In all modesty, we're actually pretty proud of today's issue of ChessVibes Training! After sending #39 to our subscribers this morning, the editorial team agreed that it actually contains a number of classics: In Giri's Grab Bag t...
Last week the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) and the World Chess Federation (FIDE) agreed on working together more closely. It was decided that the ACP will be actively involved in the decision-making process within FIDE and that fo...
Tata's top pairing Carlsen-Aronian, played last Tuesday, analyzed in CVO #159, published last night! Two highly topical opening variations, which always seem dauntingly difficult to chess amateurs, are the famous Berlin Endgame and the Queen&#...
The Austrian Bundesliga may not be one the very top chess leagues but still is a significant competition. The line-up of top teams SK Sparkasse Jenbach, Champion of 2010 and 2011, and SK Advisory Invest Baden, Champion of 2008, reaches an average ...
In less than a one week yet another big chess festival starts: the 10th anniversary edition of the Tradewise Chess Festival in Gibraltar. It promises to be the best edition ever, with Peter Svidler and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov topping the list and an...
Last Thursday the Russian website Crestbook published a new Q&A session in their series of KC-Conferences. In earlier editions players like Aronian, Khalifman, Krasenkow, Grischuk, Shirov and Svidler answered questions and this time the subjec...
Sarkhan Gashimov, the older brother and manager of top GM Vugar Gashimov, won a strong blitz tournament in San Sebastian last week, ahead of many grandmasters. Rated 2351, the amateur player from Azerbaijan defeated Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru in ...
Andrei Volokitin beat Viktor Laznicka in the final of the Donostia-San Sebastian Chess Festival on Thursday. The Ukrainian grandmaster, who won both his games against his opponent from the Czech Republic, received a cheque of €20,000 and an e...
Viktor Laznicka (Czech Republic) and Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine) qualified for the final of the San Sebastian-Donostia Chess Festival's A group. Laznicka defeated Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine) while Volokitin was too strong for Leinier Domingue...
The Association of Chess Professionals and the Georgian Chess Federation today announced the ACP Women Cup 2012 - the final tournament of the ACP Women Series 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 to be staged at Sheraton Hotel, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, fr...
The Reykjavik Open will be held March 6-13, 2012 at Harpa, Reykjavik's spectacular new music hall on the harbour. This was announced today in a press release by the organizers. Concert hall and conference center Harp, opened in May 2011, will ...
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Arkadij Naiditsch and Vachier-Lagrave were the strongest names that didn't manage to reach the 4th round of the San Sebastian-Donostia Chess Festival's A group. They continue playing in the B group, while Vugar ...
The San Sebastian tournament is well on its way, with its unique format: players facing each other with two boards and two sets of pieces at the same time. One of the participants is GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who found the time to return to his b...
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 ...
Blindfold records, Tony Miles, 60 seconds with Boris Gelfand, Tal Memorial, Nigel Short, and SlyusarGate -- one sly shark! Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #15 is out! About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess ...
The grandmasters Hübner, Hort, Gulko and Vaganian proved to be too strong for the female team in the Snowdrops vs. Oldhands Czech Coal Chess Match 2011. The match became a one-sided affair in its second half. After the grandmasters won 3.5-1....
Vladimir Kramnik won the 3rd London Chess Classic on Monday. The Russian grandmaster finished on 16 points, one more than Hikaru Nakamura who beat Mickey Adams in the final round. Magnus Carlsen finished third, one point behind Nakamura. Kramnik r...
Four young female players – the Snowdrops, and four experienced grandmasters – the Oldhands meet in Marienbad (Marianske Lazne) in the Czech Republic again. From December 3 to 11, 2011, they compete in a closed two-rounds Scheveningen ...
In two recent top level games (Kramnik-Nepomniachtchi and Nakamura-Carlsen) an opposite-coloured bishop ending appeared. Such endings are infamous, not only for their drawing tendency, but also for their hidden complexity. In ChessVibes Training i...
The 21st World Senior Chess Championships, held in Opatija, Croatia from November 14th to November 27th, was won by IM Vladimir Okhotnik. The French IM finished on 9/11, half a point more than GMs Komljenovic and Timoscenko. Final standings (top 3...
At 10th and 11th of December the 6th and 7th round of the Schachbundesliga will take place. Take a look at the pairings at the venues Bremen, Baden-Baden, Hamburg and Katernberg. The top match of the weekend will take place in Bremen where the ho...
(Press Release) 2012 is a special year for chess as the Rock's biggest and most popular international event celebrates its tenth birthday. The Tradewise 2012 Chess Festival will be held over 10 days from 24th January to 2nd February, 201...
The 3rd London Chess Classic was officially opened on Friday afternoon, December 2nd in Olympia, London. The participants answered questions from the press and (internet) audience and played a game via Twitter against 'the World', which th...
Mikhail Gorbachev closed the Women's World Championship match between Hou Yifan and Humpy Konery on Wednesday. The closing ceremony was held in the Presidential Palace in the capital of Albania on the evening of the 30th of November. Report &a...
