Round three at Linares provided three great games and a whole lot of excitement! Topalov (pictured) tried the Benoni against Aronian, but it was the Armenian who gained the upper hand, obtaining mighty connected passed pawns on d5 and e5. Topalo...
On January 28th we published a review of Viktor Moskalenko's latest book Revolutionize Your Chess, and it wasn't a positive one. Now we have received a reaction by Mr Moskalenko, which we're happy to publish as an open letter here at ChessVibes.In...
Veselin Topalov and Alexander Grischuk (pictured) both won with the white pieces in their second round games at Linares to emerge as the early leaders. Topalov defeated Gashimov's Slav defence with an impressive display where black's more exposed...
Alexander Grischuk and Veselin Topalov both won their White games in Linares today, after their opponents erred in close to equal positions. The two share the lead after two rounds.The 27th Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez “Ciudad de Linares" takes...
All three round one games were drawn at Linares, with Boris Gelfand (pictured) testing Gashimov's Benoni, but ultimately failing to secure the full point. Grischuk easily held Aronian to a draw, and Vallejo played solidly to hold Topalov to a dra...
The Linares tournament started peacefully today, with draws on all three boards. Topalov surprised Vallejo with a Breyer against the Spaniard's Ruy Lopez and easily equalized. Grischuk needed a lot of time on the clock, but was also doing fine wit...
The formalities at Linares have been completed, and the draw for the first round games looks like this...(now corrected!) Lev Aronian Alexander Grischuk Boris Gelfand Vugar Gashimov Francisco Vallejo Pons Veselin Topalov Games start a...
The voting for the ChessCafe Book of the Year 2009 has ended, and we are delighted to announce that the winner is ... Chess Strategy for Club Players - The Road to Positional Advantage. According to ChessCafe, Herman Grooten's book beat the othe...
Tomorrow the first round in Linares will be played. Last year Rick Goetzee spoke with the godfather of the tournament, Luis Rentero. "I owned 32 supermarkets and 4 hotels. I sold the supermarkets to a Belgian company but still have my hotels. Hote...
After finishing shared first at the Moscow Open, Le Quang Liem continues strongly at the Aeroflot Open. The Vietnamese grandmaster leads with 3/3 - he's the only player left with a 100% score.The 9th Aeroflot Open takes place February 9-17 2010 in...
The opening ceremony of Linares, one of the most prestigious chess tournaments in the world, takes place today. The tournament has slimmed down this year from eight players to six, as the credit crunch continues to bite. For a while it was quite...
Chess is often represented in films. Sometimes merely as decoration, often with a deeper, symbolic meaning. In Hollywood the connotation of chess seems to be that of the lonely, disturbed man, seeking pastime and consolation in the royal game. One...
Herman Grooten's outstanding Chess Strategy for Club Players - The Road to Positional Advantage has won the ChessCafe Book of the Year 2009 Award. After four weeks of voting, Grooten's book beat Viktor Moskalenko's Revolutionize Your Chess and Dav...
The second Grand Slam tournament of the year will officially be opened on Friday, February 12th. The first round of the Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares" starts 16:00 CET on Saturday the 13th. Topalov, Aronian, Gelfand, Gashimov,...
Being able to use a computer has become extremely important for today's professional chess players. This technological development was described in an article at TechRepublic, focusing on the story of Kris Littlejohn, who is not a grandmaster but ...
Scholastic chess is the lifeblood of our wonderful game. Most of us learned to play while in school and once bitten by the bug it stays with us for life! Despite it's demonstrated benefits to young people, chess is not usually a priority for sc...
What do a game of chess and a nude decending a staircase have in common? To answer such questions, you must be prepared to leave your conventional ways of thinking at home and then fall down Marcel Duchamp's rabbit-hole of chess and art.A few week...
Gambit has just published: A Course in Chess Tactics.The advice frequently given to chess-players eager to improve their results is straightforward: study tactics! This book presents a structured approach to tactics, and belongs in the library of ...
He may not be a familiar name to even the most ardent chess fans, but 42 year-old Konstantin Chernyshov rated 2556 Elo (pictured below, left) won the 2010 Moscow Open ahead of a strong field, including joint top seeds Alexander Motylev and Sergey ...
42-year-old Konstantin Chernyshov won the strong Moscow Open with 7 out of 9. The Russian GM finished shared first with another 40+ grandmaster, Evgeny Bareev, and both Le Quang Liem and Ernesto Inarkiev also ended on 7 points. Chernishov had the ...
This year's Grand Slam Masters Final will be split into two parts. One will be held in Shanghai, China (just before the Olympiad) and one in Bilbao, Spain (just after). This was announced last week in Wijk aan Zee, were the board of the Grand Slam...
FIDE's Grand Prix series has had a troubled existence almost from the start. The global credit crunch caused venue changes as sponsors took flight, but the ludicrous FIDE decision to change the rules for the current World Championship qualifying ...
England's Mickey Adams (pictured) won the Gibtelecom Masters after an exciting 4-way playoff. Adams rode his luck after losing the first rapid game of his semi-final playoff with Germany's Jan Gustafsson, but he recovered to level the scores in ...
The 8th and 9th round of the Schachbundesliga and three matches from round 7 will take place from the 5th to the 7th of February 2010. We provide you with the pairings at the playing venues Munich, Mülheim, Berlin and Remagen. Some famous Wijk aan...
