The 10th International Poikovsky Tournament in Russia has concluded with Alexander Motylev (pictured) finishing a clear winner by a full point with a score of 7/9. Motylev was the only player to remain undefeated throughout the tournament, achie...
A collection of valuables and belongings of Bobby Fischer, which appeared as an item on eBay several times in recent years, was yesterday purchased by Rex Sinquefield, founder and board president of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Lo...
Gambit Publications has just published Win with the Stonewall Dutch.Norwegian authors Sverre Johnsen, Ivan Bern and Simen Agdestein are well known for their previous bestsellers such as "Win with the London System" ,"The Ruy Lopez: a Guide for Bla...
With two more rounds to go, Vugar Gashimov and Alexander Motylev are leading the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky with 5.5 out of 7. Interestingly, the two still have to play each other. So far poor Alexei Shirov has collected just two draws. The 10...
With a score of 8/9 and two more rounds to go, Wang Hao was totally dominating the Chinese Championship and seemed to easily cruise to victory. Still, in the end it was 16-year-old Ding Liren who won the title. How exactly is a truly remarkable st...
10-year old Hansel Teoh (Hansel here at chess.com), from  Monticello Academy (Sunnyvale) won the Polgar World Open Boys Under-11 Championship in Las Vegas this weekend (June 6-7) with a perfect 5-0 score and won the speed chess competition with ...
The 17th Sigeman tournament in Sweden finished with top seed Nigel Short (pictured) the runaway winner with a score of 4.5/5. This year's edition was a rather short single round-robin event with just 6 players and 5 rounds. Yet so complete was th...
At the end of the last press conference on Sunday in Le??n, when press officer Leontxo Garcia asked if there were any more questions, it was Vassily Ivanchuk who said: "I have a question." In the second blitz game the players had reached the famou...
11- years old Melwyn Kenneth Baltazar , a grade VI students of F.G.Calderon Integrated School edged out his older rivals via a higher tiebreak scores to rule the 2009 Malabon Rapid Chess Championship held June 7,2009 at the Plaza Hulong Duhat C...
On Sunday, Viswanathan Anand won his rapid match against Peter Leko 5-3. The Indian won the second and the fifth match game while all other games ended in a draw. Peter Leko played his 5th rapid match in a row in Miskolc, Hungary. In 2005, he ...
In a tense and balanced final on Sunday Magnus Carlsen won the Leon rapid knockout by beating Vassily Ivanchuk 4-3. After four rapid games and two blitz games the score was still even, and drawing White for the Armageddon game Carlsen had to win, ...
Nigel Short won the Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament today with a fine score of 4.5 out of 5. Yes, that was it, the tournament only lasted five rounds this year. But what didn't change in Malm?? was the great fighting spirit. The 17th edition...
The final match of the rapid tournament in Leon, Spain, between Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen went right down to a final sudden death game in a thrilling climax to the competition. After two draws in the opening 2 games, Ivanchuk took the l...
The 8-game rapid match between Peter Leko of Hungary and the world champion Viswanathan Anand of India finished today with a 5-3 victory for Anand. Anand won game 2 with the white pieces and game 5 with the black pieces to earn the spoils. The o...
Not so many years ago, the national Chinese Chess Championships would have been a relatively minor event on the world stage, but great strides have been taken by the country in recent years. So the 2009 Chinese Individual Chess Championships in ...
Following Ivanchuk's win against Morozevich in the first semi-final in Leon, Magnus Carlsen (pictured) also booked his place in the final by beating Wang Yue in a tough match. Carlsen couldn't manage to win the first rapid game despite having a r...
Tomorrow the grande finale of the Le??n rapid tournament will be played between Magnus Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk. Today Carlsen defeated Wang Yue 3.5-2.5, deciding the match in the second blitz game. Full report; video added.ChessVibes brings o...
Vassily Ivanchuk will play the final of the Le??n rapid tournament on Sunday. Yesterday he qualified by beating Morozevich 2.5-1.5 where a win in the first game turned out to be enough. Video added.ChessVibes brings on-the-spot coverage of the XXI...
After winning recently at the extremely strong M-Tel tournament in Bulgaria, Alexei Shirov (pictured) was favourite for the 10th International Poikovsky Tournament in Russia. However, in a remarkable turn-around in form, Shirov has lost his first...
With several big tournaments already ongoing, yet another tournament is underway - this one being the annual rapid event in Leon, Spain. It's a great line-up too, with Vassily Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Morozevich and Wang Yue. The for...
Gashimov, Naiditsch and Motylev lead with 2.5 out of 3 at the 10th Karpov tournament in Poikovsky, but bigger news is the bad start of Alexei Shirov. The winner of the 2009 M-Tel Masters is in last place, having lost his first three games. The...
ChessVibes is in Leon and we'll be providing on-the-spot coverage of the 22nd edition of the Ciudad de Leon rapid tournament, which took off just one and a half hours ago with the first semi-final between Ivanchuk and Morozevich. In this post we h...
We have just received, from our friends at Russell Enterprises, the 21st Century Edition of Nottingham 1936.This new edition of Alexander Alekhine's last tournament book, has the original masterful texts, annotations using figurine algebraic notat...
Viswanathan Anand leads 2.5-1.5 in his rapid match against Peter Leko in Miskolc, Hungary. The Indian won the second match game with White while all other games ended in a draw. In Miskolc, Hungary Peter Leko has been playing rapid matches aga...
