Parallel to the World Championship in Moscow, a World Chess Battle is taking place at Chessity. Last week the first episode of the saga was concluded, with interesting results and all day exciting play. Due to the success of the first event, Chessity is ready to give again nice prizes and Sunday May 20th and [...]

Ένα ενδιαφέρον ντοκιμαντέρ σε τρείς συνέχειες που παρουσιάζει την ιστορία του σκακιού στην Πολωνία καθώς και την ζωή και την σκακιστική σταδιοδρομία του Akiba Rubinstein θα παρακολουθήσουμε σήμερα. Στο πρώτο απόσπασμα...

Video by Vijay Kumar

Γιά μία ακόμη φορά οι δύο σκακιστές επέλεξαν και πάλι την Ημισλαβική - Επιταχυνόμενη Meran. Η ισοπαλία που συμφωνήθηκε στην 29η κίνηση των μαύρων έδειχνε αναμενόμενη. Το μάτς κυλλά σε μονότονους ρυθμούς, άραγε να πρόκειται...

            Άλλο να σου το λένε και άλλο να το βλέπεις… Στην φωτογραφία μπορείτε να διακρίνεται το κύπελλο από το τουρνουά γρήγορου σκακιού που θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Κυριακή 20 Μαΐου στο...

Game 6 of the World Championship featured another 5…a6 Semi-Slav and another draw. Once again Vishwanathan Anand defended very well with an excellent pawn sacrifice on his 14th move. Lagging behind in development White was obliged to return the pawn and the game fizzled out to equality. I still think the match could come to [...]

FIDE and AGON are pleased to announce the full details of the new Grand Prix cycle 2012/2013. Regulations for the Series as well as Players contracts can be found below. Each player will be assigned to play in four of the six cities and his best three results will be accumulated for his / her [...]

The penultimate round of the 2012 U.S. Championship was dramatic. Gata Kamsky had seized the lead with an impressive win in the previous round, while Hikaru Nakamura, who had a long and probably somewhat disappointing draw, was half a point behind. They were paired and Kamsky had White, which would seem to put him in the catbird seat for his third championship title in a row. So one would think...

A total number of 236 players, which include 24 International Masters, 1 Women Grandmaster and 213 International Rated Chess players from across India are participating.

If you're curious to see the strong Russian GM and well-known commentator Sergey Shipov at work, here's your chance. All the videos are in Russian, but enough excerpts are translated to make it worth at least a glance. (Two side notes. First, I've never seen anyone type so quickly with one finger in my life. It's a pretty awesome sight. Second, I recently read someone describe my analytical work...

Boris Gelfand tried a different approach against Viswanathan Anand's Semi-Slav in Game 6 of the World Chess Championship in Moscow but the result was the same, a short draw. 6 draws, 3-3 at the halfway point. Yet again this was deep opening preparation from Anand that took him pretty much to the endgame. Whilst I'm sure the players weren't that happy to hear Kasparov was making a visit most...

Boris Gelfand couldn't make any headway in Game 6 against Viswanathan Anand but Garry Kasparov was in town for the day with his thoughts.

His chances of winning a third straight U.S. Championship took a big hit tonight when he lost to Hikaru Nakamura, but overall it has been a pretty good event for Gata Kamsky. Coming into today's round he was in clear first, and his previous game was an impressive win over Yasser Seirawan on the white side of a Classical Caro-Kann. Kamsky had prepared a nasty surprise that had probably been...

Video by Vijay Kumar from Moscow.

Six games, six draws. It has been far from the most exciting world championship in history, but it wasn't such a bad game today. (I don't mean that it was exciting in any conventional sense, but it continued long enough to make the draw obvious to most spectators.) Champion Viswanathan Anand repeated his Semi-Slav/Chebanenko hybrid, and it was Boris Gelfand who deviated first with 6.Qc2. This is...