With this game Vladimir Kramnik beat the world's number one Magnus Carlsen and reached the top of the standings of the Corus Chess Tournament. It was also a very complicated game, and now you can learn more about it from the ex-World Champ himself...
We are delighted to announce that The Black Lion has been selected as "One of the Best Chess Books of 2009" by CHESS Magazine (UK)This is what some reviewers said about The Black Lion, the chess predator's choice against both 1.e4 and d4. The open...
In the 9th round of the Corus Chess Tournament Vladimir Kramnik defeated Magnus Carlsen in what he said was one of his best games ever. Hikaru Nakamura went down against Sergei Karjakin while Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexei Shirov drew quickly in an A...
Magnus Carlsen joked humorously on Facebook that he would "crush Kramnik like a bug", but it was the former world champion who won their epic round nine clash at Corus. Both players went for the win, but as the first time control approached Kramn...
Anish Giri also did the press conference after his round 6 win with Black against Tomi Nyback. A day later, Hikaru Nakamura showed his victory against Alexei Shirov. Yesterday it was Vladimir Kramnik's turn and the Russian was in great shape, answ...
The tiny British territory of Gibraltar plays host to the annual Gibtelecom chess festival from 26 January to 4 February 2010. There are several open competitions taking place, but the main event is the Gibtelecom Masters. The Masters is a ten...
"It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me fee...
Round eight at Corus 2010 matched up the leading players against one another in crucial encounters. Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) had to play accurately in the early stages against Nakamura's Dutch defence, but he emerged unscathed and fought back ...
Vladimir Kramnik moved to shared second place in the standings of the Corus Chess Tournament. In round 8 the Russian defeated Hikaru Nakamura, who again went for the Leningrad Dutch. Alexei Shirov and Magnus Carlsen drew in a sharp variation of th...
Alexei Shirov lost his first game in Wijk aan Zee today. He was beaten by Hikaru Nakamura, who is now just half a point behind the tournament leader. So is Magnus Carlsen, who right after the opening won a piece against Vassily Ivanchuk.The Corus ...
Alexei Shirov's fantastic run finally came to a sticky end against Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) in round seven at Corus 2010. Despite a healthy lead in the tournament, Shirov stayed true to his style by aiming for complications with the Sveshnikov....
A small announcement: the top game of tomorrow's 8th round in Wijk aan Zee is Shirov-Carlsen and we will have acclaimed chess author GM Mihail Marin from Romania providing live commentary, focusing on that game and light comments to other games.Mi...
Alexei Shirov's dream start to the 2010 Corus tournament finally came to an end as he 'only' drew with Nigel Short. Shirov still leads by a point and a half with 5.5/6 on a rather disappointing day in the 'A' group. Anand and Carlsen drew in jus...
Alexei Shirov was held to a draw easily by Nigel Short in round 6 of the Corus Chess Tournament. Besides a few quick draws, Leko beat Caruana, Dominguez beat Tiviakov and Kramnik beat Van Wely.The Corus Chess Tournament takes place January 16-31 i...
Getting to 4 out of 5 by beating another favourite was enough reason to invite 15-year-old Dutch champion Anish Giri to do Thursday's round 5 press conference. Giri explains his smooth endgame win over Sutovsky and after watching the video a compa...
We have just received: Improve your Chess at any Age. Back in 2008 a player by the name of Andres D. Hortillosa entered the New England Masters. It was a brave choice for an unrated player to compete in such a tough event, but it proved to be an...
Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist and the recent How We Decide, has an interesting blog post on the recent TIME profile of Magnus Carlsen (about which we also reported). According to Lehrer, the use of computers actually enhances...
Alexei Shirov also defeated Loek van Wely today and now leads the Corus Chess Tournament with 5 out of 5. The Spaniard is 1.5 points ahead of Carlsen, Nakamura and Ivanchuk. Giri is in sole lead in the B group again, and so is Robson in the C grou...
Alexei Shirov can blow hot and cold as a player. He won last year's strong Mtel tournament, but then proceeded to lose the first four games of his next tournament just a few days later! At Corus 2010, it's the fiery, red-hot Shirov again, with t...
If you like, on this rest day at Corus you can spend some time and learn from top grandmasters. In this post we publish both press conferences Alexei Shirov gave, after round 3 and 4, and an ICC Game of the Day video, in which Peter Svidler explai...
I know that a lot of Chess.com members have been eagerly anticipating the landmark event of Chess.com's 1 millionth member. Since our homepage does not update that frequently (currently only once a day), I've decided to start this thread where I w...
We have just received from Everyman: Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch.In this latest volume of the Dangerous Weapons series, Richard Palliser, James Vigus and Simon Williams take a refreshing look at the Dutch Defence, one of Black's most ambitious an...
Although not too convincingly, Alexei Shirov also won his 4th game in Wijk aan Zee, against Jan Smeets. Going into the first rest day, the Spaniard from Latvia leads with 4/4, a full point ahead of Carlsen, Nakamura and Ivanchuk, who defeated Loek...
Alexei Shirov extended his lead at the 2010 Corus tournament by recording his fourth win in as many games to reach 4 points out of 4. Shirov's victim today was Jan Smeets, who blundered with 33. Rcd8?? and now becomes the cellar-dweller with just...
