A new Chess.com Vote Chess game starts today - Positional vs. Tactical players! Who will win this battle of styles? Can tactical players land a knockout blow, or will they punch themselves out and get squeezed? Can positional players choke out the...
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GM Nijboer, GM Jones, IM Swinkels and IM Klimov have won an extraordinary warm second edition of the ENCI Limburg Open.The 2nd ENCI Limburg Open in Maastricht can be summarized as follows: and excellent atmosphere, summer heat and many, many chess...
Mark Dvoretsky is generally considered to be the best chess coach in the world. The series of training books he is currently writing with Artur Jussupow, one of his most successful pupils, has reached its next stage. We just received School of...
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The story isn't really changing but nonetheless getting more exceptional by the day: in the fifth round Vassily Ivanchuk also beat Levon Aronian and this way he already made history by winning the first leg of the M-Tel Masters with a 100% score.B...
Chess fans in the UK will have the chance to see two giants of the game at the Hay Festival in Wales later this month. Boris Spassky (pictured) is giving a simultaneous exhibition (fully booked - I tried! ) and is also being interviewed by Ronan B...
Mighty Chucky axes all his rivals Besides the anti-draw rules in force in Sofia, there is also apparently another rule that everyone must lose to Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured!). Quite unbelieveably, Ivanchuk has now won ALL five of his games in the ...
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And he did it again: Vassily Ivanchuk is now on 4/4 in Sofia after he beat Cheparinov today. This way he extended his lead since Radjabov-Topalov and Bu Xiangzhi-Aronian both ended in a draw.Cheparinov seems to be developing himself into a second ...
After three rounds, only four players still have a 100% score at the ENCI Limburg Open: IM Robin Swinkels, IM Sergey Klimov, GM Vladimir Epishin and GM Friso Nijboer. We have a video introducing the tournament. [TABLE=272] Links: Tournament w...
Glorious Chucky makes it 4/4 In round 4 at the MTel Masters, Vassily Ivanchuk continued on his hot streak by beating Cheparinov in a complicated King's Indian. The other games between Radjabov and Topalov, and Bu Xiangzhi and Lev Aronian...
For those of you who are missing your fix of Yelena Dembo's games, she is currently participating in the Kapthung Open in Luxembourg. The event is a 9 round Swiss with a first prize of 3,000 Euros and 1,500 Euros for the top woman. The t...
The 4 Nations Chess League in the UK started in 1993 and has grown to become the premier team event in the country (The '4 Nations' name comes from the fact that the chess federations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are separate or...
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In the third round of the Mtel Masters Ivanchuk scored his third point; his opponent Bu Xiangzhi blundered already on move seven. Topalov beat Cheparinov and Radjabov-Aronian was drawn.The last time Ivanchuk won a game like this must have been at ...
The 2008 Frank K Berry US Chess Championship takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma between 13-21 May. The men's event is a 9 round Swiss with 24 players taking part. The women's championship is a 10 player round robin tournament. Both...
More boo-hoo's for Bu Sometimes it's just not your lucky day. Today was just one of those days for poor Bu Xiangzhi of China (pictured) who suffered the ignominy of reaching a resignable position as early as move 9 against the unstop...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Vassily Ivanchuk is the only player on 2 /2 in Sofia after he beat Veselin Topalov today. Bu Xiangzhi-Radjabov and Aronian-Cheparinov were drawn.Topalov chose 1.e4 against Ivanchuk and faced a French Defence. Black's opening was a succes because a...
This weekend ChessVibes will be covering the 2nd Limburg Open tournament, which involves almost 400 participants and no less than 25 titled players. GMs Emanuel Berg & Vassilios Kotronias are the favorites.In Maastricht, the Netherlands this Whits...
If you are interested in taking your opponent out of his comfort zone at the very first move, then the new book Play 1.b4! may be just the ticket for you. With this aggressive pawn lunge you avoid the many theoretical landmines of main line open...
Ivanchuk topples Topalov After the excitement of the first round, day 2 in Sofia only produced one decisive game, but what a game! Fresh from his first round defeat of the dangerous Lev Aronian with the Black pieces, Topalov pressed hard against ...
The organizers of the Mtel Masters in Sofia couldn't have hoped for a better start of their 2008 tournament. Both Topalov and Cheparinov won; against Aronian and Bu respectively. Ivanchuk defeated Radjabov.Contrary to his usual style, Topalov star...
