Welcome to a new column which I very much hope you will enjoy. Our topic, short, simple and yet grandiose: beauty in chess.I suppose that many of you, dear readers, have read Jonathan Rowson's excellent article "Beautiful!" in New in Chess Mag...
Let's face it: 99% of us don't play chess as well as we would like to, and the other 1% needs to learn some humility. One of the worst feelings in chess is missing those clearly winning moves that would have ended the game, but instead you slide i...
The Women's World Chess Championship will take place in Nalchik, Russia from 28 August to 19 September, as reported previously at Chess.com. The draw for the first round has now been announced and as expected, the top rated chess player...
Welcome to the ChessVibes Summer Contest 2008! Every day, from July 12 to 27, a set of three questions will be published. The first prize of the contest is a one-year subscription to New in Chess Magazine. Good luck! Summer Contest: questions 1 / ...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Never before has there been an internal run on a new product as we are having in our office right now. The new DGT foldable electronic chess clock is such a beauty that everybody wants to have one. But, so far, nobody at New In Chess has been ...
During the coming two weeks, your editor-in-chief will be going on holiday. This means no chess news articles from my side, but some of my co-editors will write articles (the first one, by our new editor Michael, will be online tomorrow!). Besides...
The Karpov tournament in the Siberian town of Poikovsky has started with many draws: both in the second and third round, all games ended peacefully. Wang Hao, Jakovenko and Rublevsky lead because of their first-round victories.The annual Karpov to...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
The 2008 South Carolina Open was held from June 27-29, 2008 in Greenville, SC. The event had 2 GMs and 6 NMs to make a very competitive field. GM Roman Dzindzichasvili and NM Chris Mabe both of who scored 4.5/5 and went undefeated split first plac...
Today I have to make a sad announcement that doesn't really concern you, as you're reading the English version of this article. Anyway, here it goes: ChessVibes stops the Dutch version of the site.This week I told some friends I'd probably have to...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
To the question who's currently the best French player, without hesitating one would answer Etienne Bacrot. However, these days the difference with the number two is very small, especially after Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Open Paris Championsh...
Top seed Alexei Shirov (pictured) heads the lineup of this 10-man round-robin tournament being held in Russia between 8-17 July. The tournament website can be found here (in Russian only), but beware - there are some unconfirmed reports that...
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The Russian GM Evgeny Najer (pictured) has won the 'World Open' event played between July 1-6 in Philadelphia. The nine-round swiss tournament ended with four players tied for first place on 7/9. Along with Najer they were, Par...
Again, an "Armageddon" game had to decide a major event in the United States, but the spectators and winner Evgeny Najer probably didn't complain. Last Sunday, the Russian won the World Open in Philadelphia.The World Open took place July 1-6 in Ph...
SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises 9 is out! Good news for thousands of chess players all over the world, who will be eagerly hunting its pages for early deviations from main stream chess openings. Because SOS is for chess players who like to...
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In a rapid match that was held this week in Kiev, Ukraine, Sergey Karjakin proved far too strong for former world title contender Nigel Short: 7.5-2.5.In Kiev's Academic Puppet Theatre Kiev, from July 3 to 7 a rapid match was played between Sergey...
The 18 year-old Ukranian GM Sergey Karjakin (pictured) has won his rapid match in Kiev against the veteran British GM and former World Title challenger Nigel Short. The time control was 25 minutes per game plus a 10 second increment per move...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Peter Leko won his 3rd title in Dortmund today. He drew his game against Naiditsch, and not long afterwards his pursuers Nepomniachtchi and Gustafsson did the same. Update with interview Leko.And so it was the solid but powerfull chess of Peter Le...
Leko takes third title Peter Leko (pictured) comfortably drew his last round game with Arkadij Naiditsch to take his third Dortmund title to add to his wins in 1999 and 2002. Despite Naiditsch playing the Marshall Gambit, early exchanges mea...
