Today we present a brand new repertoire book for Black based on the Sveshnikov. The Easiest Sicilian by GM's Kolev & Nedev is aimed at players > 1850 elo. It proposes a sound yet aggressive repertoire after 1.e4 c5, 2.Nf3 Nc6 and covers the...
After many months, FIDE still hasn't been able to confirm details around the Kamsky-Topalov match, and one of many who've lost their patience, is Alexei Shirov. The World Cup finalist says that by now he should be replacing Kamsky. Updates with co...
There was a really interesting interview posted today with Piotr, Chess.com's main live chess developer. Check it out (WARNING - contains a LOT of nerd-speak) => http://prototypejs.org/2008/5/28/an-interview-with-piotr-dachtera There has be...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Today, in one hour to be exact, a rapid match between Peter Leko and Magnus Carlsen starts in Miskolc (Hungary).In the National Theater of Miskolc, eight rapid games will be played May 28-June 1 (free day on May 30). The arbiter is WGM Zsuzsa Vero...
Leko holds Carlsen on Day 1 In the rapid match between the Hungarian GM Peter Leko (pictured) and Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the opening day ended with both games drawn. The first game saw Magnus signify his aggressive intentions by playin...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
In Bazna, Romania this month many stars from the 70s and 80s have joined to play the "King's Tournament", among them Henrique Mecking, Lajos Portisch and Jan Timman.The King's Tournament is held May 24-June 4 in Bazna, Romania. It's an 11-player r...
Chess.com launched to the public at the end of May 2007 - 1 year ago. Happy Birthday Chess.com! And now I'm sitting here trying to think of how to sum up the past, present, and future of Chess.com... (You can catch up to speed on the Bui...
On Saturday, May 24, Georgian grandmaster Bukhuti Gurgenidze passed away, as reported by Russian websites Gazeta.ru and Novaya Gazeta, with references to ITAR-TASS and the Georgian chess federation. Gurgenidze was 74 years old.Bukhuti Ivanovich Gu...
What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Gentleman Spassky charms Hay-on-Wye Individuals who achieve greatness and fame in sports are normally remembered for their sublime skills and dramatic triumphs. It is Boris Spassky's tragedy to be forever remembered as the man who lost the Worl...
With a splendind attacking victory against Sergey Movesesian, current number 3 in the world Alexander Morozevich took the lead in the "Bosna 2008" tournament. Annotated game.The 38th edition of the traditional Bosna tournament is held under the au...
Love chess? Love Facebook? Well, Chess.com has finally fully arrived on Facebook! Today we launched our new Facebook Chess app. We had the most popular chess app on Facebook already that was originally built by Jamie Holding, but we decided to bri...
What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
The tournament in Sardinia has ended. Rowson kept his lead till the end and so he became the winner of the 2nd Chess Festival Capo d'Orso. We have a video with impressions of this in many ways beautiful event.Before we say more, first the video - ...
Leon Tournament and Leko - Carlsen Match In recent years Peter Leko, the Hungarian grandmaster and former World Championship challenger, has taken on a succession of strong grandmasters in annual rapid events. In the hot seat this year is th...
What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
After a period of overkill (EU Ch, Baku, M-Tel...) it's a bit quiet these days, but many interesting events are about to start.The Bosna 2008 tournament in Sarajevo has started yesterday, with almost the same field as last year. The only differenc...
What do you play with Black? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
The Final tournament of the Moscow Chess Championship took place May 12-18, 2008. This was a category XI event with an average rating of 2516 with 8 players participating including 6 GMs and 2 IMs. GM Boris Savchenko took clear first with a score ...
A video is available at this YouTube link which includes a few words from the new Champions Yuri Shulman and Anna Zatonskih and dramatic footage of the final Armageddon game between Krush and Zatonskih. As other Chess.com members have remarked, th...
-- "The mistakes are all there, waiting to be made"" -- "No game was ever won by resigning" -- "He wins who makes the next-to-last mistake" Half a century after his death Tartakower lives on, not only in his beautiful games, but also...
Today the second and last part of Jonathan Rowson's lecture on beauty in chess, plus a small update on the tournament in Sardinia. Tournament update In the sixth round, Rowson drew with Black against Mihail Marin. Yesterday he easily beat Ita...
