Four of the top rated players at the 2009 Chess World Cup faced grave danger after losing the first game of their second round matches yesterday, and only Peter Svidler managed to survive - for now. Svidler won with White against Tomi Nyback to f...
Now that I've finally accepted that I probably won't be World Chess Champion, it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to set goals in chess. What's worse, I've noticed I am trying to force my will upon my opponents by different means than winn...
The first day of the World Cup's second round saw quite a number of big upsets. Svidler lost with Black against Nyback, Morozevich went down with the white pieces against Laznicka, Sakaev defeated Radjabov, Ivanchuk lost to So and Inarkiev defeate...
The first games in round 2 of the 2009 Chess World Cup have thrown up some potential shock results, as several of the favourites lost to lower ranked players. Peter Svidler (pictured), Alexander Morozevich, Teimour Radjabov and Vassily Ivanchuk a...
I am delighted to tell you that one of our books has won the Guardian 2009 Chess Book of the Year Award. The Sorcerer's Apprentice by David Bronstein and Tom Fürstenberg has won the prestigious prize of this English daily newspaper. The judges...
Grandmaster Group C of the Corus Chess Tournament 2010 will be younger than ever. Of the fourteen participants, eleven are not older than twenty. Favourites this year are GMs Li Chao (China), Abhijeet Gupta (India) and Ray Robson (USA). All partic...
After Yu Yangyi's surprising success of yesterday, two more famous grandmasters were eliminated by Chinese rising stars in the tiebreaks today. Gabriel Sargissian lost to Li Chao and Emil Sutovsky went down against Zhou Weiqi. Tomorrow is already ...
The first round of the 2009 Chess World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk has been completed, and the top seeds managed to get through unscathed. The highest rated player to fail to make the next round was no.16 seed, Sergei Movsesian (pictured, Elo 2718), ...
This year the competition staged the meeting of 1324 participants from 90 countries all over the world and with the accompanying personnel, parents, coaches and staff this number reached 2380 people. We're talking about the World Youth Championshi...
Sergei Movsesian is the strongest player who already has to leave the World Cup after two days of play. After losing the first game to Yu Yangyi, the Slovak GM was held to a draw in the second game today. Zahar Efimenko was eliminated 1.5-0.5 by G...
The day of the FIDE World Cup saw few surprises. The biggest upset was Yu Yangyi beating Sergei Movsesian, while e.g. Ponomariov, Shirov, Grischuk and Dominguez were held to a draw by their lower-rated opponents.The FIDE World Chess Cup takes plac...
Earlier today the 3rd FIDE World Cup was officially opened, with the opening ceremony taking place in the House of Culture “Oktyabr” in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. No less than 128 strong chess players have travelled to the small, Siberian oil town a...
The Chess World Cup gets underway on the 21 November in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. In recent years, the Chess World Cup has become a regular qualifying event in the WCC cycle, even though the cycle itself has frequently changed, sometimes while sti...
We have just received from our printers: The Ruy Lopez Revisited. In this ground-breaking book, one of today's greatest Ruy Lopez experts, Ivan Sokolov, presents a practical opening guide with a wide repertoire for black players who want to play...
Unfortunately we couldn't be there with our own cameras, but we've noticed that quite a number of videos of the World Blitz Championship have already been posted on YouTube. We present a selection of them, which give a good picture of the atmosphe...
Tomorrow is the opening ceremony, and Saturday already the first game of the first round. The FIDE World Cup 2009, a knockout tournament of 128 players, will be held from November 20th till December 15th, 2009 in Khanty-Maniysk, Russia. What are y...
Magnus Carlsen has won the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 10/14 on the third day and eventually finished three points ahead of Viswanathan Anand, who scored 'only' 8/14, just like yesterday, but still finished 2nd in the ...
Magnus Carlsen is the World Blitz Champion after a strong performance on the final day which saw him extend his lead over Vishy Anand to three points at the close of play. A win by Carlsen over Anand in round 38 virtually sealed the victory for t...
Recently we have received from Hamburg: a variety of top DVDs. Lubomir Ftacnik: The Gruenfeld Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5) This DVD (+7hrs!) covers all lines of any importance. It contains more than 8000 Gruenfeld games played by the best p...
Magnus Carlsen has taken over the lead from Viswanathan Anand on the second day of the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 11/14 today (no draws!) while Anand 'only' managed 8/14, but he's is still 2nd in the standings. Day 2 ...
Not one but two events recently took place in Italy which involved computer chess. In both occasions there was a conference on the matter and afterwards a challenge match Human-Machine. Adolivio Capece reports.As part of the Festival della Scienza...
The second day of the World Blitz Championship in Moscow saw Magnus Carlsen move narrowly ahead of Vishy Anand to take the lead on 21 out of a possible 28 points. Anand lies just a single point back on 20/28 and Sergei Karjakin had a strong day t...
After the first day of play in Moscow, World Champion Viswanathan Anand has become the favourite to win the World Blitz title as well. The Indian started with a fine score of 12 out of 14 and is 2 points ahead of Magnus Carlsen. On third place aft...
Now that the serious business of the 2009 Tal Memorial is finished in Moscow, the players can relax and have some fun in the World Blitz Championship. That's the theory anyway, but in practice a world title is still a world title, and these super...
