Metropolitan Chess will host a International Master norm round robin tournament on February 23rd to 27th of 2011. The tournament is sponsored by California Market Center, Fashion Business, Inc, Chess.com, LawyerFy, and Betty Bottom Showroom. ...
The European Chess Union (ECU) has awarded the European Women’s Championship to Tbilisi, Georgia. This was announced yesterday in the ECU newsletter. The decision is a big blow for the Turkish Chess Federation, who were intending to make history b...
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The next challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship will be either Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia or Humpy Koneru of India, and the fates paired them together in a crucial first round encounter in the final Women's Grand Prix event in Doha. H...
Two talented juniors from Hendon Chess Club were the heroes of the evening as chess Grandmaster and World Championship candidate Nigel Short took on 47 players at the Middlesex University Real Tennis Club on 15th February. The play took place on t...
This year's chess festival in Leon, Spain has survived the economic cutbacks that have beset many other events, but only just. In recent years Leon has played host to a small rapid tournament of four grandmasters, but this year there will be just...
Last month, two biographies of legendary chess figures were published. One is a modest booklet about a great man who just turned 100 years old, the other is a 350-page volume on the eleventh World Champion, who died at the age of 64. The differenc...
The FIDE Women's Grand Prix series kicked off in March 2009 in Istanbul, and over nearly two years has seen further events in Nanjing, Nalchik, Jermuk and Ulaanbaatar. The sixth and final tournament in the Women's Grand Prix series will run from ...
Our recent report on the Houdini-Rybka match triggered lots of comments about the issue of cloning in the computer chess world. Was Houdini derived from the Ippolit series? Was it plagiarized from Rybka? And what about Rybka, is it largely based o...
Despite an ongoing conflict with the European Chess Union, just before the deadline the Turkish Chess Federation renewed their bid for hosting the 2011 European Individual Women's Championship, increasing the prize fund with 10,000 Euro. Meanwhile...
We have just received from our printers: Improve Your Chess Tactics .In this book, experienced Russian chess master Yakov Neishtadt reveals the training material that was used in Soviet times to build up young masters. A systematic course on t...
Already this week the ChessVibes Openings subscribers received many opening ideas and novelties, played at the Aeroflot Open, in their mailbox. Have you heard of the Brazilian Taimanov? Why is the Russian System of the Grünfeld popular again? What...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the World Blitz qualifier, held on the last day of the Aeroflot Open Chess Festival in Moscow, Russia. The Azeri grandmaster scored 14.5/18, half a point more than Ruslan Ponomariov. Together with Dmitry Andreikin, Evgeny...
After the main business of the Aeroflot Open was completed in Moscow, a qualification event took place for the 2011 World Blitz which takes place later this year. The format was a double nine-round Swiss blitz at 3 minutes per game, plus a 2 sec...
In a short but fascinating interview, Silvio Danailov, Veselin Topalov’s manager and the President of the European Chess Union, shed light on the fate of a number of tournaments, his protégé’s form, and new and controversial plans for the future o...
The 19 year-old Vietnamese star Le Quang Liem has won the huge Aeroflot Open for the second year in succession. This time he just edged out Russians Nikita Vitiugov and Evgeny Tomashevsky with a superior tie-break score after they all finished on...
Despite a spectacular loss against Ivan Cheparinov in the penultimate round, Le Quang Liem won the Aeroflot Open for the second time in a row. The Vietnamese grandmaster edged out Nikita Vitiugov and Evgeny Tomashevsky on tie-break after the three...
This year the traditional chess festival in Leon (Spain) will take place June 2-6. Instead of a knock-out with four players, this time only two players have been invited: Viswanathan Anand and Alexei Shirov. The two will play six games with 60 min...
A new film about the American chess genius entitled "Bobby Fischer Against The World" debuted at the Sundance Film Festival recently and is now due for a wider release after Music Box Films announced that they have bought the theatrical distributi...
All but two spots have been confirmed for the 2011 U.S. Championship, scheduled to be held concurrently with the U.S. Womens Championship in Saint Louis April 13-28, and two significant surprises have helped shape a dynamic field that will comp...
We have just received: The Meran & Anti-Meran Variations . In this book, opening expert and renowned author Alexey Dreev offers an insider’s view of these popular openings. Dreev has a quarter century of experience in both these variations at ...
"We would have loved to send you a positive email, announcing the dates for another great Chess Classic tournament in 2011, but unfortunately a decade full of passion and dedication for international rapid chess has come to an end in Mainz," write...
One could hardly imagine anything more peaceful than a simultaneous chess exhibition, but it looks like political enemies Iran and Israel have turned the area into a fierce battlefield. It was only four months ago that Israeli GM Alik Gershon play...
The difficult economic conditions being faced by many individuals and businesses around the world is slowly gnawing away at the sponsorship of some great chess tournaments. The latest festival to bite the dust is the Mainz Chess Classic, which wi...
