After his excellent start, three times winner Morozevich is suddenly back on fifty percent at the Biel Chess Festival, after losing to Alekseev today. Drawing with Vachier-Lagrave, Ivanchuk is now leading by half a point going into the second rest...
It was a clash between the co-leaders of a super-tournament, and it was also one of the shortest games played this entire year: Morozevich-Ivanchuk, 1/2 after 12 moves. They're still the co-leaders as the games Gelfand-Vachier Lagrave and Alekseev...
What happened to our regular single round victory? All games in round 5 at the Biel GM tournament were drawn, although Alekseev and Caruana battled it out in Sicilian Dragon that provided some real interest. The expected game of the round barely...
When most people hear of the “Colle System,” they think of the modest, solid, setup where White plays d4, Nf3, e3, Bd3, c3, Nbd2, and then looks up to see what Black has done with his moves. Guest author David Rudel proves that the system can actu...
An important moment in chess publishing: Garry Kasparov has written the next episode of his historic clashes with Anatoly Karpov.The third volume of Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess has just been released. It covers the third and fourth matches (198...
Fabiano Caruana defeated tournament leader Alexander Morozevich in the 4th round in Biel, and so a draw with Boris Gelfand was enough for Vassily Ivanchuk to catch the Russian in the standings. The Biel Chess Festival takes place July 18 to 31 in ...
The dates of the Grand Slam Final Masters in Bilbao have been changed, the list of players for the Nanjing super-tournament has been changed and the venue of the London super-tournament has been announced. An update on the information about three ...
The quarterly Matten provides a mixture of interviews, stories and anecdotes with a literary flavour, interweaved with drawings, cartoons and photos. Recently the 6th issue came out, and as a rare exception we bring a review in the Dutch language....
Round 4 of the Biel GM Tournament saw the pattern of one white victory out of three games continue. This time it was the turn of young Fabiano Caruana (pictured) to earn the full point with a win over the leader, Alexander Morozevich. As a resul...
The 'London Chess Classic' tournament announced recently now has a confirmed venue (see the press release below). The line-up is: Magnus Carlsen NOR 2770 Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2759 Ni Hua CHN 2724 Michael Adams ENG 2703 Hikaru Nakamura USA ...
At the recent San Sebastian tournament Hikaru Nakamura won a blitz playoff against Ruslan Ponomariov to take the title. Unfortunately, due to a problem with the live game relay, there was a long delay before the moves of the second game were avai...
Our switch to a new, Silverlight game viewer back in May led to an enormous protest by especially Linux users. We never liked the idea that they couldn't replay the games on their computers anymore, so we kept on searching for a Javascript-based ...
In the third round of Biel, Vassily Ivanchuk outplayed Fabiano Caruana in an ending with rooks and opposite-coloured bishops. The Ukrainian is now half a point behind Alexander Morozevich, who drew with Black against Vachier-Lagrave. Boris Gelfand...
We have just recieved from London: The new Sicilian Dragon.In this book GM and Sicilian Dragon expert Simon Williams takes a totally fresh look at this popular opening and presents the "Dragadorf Variation", a line in which Black playes both g6 an...
A contingent of 12 talented Indian chess players had travelled to The Netherlands, and in the end one of them emerged as the winner of the Leiden Chess Tournament: IM Lalith Babu. He was the only one to finish on 7.5/9 ahead of GMs Van den Doel an...
There seems to be a rule that Biel will have one decisive game per round, and the obliging game today featured Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) against Fabiano Caruana. Another apparent rule is that there are no Petroff's or Berlin's. Yay! After Moro...
Alexander Morozevich also won his second White game today, after a big blunder by Gelfand, to increase his lead at the Biel Chess Festival to a point. Caruana-Vachier-Lagrave and Alekseev-Ivanchuk both ended in a draw. The Biel Chess Festival take...
Especially when a number of elite grandmasters come and play, it's nice to have a local winner and this is what happened at the Canadian Open, where GM Mark Bluvshtein and IM Edward Porper, both from Canada, finished shared first with a fine score...
Round two of the Grandmaster Tournament at the Biel Chess Festival continued the high entertainment factor of round one, with a dash of schadenfreude. Alexander Morozevich (pictured) won again to lead on 2/2, a clear point ahead after just 2 rou...
This early morning we received an email from David Llada, one of the organizers of the Donostia (San Sebastián) Chess Festival who made those great pictures there and who... also tried out his video camera, as it turned out. The two blitz games be...
In a very exciting first round of Biel, Alexander Morozevich defeated his compatriot Evgeny Alekseev with White to grab an early lead as Vachier-Lagrave-Ivanchuk and Gelfand-Caruana both ended in a draw. We've seen several new tournaments this...
The grandmaster group in Biel started the first round of their double round-robin event today like they meant business. The only surprise was that just one game out of the three played ended decisively. An early exchange of queens didn't stop Mo...
Is it just me, or are there more chess super-tournaments these days? With the ink barely dry on Nakamura's cheque for 9,000 euros for winning in San Sebastian, the action shifts to the Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland. The 42nd Biel Chess Fest...
From July 27th to August 3rd the German city of Mainz will be the epicentre of rapid chess and Chess960 again. The organizers of the Mainz Chess Classic provided an interview with one of the sponsors, Wolfgang Kögler, CEO of the ORDIX AG, about pa...
