DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 170408
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 160408
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
They're coming
They're coming. The new generation of chess players. In the last few days, three open tournaments were won by three chess players at an average age of just thirteen years old.To prevent you from falling from your chair and break something, let's s...
Grand Master Anatoly Karpov to Play at Cuban Mass Match
Russian chess Grand Master and former world champion Anatoly Karpov will take part in a gigantic 4,000 chess board simultaneous match on April 21 at the University of Computer and Informatics Sciences (UCI) in Havana. Karpov was welcom...
An Interview with GM Nigel Davies
Nigel Davies is a Grandmaster from England, a popular and prolific chess author and an experienced coach. He also authored the recent Chess Mentor course, "Understanding the Colle-Zukertort" and is currently playing in a vote chess...
Video interview Jan Smeets
Of course I also had an interview with the winner in the men's Dutch Championship, Jan Smeets. He defeated Daniel Stellwagen with White and to his surprise, his other rivals did not win.
Ural Ekaterinburg - Russian Team Champions 2008
The Russian Team Championships being held in Sochi, on the shores of the Black Sea, came to an end on Sunday with team Ural from Ekaterinburg emerging victorious. The event was a very strong all-play-all affair with 12 teams of the very best playe...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 150408
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Video interview Zhaoqin Peng
Yesterday, Zhaoqin Peng won the Dutch Women Chess Championship for the 10th time. Is she still motivated to win the 11th one? She answers in a video interview.
Ural Ekaterinenburg the strongest
Leading throughout the tournament, and clearly the best team: Ural Ekaterinenburg has won the Russian Team Championship.Photo: ChessProIn Sochi, Russia, Ural Ekaterinenburg (with Radjabov, Shirov, Kamsky, Grischuk, Malakhov and Akopian, plus Dreev...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 140408
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Jan Smeets is the 2008 Dutch Chess Champion
The Dutch National Chess Championship ended today with a thrilling final round in which the event leader Daniel Stellwagen was defeated by Jan Smeets (pictured) to snatch victory at the last gasp. Stellwagen had a score of 7/10 going into the last...
Jan Smeets Dutch Champion
Jan Smeets is the new Dutch Champion. Today we had live blogging (in Dutch only) from Hilversum, The Netherlands.On Monday, a summary and final report on the Dutch Championship will follow, including video interviews with the winners. [TABLE...
Happy Birthday Garry Kasparov
On April 13th, 1963 a baby boy called Karri Kimovich Weinstein was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He went on to become better known as Garry Kasparov and dominated the chess world for decades - being recognised as the World Champion from 1985 to ...
Henrique Mecking plays again
In 1973 the Brazilian Chess Grandmaster Henrique Mecking was ranked 3rd in the World, only headed by the greats Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. The strength of his play at a young age even drew comparisons with Bobby Fischer. However, Me...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 130408
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Adams wins Magistral Ruy L?ɬ?pez
After a quick draw in his last-round game against number two Sargissian, Adams secured a smooth victory at the Magistral Ruy L?ɬ?pez yesterday.Michael Adams was the highest rated player in M?ɬ©rida, and did what he was supposed to. Three draws (...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 120408
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
"Kamsky-Topalov in Lviv, Ukraine"
According to journalist Yuri Vasiliev, who spoke to Gata Kamsky's manager today, the Topalov-Kamsky match, scheduled for the end of November, will take place in Lviv, Ukraine with a prize fund of US $750,000.On February 12, FIDE had communicated t...
Octopus to host chess tourney
Octopus to host chess tourney http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/news/news_article/octopus_to_host_chess_tourney/2607
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 110408
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Interview with Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk
Interview with Grandmaster Alexandra KosteniukAlexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster with a FIDE rating of 2523, presently ranked eighth in the women chess world (according to April 2008 FIDE rating list). Her most notable chess achiev...
Baden-Baden prolongs title - again
Last weekend, for the third time in a row the Ooser Schachclub Baden-Baden has won the German team championships. We have videos again.Without star players Vishy Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexei Shirov and Magnus Carlsen, Baden-Baden collected another...
Meet GM Jacob Aagaard
The Danish Grandmaster and popular chess author Jacob Aagaard will be signing copies of his latest book, "The Attacking Manual 1" at the London Chess Centre on the 15th April. GM Aagaard will also be giving a lecture and answering chess ...