Fans of Chessbase software will no doubt be pleased to hear that the release of the latest version of their flagship playing program Fritz, is due in October. So what is new in Fritz 12? Well, the menu layout has been completely re-designed for...
We are delighted to be able to announce that Quality Chess has just published: Grandmaster Repertoire 3 - The English Opening volume 1. After the bestseller: Grandmaster Repertoire 1.d4 by Borish Avrukh, we are now taken on a grandmaster tour th...
Evgeny Tomashevsky won the Higher League of the Russian Championship, a super-strong, 11-round Swiss, with a score of 8/11. He qualified for the Russian Championship, which will be held later this year in Moscow, together with GMs Vitiugov, Riazan...
For many years the reputation of China as a chess playing nation has grown almost as fast as the country's economy. Although China has it's own version of the royal game - Xiangqi (a.k.a. Chinese Chess), it has made great strides in the tradition...
The already seriously weakened Dutch Championship lost its top seed yesterday, after the third round. Sergey Tiviakov had prearranged a draw for his last-round game on Sunday and had told the organizers that he couldn't attend the closing ceremony...
China won the gold medal at the Women's World Team Championship on Saturday in Ningbo, China. The team (Hou Yifan, Zhao Xue, Shen Yang, Ju Wenjun and Huang Qian) finished on 12 match points, just like Russia (silver) and Ukraine (bronze), who coll...
Both games were drawn in the sixth and final round in the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, confirming Lev Aronian as the tournament winner. After losing in the first round, Aronian then won four games in a row to put himself in an unassailable positio...
In just over a week, Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov will play an exhibition match in Valencia, Spain, as part of the festivities of the Valencia Cuna del Ajedrez Moderno program: “Valencia, birthplace of modern chess”. ChessVibes wil...
Alexander Khalifman's famous repertoire series Opening for White According to Anand has just reached Part 12: the Rauzer Attack.Why is this series so successful? GM Steingrimsson said about Part 10 in ChessToday: "The quality and the amount of ori...
Both games in the 6th and last round of the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao ended in a draw. Levon Aronian won the tournament convincingly, finishing five points ahead of Grischuk (one and a half according to the classical system).The 2nd Grand Slam Ma...
As previously reported, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov have agreed to play a rapid/blitz match in Valencia, Spain from 21-24 September. There is now an English language website for the event here. This year marks the 25th anniversary of their ...
After losing his first game, Levon Aronian won four in a row in Bilbao and already secured tournament victory at the Grand Slam Final with one round to go. In the 5th round he defeated Alexei Shirov; Grischuk-Karjakin ended in a draw.The 2nd Grand...
Yet another win by Lev Aronian (pictured) in the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao has sealed victory for the popular Armenian with one round to spare. His victim in round five was Alexei Shirov, who is now fated to trail in last of the four competitors...
When earlier this week the news came out that Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasparov are working together, we immediately tried to contact the former World Champion as well. We sent a few questions for Kasparov to Mig Greengard, who has now sent us a p...
In the 4th round of the Grand Slam Masters Final in Bilbao, Levon Aronian grabbed the lead by beating Alexander Grischuk in a Chebanenko Slav. Alexei Shirov and Sergey Karjakin drew in a Zaitsev that was mostly played before.The 2nd Grand Slam Mas...
In round four of the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, Lev Aronian (pictured) won for the third time in a row to take the overall lead. Aronian beat early leader Alexander Grischuk in an exciting game, where an early bishop sacrifice (10. Bxb5) was fol...
Le Quang Liem took clear first at the strong Kolkata Open today. With a quick draw in the last round the Vietnamese GM (2602) finished on a splendid 8/10 (a 2777 performance), ahead of Mamedyarov and Filippov, who shared second place with half a p...
Yearbook 92 has just arrived!In this issue of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News you will find answers to urgent questions like:-- Why does Anish Giri prefer the English Attack to the Keres Attack? -- Is Anand busted in the Poisoned Pawn Va...
Sergey Karjakin defeated tournament leader Alexander Grischuk in the third round of the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao. Levon Aronian beat Alexei Shirov to catch Grischuk in the lead. Full report.The 2nd Grand Slam Masters Final takes place September ...
On Monday, August 24th Arkadij Naiditsch decided to drive from Dortmund to Amsterdam and back, to visit the NH Chess Tournament for a day. Only three days later he played his first round in Montreal, Canada and yesterday he won the strong, 12-play...
The exciting chess continued in round 3 of the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, with both games ending in decisive results. Aronian used the Marshall Gambit to great effect against Shirov to earn a short win in just 29 moves. In the final position, ...
The 10th Montreal International ended yesterday with Germany's top ranked player Arkadij Naiditsch (pictured) emerging as the winner. The 23 year-old Naiditsch won the 12-player round-robin tournament with a score of 7.5/11. Going into the last ...
On day two of the Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, Alexander Grischuk (pictured) extended his lead with a win over Alexei Shirov. The Russian showed good technique in the endgame, making his outside passed pawn and bishop v knight advantage count. Le...
After two rounds Alexander Grischuk is still on a 100% score at the Grand Slam Final. Today he defeated Alexei Shirov with the white pieces, to reach 6/2 in the football system that's applied in Bilbao. After his loss of yesterday, Levon Aronian s...
