Just what will the rest of the world's top chess players be doing when the World Chess Championship between Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand is taking place next month in Germany? You might think they would take a break and enjoy the match with e...
After losing the final seven years ago to a Chinese player (Zu Chen), 24-year-old Alexandra Kosteniuk from Russia yesterday became Women World Champion of Chess by beating another Chinese player: 14-year-old Hou Yifan from China. Kosteniuk drew th...
The US Chess League is now through the opening phase and all the teams hope to shake off the dust and make some positive results as the matches are getting more important as the weeks go on. Now let's see what took place in week 4 of the US Ches...
Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured) has won a well deserved victory in the 2008 Women's World Chess Championship. The dynamic Russian player took the title by drawing the fourth and final game against her young Chinese opponent, Hou Yifan. The ...
As my first article about beauty in chess seems to have been appreciated by at least a few people, I now present the second one in the hope that I can still reach some attentive audience. By Michael SchwerteckIn the past few weeks I have reflected...
Fourth game Hou Yifan-Alexandra Kosteniuk was drawn again, after another epic battle between two great players. http://nalchik2008.fide.com/information/?lang=eng or http://nalchik2008.fide.com/?lang=rus Hurrah fo...
At the European Union Championships in Liverpool two Dutch GMs are to be found on boards 1 and 2 today. Jan Werle plays top seed Michael Adams while Erwin L'Ami faces the young Czech GM Viktor Laznicka. Again we have Manuel Weeks reporting.The eig...
The 2008 Miami Chess Open was held from 10-14 September and won by the 13 year-old American prodigy, Ray Robson (pictured), ahead of several Grandmasters. Ray lives with his parents in Florida and would like to become a professional chess player...
A win was so near and yet so far for Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured) yet again in game 3 of the Women's World Championship final today in Nalchik. Hou Yifan, trying to level the scores again played the Ruy Lopez, but after some tense opening ...
World Champion Viswanathan Anand has created a monument of insight into top-level chess, My Career: two new DVDs which we are offering with a 5% discount. In the 8 hours(!) of running time of these DVDs, Anand shows that he fully deserves his re...
Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured) and Hou Yifan drew the second game of their 4-game final to leave Kosteniuk with a 1.5-0.5 lead. However Kosteniuk had possible winning chances after Yifan lost a pawn and the young Chinese girl was lucky that ...
Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia) has won the first of four games in the Women World Championship final against Hou Yifan (China). In a Closed Ruy Lopez the players left theory at an early stage, but this turned out to be advantageous for Black. In the...
The first game of the Women's World Championship Final ended in victory for Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured) with the black pieces against her younger adversary, Hou Yifan. In a closed Ruy Lopez, Kosteniuk seized control on the King-side and...
As the dust settles in Bilbao at the end of the Grand Slam Final, the former FIDE World Champion, Veselin Topalov (pictured) has emerged at the top of the live ranking list. It's incredibly tight at the top - before Ivanchuk's last round los...
Veselin Topalov has won the first Grand Slam Final, held September 2-13 in Bilbao, Spain. He defeated Vassily Ivanchuk with White. Carlsen-Anand was a quick draw and Radjabov defeated Aronian with Black.Here's the situation before going into the l...
The last round is still ongoing at the time of writing, but the winner is already known. Veselin Topalov has won the tournament by beating Vassily Ivanchuk in the last round. Congratulations! A more detailed report will follow la...
All games in the penultimate round in Bilbao were drawn, leaving Topalov (pictured) as the leader going into the final round. The nearest we had to a win was the game between Ivanchuk and Aronian. Ivanchuk looked to have sewn up a victory,...
Most probably Ivanchuk missed a win today against Aronian, and with it a chance to join Topalov in the standings. Anand-Topalov and Radjabov-Carlsen also ended in a draw and so there are still four people who can finish at least shared first at th...
I don't know about you, but when we hear the word "puzzle" our mind tends to go slightly hazy.Aren't puzzles about relaxing? Isn't doing puzzles about freewheeling and having a good time?Perfectly all right occupations of course, unless you are ac...
So the Women's World Chess Championship Final will be between 24 year-old Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia and 14 year-old Hou Yifan of China (pictured). Hou Yifan earned her place in the final the hard way by beating favourite Humpy Koneru of Indi...
The European Union Championships have reached the third round and the biggest story so far was Grandmaster Nigel Short's loss against Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant when his phone made a sound during the round.By Manuel WeeksThe European Chess Championsh...
Alexandra Kosteniuk played a solid game to draw her second semi-final game with Pia Cramling and thereby earn a place in the final, seven years after she last reached the final and lost to Zhu Chen. Can she go one better this time? Her opp...
British Grandmaster Nigel Short has become the latest player to lose as a result of his mobile phone ringing during a chess game. Bringing a phone into the playing area of a chess tournament has been illegal under the official FIDE rules for som...
Week 3 of the US Chess League saw some interesting results with a couple of the undefeated teams losing their perfect records which tightened up the league standings. Let's get right into the action! The first match up of the week was a Monday...
