Last week the second team of the Hamburg Chess Club HSK organized an endgame studies solving contest as a team building activity. The contest consisted of twelve studies composed by Yochanan Afek, and was won by special guest GM Jan Gustafsson. On...
You're searching for a way to escape everyday stress? You're looking forward to finally get to do some chess in your holidays, but you don't necessarily feel like playing a tough nine round open with chess only?Photo report and analyses by IM Meri...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Sebastian Siebrecht, 37 years old but stil...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Emanuel Berg, 28, living in the town Arvik...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Roland Schmaltz, 35, German currently livi...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Hello, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, 23 years old, G...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! My name is Sipke Ernst, 31 years old and l...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Sergei Movsesian, 31 years old chess-veter...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Hi, I am Jan Gustafsson from Hamburg, Germ...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world. 1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Hello, good evening! I am Jan Smeets, 25,...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world. Artur is a good friend, a very busy man and as he explained totally not into all sorts of modern socia...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Sune Berg Hansen, 38 years old (soon 39), ...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Dimitri Reinderman, 37, Dutch, and hopeful...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Stelios Halkias from Greece, 30 years old ...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world.1. Please introduce yourself (name, age, nationality, etc.)! Hi, I'm Gawain Jones, 22, GM. English but ...
We formulated ten questions related to Developing Chess Talent and every Monday we'll ask them to an interesting personality in the chess world. In the book you can find the interview we had with Loek in 1996, let's see how his views developed fou...
Levon Aronian and runner-up Peter Leko both did their job by drawing their black games in the eleventh round in Nalchik and therefore nothing significantly changed in the standings. Because Ivanchuk and Gelfand won their games, the rest of the fie...
The 4th Grand Prix tournament is becoming a nice and bloody one, as tournament leader Alexander Grischuk was beaten by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in round six. As it turns out anyone can beat anyone. Levon Aronian took advantage by beating Vassily Ivan...
Levon Aronian very patiently scored his second victory in a row against his fellow country man Vladimir Akopian and is the sole leader of the tournament after two rounds. Peter Svidler also won his game against Vassily Ivanchuk and is sharing 2nd/...
What chess fans and chess professionals alike have known for a long time already, has been admitted today by Chessbase: Rybka is the strongest chess program in the world by a big margin, also stronger than any Fritz.By Merijn van DelftRybka progra...
Being the sole leader after seven rounds, Alexei Shirov had to suffer a painful defeat yesterday at the hands of rising star Vugar Gashimov. All other games were drawn. by IM Merijn van DelftNow four players (Rublevsky, Jakovenko, Gashimov and Shi...
We left the Karpov tournament in Poikovsky after round 3 and we are returning after round 7. Alexei Shirov is leading with 5 points and two rounds to go. The Russians Jakovenko and Rublevsky are following with 4,5 points. The games can be followed...
Time flies, this weekend SBSA organises for the eleventh time the ROC Aventus weekender to decide who will be the new Open Apeldoorn Champion. You might remember from Peter's report last year that the tournament is warmly recommended.For this ...
Recently it became clear that next season (2007-2008) no less than four of the nine rounds of the Dutch Premier League will clash with the German Bundesliga rounds. For both Dutch and German chess professionals this is a very unfortunate situation...
Today a little extra from the Noteboom Tournament. GM Jan Smeets sent us the full score of his decisive game against the final winner, GM Predrag Nikolic. We 'talked together' the variations he added to the main moves. >> open in new window
