After five rounds, Bu Xiangzhi and Evgeny Miroshnichenko are leading the Inventi Chess Tournament in Antwerp - the strongest chess tournament in Belgium since the Lost Boys opens in the nineties.The Inventi Chess Tournament takes place 23-31 Augus...
Despite some much publicised off-the-board battles, and the consequent absence of some strong Georgian players from the event, the Women's World Chess Championship kicks off tomorrow (29 August) in sunny Nalchik, Russia. A total of 53 entrants a...
The US Chess League kicked off it's first week with some exciting chess action. Now with the league having 14 teams there were 7 hard fought matches, each team hoping to start out the season in strong fashion. The feature Monday night match wa...
We have an annoying bug on Chess.com that I can't reproduce. If you can message me a way to recreate this bug reliably, I will give you a free platinum membership (worth $80) and 1 year of Chess Mentor (worth $100)! Here is the bug: When you c...
In the seventh round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars further increased their lead over the Experience team thanks to a somewhat lucky 3-2 win. Particularly Viktor Kortchnoi had good reason to be unhappy when he lost on time in a winnin...
There was only one question left to be answered in Moscow: would Alexei Shirov be willing to put up a fight against Vassily Ivanchuk in the last round? But no, he wasn't really up to it and agreed to a draw on move 12. The other four games were dr...
Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) won the Mikhail Tal Memorial in Moscow by a clear point from the rest of the field. Going into the last round it had been an exciting tournament full of great fighting chess...but the players evidently felt that h...
The Tal Memorial saw a fantastic 8th round and in the final phase of the tournament we're seeing an unexpected turn of events. Vassily Ivanchuk profited the most, as he increased his lead to a full point, with one round to go.Photo ?Ǭ© Evgeny Pot...
"They don't believe that I can play chess," Korchnoi said after he had scored his second win in a row. Until now it takes 77 years of Experience to beat a Rising Star."This is the second time that a Dutch player continues with a rook down against ...
It's tough at the top. After winning in round 6 at the Mikhail Tal Memorial to take the lead - and the no.1 spot on the unofficial 'live' rankings list, Alexander Morozevich then lost to Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) in a thrilling game in rou...
Alexander Morozevich could enjoy his number one ranking for just one day. In the seventh round of the Tal Memorial, he lost to Vassily Ivanchuk, who now leads in Moscow with half a point.Photo ?Ǭ© Mark Gluhovsky His new status might have given Mo...
In another great round in Amsterdam, Viktor Korchnoi scored the first win for Experience, against L'Ami. Wang Yue won his fifth consecutive game.Perhaps the match between the Rising Stars and Experience was never going to be a real challenge, but ...
The NH Tournament in the Netherlands has been dominated by the 'Rising Stars' team but in the fifth round the margin of victory was the narrowest yet and at long last a member of the 'Experience' team won a game! Well done Viktor Korchnoi (pictu...
The US Chess League is a national chess league, split into East and West divisions, with 14 teams in total taking part this year - 7 in each division. Eastern Division Teams: Boston Blitz Philadelphia Inventors New York Knights...
In a wild game that probably went wrong for Ponomariov at an early stage, Morozevich won again at the Tal Memorial, taking over Anand in the virtual world rankings.Photo ?Ǭ© Mark Gluhovsky Where Magnus Carlsen came very close, during the Biel Che...
The 83rd French National Chess Championships, held in Pau, finished on 23rd August. Etienne Bacrot (pictured) defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in a rapid playoff to take the title for the sixth time. 1 Bacrot, Etienne &...
The official FIDE world ratings are updated and published every quarter, but since the advent of a daily updated unofficial 'live rating' list, chess fans have been able to see for themselves how the ratings of the 2700+ elite change with every ga...
Although after Sochi he had to go back to Beijing to get his visa for The Netherlands, Wang Yue managed to win his first four games in Amsterdam. And after another round without wins, Agdestein and Ljubojevic are the topscorers in the Experience t...
The 3rd NH Tournament in the Netherlands, pitting a 'Rising Stars' team against an 'Experience' team is turning into a rout as the 'Rising Stars' continue to show no mercy for their illustrious elders in this one-sided event. In the fourth round...
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 ...
What do you play with White? Daily puzzles are delayed, "apologies for the inconvenience" Yesterday's solution:
Yesterday the Europe-Echecs team had an interview with Vladimir Kramnik, about the Tal Memorial and, of course, about the upcoming match against Viswanathan Anand. "The main goal here is just to warm up."
There is a saying that "Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes, not old ones". Unfortunately for the 'Experience' team at the NH Tournament in the Netherlands, chess seems to have a virtually infinite number of new mistakes ...
Chess journalists are having a hard time trying to write originally about the NH Chess Tournament. Also in the third round, the Rising Stars showed no mercy and defeated their Experienced colleagues, without losing a game. But with a score of only...
