David Navara finished 3rd at the Reykjavik Open two months ago in Iceland, during which he gave a long interview to Grandmaster Vasily Papin. The interview – where the Czech grandmaster talks, for instance, about his doubts about t...
Two unique chess matches involving robots took place on Saturday, May 19th in Moscow, on Strastniy Boulevard. In a specially built pavilion made for this event two-time Olympic champion and former world champion Alexander Grischuk and two robots, ...
Diplomacy, Peace in Switzerland, U.S. Fantasy, and Fix My Wiki! Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #21 is out! About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess news analysis. VERY serious, and not at all witty. Definite...
David Navara finished 3rd at the Reykjavik Open two months ago in Iceland, during which he gave a long interview to Grandmaster Vasily Papin. The interview – where the Czech grandmaster talks, for instance, about his doubts about the li...
A real chess training revolution! Last week we wrote about Chessity.com, and on May 13th Chessity organized an amazing chess tactic battle. Users where thrilled about this chess training competition! (Advertorial) Here's what some of...
BLACK TO PLAY. The level has seemed pretty high at the World Championship so far, as confirmed by commentator Jan Timman, but as chess fans we want to see fireworks as well. The Game of the Week in ChessVibes Openings #176 is Ni Hua-Le Quang Liem ...
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Hikaru Nakamura is in sole lead at the U.S. Championships in Saint Louis, USA after six rounds. The highest rated American grandmaster, currently #7 in the world, won three games and drew three. Reigning champion Gata Kamsky is half a point behind...
Chessity.com is a brand new chess portal offering a wide range of services for chess players that want to improve their game skills. With a simple interface and running on great backend software, Chessity is a hassle-free training environment. You...
Pre-tournament favorites and former winners Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky are sharing the lead after three rounds at the U.S. Championships in Saint Louis, USA. In this first report we focus on the men's event and give you the daily reports ...
Yesterday Vishy Anand, Boris Gelfand, a number of officials and team members inspected the venue for the World Championship match: the Engineering Building of the State Tretyakov Gallery. The official website reported: In accordance with the match...
This season the 4 Nations Chess League's first division was won comfortably by Wood Green Hilsmark 1, who won all their matches and probably by the greatest margin in 4NCL history. The team was able to call on players such as Michael Adams, Jo...
Time flies: last Saturday issue #52 of ChessVibes Training was sent to our subscribers, and tomorrow we'll distribute #53 already. We celebrate this with the following offer: if you subscribe before May 10th*, you'll receive the last five ...
Recently the Chess Events EAC website contacted English GM Nigel Short via Facebook for an interview on his African experiences. The website, which focuses on chess in Kenia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, kindly allowed us to cross-post th...
Last weekend Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the second part of the 'Grand Prix FFE'. The French number three, who beat French number one Laurent Fressinet in the final, earned € 4,000 for two days of rapid chess. Despite losing the first ...
The fourth episode of the Extreme Chess Championships was recently published and uploaded to YouTube. In this chess reality TV show, created by Jennifer Shahade, her brother Greg Shahade and Daniel Meirom, a group of young Americans of different c...
I seldom review chess books. To review a chess book one has to read it - at least, I always do - and this immediately presents a problem, for what if the book is no good? In that case one's time is doubly wasted, for not only has one read a wo...
Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the sixth and final game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After an initially quiet then exciting draw in the penultimate game the scores remain level on 2.5:2.5. The players ranked n...
Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the fifth game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After a relatively quick draw in game four the scores remain level on 2-2 with only two games to go. The players ranked number 2 ...
I seldom review chess books. To review a chess book one has to read it - at least, I always do - and this immediately presents a problem, for what if the book is no good? In that case one's time is doubly wasted, for not only has one read a wo...
Here's today's live commentary by GM Sergey Shipov on the fourth game of the Aronian-Kramnik match. After Vladimir Kramnik won a thrilling battle in game three the scores are now level on 1.5-1.5 with three games to go. The...
Vladimir Kramnik has won Tuesday's third game of his match against Levon Aronian. The score in Zurich is now 1.5-1.5 with three more games to go. 1.e4 hasn't been too popular at the very highest level recently, but it's been played in ...
Jenbach had been winning all their matches since November 2009. This season the team from the small Tyrolean town had to concede a 3:3 in round four to Baden, the only other team capable of lining up a team with an average rating above 2600. Until...
The second game of the friendly match between Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik ended in a draw. To everyone's surprise, Aronian started with 1.e4 and it became a Ruy Lopez, Berlin Ending. The Armenian soon pushed e5-e6, which was the safest ...
Levon Aronian has won the first game in his 6-game match against Vladimir Kramnik. Grabbing a lead with the black pieces, the Armenian couldn't have had a better start in Zurich. The second game will be played on Sunday. Vladimir Kramnik and L...
