OSC Baden-Baden is the only team left in the Schachbundesliga that won all of its matches. Still it's Werder Bremen that leads the current standings, since this weekend not only the 3rd and 4th round of the German league were played, but also one ...
Vladimir Kramnik won the Tal Memorial after successfully defending against a kingside attack by Vassily Ivanchuk in today's last round. The game ended in a draw and because Anand was crushed by Aronian, Kramnik secured clear first place. Carlsen d...
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So Vladimir Kramnik won the 2009 Tal Memorial with a hugely impressive performance. He clearly seems determined to prove a point after his loss to Vishy Anand in their WCC match. However, another headline from the event is that Magnus Carlsen ha...
The final round of the Tal Memorial is currently underway in Moscow. There are live broadcasts here and here. Webcam pictures and Russian commentary can be found here. Svidler and Gelfand are first to finish. Aronian beats Anand, so it's b...
Magnus Carlsen finally sprang to life in the penultimate round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow. After a subdued performance while fighting illness throughout the tournament, Carlsen played 1.e4 against Ponomariov and proceeded to utterly destroy th...
In the only decisive encounter of the Tal Memorial's 8th round, Magnus Carlsen won his first game, and we might as well add: in Tal style. A devastating sacrifice on e6 in a Sicilian decided his game against Ponomariov at an early stage. With four...
The 3rd and 4th round of the Schachbundesliga and one match from round 7 will take place from the 13th to the 15th of November, 2009. This article provides you with the pairings of the following weekend.The top matches of the following weekend wil...
We have just received from our friends at Russell Enterprises Inc: Studies for Practical Players by Mark Dvoretsky and Oleg Pervakov.Top chess trainer Mark Dvoretsky has written a dozen bestsellers and has employed studies in his trainer's career ...
Round 7 of the Tal Memorial was a quieter affair, with the games generally rather less inspiring than the tournament has been to date. Nonetheless, there was a great fight between Ivanchuk and Gelfand, where the popular Ukranian came out on top. ...
In the only decisive game of the Tal Memorial's 7th round, Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Boris Gelfand to reach a shared second place with Viswanathan Anand. The two are just half a point behind Vladimir Kramnik, with two rounds to go in Moscow.The Ta...
It was a strong round-robin with nine GMs but a dream came true for the only IM in the field, Daniel Alsina: he won the Torneig Cuitat de Barcelona outright, with 6.5/9, a full point ahead of GMs López Martinez and Magem Badals. In doing so, Alsin...
At the Tal Memorial in Moscow, Aronian left the group of favourites after losing to Gelfand today. Still waring a mouth mask, Ivanchuk scored a fine win against Morozevich. But the centre of attention was claimed by Kramnik again, who defeated Pon...
When Vassily Ivanchuk appeared in the playing hall for his round 5 game against Magnus Carlsen, almost all participants of the Tal Memorial couldn't resist a smile. This unique moment, just before the games started, was captured and uploaded to Yo...
Vladimir Kramnik once again claimed sole first place after round six of the Tal Memorial in Moscow. His scalp today was former FIDE champ Ruslan Ponomariov. Vishy Anand only drew in his encounter with the young pretender, Magnus Carlsen, who is ...
The revised and expanded version of the classic The Sorcerer's Apprentice by David Bronstein and Tom Fürstenberg has won the fourth Guardian Chess Book of the Year Award. According to the British daily it's an "unusual, personal, inspirational and...
Very deep opening preparation and powerful middlegame play brought Viswanathan Anand a deserved victory against Peter Leko today. The World Champion leads the Tal Memorial together with Vladimir Kramnik, who drew with Boris Gelfand - the same resu...
After yesterday's rest day (which incidentally would have been Tal's 73rd birthday), the players got down to business again in round 5 of his memorial tournament in Moscow. Kramnik continued with his more aggressive outlook with the black pieces ...
We have just received: Chess Tactics for Advanced Players In this superb book on tactics, which was originally published in 1984, the well-known Russian grandmaster and author Yuri Averbakh expounds his approach on studying this crucial aspect of...
This year's Bavaria Championship in Bad Wiessee ended in a four-way tie between Viorel Iordachescu, Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck. The four grandmasters ended on 7.5; Iordachescu had the best tiebreak.In the photo we see GMs Gup...
Both the Junior (under 20) and Senior (60 plus) World Chess Championships recently took place in Argentina and Italy respectively. The junior championship was won by 19-year old French GM Vachier Maxime-Lagrave (pictured) with 10.5/13 on a tie b...
Last year CajaCanarias (Tenerife) won the Spanish Championship after a nail-biting finish, but this weekend Linex-Magic won back the national title. It was the third cup for the team from Mérida, and match winner was Fabiano Caruana, who scored th...
Starting aggressively again, and finishing it off in the endgame, Vladimir Kramnik grabbed the lead in Moscow today by beating Peter Svidler. Although flu like symptoms among some players have been reported, so far Kramnik seems least affected.The...
Vladimir Kramnik seems to have undergone a dramatic change in style at the Tal Memorial in Moscow! In round four he scored another victory to take an undisputed lead going into the first and only rest day tomorrow. Kramnik's victim was Peter Svi...
