US Chess prodigy IM Ray Robson earned his second GM norm at the recent 23rd North American FIDE Invitational. The 14 year-old Robson from Florida won the event with a score of 7/9. His exciting round 7 game against Benjamin Finegold is shown be...
In round 7 of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team increased their lead over the Rising Stars to 19½-15½ thanks to wins by Alexander Beliavsky and Peter Heine Nielsen. Beliavsky punished Fabiano Caruana, who went badly astray in the opening...
When looking at the new issue of New In Chess (2009/6), it occurred to me that maybe we are taking too much for granted.I mean: this issue has exclusive on-the-spot grandmaster tournament reports from San Sebastián, Philadelphia, Biel (Switzerland...
This week FIDE published an almost complete list of qualifiers for the 2009 World Cup, scheduled for November 20-December 15 in Khanty-Maniysk, Russia. The winner cashes USD 120,000 and will qualify for the Candidates stage of the World Championsh...
On July 8 we reported for the first time on the upcoming rapid and blitz match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, to be held September 21-24 in Valencia, Spain. In the mean time, we have booked our flights, and a promo video has been publi...
In Round 6 of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team maintained a two-point lead in their battle with the Rising Stars. Hikaru Nakamura is still not in good physical shape and lost with White to Ljubomir Ljubojevic but Jan Smeets, on the othe...
It's easy to become spoiled. In my review of Kasparov's book on his first two matches against Karpov (1984-1985), I expressed the hope that his next books would be as great as the first. But now that Kasparov has written about his 1986-1987 matche...
This is what some reviewers said about IM Herman Grooten's new book Chess Strategy for Club Players :"An outstanding positional primer." - Steve Goldberg, ChessCafe"One of my three favorite chess teaching books. Grooten supplies nice examples and ...
The Experience team took a new lead in the fifth round of the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam. Svidler beat Nakamura and Beliavsky won his first game, against Stellwagen. They're 13½-11½ up at half time; today is the first rest day.The NH Chess T...
If your chess club were celebrating it's 200th anniversary, how would you celebrate? Zurich Chess Club - the oldest chess club in the world - chose to invite a few friends to give simuls and then play in a rapid competition. Who were the friends...
Vladimir Kramnik won the Zurich Jubilee Rapid Tournament on Sunday, finishing on an undefeated 5/7, half a point ahead of Viswanathan Anand. Local hero Werner Hug managed to draw with Khalifman, Topalov, Kramnik, Karpov and Polgar. Pictorial repor...
In the fourth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars finally posted their first victory. Thanks to wins by Hou Yifan over Beliavsky and Smeets over Ljubojevic, they won 3½-1½ and caught up with the Experience team in the overall standin...
What is the difference between a sport and a game? And what qualifies a sport to be an Olympic sport? Is it all just a question of semantics? Or perhaps money? Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (pictured), the president of FIDE, has been courting the Olympic ...
I come to chess.com for chess, not politics. I am a political activist, but I confine my political activities to the streets and to the huge progressive blog dailyKos. So it was somewhat surprising what I found that the blog was going to hold its ...
Vassily Ivanchuk won the 5th FIDE Grand Prix in Jermuk today by defeating Vladimir Akopian, while co-leader Peter Leko lost his last-round game to Boris Gelfand. Levon Aronian beat Ernesto Inarkiev and finished second (together with Gelfand) which...
This weekend ten world famous chess champions are playing at the jubilee festivities of the Schachgesellschaft Zürich. Legends of the past 50 years are joining in simultaneous exhibitions and a rapid tournament at Zurich Main Station. Videos by Eu...
An exciting last round in the Jermuk Grand Prix saw Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) win with the black pieces to finish the undefeated sole winner on 8.5/13. A great result for the popular Ukrainian, who re-enters the world's top 10 after a recent po...
The third mini-match between the Rising Stars and the Experience team ended in a 2.5-2.5 tie yesterday and so the experienced grandmasters lead with 8.5-6.5. An ill Hikarua Nakamura won a beautiful King's Indian game against Alexander Beliavsky bu...
Ivanchuk and Leko lead the Grand Prix in Jermuk with 7.5 points after they both drew in round 12, while Kasimdzhanov lost to Gelfand. The last round starts Sunday 10.30 CET.The 5th tournament in the FIDE Grand Prix Series takes place in Jermuk, Ar...
In the second round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team, who were all playing with the black pieces, defeated the Rising stars 3-2 for the second time. Four games were drawn, but in the game between the oldest participant and the younge...
After beating Dmitry Jakovenko in a spectacular game, Ernesto Inarkiev said goodbye to his last place in the standings today. That spot is now taken by Ivan Cheparinov, who lost again, this time to Eljanov.The 5th tournament in the FIDE Grand Prix...
It's an endless - and often pretty boring - debate: are men better in chess than women? But recently, there was an interesting blog discussion about the All Girls US Chess School in which some points where raised that are not usually heard in this...
Already in the first round of the NH Chess Tournament, the players of the Experience team have made their intentions clear: we're not going to suffer like last year (or suffer at all)! They beat the Rising Stars team 3-2; with victories for Svidle...
In the 10th round in Jermuk Alekseev and Aronian reduced their gap with the leaders Ivanchuk, Leko and Kasimdzhanov to half a point. Inarkiev finally won a game, against Bacrot.The 5th tournament in the FIDE Grand Prix Series takes place in Jermuk...
