In an attempt to support Gata Kamsky in the FIDE/Topalov match saga, the board of the United States Chess Federation once again revealed its internal disunity. We received several "open emails" by different board members quibbling. The sanest pers...
The World Blitz Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan, has ended in victory for the 25 year-old Cuban player Leinier Dominguez (pictured), just half a point ahead of the defending champion Vassily Ivanchuk. Dominguez finished undefeated and pockets ...
The 2008 Magistral Casino de Barcelona Tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain from October 30, 2008 to November 7, 2008. The event was held at the Casino of Barcelona. It featured a 10 player Round Robin event with 9 of the 10 players being Grand...
From time to time on this site I have tried to discuss chess from a philosophical point of view. No wonder: chess is very often the subject of philosophical discussions. In the past, famous philosophers like Rousseau and Wittgenstein have used che...
2nd UPDATE: open letter by Rustam Kamsky Update: No Chernenko money, Iluymzhinov gives Bulgarian Chess Federation another chance.By now nobody believes the Kamsky-Topalov match will still take place before the end of the year, if at all, but after...
The 2008 World Blitz Chess Championship is about to start in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event takes place from 7-8 November and has a prize fund of 350,000 Swiss Francs (approx 300,000 USD), with the winner pocketing 80,000 SF. Although there have ...
Magnus Carlsen, who will turn 18 in less than a month, is one of the favourites to win the 2009 Corus Chess Tournament, and so are Alexander Morozevich, Vassily Ivanchuk and Levon Aronian. Today the participants list of the A Group was officially ...
Today is the 60th birthday of Robert H?ɬºbner. Andr?ɬ© Schulz wrote about it at Chessbase and a rare interview (by Stefan L?ɬ?ffler) was published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine.
The Australian published an editorial piece by Garry Kasparov on Barack Obama's victory.
In one week the Olympiad in Dresden will take off, but a different Olympiad finished last week: the one for the blind and visually impaired, held in Heraklion, Crete (Greece). Russia was victorious by a wide margin, followed by Ukraine and Spain.T...
Bobby Fischer had to learn Russian to be able to read and understand Isaac Lipnitsky's 1956 classic: Questions of Modern Chess Theory. Now, for the first time, an English language edition of this lost masterpiece has been published, by our frien...
Few Spanish Team Championships have been more exciting than this year's edition. Despite two ties between reigning Spanish champion Linex Magic and CajaCanarias last Sunday, both in their first encounter and in the tiebreak, it was CajaCanarias (T...
The World Youth Chess Championships took place in the city of Vung Tau, Vietnam from 20-30 October. This huge event included individual and team championships for the age groups of under 18's, under 16's, under 14's, under 12's, under 10's and un...
The World Chess Championship naturally overshadowed other events taking place at around the same time, one of which was the Essent tournament in the Netherlands which took place from 17-25 October. The 'Crown Group' event in Essent was a 4-player...
Many chess players will look up in surprise when they see Dutchman Kees Hoogendijk play for the Ghanaian National team at the next Chess Olympiad. The chess enthusiast from Meppel, The Netherlands who resides in the African country for a couple of...
OK, American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is a strong blitz player, we knew that. But what about rapid chess? And what about opponents like Karpov and Ivanchuk? Well, he just beat them both, the former world champion in the semi-final and the Ukrai...
The rapidplay Cap d'Agde tournament has been won by Hikaru Nakamura who beat Vassily Ivanchuk in the final match. Vassily pressed too hard trying to win a drawn ending in the second game and Nakamura took advantage to win himself in a knight v bi...
What are the effects of amount of practice, coaching and age of starting chess on chess skill? And how do we chess players view such notions as skill and talent? Dr Robert Howard of the University of New South Wales in Australia carried out a surv...
The Cap d'Agde rapid tournament has reached the finals stage with Vassily Ivanchuk and Hiraru Nakamura (pictured) set to clash for the title at 5:30 pm local time on 1 November. The results so far: Group A Fabiano Caruana (2640) : 5.5 Vassily ...
In a unique partnership with the Corus Chess Tournament, one of the world's greatest and most famous chess festivals, Internet Chess Club (ICC) will be hosting a special satellite qualifier for one of the last two vacant spots in the 2009 'C' Grou...
We have Total Chess Training III in stock now.The Total Chess Training software series is the product of the effort of some of the best chess instructors in Russia. Part 3 consists of five seperate programs: -- Avanced Chess School -- Ch...
Magnus Carlsen, Vassily Ivanchuk, Anatoli Karpov & Hikaru Nakamura have qualified for the semi-finals in the very strong rapid tournament that's taking place in Cap d'Agde, France this week.From 25 October to 1 November, 16 GM's are participat...
WORLD BLITZ CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP ALMATY 2008 ЧЕМПИОНАТ МИРА ПО БЛИЦУ ПО ШАХМАТАМ АЛМАТЫ 2008 The World Chess Blitz Championship shall be organized in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. The dates of the event - 7-8 November 2008. 7 November - openi...
Congratulations to GM Viswanathan Anand on defending his world chess champion title! And thank you to GM Vladimir Kramnik who fought hard and did everything possible to win. Come sign our group ecards for each player! We have started 2 group con...
