The proceeds from the sale of these items go to the Chess in the Schools charity sponsoring this year's London Chess Classic. (HT: Daniel Parmet)

I suspect I've shared this link with my readers before, maybe at this blog's previous location. Just in case I haven't, though, here's a translation (and transcription) of a long radio interview of Garry Kasparov from late 2008.

The British Federation for Correspondence Chess has recently announced the English Team for the Preliminary round of the ICCF 20th Olympiad starting on 10th December.  GM Richard Hall is on Board 1, GM Nigel Robson is Board 2, GM Ian Brooks is Board 3, SIM Nigel Burne is Board 4, GM John Pugh is Board [...]

The International Chess Tournament ITT Bolivariano Bogotá Humana IDRD is taking place from 5 to 9 December in the Park San Andrés in Bogota, Colombia. The 10-round Swiss open has 56 participants from Colombia, Cuba and Peru. Top rated players are Grandmasters Isán Reynaldo Ortiz, Yusnel Bacallao, Emilio Córdova, Omar Almeida, Aramis Álvarez and Sergio [...]

Gawain’s score from these two days were 02 but Gawain played “proper” chess which unfortunately is quite doubled edged. Against Magnus as I mentioned, he sacrificed his queen for two pieces which with accurate play would have put any player under pressure but unfortuately short on time Gawain choose the wrong course. Of course, if [...]

Δείτε στους παρακάτω συνδέσμους τις Προκηρύξεις των Ομαδικών Πρωταθλημάτων Κατηγοριών ΕΣΣΝΑ 2013. (Για κάθε πρωτάθλημα εφαρμόζεται και η Γενική Προκήρυξη και αυτή της αντίστοιχης κατηγορίας) Γενική Προκήρυξη Ομαδικών...

GM Dzhumaev Marat of Uzbekistan continued his fine run to retain sole top position with all win record at the end of Round-4 of the Rose Valley Open International Chess Tournament being played at Gorki Sadan in Kolkatta. Round 4 video by Vijay Kumar On top board overnight leader 17th seed Marat caused an upset [...]

Για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία της Ουκρανίας ως ανεξάρτητου κράτους, μια σκακίστρια της χώρας κατακτά τον τίτλο της παγκόσμιας πρωταθλήτριας. Την Άννα Ουσένινα, την 27χρονη από το Χάρκοβο, υποδέχτηκαν σαν ηρωίδα στο...

The 18th Torneo Internacional Villa de Navalmoral is taking place from 5th to 9th December at Hotel Moya in Navalmoral de la Mata, Spain. The nine round Swiss event has 65 participants from 12 countries, including 15 Grandmasters. Last year winner GM Sergey Fedorchuk is the top seeded player. The total prize fund is 14,415 [...]

The local Bengal Brigade turned out with thumping performances in the third round of the Rose Valley Open International Chess Tournament, organized by Alekhine Chess Club at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata, India. Round 3 video by Vijay Kumar After two lack luster days, Wednesday brought out good news for the local stars as most of the [...]

After a series of issues with one innovation after another - almost all of them truly excellent - it seems that the Informant team has settled on a recipe they like, at least for now. Here's what you get: The best game from the previous volume. The most important novelty from the previous volume. "Garry's Choice" - an essay taking a deep look at the game Muzychuk-Sutovsky from Amsterdam 2012...

Tyler Cowen is a chess master, food writer, world traveler, a blogger with over 40 million visitors and, incidentally, an influential economist and Professor at George Mason University; in other words, a polymath. Let’s talk about the chess part. As the noble blogger Kenilworthian noted back in 2006: As a youngster, Professor Cowen played at the Westwood and [...]

The Informator crew in Serbia is best known for their opening publications, but they dabble in other products as well. Case in point: the brand new Encyclopedia of Chess Problems: Themes and Terms, co-authored by GM of chess composition Milan Velimirovic (not to be confused with the famous OTB GM Dragoljub Velimirovic) and GM solver Kari Valtonen. This 519-page work seems to cover everything in...

The series of Informants is up to issue 115 now (I'll review that on this site soon, possiby tomorrow), but it's possible to derive pleasure and value from the older issues too. You might be inclined to agree, but think that the value comes from the games, which are available in various databases - including specific databases of past Informants. There's certainly value in database diving, and...

Today (Wednesday) was a rest day at the London Chess Classic, but in Tuesday's action the world's #1 and 2 players won their games. Magnus Carlsen won a very complicated game against Gawain Jones that went from tense to mess after Jones' sacrifice of his queen for just two pieces. (You can get some idea of the complexity from the players' post-game news conference - see the link below.) Jones'...