Quality Chess has just published Attacking the Spanish. IM Sabino Brunello shows that there is no reason for Black to start defending immediately, a reflex many players have when confronted with the Ruy Lopez.Brunello presents the latest develop...
Ruslan Ponomariov caught him in the last round, finishing shared first with 6.5/9, but Hikaru Nakamura, who dominated the event from the start, won the Donostia Chess Festival anyway. The U.S. Champion beat the Ukrainian 2-0 in the blitz tiebreak ...
He needed a tie-breaker to do it, but Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) has won the San Sebastian tournament in a dramatic finish. Ruslan Ponomariov won his last round game against Francisco Vallejo Pons to catch Nakamura on 6.5/9 and force the 2-game r...
After five rounds of play at the Canadian Open, GMs Ni Hua, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Victor Mikhalevski, Surya Ganguly and Mark Bluvshtein can be found at the top of the standings. At 4.5/5 they share the lead with IM Edward Porper and FMs Vl...
Evgeny Najer won the strong Maccabiah rapid tournament in Netanya, Israel yesterday with a score of 9.5/12. The Russian grandmaster finished a full point ahead of his compatriot Ian Nepomniachtchi. Veteran Alexander Beliavsky finished on a fine th...
With just one round to go in San Sebastian, Hikaru Nakamura (pictured) still leads on 6/8, half a point ahead of his nearest pursuer, Ruslan Ponomariov. But with nerves jangling, there is still all to play for. In round 7, Nakamura was lucky to...
After seven rounds Hikaru Nakamura still leads the top group of the Donostia Chess Festival in San Sebasti?°n. The American GM is half a point ahead of Ponomariov and a point of Svidler. Anatoly Karpov is having a very tough tournament; the former...
We would like to present a new book, which our online shop received just yesterday. It is called: The Moment of Zuke: Critical Positions and Pivotal Decisions for Colle System Players.Last year, American author David Rudel was quite successful wi...
While the traditional Dortmund tournament in Germany has been intermittently entertaining us, the newly minted Donostia/San Sebastian chess festival in Spain has been trying it's best to compete. The showpiece event is a 10-player round-robin wit...
Prejudice is the root of all evil. It took me over five years before I finally picked up Mark Haddon's prize-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, just because I thought the title was terribly pretentious. Once I had rea...
Vladimir Kramnik won the 2009 Sparkassen Chess Meeting today by beating Arkadij Naiditsch in the last round. The Russian, who clinched his 9th title in Dortmund, finished a full point ahead of Carlsen, Leko and Jakovenko. The Sparkassen Chess ...
Going into the last round at Dortmund, Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) only needed a draw to clinch his ninth title. He did better than that, winning the only decisive game of the round against back-marker Naiditsch to finish a point clear on 6.5/10....
With 3.5/4 Hikaru Nakamura is still the proud leader in the top group of the Donostia Chess Festival in San Sebastián. In the second group Dutch GM Loek van Wely is doing even better, with a perfect 4/4 score.The Donostia Chess Festival takes plac...
Dmitry Jakovenko (pictured) is perhaps a less familar name to western chess fans than his peers, but the 26 year old recently surpassed all his compatriots to become the top ranked Russian in the world, at #5 on the rating list. So when Jakovenko...
With one more round to go, Kramnik still leads the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. The Russian is half a point ahead of Carlsen, Leko and Jakovenko after all games ended in a draw in round 9. Don't miss the game between Jakovenko and Kramnik...
Much has been written about Vladimir Kramnik's solid style of play - often less than complementary, but if the former World Champion smells blood, he can be a ruthless attacker when the opportunity presents itself. After all games in round 6 and ...
One mistake by Carlsen was enough for Kramnik to start a deadly attack on the king of the young Norwegian. In round 8 of Dortmund the Russian won in great style and took over the lead in the standings. Leko and Naiditsch drew their game and Jakove...
At the moment he's playing a tough tournament in San Sebasti?°n but before that, former World Champion Anatoly Karpov played his role as ambassador for chess in Syria, where he was invited recently for some promotional activities. The Europe-Echec...
From our friends at Russell Enterprises we have just received 1.b4: Theory & Practice of the Sokolsky Opening.Some find it weird and wacky, others call it safe and sound. Actually the Sokolsky Opening is both. Sometimes the play is truly devia...
After three more draws in round 7 Carlsen still leads the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. Naiditsch had a winning position against Jakovenko (who played the Sicilian Dragon!) but allowed his opponent a narrow escape.The Sparkassen Chess Meet...
After his shared win at the World Open Hikaru Nakamura continues to do well. The U.S. Champion is the only player on 2/2 in the top group of the Donostia Chess Festival in San Sebastián, Spain. In the second group Dutch GM Loek van Wely sta...
This year's Sparkassen Chess Meeting continues to disappoint the chess fans as two out of three games in round 6 (Kramnik-Leko and Bacrot-Naiditsch) were quick and uneventful draws. Jakovenko-Carlsen, also drawn, was quite an interesting fight, in...
No, it's not a badly timed April fool's joke. Reliable reports state that retired former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (pictured) is to play a 12-game match against his great rival Anatoly Karpov. Before we get over-excited, it should be n...
U.S. President Barack Obama visited Moscow this week to meet with Russian leaders Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, but also with the opposition, including Garry Kasparov. The former world champion is mainly active in politics these days, but in...
