Thanks to "MK", who writes via the contact link: Here are some links with videos of some coverage in Indian TV channels.  Feel free to share on your site if you find them interesting http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/viswanathan-anand-reveals-how-he-beat-a-complicated-opponent/234675 Discussion about Anand starts at the below link at...

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich, Alexander Grischuk, Evgeny Tomashevsky and winner of the voting contest Luke McShane participate in the round robin tournament. The Tal Memorial is the first [...]

The AICF AGM lauded Anand for his fifth world chess title. AICF also thanked the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for releasing Rs.2 Crore to Anand.

Two nice games from the 2011-12 4NCL final weekend. Harriet Hunt plays only rarely but remains Britain's leading female player by rating. Here she despatches one of the London Chess Classic commentators in some style, in a game that required some deep calculation.

The Golden Sands 2012 chess tournament will be live daily on Chessdom.com with analysis. Participants are Akopian, Efimenko, Kiril Georgiev, Cheparinov, Petrosian, Melkumyan, Vuckovic, Mircea Parligras, Suat Atalik, Erwin l’Ami, Constantin Lupulescu, Alexander Fier, Jiri Stocek, Dragan Solak, Alexander Ipatov, Boris Chatalbashev, etc. Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom

Teams announced so far

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GM Alexei Shirov won the 2012 edition of the Magistral Ciudad de Buenos Aires. He collected 5,5/7 in the single round robin tournament, a full point more than the second GM Ruben Felgaer. GM Damian Lemos and GM Sandro Mareco shared third place. This is yet another victory for Shirov after he transferred back to [...]

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This thought provoking piece in the New York Times has interesting implications for the chess improver. If the ‘Power of Habit’ is indeed so strong, and rather than changing habits we can only acquire new ones, shouldn’t we be very careful about what we learn in the first place? Indeed we should. One of the [...]

Here's a nice summary article over on ChessVibes, with among other things, video clips of both Anand's and Gelfand's homecomings and a compilation of various Tweets on the match. Here's a funny exchange: Levon AronianCongrats to World Champion Anand! Great comeback in the later stage of the match! Gelfand deserves a praise for his creative & dynamic play! Mig Greengard@LevAronian What, did...

Both this month and July will be awash in major events, and I hope I don't skip any here. (If I do, I'll revise the post appropriately.) Tal Memorial: There's no reason for chess fans to leave Moscow when in just a few days - the start is June 7 (going through the 19th) - the Tal Memorial starts there. This round robin features the world's top five players: Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir...

There has been a lull lately on noteworthy events - the world championship excepted (though some critics seem to have their doubts about that too), but a bunch of bigtime events are coming up very soon. More on that in the next post; for now, here are some interesting events that are either underway or just finished. 1. The Chicago Open. This is a strong annual event in the U.S. that generally...

(And more.) The blog's favorite computer scientist with an IM title, Ken Regan, offers some reflections on draws in relation to the world championship match and in comparison with computer chess, in this recent blog post. As usual with his work - when it's accessible to laypeople (and in this case, it is), it's worth your time.

Nigel Short was in Lima 25th-26th May 2012 for a rapid match against Julio Granda Zuniga. Short beat Granda 3.5-2.5. The event was sponsored by the Universidad Científica del Sur and the arbiter was Billy Cotos Alba. Short took an early lead but was completely lost in the 5th game, which he drew, and lost the last. In addition there was a blitz game with a strange rule: the pawns could move back...