Finally a quiet round in Aerosvit After many rounds of exciting chess in Foros, the inevitable finally happened and we had the first dull round of the tournament. Spectators could almost have been forgiven for thinking that the players had s...
1. "Studying the endgame is boring" 2. "I quickly forget half (if not 90%) of the endings I look at" 3. "I can't find a book with good explanations" 4. "My games never reach the endgame".Sounds familiar? Then 100 Endgames You Must Know, which arri...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Magical Magnus conjures win over Shirov Round 5 at Foros and yet another elite Grandmaster crumbles in the face of Magnus Carlsen's relentless pressure. Alexei Shirov is a formidable player and has himself come close to the World Champio...
The current 'Chess Giants' tournament being held in Yerevan has been re-named the Karen Asrian Memorial after the young Armenian player who passed away suddenly just days ago. The event continued today (12th June) after being postpo...
Gaguik Oganessian, General Secretary of the Armenian Chess Federation and President of FIDE Zone 1.5, informed us that the "Chess Giants Yerevan 2008" tournament has been renamed "Karen Asrian Memorial", and that the Asrian Memorial will become tr...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Carlsen defeats rival in epic encounter On a day when three of the games at the Aerosvit tournament in the Ukraine ended in draws after a mere 19 moves exactly, Magnus Carlsen battled against one of his nearest rivals, the talented 25 year-old Ukr...
For the next Olympiad in Dresden, FIDE is planning some major changes as far as the rules are concerned. For example, players are not allowed to arrive late at the board anymore.Here's what FIDE published this week on the new Olympiad rules:Ignati...
Strict punishment for latecomers at Dresden Olympiad From November 12-25 2008, the biennial Chess Olympiad for national teams from around the globe, will be held in the German city of Dresden. The official website for the event is here.&nbs...
In the town of Druten, The Netherlands, you can enjoy a new chess art exposition, called "Global Chess". The exposition will run until June 30 and involves pieces by fifteen Dutch artists who all include the game of chess in their art.Just like la...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
In the third round of the Aerosvit tournament, Magnus Carlsen grabbed sole lead by beating Loek van Wely, after Alexei Shirov suffered an unnecessary loss against Pavel Eljanov. We have game fragments from the first three rounds.The international ...
The rounds due to played on June 10 and June 11 of the Chess Giants tournament in Yerevan have been postponed following the sudden death of the Armenian player Karen Asrian. Asrian's friends and compatriots Lev Aronian, Vladimir Akopian...
Carlsen takes lead as Shirov falters Another exciting day at the Black Sea resort of Foros as four of the six games yielded decisive results. Alexei Shirov was first to suffer, losing his game against Pavel Eljanov (pictured) of Ukraine.&nbs...
Last weekend a superior Friso Nijboer grabbed the Open Utrecht Championship title. In the six-round weekender he won his first five, and then drew against his closest rival Leonid Kritz. Photo ?Ǭ© ChessVistaThis year, despite the beautiful weath...
GM Nick de Firmian and his team have just published Modern Chess Openings, 15th edition. MCO is a one-volume reference book covering ALL chess openings. It has been the standard English language work on openings for more than a century.The previ...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
The "Chess Giants Yerevan 2008" website brings the sad news that Armenian GM Karen Asrian passed away today, only 28 years old.Photo: karpidis, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License From the tournament website:*** It is with gre...
Subdued first day in Yerevan The Yerevan "Chess Giants" rapid tournament in Armenia had a subdued start following the announcement before the day's games of the death of the young Armenian GM, Karen Asrian. The first 2 rounds of this...
There was very sad news today as the young Armenian GM Karen Asrian (pictured) died suddenly and unexpectedly. Early reports say that Asrian, who was just 28 years old, felt ill whilst driving in Verevan, the Armenian capital, and pulled ove...
Shirov takes the sole lead At the 12-player round robin tournament in Foros, Ukraine, the second round saw Alexei Shirov take the lead by adding to his first round victory against Van Wely with another win. This time his victim was Dmitry Ja...
GMs Kamsky, Fressinet, Petrosian, Kolev, Friedel and IM Finegold tied for first place at the 2008 National Open which was held this weekend in Las Vegas.The National Open is one of America's longest running open tournaments. First established by E...
About six weeks ago we saw ex-world champion Veselin Topalov in a tv-commercial. This time it's Viswanathan Anand's turn and we learn that his world-class preparation isn't done on a laptop with Intel Duo Core, but with an AMD processor!Well, that...
