The silence was broken in round 3 of the Tal Memorial. Anand was the first to win today when Svidler blundered in an already difficult position. Leko never got true compensation against Aronian in an Anti-Moscow and resigned on move 43. In the bes...
Jose Manuel Lopez and Daniel Alsina are leading the Torneig Cuitat de Barcelona after five rounds. In the category 14 round-robin the two scored 3.5 points and are half a point ahead of two more famous names: Ulf Andersson and Alexey Dreev.The tou...
At last some decisive games at the Tal Memorial in Moscow! The quality has been very high so far, but there's nothing like some blood on the board to raise the pulse rate! Fittingly, it was world champion Anand who was first to bag a victory, po...
The same story as yesterday reaches us from Moscow, Russia: five more draws in round 2 of the Tal Memorial kept everyone together in first and last place, but also today we saw a number of interesting games. The Tal Memorial takes place November 4...
I am one of those people who, despite all the obvious advantages, dislikes virtual music libraries. I need to have the actual albums to get a feeling for the music, which otherwise sounds utterly inpersonal to me. Call me old-fashioned, but for th...
We are celebrating our 25th Anniversary! That is why New In Chess 2009/7 is a bumper issue with 40 EXTRA PAGES.Some higlights are: -- both Carlsen and Kasparov on their co-operation -- Anand: my favourite websites -- Topalov: my greatest fe...
There were more fascinating clashes in round two at the Tal Memorial in Moscow, but still no decisive games. It can only be a matter of time before the equilibrium is disturbed, and someone breaks from the pack. With a field this strong, it's no...
The Tal Memorial started today with five draws, but the first round was far from boring. Most eyes were focused on Carlsen-Kramnik, in which the former World Champion went for the top seed's throat - a surprising but welcome act of aggression with...
Viorel Iordachescu started strongly at this year's Bavaria Championship in Bad Wiessee. The Moldavian grandmaster began with five wins in as many games, and leads with half a point ahead of no less than sixteen players, including GMs Gupta, Rozent...
There were no decisive results in the first round of the Tal Memorial in Moscow, but it was a close run thing in several games, notably the clash between Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik. Despite Carlsen having the advantage of the white piece...
We received lots of positive feedback on our coverage of the Pearl Spring tournament (Nanjing), and this encouraged us to do even better during the Tal Memorial. With Anand, Aronian, Carlsen, Kramnik, Leko, Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Morozevich, Svidler a...
The 2009 Tal Memorial tournament in Moscow runs from 5-14 November and features almost all the top players in the world today. It's very rare for such a powerful line-up to be assembled and the event promises to be one of the strongest chess comp...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from France won the U20 World Youth Championship after a dramatic last round, in which he caught Sergei Zhigalko in the standings. The two finished on 10.5/13, but Vachier-Lagrave won the title due to a higher sum of the rat...
We just received: Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate. US Champion Hikaru Nakamura, a legend in speed chess, and Bruce Harper have written the first book about bullet chess, the popular and fun format where players get just one minute for the entire ...
The FIDE World Cup 2009 will be a knockout tournament of 128 players, held from November 20th till December 15th, 2009 in Khanty-Maniysk, Russia, just like the previous two World Cups won by Levon Aronian and Gata Kamsky respectively. After the pu...
Part of this year's Corsican Circuit was a rapid match of four games, held in both Bastia (games 1 and 2) and Ajaccio (games 3 and 4), between Viswanathan Anand and Anatoly Karpov. Anand won the match 3.5-0.5 on the same day that the 2nd Kasparov-...
On the second day of their rapid match, Vishy Anand (pictured) comfortably won both games against former champion Anatoly Karpov, to emerge the victor by 3.5-0.5. No-one doubts the heart and passion that the great Anatoly Karpov has for chess, bu...
On October 13th, for the third time in a row Garry Kasparov gave a simul in Antwerp, Belgium against a number of CEO's, politicians and children. Nigel Short was there as well to give live commentary, and everything was set in a studio and filmed ...
Magnus Carlsen officialy broke the 2800 barrier today. On the November 1st FIDE rating list the Norwegian is the new world's number 2, only 9 points behind Veselin Topalov (2810). Radjabov and Ivanchuk left the top 10 for Gashimov and Svidler.We a...
The latest official bi-monthly FIDE rating list has been published, and Veselin Topalov (pictured) maintains his position at #1 in the rankings, with Magnus Carlsen snapping at his heels in the #2 spot. Carlsen's dominant performance in Nanjing s...
Vishy Anand took the lead against Anatoly Karpov in the first games of their rapid match, in Corsica. Anand won with the white pieces in game one, but Karpov held a draw with his turn with the white pieces in game two. The rate of play is 15 mi...
At the European Team Chess Championships in Serbia, Russia held the lead going into the final round, but were dramatically pipped to the Gold by Azerbaijan in a thrilling end to the event. A match win for Russia against their last round opponents...
Azerbaijan won the 17th European Team Championship in Novi Sad today thanks to a 2.5-1.5 victory against The Netherlands. Russia, held 2-2 by Spain, took silver and Ukraine won the bronze medal. The Russian women won the gold medal ahead of Georgi...
Last Tuesday, in the Max Euwe Centre in Amsterdam, publisher Hanon W. Russell and author Karsten Müller officially presented their brand new book on Fischer: Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion. Chess...
