every week we present you an endgame study - this week selected from the Amber tournament. Amazingly, Karjakin could have saved the rook ending in his blindfold game against Grischuk today. Good luck solving!Karjakin-Grischuk Amber (blindfold) 201...
Magnus Carlsen lost like a complete idiot today. Before you complain about that remark, I should say that those are Carlsen's words, not mine. His harsh self-criticism can be found in his latest blog. Carlsen was commenting on his blindfold gam...
Vasily Ivanchuk is back in the lead at the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice. The Ukrainian defeated Alexander Grischuk 1.5-0.5 today, while Magnus Carlsen lost with the same score to Vugar Gashimov.The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid To...
Magnus Carlsen faltered in round seven at Amber, allowing Vassily Ivanchuk to regain the lead. Carlsen lost to Vugar Gashimov in their blindfold game, and drew in the rapid game to lose 1.5-0.5. Meanwhile, Ivanchuk beat Alexander Grischuk in the...
This weekend the 12th and 13th round of the Schachbundesliga are being played. Baden-Baden is playing with Shirov, Bacrot and Naiditsch on top boards.Since many years there was no such tension in the Schachbundesliga as this year. Four rounds befo...
You can tell a lot about a competitor in any sport by how they react to adversity. When Magnus Carlsen lost badly in the first round at Amber he responded by going on a hot streak that has seen him win 9 games out of 10 played since then. His lat...
After six rounds Magnus Carlsen is in sole lead at the Amber tournament. The Norwegian scored yet another 2-0 victory, today against Boris Gelfand, while Vasily Ivanchuk drew twice with compatriot Ruslan Ponomariov. Jan Smeets scored his first vic...
The European Championship gold medal winners were already known (Nepomniachtchi and Cramling), but for deciding the other medals and World Cup qualifiers, tiebreak matches were played on Thursday in Rijeka. We bring you the results and some statis...
We have just received from Russell Enterprises the 21st Century Edition of: Modern Ideas in Chess.Modern Ideas in Chess, by Richard Réti is a series of 45 essays dealing with the evolution of the game, its leading players, their ideas and contrib...
On his 41st birthday Vasily Ivanchuk defeated Jan Smeets 1.5-0.5 at the Amber tournament in Nice. Because Magnus Carlsen won one and lost one against Sergey Karjakin, Ivanchuk is now half a point ahead of Carlsen and Gelfand, who beat Aronian 2-0....
Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) celebrated his 41st birthday today by defeating Jan Smeets in their fifth round rapid game at Amber to regain the sole lead in the overall standings. Magnus Carlsen had briefly led after winning his blindfold game aga...
Yesterday we published a column which was quite critical about the plans that Veselin Topalov "will not talk" to Vishy Anand during the match, which was stated by Silvio Danailov in an interview in Rijeka a few days ago. Today Danailov responds to...
Just in from our printers: New In Chess 2010/2. Carlsen, Kramnik and Anand on Wijk aan Zee 2010, Anish Giri (15) on his fabulous 2773 performance, Jennifer Shahade on Alexandra Kosteniuk, the human brains behind Rybka, Le Quang Liem(!?), Timman ...
The 11th European Individual Chess Championships in Rijeka, Croatia have ended with clear winner in both the men's and women's events. In an exciting final round, 19 year-old Ian Nepomniachtchi (pictured) of Russia beat Vladimir Akopian to take t...
After many draws in the penultimate round, Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) defeated Vladimir Akopian (Armenia) in the last round and won the gold medal at the European Championship in Rijeka. The women's section was won by Swedish GM Pia Cramling, who...
Perhaps it was because I'm currently reading The Age of Empathy - Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, Frans de Waal's latest book on how and why humans (and other primates) are capable of showing empathy and solving moral problems - that I foun...
After winning 2-0 one more time, today against Smeets, Carlsen joined Vasily Ivanchuk in the lead in Nice. The Ukrainian on his turn defeated Aronian 1.5-0.5, while Kramnik went down 2-0 against Gelfand.The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournamen...
After losing badly on the first day of the Amber blindfold and rapid tournament in Nice, world #1 Magnus Carlsen (pictured) has stormed back to share the overall lead by recording three consecutive 2-0 wins. Today's customer was underdog Jan Smee...
With two rounds to go, Ian Nepomniachtchi is in sole lead at the European Individual Championship. The Russian GM scored 7.5/9. In the women's section Viktorija Cmilyte leads with the same score.The 11th European Individual Men and Women's Chess C...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world. In the book you can find the interview we had with Loek in 1996, let's see how his views developed fou...
After beating Sergey Karjakin 1.5-0.5, Vasily Ivanchuk leads the combined standings of the Amber tournament with a score of 4.5/6. Magnus Carlsen again won 2-0, this time against Peter Svidler, who resigned in a probably drawn position in the blin...
Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) beat his former compatriot Sergey Karjakin 1.5-0.5 to take the sole lead in the overall standings at Amber. Meanwhile, Magnus Carlsen continued his recovery by recording another 2-0 victory, this time against Peter Svi...
