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 ...
This week FIDE expressed her concerns about the effects of the new K-Factor which will be in order as from July 1st, and decided to publish two parallel rating lists for a year and then review the results of the different K-factors in effect. GM B...
In 1997 IBM's custom built chess supercomputer Deep Blue beat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov in a 6-game match and IBM's share price rocketed. Now in 2009, IBM has announced plans to unleash it's latest experiment in artificial...
Round-robin events rarely produce final round head-to-heads between the leading players, but going into the 13th and final round of the Nalchik Grand Prix, Lev Aronian and Peter Leko (pictured) are joint leaders on 7.5/12 and by sheer chance they ...
Levon Aronian and runner-up Peter Leko both did their job by drawing their black games in the eleventh round in Nalchik and therefore nothing significantly changed in the standings. Because Ivanchuk and Gelfand won their games, the rest of the fie...
On Sunday Viswanathan Anand defeated Chile's number one player GM Ivan Morovic Fernandez 2-0 in a short exhibition rapid match. The World Champion spends four days in the Latin American country, helping in popularizing the game of chess.Between Ap...
Back from their second rest day, the players were in fighting spirit in round 10 with five of the 7 games ending decisively. Alekseev had been joint leader with Aronian, but he lost to Grischuk to fall back into the pack. In contrast, Aronian (p...
Did someone say „Black is hot“? In round 10 of the Grand Prix he was not! The players with the black pieces only scored one draw out of six games plus another draw out of a non-game. Even the Petroff only scored 25 percent. As a result, Aronia...
It usually takes a while before beginning chess players realize there are also great chess openings for Black. For me, this moment came when I discovered the Gr?ºnfeld Defence. Here, finally, was a chess opening in which it was possible to create ...
Region X Silverio Abasolo defeated Nazario Ubanan of Cagayan de Oro to grab the solo lead after five rounds of the Tonsuya Non-Masters Active Chess Tournament held at the Tonsuya Covered Court, Malabon City. The real shocker was a loss by top seed...
In another excellent round fight in Nalchik, Evgeny Alekseev climbed to shared first place after a fine win over Sergey Karjakin. Gata Kamsky finally won again, beating Grischuk with Black, and Etienne Bacrot scored his first win of the tournament...
A link to the video was posted on Facebook by many chess players already, and it was brought to our attention by several readers. And yes, we do like it too: the chess promo for the National Basketball Association (NBA) on the American cable netwo...
The FIDE Grand Prix in Nalchik continues to serve up some mouthwatering games in a very hard fought competition. In round 7, Kamsky tried out the French defence again; a new choice which he had prepared previously for his match with Topalov. Topa...
Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended more or less OK, and now: what?Chess Strategy for Club Players, our new book, is IM Herman Grooten's magnum opus.It is a complete (411 pages!) and structured course, not just another colle...
The Grand Prix in Nalchik keeps on producing exciting chess. In the eighth round Black was in perfect shape by winning two games, while the remaining games ended in draw. Beyond dispute, man of the day was Boris Gelfand, who came up already on mov...
At ChessVibes headquarters we constantly try to improve. Although our very first product was generally welcomed positively, we've taken the few bits of criticism seriously and since issue 15, CVO is now not 3 but 4 pages. You will find more text a...
Alexandra Kosteniuk is the current Women's World Chess Champion - a title she won in September 2008, beating Hou Yifan in the final match. Kosteniuk was born in Perm, Russia on 23 April 1984 and was taught to play chess by her father when she was...
In round seven of the Nalchik Grand Prix, Karjakin and Eljanov won their games, while Aronian maintained his lead. The round was also notable for the players‘ opening choices – some were unusual, some instructive and some rather strange. Updat...
Everybody has a favourite chess move. Many just love 23...Qg3. Tim Krabb?©'s favourite is 16...Nc6. According to British Chess Magazine, it's 47...Bh3. And a member of my local chess club is obsessed by the move 7.Ke3! in the Traxler Counter-Attac...
Round 6 of the FIDE Grand Prix in Nalchik saw a reversal of fortunes and a new leader. Former leader Grischuk came unstuck at the hands of Mamedyarov, and taking his place at the top of the standings was ratings favourite Lev Aronian (pictured). ...
The 4th Grand Prix tournament is becoming a nice and bloody one, as tournament leader Alexander Grischuk was beaten by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in round six. As it turns out anyone can beat anyone. Levon Aronian took advantage by beating Vassily Ivan...
In the news this week was Sergei Karjakin's announcement that he will start playing for Russia instead of Ukraine. He and his family will probably move from Simferopol to Moscow soon, and become Russian citizens. In a video interview with ChessVib...
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Chess is a difficult game. Not only because you have to make good moves, but also because you have to stay alert for many hours. However hard you've worked before, one tiny lapse of concentration can destroy hours of labour. This sadly happened to...
