The tenth round was the first not very interesting round of the tournament so far. All games were drawn and only Ivanchuk-Topalov could be called a real fight.Anand - Carlsen ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ? Shirov - Leko ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ? Radjabov - Aronian ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ? Ivanchuk ...
Shirov's blunder, Ivanchuk vs the clock, Radjabov on his rook ending against Topalov... Have fun with the videos of the ninth round! [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"406","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image",...
The good thing of being in Linares is that I can add the opinion of the players themselves into the comments. Here's round 9. Links: Pairings, results, standings, all info Tournament website Games in PGN
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Just like last year, Carlsen is chasing Anand. Then they were both on 5.5/9, now Magnus is half a point behind.He won again today, against Shirov, who had defended very well for a long time before he made a terrible blunder. Ivanchuk won a good ga...
Today Chess.com was featured in a great video news piece in which I (Erik) had a few embarrassing interview clips. In the video I was referred to as the "creator" of Chess.com, and I just wanted to let everyone know how far from true tha...
Because of some technical problems it took a while, but finally the first three videos from Linares are up. Besides interviews with Leko and Aronian, you can see Ivanchuk's terrible timetrouble and the comments after the game of his opponent (and ...
Jeremy Silman has just won the 2007 ChessCafe Book-of-the-Year Award. His Silman's Complete Endgame Course was the favorite in a worldwide internet voting round. We wouldn't have minded if one of the other two shortlisted books, our own From Lon...
Just like in Morelia, the journalists are having trouble with the internet connection in the hotel. That's why the reporting over here had a bit of a slow start. But to begin with, here are yesterday's games with comments. &nb...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Round 8 has started. Without anything fancy by the way; the players arrived at the theater, walked into the playing hall, and about eight minutes later they went to their boards. A very short speech and a gong followed.This article will be updated...
Sometime people ask what we are working on. So here you go! #1 - getting the bugs out of Live Chess (and working on the interface) [2-3 more weeks] #2 - improving tournaments including an overall tournament stat for total tournaments [1-2 more we...
?Ǭ°Estamos en Linares! ChessVibes has arrived yesterday, and is getting ready for daily coverage of the second part of the top tournament Morelia/Linares. A small photo report to start with.First I'd like to thank you for the questions you left u...
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What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Apologies for the delay; of course that's because of Linares. Wednesday's solution:
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
If we look back at Morelia/Linares, now halfway through, we can safely say that no chess fan has been disappointed. All right, the players made more mistakes than usual, but it has made the tourney all the more exciting.So far, there have been mor...
When a Scottish whisky brand decides to promote their new website with a chess video, then ChessVibes is willing to help them a bit. Because it's not an easy thing to actually get British Champion GM Jacob Aagaard before the camera to explain the ...
The 2006 Year Volume of the Chess Player's Guide of Opening News has just become available! We are offering all 4 issues of the 2006 Yearbook (78-81), paperback edition, for only ?¢‚Äö¬¨ 47,95 (was ?¢‚Äö¬¨ 103,80). That's more than 1,000 pages...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
In Morelia, Magnus Carlsen was interviewed after his victory against Topalov (you know, that Alekhine that went so smoothly) by Macauley Peterson and Mig Greengard, for ICC's Chess.FM. Magnus told about this game, and about the effect of tennis on...
Daniel Fridman is champion of Germany, Tomasz Markowski grabs the title at the first Pfalz Open, Peter Svidler wins a weekender (!) in Ireland... Some tournament news.The 79th Individual Championship of Germany wasn't the strongest ever, but still...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
Just like last year 7 out of 9, just like then shared first, but this time Vugar Gashimov was declared the winner of the 24th open tournament of Cappelle la Grande, on tiebreak .Before the last round, Arutinian, Kryvoruchko, Chernysov and Kotronia...
