With a blitzkrieg against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, beating the Romanian in a mere 24 moves, Vassily Ivanchuk grabbed sole lead at the Kings Tournament in Bazna, as co-leader Boris Gelfand drew with Radjabov. Alexei Shirov also won his second game a...
Ivan Cheparinov (pictured), the Bulgarian GM better known as Topalov's second, has won the 3rd Ruy Lopez tournament in Zafra, Spain, held from 13-19 June. Cheparinov won the 8-player round robin event with a score of 5/7 against an interesting fi...
Being a World Cup qualifying event, it's is probably the most important chess tournament in Queensland, Australia for at least 10 years. Virtually all the top players are competing for that long trip to Khanty-Mansiysk later this year, and GM Ian ...
Kenneth Baltazar (Master Kenneth here at chess.com) ranked only 23 rd from a field of 312 players shares the early lead with 32 other players after 3 rounds of the 2009 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship Kiddies Division held in the Ma...
By drawing with last year's winner Michael Adams in the last round, Ivan Cheparinov Friday won the 3rd Ruy Lopez tournament in Zafra. The Bulgarian finished on 5/7, half a point ahead of the Englishman.Photo: Jorge Amestar MarroquinThis year for t...
Magnus Carlsen annotates his brilliant win over Topalov, his first victory over a 2800+ player, in New In Chess 2009/4.Join me in a preview of its more than 100 pages:-- Alexey Shirov is back on board after the MTel Masters -- the new US Champion:...
Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand lead at half-time in Bazna after both won their 5th round game, against Kamsky and Shirov respectively, who both blundered. Today is the first rest day.The 3rd Kings Tournament, a six-player round-robin with Radj...
The 44th Capablanca Memorial tournament was held in Havana from 8-18 June. In the elite group, Leinier Dominguez (pictured) was the top seed, and he won the 6-player double round-robin event with a score of 6.5/10. Dominguez clinched the victory...
It's been a while since we last mentioned our PDF (+PGN!) subscription service in which we cover the latest developments in chess opening theory. Meanwhile, the Chebanenko Slav is under pressure, the 6.Bg5 Najdorf is back on top and the 9.Bxf6 Sve...
Although again all games ended in a draw, the 4th round of the Kings Tournament in Bazna was a good one. Gelfand came very close to beating Kamsky while Ivanchuk probably also missed a win in his game against Radjabov.The 3rd Kings Tournament, a s...
For the moment the K-factor won't be changed, but instead "studied further to clarify all aspects and consequences of a possible change". FIDE writes this in a press release on their website about the Presidential Board meeting which was held June...
The latest chess super-tournament is currently taking place in Bazna, Romania. This is the third edition of the tournament, and the format has changed to a double round-robin featuring six strong Grandmasters, including local star Liviu-Dieter Ni...
Ever wanted to go to Scotland, and play chess there? The Scottish Championship (July 11th-19th) is your chance. It will be the strongest ever held in the country, with 10 GMs already on the participants list. Besides, the open tournament will be h...
All games in the third round of the Kings Tournament in Bazna ended in a draw and so Shirov, Ivanchuk and Gelfand kept their shared lead. Only Radjabov had serious winning chances, in his game against Shirov.The 3rd Kings Tournament, a six-player ...
Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov, who will play a World Championship match next year, first meet each other behind the chess board twice in September in China. The two will play in the 2nd Nanjing Grand Slam together with Magnus Carlsen, Teim...
We have just received Grandmaster Secrets: Counterattack!In his latest work, GM Zenon Franco, the former chess trainer of Paco Vallejo Pons, provides a wide ranging step-by-step course in the methods of turning defence into victory.You will learn ...
Our readers know very well that Romania's number one Nisipeanu is a very creative player. Yesterday at the King's Tournament in Bazna he sacrificed a knight and got a strong attack against Gelfand, but then went wrong and eventually lost. Shirov-I...
In another relatively new event, Ivan Cheparinov leads the Magistral Ruy Lopez with a score of 2.5 out of 3. The tournament takes place in Zafra, Spain - the place where Ruy Lopez was born. This year for the third time the Festival Internacion...
Host Vietnam sweep all the 38 gold medals in the team events and 42 gold medals in the individual events to emerged over-all champion in the 10th Asean Age-Group Chess Championship held June 6-15,2009 at the Thua Thien- Hue,Vietnam.The 25-man Phil...
Alexei Shirov and Vassily Ivanchuk both seem destined to wipe away memories of their last FIDE rated tournament. The two started with victories, both with the black pieces, in the first round of the King's Tournament in Bazna, Romania. The fir...
Ivan Sokolov's Winning Chess Middlegames - an Essential Guide to Pawn Structures has already received so much positive feedback from reviewers that it seems difficult to say something different about the book. I had very high expectations of this ...
Alexei Shirov: The Philidor Defence has just appeared, from Hamburg.In this DVD, with almost 6 hours of running time, Shirov of course explains why he scores so well with the 5.g4!? gambit he introduced. He does not forget to show Black's possibil...
Alexander Motylev achieved his best career performance yesterday by winning the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky with a 7/9 score. The Russian GM finished clear first, a full point ahead of Vugar Gashimov whom he beat in the penultimate round. The 1...
The 2009 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship start next weekend, when the National Capital Region, the first leg of the eight stage nation wide series unfolds June 20,2009 at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City,Philippines. The two day eve...
