Russia and the USA are sharing the lead at the World Team Championship. After six rounds both teams are on ten match points. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Israel and India follow with seven match points, with three rounds to go. Games rounds 5-6 with notes...
The World Team Championships are providing many exciting games and matches, with Russia and the USA leading after six rounds. Russia crushed Turkey in round five, while Armenia were held by India. The US team scored a narrow win over Israel, hel...
The World Team Championships is held every four years, and since the last event was held in Israel in 2005, this is technically the 2009 championship despite it now being 2010. Hmmm... Moving swiftly on...after four rounds of the World Team Cham...
After four rounds at the World Team Championship, Armenia, India, Israel, Russia and the United States are all on six match points. Today Russia defeated Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5.The 7th World Team Championship takes place at the Merinos Congress Centre...
In Joueuse a housemaid sees two people playing chess, and then falls in love with the royal game. Starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline, Queen to Play (English title) opened in German cinemas yesterday, where it's called Die Schachspielerin. ...
The World Team Championship is just three rounds old an already there's no team left that hasn't suffered a loss. Yesterday Russia recovered and defeated the USA while Azerbaijan lost to India.The 7th World Team Championship takes place at the Mer...
A new year has begun, and is there a better moment to start working some more on your openings? We've changed our weekly PDF (+PGN!) magazine ChessVibes Openings slightly, and it might well be even more instructive...This week on page 4 we introdu...
The 2009-10 Hastings Masters ended in a fourway tie for first place, between Mark Hebden, David Howell, Andrei Istratescu and Romain Edouard. Hebden and Istratescu were leading after 8 rounds and drew in 11 moves, allowing Howell and Edouard to jo...
Christmas and New Year are a traditionally busy time for chess events, and 2009 was no different as previewed here. So before we kick off 2010 in earnest, here is a brief round-up of results you may have missed over the holiday season. Russian C...
The second round of the World Team Championship saw a big upset with Greece beating Russia: Morozevich and Tomashevsky lost to Papaioannou and Banikas. Aronian defeated Gelfand to decide the Armenia-Israel match.The 7th World Team Championship tak...
He was the last-minute replacement for Malakhov and never lacks fighting spirit: Gata Kamsky today won in Reggio Emilia after beating Zoltan Almasi in a fantastic last-round game. The American and the Hungarian both scored 6.5/9 but Kamsky had the...
Yesterday the World Team Championship started in Bursa, Turkey. The participating teams are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Egypt, Greece, India, Israel, Russia, Turkey and the USA. Quite a few strong players (such as Aronian, Gelfand, Grischuk and N...
Over the holiday season, the two chess legends Boris Spassky and Viktor Korchnoi played an 8-game match in Kalmykia, Russia, as previewed in this news report. While Korchnoi is still a very active player, Spassky is essentially retired from compe...
In October we celebrated our 25th Anniversary. Yes, we know, time flies, etc. I hope you liked our anniversary issue.Now we have published: New In Chess: The First 25 Years. It's all there: Botvinnik on Kasparov's talent, Tony Miles on winning T...
Every chess player, no matter how weak, has a high point in his career. Mine occurred in May 2007, during the last round of the Dutch Team Chess Championship. I was playing in the Master League, the highest level in Dutch chess, and I was surround...
These are hard times for newspapers, which have been struggling for years with the question how to adapt to the digital era. Almost all of them need to cut costs, and among the victims are the writers of chess columns. Yesterday, after 23 years, L...
The 2010 World Team Chess Championships starts on 5 January in Bursa, Turkey. The format is a nine-team round-robin competition, with each team selecting four players from a squad of six. The time control is FIDE's fairly speedy 40 moves in 90 m...
This year's Groningen Chess Festival saw a sensational victory of 13-year-old Ilya Nyzhnyk (Ukraine), who finished clear first, a full point ahead of GMs Reinderman and Werle. In the match between a former Junior Champion and the reigning Junior C...
After five rounds in Reggio Emilia, Zoltan Almasi and Gata Kamsky are leading the tournament with 3.5 points out of 5 games. Thus far the young Italians, Sabino Brunello and Daniele Vocaturo, have played better than their score would suggest.The 5...
Magnus Carlsen is still a teenager, but he is now officially the top ranked chess player in the world. The January 2010 FIDE rating list puts Carlsen at #1 with 2810, just ahead of Veselin Topalov on 2805. That makes Magnus Carlsen the youngest ...
On December 24, 25 and 26 we were running our Big ChessVibes Christmas 2009 Trivia Quiz. Today we give you all answers to the thirty questions. And we have three winners!As we expected, the trivia quiz wasn't easy. In a lot of cases, the answers c...
So how well did you do in the 2009 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler? There were 20 chess related questions, and a total of 32 marks to earn, but how many did you answer correctly? The standard of entries was extremely high, and Chess.com would like to ...
Hot from the press: the organizers of the 2010 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament today announced the list of participants - Carlsen, Kramnik, Aronian, Gelfand, Gashimov, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Ponomariov, Morozevich, Karjakin, Dominguez and Smeets....
Remember the brief Q&A with Magnus Carlsen in TIME Magazine that we mentioned last week? Well, as it turned out that was just a 'stocking stuffer' during the magazine's quiet holiday period. TIME's upcoming issue (US and international) will hit ne...
