And you thought you had seen the last chess moves of 2009 from the top players. Well, no, there's one more gig with 2700 players before the year ends: the 9th European Rapid Championship, the upcoming weekend, with Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexei Shir...
Chess Stars has just published : The Scotch Game for WhiteIn this brand new work IM Vladimir Barsky, coaching second of Alexander Morozevich and co-author of The Chigorin Defence According to Morozevich, explains the ideas behind the Scotch Game.I...
As an experienced player, when I came across “The Immortal Game: A History of Chess”, by David Shenk, I didn’t feel much inclined to pick it up. I mean, after having read such classics as The Development of Chess Style by Max Euwe, and Chess Histo...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, representing the World Chess Federation and Stefan Sergiev, representing the Bulgarian Chess Federation, yesterday signed the contract for the organization of the Anand-Topalov World Championship match. The prize fund for the m...
Magnus Carlsen won the London Chess Classic yesterday with a score of 13 out of 7: three wins, four draws and no losses. His +3 was enough to officially become the youngest world's number one player ever on the next FIDE rating list.The London Che...
There were two decisive games in the final round of the 2009 London Chess Classic, but neither came in the crucial games that decided the fate of the title. Carlsen held an advantage for a long time against Short but almost blew it in a tricky qu...
In the last few days more videos have been uploaded to our show player: an interview with Luke McShane, a part of the press conference of Short vs Ni Hua and now also an interview with Magnus Carlsen, conducted yesterday after his draw against Ada...
We have just received from Moscow: CT-ART 4.0.This new and improved version of the legendary tactics course CT-ART 3.0, the best chess training program according to many chess experts, has a new interface and adds 25% (1,000) new training exercise...
Attention: last round, and our live commentary, starts at 13:00 CET today!Again Vladimir Kramnik is just one point behind Magnus Carlsen in the standings of the London Chess Classic after beating Nigel Short today. Carlsen himself escaped with a d...
Boris Gelfand won the FIDE World Cup. He defeated Ruslan Ponomariov today in the tiebreak of the final, needing four rapid games and four blitz games to decide matters. The Israeli Grandmaster cashed US$ 120,000 (net 96,000) while Ponomariov takes...
Mickey Adams gave Magnus Carlsen a serious fright in the penultimate round of the London Chess Classic, but opposite coloured bishops were eventually enough to ensure a draw. Adams played a fine game, bravely spurning the opportunity of repeating...
In round 5 of the London Chess Classic Magnus Carlsen increased in the standings by beating Ni Hua with the black pieces while his closest rival Vladimir Kramnik was held to a draw by David Howell. Luke McShane beat Hikaru Nakamura with Black and ...
After a rather lifeless four regular time-control games in the 2009 World Cup final between Boris Gelfand and Ruslan Ponomariov, the rapid tie-breaks were as exciting as one would expect. It certainly wasn't easy for Gelfand, who was initially de...
With the first decade drawing to a close, many sites look back on the past ten years and publish their lists of ‘greatest’ movies and books, most influential people, most important historical events and most significant technological developments....
In round five of the London Chess Classic, Magnus Carlsen showed his class with a majestic win over Ni Hua to extend his lead and put himself in a commanding position in the tournament with just two rounds to go. Carlsen (pictured, from the offic...
The fourth game of the World Cup final between Boris Gelfand and Ruslan Ponomariov also ended in a draw and so tomorrow a tiebreak of rapid and possible blitz games will decide on the winner of the 2009 FIDE World Cup. Let us know who you think wi...
All games in the 4th round of the London Chess Classic ended in a draw. after three rounds. With three rounds to go, Magnus Carlsen leads with 8 points out of 4, followed by Vladimir Kramnik with one point less. Round 4 report with many photos thi...
The final match of the 2009 World Cup will go to rapid tie-breaks after the players remained deadlocked after the last of the four long time-control games. The tiebreaks and closing ceremony will take place tomorrow. The winner pockets $96,000 c...
The third game of the World Cup final between Ruslan Ponomariov and Boris Gelfand also ended in a draw and so we're just one game away from a tiebreak. Ponomariov avoided the Petroff with 1.d4 and in a Slav that looked like a Slechter and soon lik...
It was another day of fierce competition at the London Chess Classic in front of a full house of spectators, but for the first time there were no decisive results. Hikaru Nakamura put up a strong showing against leader Magnus Carlsen with the bl...
Game three of the 2009 World Cup Final between Ruslan Ponomariov and Boris Gelfand was also drawn, but was at least was more of a genuine contest than game two. Ponomariov avoided another Petroff by trying 1. d4 instead, and the players left ope...
Vladimir Kramnik is just one point behind Magnus Carlsen in the standings of the London Chess Classic after three rounds. Thursday the former World Champion crushed Luke McShane with the black pieces, while Carlsen missed a win against Howell and ...
The second game of the 2009 World Cup Final in Khanty-Mansiysk ended in a draw, leaving the players deadlocked with two regular games remaining. The hostilities came to an end after just 20 moves. The players will undoubtedly be tired and anxiou...
Game 1 and 2 of the World Cup final between Boris Gelfand and Ruslan Ponomariov have ended in a draw. In the first, Ponomariov achieved a tiny edge against Gelfand's Petroff but by strong play the Israeli GM held the draw quite easily. The second ...
