We have just received from our printers: Revolutionize Your ChessIn his latest book Viktor Moskalenko, former Ukrainian Champion and author of The fabulous Budapest Gambit and The Flexible French, presents a brand-new system to become a better pla...
Today the European Team Championship in Novi Sad will be decided. Azerbaijan and Russia are both on 13 match points, followed by five countries on 11. Russia's Alexander Morozevich decided yesterday's match against Armenia. In the women section Ru...
Many of you have probably seen the great attacking game Bacrot-Aronian, played only three days ago at the European Team Championship in Novi Sad. But what exactly did it mean to the theory of the Anti-Moscow Gambit? ChessVibes Openings #43, publis...
You can say what you like about the legendary former world chess champion, Anatoly Karpov, but he doesn't duck a challenge. After taking a severe beating in a recent match against his old nemesis, the supposedly retired Garry Kasparov, Karpov wil...
Two very exciting rounds are ahead of us at the European Team Championship in Novi Sad, where it's anyone's game after yesterday's 7th round. Armenia beat Azerbaijan and the two teams are both on 11 match points now, together with Russia. The Russ...
Sergei Zhigalko is leading the World Youth Championship in Argentina after 7 of 13 rounds. The Belarus grandmaster scored 6 points so far and is half a point ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Eduardo Iturrizaga and Falko Bindrich. And, also in Arge...
The same happened a round earlier in the women section: eight draws on the two top boards of round 6 (Azerbaijan-Russia and Ukraine-Georgia) didn't change the top of the standings of the European Team Championship in Novi Sad. The Russian ladies t...
We have just received from our friends at Russell Enterprises: Bobby Fischer - The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion.This is without doubt the ultimate Fischer Collection because, for the first time ever, every one of ...
After beating Georgia in round 5 Azerbaijan is the sole leader with 10 match points at the European Team Championship in Novi Sad. Russia follows on second place with the same number of match points as Georgia. In the women section Georgia kept th...
If you want to play through lots of recent high quality chess games, look no further than the The European Team Chess Championships website. The 2009 championships are taking place in Novi Sad in Serbia, and feature an Open and a Women's section....
As soon as I finished the first paragraph of the introduction to Jesus de la Villa's new book Dismantling the Sicilian, published by New in Chess - one of the most amazing first paragraphs I've ever read in a chess book - I thought: this book is e...
Azerbaijan and Georgia are leading the European Team Championship in Novi Sad after four rounds; the two teams won all their matches so far. Also in the women section Georgia tops the standings. In round 4 the Dutch team held Russia 2-2; on board ...
It was not a tournament graced by many decisive games, but that won't trouble Sergei Tiviakov whose lone victory against Judit Polgar earned him first place at Hoogeveen and a prize of €4,000. Many of the 11 drawn games were genuine contests, but...
Despite a second win for Levon Aronian, the Armenian team yesterday suffered a surprising loss against the first team of Serbia in Novi Sad. Azerbaijan beat Germany and Bulgaria, with Topalov, lost to England. In this match Stuart Conquest won a g...
After two more draws in the last round, Sergei Tiviakov became the winner of the 17th Univé Chess Tournament. Today Tivi's opponent Anish Giri defended a slightly worse ending and stayed unbeaten; Ivanchuk and Polgar drew in less than an hour. In ...
Levon Aronian joined the national squad of Armenia in the second round of the European Team Championship. He beat GM Istratescu and led his team to a 2.5-1.5 victory against Romania. Azerbaijan beat England with the same score and in the women sec...
It's not uncommon for films to feature scenes with chessboards on display, or even games being played (don't expect the board to be set up correctly, however). Far more unusual is for a film to use chess as its main theme... Queen To Play is a F...
A deeply disappointed Vassily Ivanchuk walked into the press room this evening after drawing with Sergei Tiviakov. Ukraine's number one was sure he was winning today. Anish Giri drew also his fifth game, against Judit Polgar. In the open group Has...
Univé Crown Group, round 4, Hoogeveen, The Netherlands. Finally, after seven games had ended in a draw, Sergei Tiviakov broke the peaceful streak with a victory against Judit Polgar. The Russian-born Dutch grandmaster explained the game before our...
We have just received David Rudel's latest work: Bxh7+ This classical bishop sacrifice is also known as the "Greek Gift". One of the most famous examples of the sacrifice is found in the game Edgard Colle - O'Hanlon, played in Nice the year 1930.T...
With just one round to go in the 13th Unive Tournament at Hoogeveen, in the Netherlands, the naturalised Dutch GM Sergei Tiviakov (pictured) is leading by half a point. Actually, Tiviakov's victory against Judit Polgar in round four has been the ...
In the first round of the European Team Championship Russia immediately dropped a match point, against Croatia. More upsets: Bulgaria lost to Italy and Switzerland beat Ukraine. Results, games and photos from Novi Sad.The 17th European Team Champi...
After Anish Giri and Vassily Ivanchuk also drew their second encounter quickly, it was Sergei Tiviakov who finally won a game in Hoogeveen. In the fourth round he beat Judit Polgar and grabbed the lead with 2.5/4.The 17th Univé Chess Tournament, f...
Making a video about a game that lasted only eight moves, now that's a challenge. But I thought, why not? At least Brodsky and Nijboer had something to explain, hadn't they, after their short draw in round 6 of the Univé Open in Hoogeveen. It was...
