Kamsky defeats Adams to join leaders In the sixth round Gata Kamsky of the USA beat Britain's Mickey Adams to join Alexander Grischuk and Wang Yue in the lead with a score of 4/6. His tie-break score (using the Neustadtl method - the sam...
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Tiger Hillarp Persson & Daniel Stellwagen are sharing the lead after five rounds of an incredibly combative Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malm?ɬ?, Sweden. Report with photos and videos.The 16th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament is taking place 22-30 Apr...
In a new column for the Wall Street Journal, Garry Kasparov criticizes Western governments for going soft on China and Russia.
If you search for Kasparov on YouTube you'll find several commercials. Recently a commercial was produced in which another former world champion is starring: Veselin Topalov. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"442","attributes":{"c...
Solid play from Yelena Dembo at Euro Championship After 6 rounds at the European Individual Chess Championships, Yelena Dembo - the top player at Chess.com - is still unbeaten with 2 wins and 4 draws, placing her 1 point behind a three-way tie for...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Not much happened in the fifth round of Baku 2008, except for the fact that Wang Yue, not exactly the favorite for tournament victory, climbed up to a shared first place. And Cheparinov scored his first half point by the way. Now with videos too!F...
"If a sacrifice looks good, then it is good". Sounds unfamiliar? Sounds blasphemous? It is from Blitz Theory, a book we just received in stock. It reminded me of what Genrikh Chepukaitis, the famous SmartChip blitz legend from Genna Sosonko's ...
The press conferences with demoboard are always a big hit during Corus, and we've done the same twice now in Baku. So today more of this top material - enjoy! Round 3 Press Conference GM Vugar Gashimov, who beat GM Peter Svidler Rou...
The only decisive game in round 5 was won by Wang Yue of China (pictured) to take him into the joint lead with Alexander Grischuk. Yue beat Sergey Karjakin with the Black pieces in - of all things - a Berlin Defense to the Ruy Lopez. ...
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In the fourth round of Baku 2008 we saw some difficult games and some big mistakes. Cheparinov, who lost his fourth game today against Wang Yue, is clearly out of form. Mamedyarov played very strongly and beat Carlsen, Adams scored a lucky win aga...
Ernikka Johnson, 10, and Jirrell Echols, 11, sat in school desks facing each other in math teacher Douglas Carey's classroom last Friday afternoon, a vinyl roll-up chessboard spread over the desktops between them. read more: http://www.freep.c...
Alexander Grischuk draws to retain lead - Carlsen loses. In the fourth round of the Baku Grand Prix, Alexander Grischuk of Russia held the American Gata Kamsky to a short 21-move draw with the Slav Defense after a repetition of moves, thereby keep...
Just like in Baku, at the European Championship in Plovdiv (Bulgaria), three rounds have been played. In the men's section there are ten GMs left with a 100% score, in the women's section only five players won all three games.The 9th European Indi...
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In the third round was lots of fighting chess with no less than five decisive games. After beating David Navara with the black pieces, it's Alexander Grischuk who has taken the lead with 2.5/3. He's followed by Karjakin, Radjabov, Gashimov, Carlse...
Grischuk takes sole lead in Baku as Carlsen bags first win. Alexander Grischuk (pictured), the Russian GM who has dabbled with playing in poker events, has taken the sole lead on 2.5/3 in the first Grand Prix tournament in Baku after beatin...
For those of you in Northern California, Jay and I will be helping run a casual blitz chess tournament at the Plug-n-Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale on May 5th. It's mostly about getting some of the engineers and entrepreneurs in the area togeth...
And before we know it, another day has passed. Much has happened, much I learnt, and changed my mind. I'll publish my round reports here as well anyway, so that even more peope will read what I'm writing in Baku. On the second day everything...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
If you play what Alexander Khalifman recommends, you will not be surprised by simple refutations. That is why strong players (up to Masters) use his opening books. But what about club players?Khalifman is a brilliant teacher, and points out the ...
After the first two rounds in the first FIDE Grand Prix event in Baku, Azerbaijan, there are four players leading on 1.5 points. They are Gata Kamsky from America, Alexander Grishuk from Russia, Michael Adams from the UK and Teimour R...
