For the first time since January 1 (or rather March 31) 2007, Veselin Topalov is the highest rated player in the world. On the new FIDE rating list, published yesterday, Magnus Carlsen is number 4 and not 3 as in Hans Arild Runde's live list. Agai...
After they lost the most important (classical) part of their match against China 26-24, the Russian team took revenge by winning the rapid part and... the football match on the rest day. We're not sure about the blitz...The 5th match between China...
The 2nd SPICE Cup has finished in a four-way tie for first: Pentala Harikrishna, Alexander Onischuk, Leonid Kritz and Varuzhan Akobian all ended on 5.5 out of 9. Harikrishna had the best tiebreak and received the cup (and a Swiss watch).The second...
Chess playing astronaut Greg Chamitoff, buoyed by his success in his game against ground control will now be taking on a much greater challenge - playing everyone on Earth! The Earth team will be led by the Stevenson Elementary School Chess Club ...
On this beautiful Sunday we shouldn't get too much involved in chess politics. Let's not forget that chess is also just a beautiful game! An opinion shared by artists around the world.?¢‚Ǩ?ìFrom my close contact with artists and chess players, I...
On June 1st, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov personally guaranteed the prize fund for the match Topalov-Kamsky scheduled, for November this year. Since then it has been quiet around this match - a bit too quiet, says Stefan Sergiev, President of...
Siegbert Tarrasch wasn't exactly known for his attacking games - in those days Rudolf Spielmann was the Last of the Mohicans trying to hold up romantic chess. It's also not an every day story that Black wins with a beautiful attack using Tarrasch'...
Calling all chess fans in the Big Apple! On Friday September 26th at 5pm former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (pictured) will be signing copies of his book How Life Imitates Chess at the Penn Station Borders store in New York. If you ask ni...
Chess in Asia has been somewhat neglected by Western media, but the region actually deserves more attention and ChessVibes intends to do better. This time it wasn't the Philippine super talent Wesley So who caught our eye, no, it was his 56-year-o...
Vadim Milov (pictured), the Russian born GM now living in Switzerland has inflicted a rare defeat on the strongest chess engine currently available - Rybka 3. In a recent 8-game match with the silicon monster, Milov (rated a mighty 2705 Elo and r...
Yearbook 88 has just arrived, and in this issue of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News you will find, among much else, answers to urgent questions like: -- What does Carlsen offer White and Black in the Catalan? -- Has Ivanchuk pinpointed...
The best of the rest - it's a title that's actually worth something in a strong chess country like Hungary. Without Peter Leko and Judit Polgar playing, Zoltan Almasi won the Hungarian Championship.At the moment Hungary is the 6th country in the w...
US Chess League week 5 continued on with some heated action. As the season goes on each match and each game becomes increasingly more important. With that said let's take a look at all the chess from this week: The first match of the week feat...
The first part of the China-Russia match, which consisted of five rounds of classical chess, is over. China proved the strongest, but by a small margin: 26-24. In our second report we'll see that the it were the Russian ladies who prevented a bigg...
Today in exactly three weeks the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik starts. In a press release the organizers are warning the chess fans that "almost half of the overall 5.000 tickets (for the whole event) are ...
After four rounds GMs Leonid Kritz and Victor Mikhalevski are leading the 2nd SPICE Cup International Invitational Tournament, according to the organizers "the strongest field of chess grandmasters in U.S. round-robin history".The second SPICE Cup...
As I write this sentence there are 21 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes and 49 seconds left until the World Chess Championship showdown between Viswanathan Anand (pictured) of India and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia starts in Bonn. I know this because the c...
Ever seen a fish without its fins trying to swim? Probably not, but one can imagine it's not that easy. In a match against an experienced grandmaster, a truncated Rybka was defeated - by a small margin, though. Vadim Milov-poor Rybka: 4?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?...
The now traditional country match between China and Russia is already taking place for the fifth time. After three rounds, the score is exactly even: 15-15. The Russian women beat their Chinese opponents in round two to make up for the first-round...
The heyday of unchallenged Soviet domination of world chess is long gone, but modern day Russia still has an astonishing strength in depth at the royal game. The Russian Championship 'Higher League' Final is an 11-round Swiss event which serves a...
I was selling books in the windy hallway of De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee for Chess and Go Shop Het Paard. It was quiet, a regular week day.By Arne MollThere was practically no audience for the games. It was one of the last years of the nineties. I h...
The 2008 EU Individual Chess Championship in Liverpool has ended with Jan Werle of the Netherlands (pictured) winning with a score of 8/10. Werle finished ahead of British players Mickey Adams and Nigel Short, and the French players Etienne Bacro...
"If you want to become a stronger player, you have to join Pinter's classes", is what they say in Hungary.They are referring to a most remarkable publishing project: the very succesfull 1,000 series, written and assembled by GM Jozsef Pinter.This ...
As a last minute entry to the European Union Championships, 24-year-old Dutch law student Jan Werle scored the best result in his career by far. "I went as a coach for my girlfriend but they convinced me that I should play." Final report, includin...
