Ten year old Samir Samadov, who is from London (Westminster) and had a brain tumour, had just one wish – to star in his very own film. Today his wish was granted by Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK, the charity that grants magical wishes to ch...
The third episode of the Extreme Chess Championships was recently published 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 differ...
Just after the regular tournament, won by Valentina Gunina of Russia, the European Women's Rapid and Blitz Championships were held in Gaziantep, Turkey. Gunina also took the blitz title, while Tatiana Kosintseva was the strongest in the r...
After two more victories this weekend (one with the smallest possible margin against their big rival Werder Bremen) the team from Baden-Baden is very close to winning yet another Bundesliga title. Eric van Reem was in Bremen this weekend and repor...
On Saturday is the Bundesliga's big clash between Werder Bremen and Baden-Baden. In the upcoming weekend the 12th and 13th round will take place. We give the pairings at the venues Bremen, Dresden, Eppingen and Hamburg. The eyes of all chess f...
On March 13th, 2012 in Strasbourg the European Parliament endorsed the 'Chess in European schools' program, a cooperation between the European Chess Union (ECU) and the Kasparov Chess Foundation. This was reported by Boyko Hristov, press o...
The organizers informed us about the Scottish Blitz Championship which takes place on Saturday 16th June. What follows is their press release: The first FIDE-rated Scottish Blitz Championship will be held at the Quincentenary building, Royal Surge...
Russians shake hands and go to the polls, Fabulous Fabiano, Growing Giri, and what's in a name? Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #18 is out! About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess news analysis. VERY ser...
The World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, USA will open its doors on a new exhibit starting March 9, 2012: Bobby Fischer: Icon Among Icons, Photographs by Harry Benson CBE. Benson was the only person to have private access to Bobby Fischer d...
Our weekly PDF & PGN magazines ChessVibes Openings and ChessVibes Training complement each other wonderfully. CVO helps your understanding of openings and keeps your repertoire up to date, while CVT provides instructive middlegame and endgame ...
Via Twitter our attention was brought to a chess poem, published on February 21st, 2012 at strange bOUnce. In their own words, this site "a 'strange’ brew of fiction, satire and verse, with a dash of sport, all coming from...
In the weekend of 25th and 26th February 2012 the 10th and 11th round of the Schachbundesliga will be held. As things are heating up in Germany, we'll give the pairings at the venues Wattenscheid, Hockenheim, Trier and Remagen. In Wattenschei...
After a year of absence, Hikaru Nakamura will be back in St. Louis this year to seek his third U.S. Championship title. His main rival will be reigning champion Gata Kamsky while former winner and "semi-retired" Yasser Seirawan will be p...
Super Grandmaster? Sadler sadly behind, and a Short Island Iced Tea for Hou Yifan! Yes please! Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #17 is out! About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess news analysis. VERY serious,...
We had already mentioned it, and now it's available online: Magnus Carlsen in the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, which aired on Sunday night in the USA. CBS provided the chess media all the links and embed codes to share their footage with the ...
Evgeny Romanov won the 26th International Open Pierre et Vacances which was held February 13-19, 2012 in Cannes, France. The top group had 61 participants, with French GM Etienne Bacrot as the top seed. Romanov finished clear first with 7/9 after ...
In the latest issue of ChessVibes Training you can find loads of interesting and instructive chess material. Let's have a look! Giri's Grab Bag - In his weekly column, GM Anish Giri discusses the first game he played after Tata Steel:...
The diversity of registered players at the Reykjavik Open is quite amazing. There is close to an equal number of players in each “century” ELO bracket. For example, there are 10 players with 2600+, 14 players 2500-2600 and 16 players w...
The 25th edition of the annual chess festival in León, Spain will include a 6-game match between Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain. Press release by Leontxo Garcia Fans cherish chess players who take risks and ...
The ever-fascinating 6.Bg5 Najdorf saw a number of theoretical developments in the past week. Few of you will have missed the spectacular game Berg-Vachier-Lagrave (in Gibraltar), which started with 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 h6 8.Bh4 Qb6 (the Delaye...
The Turkish Chess Championship was held 29 January-5 February, 2012 in Kemer, Antalya (Turkey). There were 309 participants (52 more than last year), including 19 titled players (4 GMs, 6 IMs, 6 FMs and 3 CMs). By Anastasia Karlovich Dragan ...
The 34th Bulgarian Open Chess Championship 2012, also known as the Georgi Tringov Memorial, was won by Ivan Cheparinov. The tournament was organised by the Bulgarian Chess Federation, the Chess Club Lokomotiv Plovdiv and the Plovdiv Municipality. ...
Iceland celebrated its first "Chess Day" on January 26th, the country's first GM and ex-FIDE president Fridrik Olafsson's birthday. GM Olafsson, who turned 77 that day, was honored at a reception at Bessastadir, the Presidential ...
Like every year, New In Chess is asking its readers what they think was the best opening novelty of 2011. The inventor of the novelty will receive a prize of €350 ($450). Among those who have voted for the winning novelty, a one-year subscrip...
