DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 090308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 080308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Anand wins Morelia/Linares 2008
Update: games with comments. For the third time in his career, Viswanathan Anand emerged as the winner in the city of Linares. His first tournament victory as a world champion was "very similar to last year", he said.During the press conference af...
Video round 13
This time one video, of round 13, in which Teimour Radjabov explains how you beat a 2700 player in two hours. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"415","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","height":"355","width":...
Tennis and soccer
Especially today I feel pain in muscles I didn't know I had, but hey, I did score a number of decent goals. Last Wednesday we played soccer with (amongst others) Aronian, Carlsen and Sargissian, which was good for some nice photos again. For examp...
New: 222 opening traps after 1.e4
How much book do you need to know? "The bare minimum is", said GM Andrew Soltis, "you need to know the traps that come up in your openings." 222 Opening Traps after 1.e4 is the title of a new book we just received, published by the respected h...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 070308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
GM Shabalov Wins 2008 Eastern Class Championship
The 2008 Eastern Class Championship was held in Sturbridge, MA from February 29 - March 2, 2008. The event featured 3 GMs competing for the title along with many other master players. GM Alexander Shabalov made a score of 4.5/5 to take clear first...
Round 13 with comments
Before we knew it, Radjabov had already won. He had managed to lure Shirov into an ending that's known to be better for White. Shirov's novelty on move 20 couldn't change that verdict - in fact, according to Radjabov it was a losing mistake. Topal...
Videos round 12
Naturally, Topalov did not want to comment on his blunder. But we do have Carlsen's first reaction (a kind of happy perplexity) and also Aronian's evalution of his special endgame against Shirov. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"...
youngest master in American History
Nicholas Nip Youngest Master in American History at Age 9 Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 05 @ 16:32:54 CST Back: GM Yuri Shulman, Michael Yang, Gregory YoungFront: Nicholas Nip, Darwin Yang, Varun Krishnan, Atulya Shetty, Brian Luo...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 060308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
New & full of novelties: Yearbook 86
Yearbook 86 has just arrived from the printers. In the 250 pages of this issue of The Chess Player's Guide to Opening News you will get an answer to the following questions: What did Sosonko have in store against the sharp 5...b5 in his Catalan ...
New column Kasparov in WSJ
A new column by Kasparov has been published in the Wall Street Journal, about the elections in Russia.
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 050308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Round 12 with comments
Topalov first gave away a winning position, and after a blunder in a drawn position he even lost. And so Carlsen was the only winner of the round, as Anand-Leko, Ivanchuk-Radjabov and Shirov-Aronian ended in a draw.Carlsen - Topalov 1-0 Shirov - A...
Video's round 11
Although the players quickly agreed to a draw, the game Radjabov-Anand was actually quite interesting. And this can certainly be said about the final position in Aronian-Ivanchuk. New video interviews.In the first video, Anand and Radjabov comment...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 040308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Round 11 with comments
Alexei Shirov has lost his form. He made big errors again today, this time against Topalov, who didn't have problems finding the decisive combination. Last comer Leko beat Carlsen, who was not satisfied about his preparation and made "several slig...
Video's round 10
Wat is it like to be on last place? What has happened, and what do you do in such a situation when your name is Peter Leko? This, and Anand & Carlsen's comments after their quick draw, in the new videos. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large"...
GM Nigel Davies - Chess Mentor Course & Vote Chess
Chess.com is lucky today! We are fortunate to have GM Nigel Davies with us in two amazing new roles! First off, GM Davies has created a new Chess Mentor course on Understanding the Colle-Zukertort which is an aggressive opening with deadly intent...
Living chess
OK, it was a rest day, but this didn't mean there wasn't any chess. Under a bright shining sun, a living chess show took place today, in which an old game Smyslov-Reshevsky was brought to life, in the middle of one of Linares's streets. I still ow...
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 030308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
DagpuzzelDaily puzzle 020308
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution: