Board White Rating Result Black Rating 1. GM Yury Shulman (0) 2697 1-0 IM Enrico Sevillano (0) 2549 2. GM Ildar Ibragimov (0) 2628 0-1 GM Gata Kamsky (0) 2798 3. GM Hikaru Nakamura (0) 2757 1-0 GM Alexander Shabalov (0) 2620 4. GM Joshua Friedel (...
The FIDE World team (with Anand, Kramnik, Shirov and Karjakin) is leading by a point againt Azerbaijan (with Radjabov, Mamedyarov, Guseinov and Gashimov) after two rounds of the President's Cup in Baku. The coverage on the official website has bee...
Today we ask ourselves the following question: how well do we really understand the different systems in the Sicilian?The Scheveningen Sicilian is a key to our understanding! On a new DVD, GM Lubomir Ftacnik will teach you the importance of Black'...
Last weekend Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher won the 2008-2009 Four Nations Chess League (the British team championship, also known as 4NCL). In a nail-biting finish, the team from the North London district Wood Green drew 4-4 with Guildford-A&...
Chess has always been a popular theme in literature, art and movies, and it's often the subject of metaphors in daily speech. However, have you ever come across the symbolic value of our beloved game to describe drug trade?Every now and then we re...
The 2009 US Chess Championships starts on 8 May and runs until 17 May at the beautiful new Saint Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Centre (pictured below). The championship features 24 players in a 9-round Swiss event and the winner will receive ...
In the old days of Soviet chess dominance, there were some famous chess matches organised between the USSR and the 'Rest of the World'. In more recent times, there hasn't really been a country dominant enough to take on everyone else...and that, ...
In Kill K.I.D. 1 Semkov offers an entirely new approach to the Four Pawns Attack against the King's Indian Defence (K.I.D.)Semko Semkov, author from several bestsellers as The Safest Sicilian and The Queen's Gambit Accepted has been trying to kill...
With the FIDE Grand Prix in Nalchik less than a week behind us, it seems to be a pretty quiet period for top chess. However, many very strong events will be held this month: the President's Cup (Azerbaijan vs Rest of the World, with Anand and Kram...
An interesting interview with Vishy Anand is available at the Chess Classic Mainz website. In August, Anand wil be defending his 'Rapid World Championship' title that he won in the German city last year.  A snippet: Q. Next year, 2010, you will...
It doesn't happen often that a chess author makes me laugh, but Ilya Odessky is one of them. But that's not all. Many reviews of his new book Play 1.b3!, published by New in Chess, are also extremely funny. The point is, most reviewers assume Odes...
Roberto '"Galman" Torres accumulated an impressive 6.5 victories in seven games on his road to first place at the National Capital Region elimination for the Philippine team in the 3rd Asian Indoor Games held at Victory Central Mall in Monumento,C...
Last weekend the French Team Championship (top 16) concluded its preliminary phase, in which two groups of eight teams fought for places in the play-offs which will be held at the end of this month. Several 2700+ players came to France, some of th...
Those chess addicts among you who are waiting impatiently for the next big event*, could do worse that to pass the time by perusing some of the games currently taking place in the French Team Championships. As is common in European leagues, the t...
Chess.com really is about 3 things: PLAY, LEARN, and SHARE. Today we added something special to LEARN -> Video Lessons! These new daily chess videos are created by some of the best players in the world - GMs, IMs, and FMs who will give you insi...
Since FIDE announced her own concerns about the planned increase of the K-factor, there is suddenly a hot debate around the subject. It seems as if supporters like GM Bartlomiej Macieja and opponents like GM John Nunn both have strong arguments. T...
From July 27th to August 2nd, Viswanathan Anand will defend his title of Rapid World Champion, which he won already 11 times, against Levon Aronian, Arkadij Naiditsch and Ian Nepomniachtchi. In an interview with Harry Schaack the World Champion re...
Many studies have claimed that the introduction of chess tuition to young children helps them achieve better progress in their academic and personal development. Now the government of the Philippines has taken the plunge and agreed to introduce ch...
In two recent reports on the Grand Prix in Nalchik, my colleague-editor Michael Schwerteck wrote about how he hates the Petroff Defence - especially the way it's played by all these super grandmasters. All these boring draws - blegh. And Michael...
In what was arguably the finest round of the Grand Prix tournament in Nalchik, Levon Aronian managed to beat his direct competitor Peter Leko for first place in convincing and ravishing style. The rest of the games were equally entertaining.After ...
We received a letter from Ali Nihat Yazici, the President of the Turkish Chess Federation, concerning a recent arbitration in the court of Lausanne about an organizing dispute between the European Chess Union and the Turkish Chess Federation. Yazi...
The final round showdown between Lev Aronian and Peter Leko was a tense affair, but the Hungarian slipped up with 33...Nc3 allowing the pretty 34. Re5 embarrassing the black Queen. Leko struggled on, but the game seemed lost after that. Congratu...
"Aronian's saves were were based on a very distinctive style of slow-motion swindling", writes Dr John Nunn in his exclusive eye-witness report on Amber 2009. You can read Nunn's piece in New In Chess 2009/3 (just out). Other interesting stuff f...
While Aronian got luckily away with a draw, Leko punished Kasimdzhanov for his bad performance. In the last round, starting two hours earlier today, Aronian and Leko will fight out in a direct confrontation who will be the winner of the 4th Grand ...
