At the recent FIDE executive board meeting in Halkidiki, Greece, one of the most bizarre suggestions yet was thankfully NOT approved. However, the FIDE powers-that-be may still try to introduce it at a later date. The already hugely controversia...
The 2010/2011 FIDE Candidates matches will be split into two groups and organized in two locations. One part will be held in Azerbaijan, and the other (in which Aronian will play) in a different country. This was decided at the 80th FIDE Congress ...
Also in the third round of the Univé Chess Tournaments both games in the Crown Group ended in a draw. Giri drew easily with Polgar using the Petroff while Ivanchuk couldn't convert a big advantage against Tiviakov - the Dutchman GM liquidated to a...
A lot of highly interesting fights can be witnessed every day in the open group of the Univé Chess Tournament. In the fourth round, American GM Josh Friedel got a promising position agains Dutchman FM Migchiel de Jong and then found a beautiful, f...
Elite trainer Mark Dvoretsky, and one of his best-known pupils, grandmaster Artur Yusupov have written the fifth and final volume of the series The School of Future Champions: Secrets of Creative Thinking.Based on courses given to talented young p...
In the final part of our coverage of the lectures held at the Valencia, birthplace of modern chess symposium in Valencia during last month's Karpov-Kasparov match, we will take a closer look at the mysterious 'lost' chess treatise by Francesch Vic...
"Amazingly, I'm still on first place after two rounds. No, even better, I have the highest tpr," Anish Giri said after his draw with Sergei Tiviakov today. The youngest participant was happy to share his thoughts about the game with us. Judit Polg...
Here's a first video from Hoogeveen. On the first day of the Crown Group in Hoogeveen we spoke to Vassily Ivanchuk and Judit Polgar, the two favourites to win the 17th edition. Enjoy!
After his recent success in the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, Magnus Carlsen has been interviewed on Norwegian television. The program and the interview are in Norwegian, but the video has English subtitles (they have to be switched on by e...
The opening two rounds of the Unive Tournament crown group at Hoogeveens have yet to produce a decisive game, but have not been without interest, as the very different competitors battle it out. Judit Polgar (pictured) came closest to breaking th...
In the first round of the Univé Chess Tournament both Giri-Ivanchuk and Polgar-Tiviakov ended in a draw. In the open group, which started already on Friday, only three players are sharing the lead after three rounds: GM Brodsky and IMs Slingerland...
The organisers of the annual Corus Tournament in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands have announced the full line-ups for the A and B Groups in next year's event, which runs from 15-31 January. Five of the current top ten rated players will feature, ...
The German Schachbundesliga, the strongest team competition in the world, started its season 2009/10 yesterday. The top matches of this first weekend take place in Solingen, where the German champion Baden-Baden faces the top teams of Solingen and...
Despite the fact that a formal bank guarantee still hasn't been provided, FIDE today accepted a bid from Sofia, Bulgaria to host the 2010 World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov. The dates have not yet been confirmed...
We have just received from our friends at Mongoose Press in Massachusetts: The Complete Hedgehog, Volume 1.The Hedgehog is a thoroughly modern defense where concepts and understanding are more important than plain memorization. It can be played ag...
Today marks the end of the (extended) deadline for bids from potential hosts for the planned Anand v Topalov match for the World Chess Championship. Although none of the bidders could provide the bank guarantees that FIDE was looking for, the bid...
I’ve been known to defend the position that women’s tournaments are all nonsense: after all, we don’t have math competitions especially for women, nor do we have girls-only musical concourses. But a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, plead...
A new sponsor, but a familiar event: the 13th Unive tournament (better known by the name of it's venue, Hoogeveens) is about to get underway in the Netherlands. This year's edition has small but intriguing lineup in the 'crown' group event, heade...
Women only chess events and women's chess titles - are they an invaluable help in promoting the women's game among commercial sponsors and providing opportunities for female chess players, or do they segregate talented women players into a self-pe...
Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Magnus Carlsen will play in Grandmaster group A of the 2010 Corus Chess Tournament. Just like Fabiano Caruana and... Nigel Short. Ni Hua and Arkadij Naiditsch are the top seeds in group B. The organizers sen...
"The book can be read on several levels - as a dramatic story, or as providing insights into opening theory, or as great games enhanced by deep analytical annotations. Kasparov succeeds triumphantly in illuminating every aspect of this historic st...
Last year she won her first title after a dramatic playoff with Irina Krush, but this time things went more smoothly for IM Anna Zatonskih, who yesterday clinched her second consecutive U.S. Women's Chess championship with a phenomenal score of 8....
Now that's marketing. We're happy to give the company behind AMP energy drinks a stage for showing their latest stunt, in which a grandmaster, disguised as a big AMP can, beats ten of the best players in Washington Square Park, New York City. We l...
Starting Out: the Scandinavian has just arrived.On the 320(!) pages of this latest volume of the Starting Out series, Jovanka Houska covers all the main lines of the Scandinavian, which has firmly established itself as an opening to be reckoned wi...
