DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 020808
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Kosteniuk wins FiNet Chess960 Rapid World Championship
There is one big disadvantage of Sochi: I cannot visit the Mainz Chess Classic this year. Fortunately, this great tournament also provides a great media service, and helped by many press releases, here's the first report, on the FiNet Chess960 Rap...
Nakamura Wins Open At Mainz
The young American GM Hikaru "H-Bomb" Nakamura (pictured) has proved his promise yet again by winning the strong Chess960 Open tournament at the Chess Classic Mainz festival. The 20 year-old Nakamura may have outgrown his prodigy status but he s...
Sochi R1: Grischuk and Radjabov win
No, it's not a fencing championship that's taking place, although chief arbiter Geurt Gijssen and yours truly might give that impression. We're just two Dutch guys making the people in Sochi think that walking on crutches is as common as using woo...
Alekseev catches Dominguez and wins tiebreak
Nobody could have guessed the scenario of the climax in Biel: the leader, Dominguez, lost to Bacrot, allowing Alekseev, who beat Pelletier, to catch him. The Russian then defeated the Cuban in the tiebreak (blitz) final.Photo ?Ǭ© http://www.bielc...
An Interview With Yelena Dembo - Part 2
Part one of this interview can be found here. Q. You are an experienced chess coach. Can you tell us what level of students you train and how you conduct lessons? Do you have a particular pedagogical approach that you think works best? &nb...
Chess Classic Mainz Update
The chess festival in Mainz is well underway with many interesting events taking place, as prevously reported here. The Women's Chess 960 Rapid World Championship featured Alexandra Kosteniuk (pictured), Victorija Cmilyte, Kateryna Lahno and Nat...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 010808
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Site Update: Group/Team Vote Chess, Live Chess, & Vacation Changes
Chess.com has made its first entry into group/team competitions today! Today (31 July 2008) we released a few new things. The big one is that today we released the first stage of group/team play. Chess.com Groups can now challenge each other t...
Evgeny Alekseev Wins Biel!
Dominguez Loses Out In Dramatic Tie-Break Tie-breaks are an exciting and dramatic way of deciding the winner of a sporting event, but whoever loses is likely to have a different opinion immediately after the event! Leinier Dominguez of Cuba st...
Second FIDE Grand Prix Underway
Krischuk And Radjabov Early Leaders The big chess gunslingers are out again, this time in Sochi, Russia, for the second FIDE Grand Prix tournament. This single-round robin event of 14 participants saw just two decisive contests from the...
Dominguez keeps one-point lead
Carlsen had to beat Dominguez to prevent the Cuban from winning this year's cup in Biel, but only managed to draw. Actually it was Dominguez who came very close to another win; and he starts today's last round a full point ahead of Alekseev and Ca...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 310708
Due to technical problems the previous two puzzles were published with some delay; our apologies. You can find the solution to puzzle 28-07-08 and puzzle 29-07-08 here and puzzle 30-07-08 here. What do you play with White? The solution will be pub...
Vacations - They Need Fixing. Can You Help?
Ah vacations... they are wonderful, right? Going to the beach or the mountains or travelling to an exotic land... Oh wait. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about "Vacation Time" on Chess.com. Here are the problems: - ABU...
In Sochi!
Tonight, in about one hour to be exact, the opening ceremony of the 2nd Grand Prix tournament in Sochi, Russia will take place. Get ready for thirteen rounds of top level chess, with Ivanchuk, Radjabov, Svidler, Aronian, Grischuk, Karjakin, Kamsky...
Dominguez And Carlsen Draw At Biel
Dominguez Takes Full Point Lead Into Last Round The game between Dominguez and Carlsen (pictured) lived up to it's billing as Carlsen tried the Accelerated Dragon, producing an exciting an unbalanced tactical game. Dominguez rose to the ch...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 300708
Due to technical problems this puzzle was published with one day delay; our apologies. What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. The solution of 29-07-08:
Strong Start Stefanova
More and more strong closed tournaments, women only, are organized these days. After the ?Ѭ??Ö?? Bankas?Ѭ± Atat?ɬºrk International Women Masters, held in Istanbul in March of this year, there's now the even stronger North Urals Cup in Krasnotur...
Koneru Humpy Wins In Round 3
Ratings favourite Koneru Humpy (pictured) from India won her third round game today to recover somewhat from her disastrous start to the North Urals Cup. Her victim was the veteran Swedish GM Pia Cramling who now trails the field on 0.5/3. ...
Dominguez Stretches Lead In Biel
Leinier Dominguez (pictured) is still undefeated at this year's Biel tournament in Switzerland and won again today with the Black pieces against Evgeny Alekseev to extend his lead to a full point with two rounds to go. The game was a sharp S...
Second FIDE Grand Prix Tournament
Following on from the successful first FIDE Grand Prix event in Baku, which was held in April/May and was jointly won by Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Magnus Carlsen, we now have the second event of the Grand Prix in Sochi, Russia (For a recap on t...
New: Rybka 3, strength is not everything
The strongest chess program just got stronger!You know what that means: Rybka 3 is out.But the shooting star of computer chess (and reigning world champion) not only gained elo points. It also has a new interface, designed by ChessBase, and intr...
Biel: Carlsen loses to Alekseev, Dominguez in the lead
From the start it was clear that Magnus Carlsen would defend his title in Biel - but how big would his win be this time, that was the question. However, after pressing too hard against Alekseev, it's now Leinier Dominguez who leads the tournament ...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 290708
Due to technical problems this puzzle was published with some delay; our apologies. What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. The solution of 28-07-08: