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...

Video report by the renowned producer Vijay Kumar

Live commentary with GM analysis

Το γλυπτό "The Chess Players" ("Οι σκακιστές") είναι ένα έργο από ορείχαλκο που φιλοτέχνησε ο αμερικανός γλύπτης Lloyd Lillie το 1983 και το οποίο βρίσκεται στο πάρκο John Marshall Park στην γειτονιά Judiciary Square της Washington, D.C. στις Η.Π.Α.Μοντέλο γιά...

Επιμελείται ο γκρανμέτρ Ίγκορ ΣμίρνοβΑρχικά, είχα την πρόθεση να σχολιάσω το Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα σκάκι μεταξύ του Ανάντ και του Γκέλφαντ. Ωστόσο, (με όλο το σεβασμό προς αυτούς τους μεγάλους παίκτες) ο αγώνα τους...

Ηλικιωμένος σκακιστής περιμένει τον επόμενο αντίπαλό του σε πάρκο στην πόλη Κότορ. Το Μαυροβούνιο,  πολύ πιο κοσμοπολίτικο από τους γείτονές του, πολύ γρηγορότερα αναπτυσσόμενο, χάριν κυρίως στον τουρισμό αλλά και...

Bazna Kings to be one of the strongest tournaments of the year

Ισόπαλη έληξε και η πέμπτη παρτίδα του μάτς γιά τον τίτλο του παγκόσμιου πρωταθλητή.Ο Viswanathan Anand επέλεξε το 1. ε4 σαν την πρώτη κίνηση του ανοίγματος και ο Boris Genfald επέλεξε την βαριάντα Chelyabinsk από την Σικελική...

The extent of Boris Gelfand’s preparation for this match became clear today as he unveiled another new opening against Vishwanathan Anand’s 1.e4. The Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defence is known to be a razor sharp and highly theoretical line in which White needs some veru serious preparation to hope for anything. But how could [...]