Veselin Topalov (pictured) humbled Magnus Carlsen in the only decisive game in round 3 of the Grand Slam Final to replace him at the top of the leaderboard. Carlsen responded to Topalov's novelty 14...a6 with the pawn sac 15.b4. The sacrif...
The knock-out format of the Women's World Chess Championship in Nalchik claimed the reigning champion as it's highest profile victim in the second round. Xu Yuhua (pictured) lost the first game of her match to Svetlana Matveeva of Russia and fai...
As usual week 2 of the US Chess League was full of great chess action. So without further delay let's get right into it and see what happened this week in the US Chess League. The first match of the week was the New Jersey Knockouts against th...
There has been a fair bit chess played on British Isles during the past few months with English chess making a comeback.By Manuel WeeksWe have had the strong Staunton Memorial tournament with Michael Adams reminding everyone that he is still very ...
The game of the round once again featured the Norwegian wunderkind Magnus Carlsen who took the fight to Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) by playing the Dragon, which seems to be finding a regular place in his repertoire. Kudos to Carlsen! The D...
Yep! It's Erik's birthday today! I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, so if you want to know how old he is, you'll have to put together the following math riddle: Erik's age is the Nth Prime Number... where N is the Gth Prime N...
Magnus Carlsen started his Grand Slam Final superbly. With the black pieces he beat Levon Aronian to gain his first three points in the standings. Radjabov-Topalov and Anand-Ivanchuk were drawn. Video added.A very special tournament has started. T...
Like the spectators, the journalists are working right in front of the glass cube in Bilbao. As I happen to have a webcam with me, why not use it?The webcam is quietly sitting next to me, just two meters from the glass cube, and just four meters f...
The Grand Slam Final - a.k.a. the strongest chess tournament of all-time (average rating a staggering 2775) just got started in Bilbao and Magnus Carlsen (pictured) won his first round game with the Black pieces against Lev Aronian to take 3 point...
The Women's World Championship in Nalchik has experienced a rough start. Not only did 11 of the 64 eligible players decide not to participate, but already in the first round there was a major dispute. The Women's World Chess Championship cycle...
Chess is a perfectly mathematical game where steel-cold calculation wins and emotions are irrelevant, right? Wrong! International Master and famed chess author Jeremy Silman says: "Much has been made of psychology in chess, but rarely have I seen ...
This Monday the first Grand Slam Final was officially opened and Tuesday, 17:00 CET the first round will be played in a glass cube at the Plaza Nueva in Bilbao, Spain. ChessVibes is in Bilbao to bring on-the-spot video coverage. Pairings round one...
The First Grand Slam Final Chess Masters will be taking place between 1-13 September 2008 in Bilbao, Spain. Just to refresh all our memories, this event, as previously reported, has been conceived as a 'final' tournament pitting the winners ...
There have been a large number of withdrawals from the Women's World Championship. All the Georgian players have withdrawn as expected (due to the recent conflict in the South Ossetia region): Maya Chiburdanidze, Nino Khurtsidze, Maya Lomine...
In the last round of the NH Chess Tournament, the Rising Stars beat Experience 3?Ǭ?-1?Ǭ? thanks to victories of L'Ami (against Korchoi) and Caruana (against Agdestein), making the final score 33?Ǭ?-16?Ǭ?.We already mentioned Wang Yue's quick d...
It's an entertaining concept for a tournament, but the organisers are going to have to consider boosting the relative strength of the 'Experience' team in future years. For the third year in a row, and this time by a devastating 33.5-16.5 ma...
What do Grandmasters do to relax? Well, at the end of the Mikhail Tal Memorial there was a big blitz tournament over two days featuring 18 of the strongest players in the world, including all of the competitors in the main event, except Alex...
After winning the Tal Memorial in classical chess, Ivanchuk also proved to be the stongest blitz player in Moscow at the moment. Today he won the Tal Memorial Blitz 2008 ahead of Kramnik and Carlsen.After the first 17 rounds, played yesterday, Kra...
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By drawing Evgeny Bareev in just nine moves, GM Wang Yue from China won the competition among the Rising Stars about an hour ago, qualifying for the prestigious Amber tournament to be held in March 2009.This was going to be a report on the penulti...
After the first half of the huge Tal Blitz tournament in Moscow, Vladimir Kramnik leads with 11 points out of 17 games. Tal Memorial winner Ivanchuk, defeated Anand in the tiebreak final last year, who is defending his blitz title, is shared secon...
With two more rounds to go (and the penultimate being played at this very moment), the Rising Stars have already decided the match against Experience: a 3?Ǭ?-1?Ǭ? victory means a 28-12 lead now.Cheparinov-Korchnoi was about equal for a long time...
The bad news about New In Chess magazine is that this Monday, 1 September 2008, our subscription rates will go up. The good news is that, untill then, you can still subscribe (or renew your subscription) for the old, cheaper rate. This is our ...
The rising stars of the ...err...'Rising Stars' team have eclipsed the 'Experience' team to ensure victory in the NH Tournament with 2 rounds still to go. All the young 'uns have played well, but Wang Yue (pictured) of China has been spectacular...
