Big, exclusive interview with the winner of the 2009 M-Tel Masters Last Thursday night, Alexei Shirov was in Hamburg, Germany where he showed his games of the 2009 M-Tel Masters at the Hamburg Chess Club. ChessVibes was present, and we recorded a ...
Several of the Chess.com staff will be at the National Open Chess Tournament in Las Vegas this weekend (June 4-7)! There will be 3 of us there: me (Erik), Jay, and IM David Pruess. If you see one of us come say "HI!". We'd love to meet you. And if...
If the Anand v Leko match and the Poikovsky Tournament aren't enough to satisfy your chess appetite, then fear not, the 17th Sigeman & Co Tournament is underway in Malmo, Sweden. The Sigeman tournament runs from 3-7 June and top seed is Engla...
GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran finished with 5 wins and 4 draws to bag the top prize of US $ 5,000.00 in the 2nd Subic Bay International Open Chess Championship held in Subic Bay Free Port, Philippines. Ghaem Maghami ranked 2nd defeated untitled W...
Last weekend was the final weekend of the French Team Championship (top 16). Four rounds were played in both a "Poule Haute" and a "Poule Basse", and Evry Grand Roque (with Svidler, Nakamura and Vachier Lagrave in the squad) clinched the title. ...
Yearbook 91 has just arrived!In this issue of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News you will find answers to urgent quenstions like: -- can Svidler's refutation of Topalov's brilliant sac in the Najdorf be refuted? -- what does Sosonko t...
Swedish GM Emanuel Berg likes the city of Maastricht a lot, and therefore he played in all three editions of the Limburg Open Championship. This year he finished first on tiebreak and shared the prize money with GM Sipke Ernst, GM Yuri Solodovnich...
The 10th International Poikovsky tournament starts tomorrow in errr...Poikovsky, Russia. It's also known as the 'Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky', since it is held in honour of the former world champion. The event takes place from 3-12 June, and t...
Hot on the heels of the Ivanchuk v Navara rapid match in Prague comes another rapid match, this one between Peter Leko (pictured) and Vishy Anand in Miskolc, Hungary. This will be the fifth annual rapid match for Peter Leko in his home country ag...
In the Cez Chess Trophy rapid match Ivanchuk beat Navara 5.5-2.5. The Czech grandmaster started the second half with a win, but then lost two more games. The last ended in a draw.From May 27 to 31 Ivanchuk and Navara played an eight-game rapid mat...
Traditionally many open tournaments take place during the Whitsun weekend and the Limburg Open is one of them. In the third edition of the tournament, four rounds have been played and at the moment GMs Berg and Solodovnichenko and IMs Brandenburg ...
Czech's finest, David Navara, scored his first win in game 5 of his 8-game rapid match with Vassily Ivanchuk yesterday. However, in game 6 Ivanchuk reasserted his lead and his dominance with the white pieces by winning yet again. So going into t...
Today we walked into an old friend: the second edition of The ABC of the Ruy Lopez.It must have been over three years, since we first met. We worked together intensively, back then, and my Spanish opening skills improved a lot. My friend looked ex...
International Master Rob Hartoch (62) passed away Thursday morning in St. Lucas Hospital in Amsterdam. He suffered severe liver damage. He will be deeply missed in the Dutch chess scene. In Memoriam by Karel van Delft. Rob Hartoch was a very g...
We reported back in February that the first Bobby Fischer biopic 'Bobby Fischer Live', was in production. Now a trailer for the film has been released by Amamdeus Pictures. The whole project is very much the work of one man, Damian Chapa (pictur...
After four of the eight games, Vassily Ivanchuk is leading his rapid match in Prague against David Navara 3-1. Thus far the Ukrainian follows the perfect match strategy of drawing with Black and winning with White. However, in game 4 Navara was ve...
Does Vassily Ivanchuk ever stop playing chess? The hardest working man in the chess-business has just started an 8-game rapid match in Prague against the top Czech player David Navara (Elo 2654). The match is the main attraction of a larger chess...
A remarkable item appeared on eBay several times in the past few years: a collection of valuables and belongings of Bobby Fischer. It was always mysteriously removed again within a couple of days, but currently a very similar item can be found at ...
The 2009 Chicago Open ended on Monday with victory for Jaan Ehlvest (pictured) in a sudden-death decider against top seed Gabriel Sargassian. The event attracted a 50-strong field with 17 GMs among them.  The format was a 7-round Swiss Open, an...
Winning with the black pieces in the blitz Armageddon play-off against Gabriel Sargissian, Jaan Ehlvest clinched the title at the Chicago Open on Monday. The two had ended on 5.5/7 ahead of Van Wely, Shulman, Akobian, Kacheishvili, Shabalov and Fi...
Dangerous Weapons: The Pirc and Modern has just arrived.In this latest volume of the Dangerous Weapons series, Richard Palliser, James Vigus and Colin McNabon present some shocking ideas in these dynamic, interrelated defences.World Champion Viswa...
After the ACP World Rapid Cup, three more rapid events will be held this month. Already tomorrow a match between Ivanchuk and Navara starts in Prague and next week there's both a match between Anand and Leko in Miskolc, and the traditional event i...
Igor Stohl's Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces is written in the tradition of classic chess books such as Tarrasch's Dreihundert Schachpartien and Nimzowitsch's Die Praxis Meines Systems: serious game analysis put in a broader context of chess...
The 3rd edition of the ACP World Rapid Cup recently took place in Odessa, Ukraine from 22-24 May, with Boris Gelfand (pictured) defeating Peter Svidler in a closely contested final. The ACP (Association Of Chess Professionals) is an organisation ...
