A quick update on the standings after round 4 of the Dresden Chess Olympiad, shows Germany leading the open event and China leading in the women's event. Some selected games are shown below. The top 10 teams in the Open event: Rank See...
The final turnout of the participants of the Chess Olympiad is now set. “Replacement or new nominations are not possible anymore”, says Werner Stubenvoll of the Technical Administration Panel (TAP). 1270 chess players take part at the Olympiad in ...
Veselin Topalov made his debut in the third round of the Olympiad in Dresden, scoring an easy win. There are still nine countries with a 100% score; Azerbaijan is not one of them because The Netherlands held them to 2-2. Round 3 report with games,...
There has been a lot of controversy coming out of Dresden in the last 24 hours. It would appear as if their reporting mechanism has broken down. Many sites are reporting erroneous results on games. Even the official site has errors in multiple pl...
The Kamsky-Topalov match / FIDE saga continues with two more open letters: one by the Bulgarian Chess Federation and one by Kamsky's manager Chernenko, but there's not much new under the sun.To get you updated: on November 3, FIDE President Kirsan...
Is your rating is below 2200 and did you learn your chess outside the Soviet Union? Then we advise you to take a look at Artur Jussupow's Build Up Your Chess 2. This is a methodical course of progressively difficult training material: not page...
It was great to see Peter Leko and Judit Polgar next to each other, playing for Hungary; they beat Latvians Miezis and Sveshnikov in round 2 of the Olympiad in Dresden. Countries like Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan won again, but so did El Salvado...
Oh the delicious irony...after FIDE had insisted that all players should turn up exactly on time for their games or be defaulted, the second round was delayed by an hour due to errors by the organisers. If you made that story up, no-one would bel...
The defending champions had a most convincing start in Dresden: Armenia defeated Italy 4-0. Azerbaijan crushed the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with the same score; Switzerland almost held Russia to a tie: only Jenni lost to Morozevich. R...
After last night's opening ceremony, the 38th Chess Olympiad has now really started. Russia plays Switzerland on the "top board" and quite suprisingly, Morozevich is placed on board three. At their first board, Svidler meets Korchnoi. Aronian is l...
The 38th Chess Olympiad has now started in earnest after yesterday's opening ceremony, which featured (in ascending order of weirdness) singing, drumming, ice skating, cheerleading and a Freddie Mercury impersonator! Quite what any of this had to...
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov could not attend the opening ceremony of the Olympiad in Dresden as he was involved in a car accident on his way to the airport. Russian media report that he was taken to hospital with a concussion.While a chauffe...
Wherever you are from, it's very likely that among the 150+ chess teams descending on Dresden now, there is one representing YOUR country at the 2008 Olympiad. The official site promises a dedicated TV channel and full details of the results duri...
Today the 38th Chess Olympiad starts in Dresden, Germany. There will be 152 federations participating and this is a historical mark of number of participants in an Olympiad. ChessVibes will bring daily coverage. Dresden is most probably hosting ...
FIDE is failing terribly in dealing with the Topalov-Kamsky match in a correct and transparent way. It's also clear to virtually everyone that the FIDE President and his staff have generally ruined the whole system in the past ten years or more, d...
We'd like to let you know that we have now in stock our yearly autumn bestseller: International Chess Calendar 2009.Created by Hanon Russell and Taylor Kingston, this calendar is very nicely produced and includes the days of birth and death of the...
Two days after Viswanathan Anand retained his world title against Vladimir Kramnik in Bonn, Germany, ICC's Macauley Peterson did a one-on-one interview with the world champion. We thank the ICC for sharing it with the ChessVibes readers. Enjoy mor...
He was fighting in a game he couldn't win, last week he resigned and last night he passed away: IM Johan van Mil. A sad day for Dutch chess, which lost a strong chess player, a friendly book seller and foremost, a warm and benevolent person.Johann...
The colossal chess extravaganza that is the Chess Olympiad rolls into Dresden, Germany this week. This biennial event pits national teams from around the world against one another in an 11-round swiss competition to find the strongest chess count...
The full list still has to be published, but the first participant of the Corus C group is already known: it's Eduardo Iturrizaga. The young Venezuelan GM won ICC's Corus 'C' Group satellite qualifier by beating Brazilian GM Alexander Fier in the ...
The original mixture of generations and nationalities (Bulgaria, Cuba, Georgia, Israel, Russia, USA and of course Spain) made the Chess Tournament Magistral Casino de Barcelona 2008 quite an interesting event, which was eventually won by Alexei Dr...
We just received a new issue in a successful series: Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings. It is quite an interestig collection of litte explored ideas in the English, Reti and Bird Openings.Included are not only a some recent developments but a co...
The veteran American IM Larry Kaufman (pictured) has won the 2008 Senior World Chess Championship, held in Bad Zwischenahn, Germany. By winning the title, he automatically becomes a GM! Congratulations Larry! Over 300 entrants aged over 60 batt...
Update: some photos added. Earlier this week we learnt that the Corus organizers had invited him to their A group for the first time, and today Leinier Dominguez Perez confirmed once more how strong he really is. Cuba's best chess player won the W...
