Ural and Monte Carlo are the defending champions at the European Club Cup which started yesterday in Ohrid, Macedonia. Many big stars can be found at the top boards, including Levon Aronian, Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexei Shirov. Info, games, photos ...
Round 2! Live with from the Saint Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center. Yesterday's games offered dynamic play and questionable moves but the day may bring more fireworks on the board. Big surprise of yesterday was the tournaments youngest playe...
A terrible blunder by Dmitry Jakovenko allowed Veselin Topalov to score his first win in round 6 of the Pearl Spring tournament. Magnus Carlsen was under pressure throughout the game with Black against Peter Leko, but held a worse ending to a draw...
Live from the 2009 U.S Women's Chess Championship at the Saint Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center. Round 1 Begins today. Listen in live when the rounds start at 2pm. listen: http://saintlouischessclub.net/ watch: http://www.saintlouischesscl...
The second half of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing has already brought something new to the event - someone other than Magnus Carlsen won a game! For a long time it looked as if that person would be Dmitry Jakovenko, but despite defendin...
Like their male Grand Slam colleagues, the Grand Prix women are enjoying their first rest day today and so we take the opportunity to do a first report on this second FIDE GP event. After a 4/4 start, GM Nana Dzagnidze lost her first game in round...
The resolutely opaque FIDE bidding process to host the planned Anand versus Topalov world championship match some time in 2010 has so far failed to attract a bid backed by real, honest, check our Swiss bank account if you don't believe us, MONEY. ...
The first half of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing is now completed, and it's getting increasingly difficult to find original superlatives to describe the truly remarkable performance of Magnus Carlsen. In a complicated middlegame struggle,...
The story doesn't change, but gets all the more amazing by the day: Magnus Carlsen beat Teimour Radjabov in just 25 moves in round 5 of the Pearl Spring tournament and now leads by a 2-point margin at half time as Topalov-Wang Yue and Leko-Jakoven...
"That the match between two retired champions causes more media frenzy than any other chess event tells you about the current state of affairs in the world of chess," Garry Kasparov said in Valencia last week. That the three current bids for the 2...
During last week's Valencia, cradle of modern chess festival, the audience could not only enjoy the Kasparov-Karpov match, but also a series of lectures on the history of chess, with special attention to Valencia's role in it. As promised, we'll n...
Using Kasparov's favourite defence against Jakovenko's 1.e4, Carlsen won his third game today, with the black pieces. The Norwegian increased his lead at the Pearl Spring Grand Slam tournament in Nanjing to 1.5 points as both Radjabov-Topalov and ...
Are we witnessing the metamorphosis of Magnus Carlsen from a powerful young GM with world title aspirations into Garry Kasparov 2.0? The influence of the former world champion has been self-evident in Carlsen's choice of openings so far in Nanji...
What was Fischer's rating on July 1972? Was Judit Polgar ever a top 10 player? Was Ivanchuk already a top 5 player in 1989? Olimpbase is a website dedicated to the collection of results and other data of team chess. Recently a new tool was added ...
All games were drawn in round 3 of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, China. The influence of Garry Kasparov was felt once again today, as Magnus Carlsen chose the Gruenfeld Defence against Wang Yue (pictured). It proved to be a good decisi...
Three combative games ended in a draw in today's third round of the Pearl Spring Grand Slam tournament in Nanjing. Carlsen keeps his one-point lead ahead of Jakovenko, Radjabov and Wang Yue.The 2nd Pearl Spring tournament takes place September 27t...
The pieces with which a medieval knight played chess against Death in Ingmar Bergman's famous The Seventh Seal (1957) have been sold on Tuesday for one million Swedish crowns (€ 97,710; $142,353), says auction house Bukowski's.The chess pieces wer...
We have just received from London: The Giants of Power Play.In 2007, Everyman Chess started the series Chess Secrets to uncover the mysteries of the most important aspects of chess: strategy, attack, opening play, gambits, classical play, endgames...
When announcing his cooperation with Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen made his goal clear: to become the world's number one in the near future. In Nanjing the Norwegian is "still on schedule" with a second victory, this time over the current number ...
Often we are asked: can I still get all issues of ChessVibes Openings published so far? Our answer is as simple as: yes you can! Of course you can also start with the current week, or receive e.g. the last ten issues; everything is possible. Whate...
Magnus Carlsen (pictured) took a firm grip on the 2nd Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing with a win in the second round against Veselin Topalov to extend his early lead. In another totally convincing victory, Carlsen accepted a pawn sacrifice fro...
In the first round of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, Magnus Carlsen defeated Peter Leko to grab an early lead. With the white pieces Veselin Topalov couldn't break through Dmitry Jakovenko's stubborn defence while Wang Yue and Teimour Rad...
Magnus Carlsen defeated Peter Leko in fine style to take an early lead after the first round of the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, China. Whatever other benefits Carlsen achieves from working with Kasparov, access to the great man's legendar...
Emil Sutovsky won the Inventi Chess tournament in Antwerp, Belgium on Sunday with a 2821 performance rating. The Israeli grandmaster defeated Antoaneta Stefanova in a sharp last-round game to finish at a 7/9 score, 1.5 points ahead of Sasikiran an...
