In the first week of July two very strong tournaments will take off: the traditional Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund (this year a double round-robin with Carlsen, Kramnik, Leko, Jakovenko, Bacrot and Naiditsch) and a new kid on the block: the...
The 15 year-old chess prodigy Wesley So (pictured) has celebrated his entry into the top 100 of the official FIDE rankings by dominating the opposition at the Philippine National Championships. At a new rating of 2641, So is also ranked no.7 in t...
For chess fans it's much more than just a small country: it's where Fischer and Spassky played their Match of the Century, and it's where Fischer is buried and where he spent the last years of his life. Iceland, the land of geysers, also has a str...
The US Scholastic chess event, the SuperNationals, is underway in Nashville, Tennessee. Previous report here. The venue is the enormous Gaylord Opryland Resort (pictured), and a video tour of the hotel can be found here. The results of the many...
A new book by a world champion, that doesn't happen very often!Botvinnik-Smyslov: Three World Championship Matches has just arrived from the printers. In it, the great Mikhail Botvinnik analyses the games from the 1954, 1957 and 1958 matches.But t...
Ever wanted to know which is the oldest chess club in the world? Well, the answer is the Schachgesellschaft Z?ºrich, founded in 1809. In August the club commemorates its 200th anniversary and it gives everyone the opportunity to take part of the j...
What was covered in ChessVibes Openings #11, #12 and #13? Time flies. Since the last time mentioned we ChessVibes Openings, we have published three more issues, covering all important opening developments from the Amber tournament as well as the A...
The US Chess SuperNationals are a joint scholastic event for three categories - elementary, junior high, and high school - held together every 4 years as one big chess event. The Gaylord Opryland resort in Nashville, Tennessee hosts this year's e...
The latest official FIDE quarterly rating list has been published today, with Veselin Topalov (pictured) maintaining his #1 spot and surpassing the magic 2800 Elo barrier once more. World champion Vishy Anand is a clear #2 and Magnus Carlsen is a...
Let's return one more time to the 2009 Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament, to present you the final two videos and a small selection of photos that we hadn't published before. Enjoy!During the Amber tournament we took many, many photos but most ...
Chess will never be the same again. Until now, many mathematicians claimed it wasn’t possible to ‘solve’ chess due to the exponentially large number of possible games (10^120). However, in a dramatic development today...
After finally receiving his 13 points gained at the Pearl Spring tournament in December and earning 3 more from his match against Kamsky, Veselin Topalov tops the April 2009 FIDE rating list at 2812. Radjabov, Jakovenko and Morozevich all lost poi...
The Main-Line Slav is one of the key battlegrounds of modern chess.World Champions Petrosian, Kasparov, Topalov and Anand, as well as modern powerhouses Aronian, Kamsky, Ivanchuk, Morozevich and Carlsen have all played it with both colours!David V...
Wesley So is well on his way to tournament victory at the Phoenix Petroleum & Dapitan City "Battle of Grandmasters", or in other words: the Philippine Championship. The 15-year-old is 1.5 point clear of GMs Antonio and Torre. But... his draw a...
Second mover's winning percentage has exceeded that of First mover for the professional Japanese chess games of the fiscal year 2008(April 2008 through March 2009). It's the first time since Japan Shogi Association started stats since 1967. Here i...
Saturday OSC Baden-Baden clinched their 4th German title in a row by beating Aljechin Solingen 6-2. With a 4-point margin the club was sure of retaining its title and another 6-2 victory on Sunday against SV Wattenscheid was only for the statistic...
In this interview with Alisa Maric, she talks about managing sports as well as academics career, chess in schools, Judith Polgar, role of glamour in chess etc. In the end she has a special message for Indians! Alisa Maric was introduced to chess...
London Chess Centre Press Release London Chess Centre is proud to announce a world-class chess tournament to be held in London in December, 2009. The event will be an elite eight-player all-play-all in the most prestigious tournament in the capit...
In the same week when Korchnoi turned 78 and Smyslov 88, another famous veteran had a notable success: 64-year-old GM Vitaly Tseshkovsky from Russia won the strong Georgy Azgamov Memorial in Tashkent, ahead of GMs like Kasimdzhanov, Amonatov and V...
The hugely powerful German chess league - the Schach Bundesliga - is currently reaching the conclusion to the 2008/09 season. The reigning champions, OSG Baden-Baden are leading and look set to take their fourth title in a row. Playing top board...
Despite rule changes, player withdrawals and last-minute venue swaps, FIDE's series of Grand Prix qualifying tournaments continues next month. Nalchik, Russia has taken over as host of the fourth Grand Prix event which was originally slated for M...
The last two rounds of the Schachbundesliga take place 28th and 29th March 2009. OSG Baden-Baden is top of the table and faces Solingen and Wattenscheid at home. The team from the Southwest of Germany needs only two points to celebrate his fourth ...
If you are a serious chess player, you cannot afford to miss Chess Informant!Chess Informant 103 is the latest issue of what is still, after all those years, one of the most important sources of high-level information in chess.This volume brings y...
Lev Aronian (pictured) of Armenia successfully defended his Melody Amber title in an exciting final round, drawing both his games against Veselin Topalov. It wasn't all plain sailing for Aronian in the blindfold game, where Topalov held a clear a...
