On this Sunday morning we have another press conference for you and this time it's Sergey Movsesian showing his victory over Vassily Ivanchuk, who used a lot of time in the opening phase of yesterday's game and didn't survive the growing pressure ...
Sergei Movsesian (pictured) has left it relatively late in life to break through at the very top levels of chess, but the 30 year-old moved into a share of first place in Round 7 at Wijk Aan Zee by beating Vassily Ivanchuk (who at 39, has been amo...
Karjakin had no reason to risk too much against Aronian and drew very quickly today. Movsesian played an excellent game with Black and beat Ivanchuk, and suddenly we find last year's B qualifier in shared first place! Carlsen escaped with a draw a...
In our Corus Chess News of the sixth round, Bianca Muhren is back for the presentation. As always, enjoy our daily wrap-up of yesterday's events in Wijk aan Zee.
Yesterday's press conference was done by Michael Adams, who defeated Wang Yue with the black pieces, in his usual style, but not in his usual opening. In fact, the Englishman admitted that he had never played the Queen's Gambit Declined before, ad...
Sergey Karjakin (pictured) drew with the black pieces against Magnus Carlsen in Round 6 to maintain his narrow lead at Corus on 4 points, just ahead of the chasing pack on 3.5. It has been a very even tournament so far, with Magnus Carlsen surpri...
After six rounds at Corus the tournament leader is still Sergey Karjakin, but today he had a narrow escape against Magnus Carlsen who missed a clear win at least once. Morozevich is not himself, and lost against Movsesian like a child. Adams grind...
Alexander Khalifman's famous repertoire series Opening for White According to Anand has just reached Part 11: the Dragon and Accelerated Dragon. Why is this series so successful? GM Steingrimsson said about Part 10 in ChessToday: "The quality and ...
In our Corus Chess News of the fifth round, Tom Bottema fills in for Bianca Muhren, who had to play a simul last night. The report includes a clip with Leinier Dominguez who played a beautiful game against Morozevich yesterday. ...
It was not difficult to pick a game for the press conference yesterday. Loek van Wely's victory over Teimour Radjabov, which was a new chapter in the long history of King's Indians between these two players, was worth watching, as was KingLoek's e...
Several boards are on fire already in the fifth round of Corus. Karjakin got Stellwagen thinking in his favorite Taimanov Sicilian, and Van Wely and Radjabov continued their life-long theoretical battle in the King's Indian. Great stuff so far! La...
Sergey Karjakin (pictured) pulled off his second win in an exciting fifth round in Wijk Aan Zee to take the sole lead in the A Group on 3.5/5. His victim was Daniel Stellwagen in a Sicilian Taiminov. A better result for the home players came whe...
The FIDE Doping Hearing Panel has unanimously decided that Vassily Ivanchuk will not face a ban as a result of his failure to take a drugs test at the end of the Dresden Olympiad. The announcement in full: Decision of the FIDE Doping Panel Wijk...
Vassily Ivanchuk will not be penalized for his missed drug test at the Dresden Olympiad. The reason is a procedural error: an official Doping Control Officer was not present when Ivanchuk was asked to be tested. The decision was made by the FIDE H...
ChessVibes Openings #3 is out! We've just emailed ChessVibes Openings #3 to our subscribers - our brand new PDF (+PGN!) magazine that delivers the latest novelties in your mailbox! This week's issue focuses on the most important opening developmen...
After the fourth round there was no press conference. In our Corus Chess News of the fourth round, we have short clips with Levon Aronian & Magnus Carlsen taken right after their long game, and also with David Howell, who profited from a huge blun...
Today, last year's winners Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian will want to try and catch up with the leaders in the tournament so far. They've chosen a principled Slav Meran Defence where both players develop their pieces harmoniously before makin...
He's not very fond of it (or so it seems) and so Kamsky went through the game rapidly, but still his crushing victory against Alexander Morozevich is well worth watching, in our opinion!
In our Corus Chess News of the third round, we managed to get Nigel Short before the camera, right after his blitz victory against l'Ami. Another actor in this show is Radjabov. Enjoy!
All games in the fourth round of the A group at Corus ended in draws, but there were some interesting battles among them. Aronian (pictured) sacrificed a piece for some pawns against Carlsen, but the players ultimately shared the spoils in a dyna...
SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises 10 is out!Good news for thousands of chess players all over the world, who will be eagerly hunting its pages for early deviations from main stream chess openings.Their hunt will not be in vain, because SOS is gre...
After all the turmoil in November and December, it's been a bit quiet around the Grand Prix Series, but today there's more bad news for FIDE: in an official statement, Bessel Kok and Pavel Matocha are announcing the withdrawal of Karlovy Vary, whe...
Imagine yourself in this situation: You're playing in an big Open tournament and are paired against a GM rated nearly 600 Elo points higher than you. After 19 moves your illustrious opponent seems to hang a rook for no reason whatsoever. Would ...
The third round of Corus 2009 promises to be full of razor sharp opening battles. Will Jan Smeets hold on to his leading position with the Botvinnik Variation? Just like yesterday, ChessVibes will provide regular updates and photos. Update added...
