The lack of a regular and predictable structure for top level chess is no doubt a factor in putting off many potential commercial sponsors to the game. The organisers of some of the most famous tournaments have been negotiating for two years...
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The Grand Slam Final, scheduled for September 1-13 in Bilbao, Spain will embroider on the theme of the M-Tel Masters: the players will make their moves in a glass cube, placed somewhere in the city centre.Thanks to a press release, the official na...
Last year, during the world championship in Mexico City, he proved once again how terribly strong he is. One of the nicest top players around has turned 40 today: Boris Gelfand.Boris Gelfand was born in Minsk (Belarus) on 24 June 1968. He's been a...
The soon to begin Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is said to host a crown group and two open tournaments. But although there is no mention of it on the official site, rumour has it that there will be a second closed group with ten titled players...
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Second seed GM Hikaru Nakamura (Smallville) of the USA reasserted his authority as one of the top dogs on ICC on Sunday by winning the Mainz Chess Classic online Chess960 title.After winning the first qualifier, Nakamura beat with ease Cassano (3-...
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This month, two new attacking manuals were published by Gambit: The Art of Attacking in Chess by Zenon Franco and How to Crush Your Chess Opponents by Simon Williams. Let's have a look. All chess players like to attack. But why? We could try to ex...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution: "^Reports^^^1214110854^1314785601^Editors Photovideoart^"Artists can be inspired by just anything, like two old men playing a game of chess in the ...
Hi all, Magnus Carlsen has just finished another fantastic tournament in Foros, Ukraine. He managed to remain undefeated and chalked up five wins. In this field that means a 2877 performance rating. Now, virtually he is the number 2 in the world w...
The annual supertournament in Dortmund will start on the 28th June and run until the 6th July. The confirmed field includes World Championship contender Vladimir Kramnik (pictured) and the seemingly omnipresent Vassily Ivanchuk. The full lin...
The 2008 US Cadet event was held from June 14-18, 2008 in Lindsborg Kansas had many of the top youth players throughout the United States. In a bit of a surprise finish Conrad Holt rated 2109 won the event with an impressive score of 5/6! Now lets...
After many rapid and 'real' tournaments, many of you might be sick of chess by now. The real die hards however are reading this and probably think: what's next?Well, a chess summer chuck full of new events, that's what next. In the coming months, ...
Every Saturday an endgame study is published at ChessVibes, selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck with the instructional occupation of solving a study!Af...
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TIME's 2008 Summer Journey is dedicated to "Games people play". The chess section is written by no one else than world champion Viswanathan Anand."Who invented chess? Why is polo big in Pakistan? From the ancient city of Ur to modern Africa, from ...
This is what some of the critics have to say about Forcing Chess Moves by Charles Hertan:"By organizing and explaining the nature of great chess moves Hertan has brought us all closer to being able to find them." Former US Champion GM Joel Benjami...
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Tonight it's possible to join a live chat with top grandmaster GM Sergei Movsesian. The session is starting at 20:00 hrs CET at the Novoborsky Chess Club website.
On July 1, 2008 Magnus Carlsen will be the world's no. 2. He just drew his game against Sergey Karjakin in Foros and earlier today, FIDE confirmed to ChessVibes that the Aerosvit tournament will indeed be included in the July 1st rating list.A fin...
Magnus the boy genius wins by a full point On 30th November 2008, Magnus Carlsen will turn 18 years of age and I guess that then we will have to stop calling him a boy genius, and simply call him a genius instead. His performance at the Aero...
Chess is a great game to play, but it's nicer when you win. This is the chance to make the right move and improve quickly! Just subscribe to: I Masters of Olalachess Academy Training Camp1-7 September 2008Salou (Spain) New method of dynamic ...
