Today we start shipping two new books we just published: Chess Opening Essentials 2: 1.d4 d5 / 1.d4 various / Queen's Gambits Chess Opening Essentials 3: Indian Defences, CompleteThese are accessible primers and reference books at the same time,...
Scoring his first win ever with Black against Anand, Carlsen won his minimatch against the World Champ 1.5-0.5, and so did Topalov against Wang Yue today. All other minimatches ended in 1-1 and so Aronian and Morozevich still share the lead in the...
The European Championship in Budva has reached the penultimate round, played today. In Budva, Montenegro three players are on 7/9: Ernesto Inarkiev (RUS), Ivan Sokolov (NED) and Baadur Jobava (GEO). A brief update.Photo © Nebojsa Baralic The 10t...
Easily beating debutant Wang Yue in both games, Alexander Morozevich has joined Levon Aronian in the lead at the Amber tournament in Nice. The Armenian played 1-1 against Leko; the same score in Topalov-Karjakin and Carlsen-Ivanchuk. Anand won his...
Alexander Morozevich (pictured) impressively beat Wang Yue in both their blindfold and rapid games in round 2 to join Lev Aronian in a share of the overall lead in Nice. Other players moving up the leaderboard were Vishy Anand who beat Kamsky in ...
Now in its tenth consecutive year, the annual "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" 2009, the biggest and best online blitz tournament is set to be hosted March 13th to 21st yet again on the Internet Chess Club. You can play one of the qualifiers till and incl...
The first round of the combined blindfold/rapid Amber tournament in Nice provided the usual mix of impressive play and unfortunate mishaps. Blindfold move of the day was Bxf7, which was played by 2 different people! Kramnik found 15.Bxf7 against...
"All I need is to improve my table football," was Levon Aronian's answer to the question what he could improve at this year's Amber tournament. The always cheerful Armenian confirmed his wit by winning both of his games against Vassily Ivanchuk. D...
The 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament starts today in Nice, France. With a total prize fund of €216,000 and the strongest ever line-up for the event (see below), it promises to be well worth following! See the previous Chess.com news art...
ChessVibes is in Nice! On Saturday the first round of the 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament will be played and just like last year, I'll be producing daily video reports for the official tournament website. News flash: pairings are up! Fir...
Everyone Here there will be a big tournement in live chess on the Friday of 20th March, These are very rare tournements because they can only be lead by me drahnev , and these other people, Kiesh2, Linwoodmike, Meb0135, and anyone else of the staf...
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"24","attributes":{"alt":"","title":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","wysiwyg":1}}]]Better late than never: as from yesterday, ChessVibes is active on Twitter. Or, "followable" on Twi...
We have just received Dangerous Weapons: The Kings Indian, and it looks like another exciting volume in this series. Authors Glenn Flear, Yelena Dembo and Richard Palliser present quite a few sharp and creative resources to spice up this already...
To the astonishment of ECU President Boris Kutin and everybody else (well, perhaps except for our distinguished FIDE President) two highly important women events are taking place at the same time: the European Championship in St. Petersburg and th...
Azeri Grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (pictured) has repeated his serious accusations of cheating against GM Igor Kurnosov, relating to the recent Aeroflot tournament. Previous news items are here and here. A translation of his letter to an Az...
ChessVibes Openings #10 is out! The Najdorf is the most popular variation of the Sicilian, and it's clear why: the favorite opening of Fischer, Kasparov and Topalov has been very solid over the years. However, both 6.Bg5 and 6.Be2 are dangerous we...
A few days ago, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov sent us a new letter in which he strengthened his accusations to Russian GM Igor Kurnosov, who according to the Azerbaijani was cheating during the Aeroflot tournament in Moscow. We decided not to publish the ...
FIDE has announced that the forthcoming Anand v Topalov World Chess Championship match due this year is likely to be delayed until early in 2010. This hardly comes as a surprise, since the recent Topalov v Kamsky match was itself delayed by sever...
Sanan Sjugorov, Ernesto Inarkiev (both from Russia) and Georg Meier (Germany) are leading the pack in Budva, Montenegro where the European Championship has reached the 5th round.Photo © Nebojsa Baralic The 10th European Chess Championship, an 11...
The World Championship match between Anand and Topalov will be delayed until spring 2010, and the UEP bid for organizing the Wch cycle 2010-2011 has been accepted by FIDE. In 2011 there will be either Candidates Matches or a Candidates Tournament ...
The 25th Cappelle la Grande Chess Open recently took place in France and was won by the Ukrainian Yuri Vovk (picture from the official site) with an impressive score of 7.5/9. Cappelle la Grande is a huge event, and this year there were an amazin...
New In Chess 2009/2 is just out. Let me try to wet your appetite with a couple of features from its more than 100 pages:-- Karjakin explains how his dive in the icecold sea secured his win -- and the rest of the teenage explosion in Wijk aan Zee -...
At the recent FIDE Presidential Board meeting held in Istanbul, new chess titles were awarded to the players achieving the necessary results. The new Grandmasters included Scotland's top female player, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (originally from Geo...
For the first time in 25 years, London will have a chess tournament with the world's best players. From December 10 to 17, 2009 a single round-robin with eight players (five world-class grandmasters and three English players) will be held in the c...
