The 10th European Individual Chess Championships is underway in Budva, Montenegro. This 11-round Swiss competition is open to men and women, although there is a separate Women's Individual European Championship also underway in St. Petersburg, Ru...
Karjakin and Ivanchuk did well at Corus and Linares respectively, but another Ukrainian was successful in one of the biggest Swisses of the year. Yuri Vovk won the 25th Cappelle la Grande International Chess Open finishing clear first with 7.5/9.T...
Especially after such a wonderful penultimate round it was a bit of an anticlimax: all games in round 14 of Linares ended in a draw, and so Grischuk and Ivanchuk finished shared first. The Ukrainian's SB was higher and he left the tournament undef...
After an exciting tournament and a thrilling penultimate round in Linares, the final round ended on a disappointing note. All four games were fairly uneventful draws, leaving Alexander Grischuk (pictured) as the winner by virtue of superior tie-b...
In arguably the most spectacular round of Linares so far, Ivanchuk defeated Aronian to join Grischuk in the top of the standings. Carlsen missed a win against Radjabov and is in third place, half a point behind the leaders. Saturday is the last ro...
It was a remarkable penultimate round in Linares today, with tremendous fights taking place in all the games! Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) took advantage of a dubious pawn sacrifice from Aronian to win their game and catch Alexander Grischuk in a ...
Today the 10th European Chess Championship takes off in Budva, Montenegro, where Tiviakov will defend his title in a huge, 11-round Swiss. There's turmoil in the women's section: Sunday is the first round of the European Women's Championship (held...
Chess Explained is an opening series that has been very popular ever since it started. The emphasis in these books is always more on explanation of the main ideas than on encyclopedic depth of an opening.The latest volume in this series deals with...
In the 12th round of Linares, Grischuk suffered his first loss of the tournament, with Black against Carlsen. All other games were drawn and so the Russian grandmaster still leads with half a point, but anything can happen now in the second Grand ...
With the finishing line fast approaching in Linares, Alexander Grischuk suffered his first loss today, but still leads the tournament on 7/12. His nemesis was Magnus Carlsen (pictured) in a complex Sicilian Scheveningen where Grischuk got into ti...
(Note: This report should have been published after round 9 of the Linares tournament, but was overlooked - apologies!) Now that Magnus Carlsen has turned 18, it seems inappropriate to call him a wunderkid any more, but his win against Dominguez ...
ChessVibes Openings #9 is out! Our latest issue of ChessVibes Openings brings you the most important opening developments from last week, focusing on the Linares and the Bundesliga. All major 'TNs' (theorical novelties) from those events are cover...
After the awards ceremony of the Challenger's Match in Sofia, winner Veselin Topalov talked to Chess.FM’s Macauley Peterson, before leaving the National Palace of Culture for the last time. In a video interview, Topalov speaks about the match ag...
All games in round 11 at Linares ended in draw, leaving Alexander Grischuk (pictured) still leading by a clear point on 7/11. Vassily Ivanchuk is second on 6/11, followed by Carlsen, Anand and Aronian on 5.5/11. Only Aronian came close to victor...
Going into the final rest day, Alexander Grischuk is still a point clear of the rest of the field in Linares after all games in the 11th round ended in a draw.From February 18 till March 8 the 26th Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares...
Last week, ChessBase was apparently 'forced to cease Internet broadcasting of the Topalov-Kamsky match'. As we noted in our report on the first match game, live broadcasting of the chess moves in this match without permission was prohibited by the...
The intellectual teachings of, for example, Mark Dvoretsky may not be everyone's cup of tea. Here's a different approach with the same goal in mind: to teach you how to play chess. Andy Rea has created 70 'normal' games, with all the 'normal' mist...
After a relatively quiet round 9 in Linares, round 10 produced much more excitement again. Teimour Radjabov (pictured) played a very quiet opening with White against Aronian, but it seemed to do the trick as he eventually won a pawn and converted...
Favorites Aronian and Carlsen are having a very unpredictable and unstable Linares tournament so far, interchanging wins with losses. In round 10, the former lost to Radjabov while the latter went down against Wang Yue. Grischuk-Ivanchuk and Anand...
Japan Shogi Association unveiled the list of top 20 shogi professional player list regarding their annual earnings from professional shogi tournaments for 2008(in Japanese). I'm picking up the top 10 from that here. The amount of each player is ob...
After a hard-fought 4-4 against Werder Bremen, reigning German champion Baden-Baden is close to defending their title. Among the winners of the weekend are also Solingen and Tegernsee, who are on second and third places with two more Bundesliga ro...
I have written up the HHCF event from the perspective of one of my strudents (and chess.com member). It is at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/1/175050/5056/366/703416. (because I wanted to post at a site that isn't just chess) There will ...
In the 9th round of Linares, the three games Ivanchuk-Radjabov, Wang Yue-Grischuk and Aronian-Anand were quite uneventful draws, but in a sharp Chinese Dragon Carlsen scored a nice win with Black against Dominguez. The Norwegian climbed back to se...
The 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament, organized by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco, takes place from March 14 (first round) to March 26 (last round) at the five-star hotel Palais de la Mediterran?©e, splendidly located on the famous Pr...
