Today's drawing of lots has pointed out that in tomorrow's first game of the 2008 World Chess Championship Match Vladimir Kramnik will play with the white pieces and Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces. You can follow the match live at www.che...
WCF World Grand Master Stan Vaughan went 12-0 to top the 255 player field at the $50,000 American Chess Association's US Open October 11-13 in Las Vegas (www.americanchessassociation.org). Vaughan captured the $6,000 first place cash prize and in ...
There are now less than 24 hours until the start of the World Chess Championship match between Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. Both players appeared relaxed at the opening press conference and said they were eager to get the match under way aft...
With a slight delay we're now presenting the first video from Bonn - and it's a big one! Please enjoy the opening press conference of the 2008 World Championship, held yesterday in the Art & Exhibition all in Bonn, Germany.Exactly 48 hours bef...
Just about one and a half hours ago there was a press conference at the Art & Exhibition Hall in Bonn, where Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik spoke to the press. Here's just a quick article with a few pics; later there will be video mate...
The opening ceremony of the 2008 World Chess Championship will take place on Monday 13th October in Bonn, Germany. At the ceremony Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will draw lots to determine colours in the opening game. Colours will then altern...
One of the most anticipated publishing events of the year is the release of the new book by Garry Kasparov. Published by Everyman Chess, it is the second volume in the series entitled Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess. On Monday, September 29, 2008,...
Last week the legendary Bent Larsen played in his first tournament since 2004. Avoiding theory in every game, the famous Dane only played very exotic openings and scored... 0 out of 9. We urge Hans-Walter Schmitt to invite Larsen for his Chess960 ...
The gold medal for reigning world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, which she won in the blitz event at the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, was not a big surprise. But what about Ukrainian GM Martyn Kravtsiv winning the men's blitz, or Ecuador win...
  Full Name  Viswanathan Anand  Vladimir Borosovich Kramnik  Rating  2783  2772 Nationality  Indian  Russian  Date of Birth  11 December 1969  25 June 1975 Nickname The Tiger of Madras Vlad The Impaler   Age  38  33 Wives (Aruna and Marie ...
The 2nd Aquaprofit-Polgar Chess day will be held in the Palace of Arts, Budapest at 3 pm on the 11th of October 2008. All three of the famous Polgar sisters will be giving a huge joint simultaneous exhibition on the day. More details here. The ...
    In a correspondence chess (CC) match between Greg Chamitoff, crew member of the International Space Station, and a group of students attending Stevenson Elementary School in Bellvue, Washington, Chamitoff has faced the students with the Queen...
We just received Mark Dvoretsky's next great classic: Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual (419 pages, ?¢‚Äö¬¨ 29.95).What's the point, you may ask, of an "analytical manual" when computers can solve, in a wink, any question in chess?The answer is, of co...
The Russian Championship Superfinal has reached the seventh round and Peter Svidler is still leading with half a point. An exciting fifth round was followed by another drawish day yesterday and now Nikita Vitiugov is at second place.Photo: Mark Gl...
The Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match will start in a few days and GM Artur Jussupow, who is part of the official team of commentators, wrote a preview on the chess philosophy, playing style and strengths of the players, which was kindly prov...
The 2008 Scholastic National Championships are in Lake Buena Vista, FL and are from December 12-14. More information is at 407-939-1000 or cbruce@uschess.org.
Opinions are like belly-buttons. Everyone has one. Some people think Vishy Anand will successfully defend his title against Vladimir Kramnik; others think that Kramnik will overcome the Indian champion. But what about the facts? What do the ac...
Now with only a few weeks left in the US Chess League all the teams are trying to make a strong run towards the QuarterFinals. Each match was played with increasing importance and filled with more tension than the previous weeks. The first mat...
Like we see in more and more events, this week's Bulgarian Team Championships also applied a variation of the Sofia Rule. In the third round this led to an incident: the result of one game was declared 0-0 for breaking the tournament regulations.B...
The 2008/09 seasons of both the German and British Chess leagues started recently. The German Bundesliga is the stronger of the two, featuring as it does the likes of Magnus Carlsen, Alexei Shirov, Peter Svidler, Michael Adams, and a currently ot...
Despite losing their match against TV Tegernsee 3-5, Hamburger SK is the leader of the Bundesliga after the first weekend of the German league. In this report we have video interviews with GM Macieja and GM Laznicka.In this first Bundesliga weeken...
We congratulate our sponsor New in Chess for winning the English Chess Federation 2008 Book of the Year Award with their 2007 publication From London to Elista. A fine book indeed, as the readers of this site know!From London to Elista by Evgeny B...
In exactly one week the first game of the 2008 World Championship Match between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik starts. ChessVibes will bring on-the-spot (video) coverage, but there's more! The most important chess event of the year 2008 wi...
The 2008 Commonwealth Chess Championship in Nagpur, India, has been won by the English Grandmaster, and former world title challenger, Nigel Short (pictured). Short took a clear first place with 9.5/11, half a point ahead of his nearest challenge...
