Photo: Adolivio Capece12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov and Silvio Danailov, executive director of the Grand Slam Chess Association and manager of Veselin Topalov and Ivan Cheparinov, at a reception in Rijeka, Croatia. Karpov has announced ...
Magnus Carlsen today recovered completely from his bad start in Nice. The Norwegian defeated Levon Aronian, the winner in 2008 and 2009, in both the blindfold and the rapid game. Ukrainians Ivanchuk and Ponomariov lead the combined standings after...
You just can't keep the world's #1 rated player down. After losing 2-0 to Vassily Ivanchuk in round one at Amber, Magnus Carlsen hit back in round two against Lev Aronian to record his own 2-0 win. That brings Carlsen back to an even score, and o...
“I feel like I can make some changes, and chess needs changes.” Yesterday Anatoly Karpov officially announced his FIDE President candidacy in Rijeka, where the European Championship is currently taking place. Europe-Echecs published a video interv...
Multi-millionaire Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from Kalmykia has been president of FIDE since 1995, and although he has ploughed a lot of his own money into the game, commercial sponsors are few and far between. Rightly or wrongly, FIDE has a reputation fo...
Vassily Ivanchuk beat Magnus Carlsen 2-0 in their first round clash at the Amber tournament. World #1 Carlsen now faces the tough task of trying to bounce back against last year's winner Lev Aronian in round 2. You can read Carlsen's reaction to...
"The 40-year old Ukrainian has a reputation of being an unpredictable genius, capable of producing absolutely brlliant games, as well as amateur-like losses from time to time," Magnus Carlsen wrote on his blog yesterday. Today, at the Amber tourna...
Everyman Chess has published: Play the Ponziani. In Play the Ponziani, Dave Taylor and Keith Hayward present a comprehensive guide to this intriguing opening. They provide coverage of all the main lines, identify the best lines for both colours, a...
Zahar Efimenko (Ukraine) and Baadur Jobava (Georgia) are sharing the lead at the European Individual Championship after seven rounds of play. The two are both on 6 out of 7.The 11th European Individual Men and Women's Chess Championship is held fr...
You may recall that a month ago we reported on filmmakers Katie and Nelson Dellamaggiore, who are raising funds to make a movie about the best junior high chess team in the US. Well, they are looking for someone rated 2100-2400 to play the star o...
Tomorrow the first round of the 2010 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament will be played, and we have a second preview video to get you warmed up. The world's number one, Magnus Carlsen, is there. Vladimir Kramnik, who won many times, is there. Le...
When the world's top grandmasters get an invite to the annual Amber tournament in Nice, hardly anyone turns it down. It's not hard to see why. The participants get to spend nearly 2 weeks in the beautiful south of France, playing a combination o...
After five rounds of play, Zahar Efimenko, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Artyom Timofeev and Baadur Jobava are sharing the lead at the European Individual Championship in Rijeka. The four grandmasters scored 4.5 points and are chased by 23 GMs who are o...
After four rounds at the European Indivdual Chess Championships, just two players lead the men's event with perfect scores. GM's Baadur Jobava of Georgia and and Zahar Efimenko of Ukraine (pictured) have a half point lead over a 15-strong chasing...
Besides round reports, currently the website of the European Championship in Rijeka has two interesting news items. It's reported that Silvio Danailov is running for President of the European Chess Union, and that 110 participants have protested a...
Yearbook 94 has just arrived!"All serious chess players should read these outstanding books", is what Carsten Hansen wrote about The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News on ChessCafePlease, have a look at the full contents.
Having read mostly chess improvement books and opening manuals lately, I was delighted to see a new publication in the best tradition of chess writing: a serious tournament book. Strangely, it's a tradition that seems rather unpopular these days -...
Naiditsch, Vallejo, Jobava, Pelletier, Timofeev, Martinovic, Skoberne, Krasenkow, Inarkiev, Nisipeanu, Efimenko, Maiorov and Nepomniachtchi are the names of the thirteen players who are still on 100% in Rijeka. Three rounds at the European Individ...
The 11th European Individual Chess Championships is well underway in Rijeka, Croatia, and if you haven't checked out the official website yet, you're missing a treat. If you missed our preview of the event, you can find it here. Besides the obli...
Alexander Morozevich has withdrawn from the Amber tournament, which starts in six days from now in Nice, France. The Russian is replaced by his compatriot Alexander Grischuk. To get you a bit in the mood already, today we present a video with foot...
Today the first round of the European Individual Men and Women's Chess Championship will be played. In Rijeka (Croatia), Almasi, Bacrot and Movsesian are the top seeds. In the women's section the favourites are Antoaneta Stefanova, Nadezhda Kosint...
Now available: The Moscow & Anti-Moscow Variations. Alexey Dreev has been playing both variations against the world's top players for many years. His analyses and calculations during the games have laid the foundation of this book. Packed wi...
Chess players love wooden chess sets for their massive, easy-playing pieces, their obvious superiority over cheap plastic stuff and their distinguished classical look. But what about their sustainability? I got interested in this question after se...
Today I'd like to unveil what will be an extremely valuable training tool for those who choose to make use of it: Computer Workout. What? You've seen it before? Tried it before? No way! This is a 90% "completely" new Computer Workout, redesigned ...
