Overshadowed by the Linares Super-GM tournament GMs Judit Polgar(HUN) and Gregory Kaidanov(USA) have come to play a Sicilian themed match. In both rounds Black has taken a beating losing in both games.With the start of round one we find Judit Pol...
Alexander Grischuk defeated Veselin Topalov in round 9 of the Linares super-tournament. The two are leading with just one round to go. Gashimov-Vallejo and Gelfand-Aronian were both drawn. Big pictorial report.The 27th Torneo Internacional de Ajed...
The penultimate round of the Linares 2010 super-GM tournament saw a titanic struggle between the leader Veselin Topalov and his closest pursuer, Alexander Grischuk. A dynamic and exciting game ended in victory for Grischuk, who therefore catches ...
Yaroslav Zherebukh Saturday won the strong open in Cappelle-La-Grande. The Ukrainian grandmaster, just 16 year old, was the only player to finish on 7.5/9. Veteran GM Mihhail Gurevich was doing well, but lost the crucial round 8 game to Zherebukh....
Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving! V. Kovalenko 1970 White to play and draw Next week the solutio...
Vugar Gashimov once again tried his luck in a Benoni, but this time around Grischuk made him pay, as the Linares defending champion moves to within a point of the leader Topalov. Today is the second and last restday in Linares.The 27th Torneo Inte...
Alexander Grischuk (pictured) closed the gap to leader Veselin Topalov with a win against Vugar Gashimov in round eight at Linares. Gashimov's brave use of the Benoni defence finally got him into trouble as Grischuk achieved a clear advantage ear...
It's a relative rarity to see a themed chess match between strong players, so they are always welcome, especially when one of the players is the great Judit Polgar. Judit Polgar will play the strong American GM and popular coach Gregory Kaidanov ...
On the day the Dutch cabinet of ministers resigned over an issue about sending new troops to Afghanistan, three chess events were being held in Amsterdam, capital of The Netherlands. One was the second round of the annual Batavia Max Euwe Challeng...
With three more draws in round 7, the drawing percentage Saturday rose to 77% in Linares. Veselin Topalov kept his 1.5 point lead, with three more rounds to go.The 27th Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez “Ciudad de Linares" takes place February 12-25...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Thursday won the World Blitz Championship Preliminaries, held in Moscow after the Aeroflot Open. Together with Bu Xiangzhi, Nepomniachtchi, Mamedov, Savchenko and Grachev he qualified for the 2010 World Blitz Championship, t...
Francisco Vallejo Pons had an excellent opportunity to record his first win in round 7 at the Linares 2010 tournament. Playing black against Lev Aronian (pictured), he gained a clear advantage but failed to put the game away. Even as the draw wa...
In the 6th round of the Linares super-tournament, Veselin Topalov was in trouble against Francisco Vallejo until the Spaniard suddenly blundered a full rook. By then Gashimov and Gelfand had already drawn in a very theoretical Petroff. The last g...
The Aeroflot Open is one of the strongest open events in the chess calendar, but tends to be overshadowed by the Super-GM Linares tournament that it clashes with. The Aeroflot 2010 tournament finished on Wednesday, and a world blitz championship ...
Boost Your Chess 1, The Fundamentals is the latest volume of Yusupov's award-winning training course, that started with three volumes in the Build Up Your Chess series. Despite the fact that this book has almost the same cover as Build Up Your Che...
After the first of two rest days at Linares, joint leaders Topalov (pictured) and Grischuk clashed in round 5 and it was Topalov who took the full point. It could have been a different story, but Grischuk let time trouble spoil a winning position...
Veselin Topalov defeated co-leader Alexander Grischuk in round 5 of the Linares super-tournament. The Bulgarian now leads by a full point at half time. Vugar Gashimov beat Francisco Vallejo with Black, and while being a pawn up, Levon Aronian had ...
The Dutch quarterly Matten provides a mixture of interviews, stories and anecdotes with a literary flavour, interweaved with drawings, cartoons and photos. We bring a review of the 7th edition in the Dutch language, together with a review of De Pi...
Le Quang Liem Wednesday won the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. Like at the Moscow Open, the grandmaster from Vietnam finished on an undefeated 7/9, which this time was enough for clear first and qualification for the Dortmund tournament later this year....
On ChessCafe, an English translation of three sonnets on chess by Vladimir Nabokov has been published. According to John Roycroft, it is 'the first English verse translation of the trio of linked chess sonnets that Vladimir Nabokov published in th...
1. New In Chess issue 2010/1 The World's Premier Chess Magazine by The NIC Editorial team NIC's Caf? - Carlsen Claims London Chess Classic - A Country for Old Men - Roulette Chess - Alexander Grischuk Russian Champion - Alexander Alekhine's Paris ...
The standings in Linares remained unchanged after three more, and this time rather uneventful draws in round 4. Alexander Grischuk and Veselin Topalov maintained their shared lead, going into the first rest day.The 27th Torneo Internacional de Aje...
Just a brief update on the latest games at Linares today. All the games from round four were drawn and are shown below. Round five is on Thursday. The standings after four rounds are: Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2736 2½ Topalov, Veselin BUL ...
Alexander Grischuk and Veselin Topalov maintained their shared lead in Linares after all round 3 games ended in a draw today. Don't judge this round by the results, though, as all three games were highly interesting fights.The 27th Torneo Internac...
