As promised we're now returning once more to the Czech Republic to do a final report on the 18th Czech Open Festival held in the CEZ Arena in the town of Pardubice. The chess part of this huge festival is probably the biggest annual event in the w...
Over the last few months we have had a lot of great feedback from our members on what they would like to see on the site. Thank you! Today we are releasing a TON of new features for the site. Below is a list and description of the updates: O...
After being live for less than 60 days, Chess.com hit 10,000 members today! Chess.com has attracted chess players from around the world who want to play chess for free and participate in an open community! Thank you to all of our members who...
The Nevada State Chess Association announced today they will offer the first 100 entries that mention chess.com with their entries to the 2007 ACA US Open a complimentary picture of Mikhail Tal who signed these back in 1991 before he died while he...
Perhaps it's a bit too early to start talking about it, already before the Wch in Mexico, but anway, Vassily Ivanchuk seems to have a decent chance to win his first Chess Oscar this year. He continued his amazing series of victories at the Montrea...
News Release-For Immediate Release-contact Stan Vaughan email-amchess@cox.net Colonel Issac Trabue prize to be offered now to winner of 2007 American Chess Association US Open Chess Championship @ Oasis Resort Casino-Mesquite Nevada September...
ChessVibes editors GM Erwin L'Ami and IM Merijn van Delft, both currently participating in the Open Dutch Championships in Dieren, were fired on the spot today. The direct cause is the supposed cheating by Erwin L'Ami during the first and secon...
The Czech Open in Pardubice is one of the biggest, if not the biggest chess festival in the world, with a bit over 1700 players this year. And not even just a chess festival, since also tournaments in backgammon, crossword puzzles, draughts, sudok...
Most people don't know this, but a huge chunk of the wealth in Silicon Valley was created by strong chess players! Below are some of the most notable examples... PayPalPeter Thiel (Co-founder and former CEO) Peter is not only the busine...
The Nevada State Chess Association, Inc., host of the upcoming 2007 American Chess Association's 150th anniversary U.S. Open Chess Championship at the Oasis Resort in Mesquite, Nevada, has announced they will give a $100 gift certificate that ...
After roughly 1,000 years of total computing time (~50 computers working for last 20 years), the game of checkers is no longer a game: it is simply a puzzle. Professor Jonathan Schaeffer has proven that with perfect play from both sides, checkers ...
Right after the last round of the Parish Championship had finished, I interviewed GM and President of the ACP, Pavel Tregubov. He had just finished shared first and talks about his chess and especially about the Association of Chess Professionals ...
I just got an email that says that Wholesale Chess is having a huge book blowout this summer. If you have wanted to get some chess books at up to 75% off (that's what it says!!), then now may be your chance! Apparently there is no special prom...
The summer is finally there. After performing a bit too modestly in many European countries the sun now does its job big time, which meant a sudden change of the weather into really hot summer days. Those days you normally don't play chess. Or do ...
The Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland is being held from July 21st - August 3rd. The festival includes many tournaments including rapid and blitz events, with the main event being a very strong Grandmaster tournament. The format is a ten-p...
An interview with the Rybka team on the future of computer chessComputer chess is everywhere. Chess engines reign supreme. Their expertise ranges from endgame tablebases to amazing tactical resources in the middlegame to surprising opening novelti...
News Release - For Immediate Release- contact- Stan Vaughan email- amchess@cox.net Grandmaster Larry Evans to be commentator of key games for spectators @ 2007 American Chess Association US Open Chess Championship @ Oasis Resort Casino A...
The first Chess960 online qualifiers, organized by the Internet Chess Club in conjunction with Chess Tigers (organizers of the popular annual Mainz Chess Classic in Germany), has been a stunning success. All of last week, qualifiers were held on t...
The US Women’s Championship 2007 will be starting soon in Oklahoma. It runs from July 16-20 and is a 10-player round-robin. Anna Zatonskih is the defending champion and Irina Krush (pictured) is the top seed with a rating of 2479...
To publish something on ChessVibes while playing a tournament might be a bit too much, but I don't care. Today I was sitting in the public libray of the Centre Pompidou, comfortably with laptop and wifi, going through this week's chess news, when ...
Two big announcements today!! Chess.com made major blogging headlines today when it was first picked up by Mashable.com, the #1 blog on social networking and the #14 most popular blog in the world! That started a cascade of coverage from other pop...
Congratulations to Vishy Anand who won the León rapidplay tournament today by beating Veselin Topalov by a score of 3-1. Anand won the first and third game, both with the white pieces. All games were hard-fought, i...
As mentioned before, I spent a week in Berlin before I went to Dortmund. It was an quite a coincidence that a club member happened to be in Berlin too. During the weekend of 23/24 June he would play, for the 6th time already, in a tournament I had...
Weekend tournaments are not just for club players and today sees the final of a short rapid chess tournament in Leon, Spain, which will see world No.1 Anand take on the controversial former World Champion, Topalov. Anand beat Ponomariov 3-1 in the...
