After he won his third game in a row yesterday, Peter Svidler wasn't too upset today when Alexander Lastin went for the famous Ruy Lopez Zaitsev move repetition. Going into the first rest day, Svidler leads the Russian Ch Superfinal with 3.5/4.At ...
It's been a while since Peter Svidler (pictured) had a strong showing in a major event and his world ranking fell from 11th to 17th on the latest official FIDE rating list. So it was about time that everyone's favourite cricket-loving Grandmaster...
Rybka, universally considered the best computer engine, comfirmed her status once again at the Computer World Championship held in Beijing last week. In a ten-player round robin she finished on 8/9, one point clear of Hiarcs.The 16th Computer Worl...
It's well-known that chess is not only a game, not only art, but also science. I myself became fascinated by chess not because you could beat your granddad with it, or because you could play beautiful attacking games, but because you could look th...
Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured) has proved yet again what a remarkable competitor she is by winning the women's individual blitz title at the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing. Alexandra beat Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria 2-1 in the final. Tha...
Congratulations are due once more to the team behind Rybka, which has again won the World Computer Chess Championship. Rybka finished on a seriously impressive score of 8/9, only giving up draws to Junior and Cluster Toga. Hiarcs finished second...
In the second round of the Russian Championship Superfinal Peter Svidler defeated first seed Alexander Morozevich with Black. Alexander Lastin also won again and joined him in the lead.At Moscow's Central Chess Club the Russian Championship Superf...
Rybka came out on top of 9 other programs, conceding two draws and beating Hiarcs in their individual encounter. RankProgramOriginHardwareScoreGamesSOSSoDOS 1 Rybka USA Cluster, 40 cores 8.0 9 37.0 31.25 2 Hiarcs GBR Intel Skul...
German magazine Der Spiegel is Europe's largest and one of the most influential weekly magazines with a circulation of more than one million per week. This week's edition has an interview with Viswanathan Anand.It's a rare thing that a chess playe...
Play time is over. This is the big one. The World Chess Championship between the defending champion Viswanathan Anand from India and the challenger Vladimir Kramnik from Russia, sponsored by Evonik Industries and Gazprom, will take place in Bo...
There was a glut of exciting chess in round 1 of the Russian Superfinal in Moscow, and if your name was Alexander then you were in luck. The trio of Alexanders - Morozevich, Riazantsev and Lastin all won their opening games. The day was also a ...
Yet another big event started today: the Superfinal of the Russian Championship. Participants include the world's no. 2 Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk. An ill Grischuk had to withdraw. Round 1 report. At Moscow's Centra...
Twelve professional thinkers playfully explore various aspects of chess in the new book Philosophy Looks at Chess: * Do chess players think in words? * Does chess explain how a benevolent God might exist in a world permeated by evil? ...
Next weekend probably the strongest team competition in the world starts its new season: the Schachbundesliga. Of the sixteen top teams, OSC Baden-Baden is the big favourite with sixteen grandmasters in their squad, headed by Viswanathan Anand and...
The 2008 'Superfinal' Championship of Russia starts today in the Moscow Central Chess Club. Twelve of Russia's finest Grandmasters, including the defending champion and current World #2 Alexander Morozevich (pictured) will be participating in thi...
As previously previewed here and here, the 1st World Mind Sports Games are underway today in Beijing. Unfortunately it now seems that new World #1 Veselin Topalov will not be among the competitors in the chess events at the games, but many other ...
Les Francais adorent les echecs! (Which I think means, The French love chess - please correct my bad French grammar in the comments if necessary ). The French language magazine and website, Europe Echecs, is organising the third 'Circuit Espoir'...
The US Chess League is now deep into the season in week 6. And with some critical match ups this week there would surely be some interesting chess. The first match of the week was between the struggling New York Knights and the Seattle Slugger...
Grandmaster Joel Benjamin, three-time United States champion, stares at the chessboard, pondering his next move. His team, the New Jersey Knockouts is up against their United States Chess League Eastern Division rivals, the Boston Blitz. Slowly, w...
The Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) was established in May 2007 at Texas Tech University with the aim of promoting 'college chess' as a bridge between scholastic and adult chess worlds. Unfortunately many young players, especi...
It's the first public chess match between someone in space against an opponent on earth: since last Monday astronaut Gregory Chamitoff, floating 210 miles (about 340 kilometers) above earth, is playing a chess game in space against a group of scho...
There's no lavish opening ceremony, no glamorous website* and little attention or fanfare, but ahead of the clash of mere mortals in Germany later this month, their silicon overlords are battling it out in Beijing. The World Computer Chess Champi...
Now that there is an unofficial liverating website available for players over 2700 Elo, the sense of anticipation before the publication of the official FIDE quarterly rating list has largely gone. However, since the live ratings have no official...
British IM John Cox has posed himself the daunting task of writing a book on the infamous Berlin Wall. And he succeeded: this is the Berlin Wall Bible for some time to come, if only for the organization of the contents: 58 pages on typical Berli...
