The 7th Tal Memorial returns after Monday's day off. The leaders Alexander Morozevich and Teimour Rajdabov meet. We also see a return to the Aronian-Kramnik pairing as seen in their match earlier in the year. Some links: TWIC live coverage with my tweets - Official live site. - Ian Rogers official video commentary. Round 4 Tues June 12th 3pm Moscow...

Both classical games in the Anatoly Karpov – Yasser Seirawan match were drawn, but not without two long fights. The match between legends is underway at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from June 10-13. In addition to the two classical games already played, two rapid games (June 12) and 10 blitz [...]

The French Team Championship Top 12 (although only 11 teams compete) took place 31st May to 10th June 2012. Clichy won the title. Michal Krasenkow scored a huge performance of 9/10.

Live commentary with the Chess Evolution team

Live commentary with the Chess Evolution team

The French Team Championship Top 12 (although only 11 teams compete) took place 31st May to 10th June 2012. Chalons en Champagne won the title. Michal Krasenkow scored a huge performance of 9/10.

Το Ciudad de Leon Masters διοργανώθηκε για 25η συνεχόμενη φορά και φιλοξένησε τους Topalov και Vallejo, τον κορυφαίο Βούλγαρο και τον κορυφαίο Ισπανό παίχτη αντίστοιχα.            Και οι δύο παίχτες είναι αρκετά...

Για τον Α. Κάρποβ δεν χρειάζεται να πει κανείς πολλά λόγια. Είναι ο Θρυλικός Παγκόσμιος Πρωταθλητής στο σκάκι, 1975-1985 καθώς και Π.Π. FIDE 1993-1999. Στο ευρύ κοινό έγινε γνωστός από την ιστορική αναμέτρησή του με τον Γ. Κασπάροβ. ...

I’m not following the football at all but I found it interesting that Roy Hodgson is reading ‘The Royal Game’ by Stefan Zweig. Are there really parallels between this story and football? Not that I can see. But it’s a really good read, and not a long one. The author, Stefan Zweig, was a fascinating [...]

As in game 1, Yasser Seirawan did most of the pressing but couldn't turn his edge into a full point. Anatoly Karpov hasn't kept up with theory in ages, so his openings, especially with Black, are built on solidity. He generally winds up worse with Black, as he did today, but as long as he's still in the game he can count on his skill to give him a good chance to work his way out of his problems...

Magnus Carlsen was fortunate to escape with a draw in his first round game against Vladimir Kramnik at the 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial in Moscow. An entertaining round saw four wins for the players of the white pieces. Luke McShane was smoothly outplayed by Alexander Grischuk and Levon Aronian caught Hikaru Nakamura unawares with a tactical blow that forced a won endgame.

Magnus Carlsen was fortunate to escape with a draw in his first round game against Vladimir Kramnik at the 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial in Moscow. An entertaining round saw four wins for the players of the white pieces. Luke McShane was smoothly outplayed by Alexander Grischuk and Levon Aronian caught Hikaru Nakamura unawares with a tactical blow that forced a won endgame.

The 18th Annual Northeast Open was held from June 8-10, 2012, at the Sheraton Hotel (formerly Holiday Inn Select), 700 Main St, Stamford, Connecticut. GM Sergey Kudrin finished ahead of a field that included 6 GMs, securing the top stop with an undefeated 4½/5. After winning his first four games, a final round draw with [...]

The top two seeds GMs Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus and Andrei Deviatkin of Russia scored neat victories in the seventh round of the Mumbai Mayor’s Cup-International Chess tournament organised by the Venus Chess Academy and co sponsored by LIC of India. The duo are now leading this 335-player 11-round Swiss League event with 6.5 points. [...]

Anatoly Karpov and Yasser Seirawan play a match 10th-13th June 2012. Play starts 1pm US Central Daylight time. 19:00 BST. http://www.livestream.com/uschess for the live commentary with Jennifer Shahade and Ben Finegold. You can also catch up with this on demand video.