This is what some of the critics had to say about Mihai Suba’s Dynamic Chess Strategy . “Such a book on strategy has not been written since Nimzowitsch.” Former Belgian Champion GM Luc Winants “Suba is quite a story-teller, and the book is a blast to read just for the stories.” Steven B. Dowd, ChessCafe [...]

Επανάληψη μήτηρ πάσης μαθήσεως! Αυτή είναι μια πάρα που γνώση φράση που συνήθιζαν να λένε οι αρχαίοι μας πρόγονοι. Φυσικά ήταν γνωστό από τα αρχαία χρόνια για να αποκτήσει κάποιος γνώση σε ένα αντικείμενο χρειάζεται να...

Μία φωτογραφία από μία σκηνή της ταινίας του βωβού κινηματογράφου "White Tiger" του 1923 που σκηνοθέτησε ο αμερικανός Tod Browning (12/7/1880 – 6/10/1962), cult σκηνοθέτης της εποχής, δημιουργός πολλών κινηματογραφικών ταινιών με...

Ralph Vaughan WilliamsΤο τρίτο μέρος από την συμφωνία A Sea Symphony (Μία Συμφωνία της Θάλασσας) του σημαντικού Άγγλου συνθέτη Ralph Vaughan Williams (12/10/1872 – 26/8/1958) θα ακούσουμε σήμερα. Έχει τον τίτλο The waves (Τα κύματα) και θα μας ταξιδέψει στο...

Alexander Morozevich and Alexei Shirov played a crazy game in Biel a few days ago, one that deserved a closer look. So that's what you'll see here. There are all sorts of material imbalances, tactics galore, big swings in the evaluation - everything a fan of complicated, tactical chess would like. So I present the game in some detail, and stop periodically to invite viewers to make their own way...

Vladimir Kramnik won yet again in the 7th round of the 39th Dortmund Chess Classic, against tail-ender Georg Meier. This extended Kramnik's lead to two points with three rounds to go as Le Quang Liem drew with Hikaru Nakamura. Le looked to have a serious advantage at one stage. Anish Giri scored his second win of the event beating Ruslan Ponomariov from a drawish looking opening. Rd8 Fri 29th...

Vladimir Kramnik won yet again in the 7th round of the 39th Dortmund Chess Classic, against tail-ender Georg Meier. This extended Kramnik's lead to two points with three rounds to go as Le Quang Liem drew with Hikaru Nakamura. Le looked to have a serious advantage at one stage. Anish Giri scored his second win of the event beating Ruslan Ponomariov from a drawish looking opening. Rd8 Fri 29th...

Magnus Carlsen scored yet another tournament win in taking the ACCENTUS GM group of the 44th Biel Chess Festival with a round to spare. Carlsen drew a game with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave where only he in the end was in any danger at all, in a generally balanced struggle. Closest rival Alexander Morozevich was worse shortly out of the opening on the white side of a Semi-Slav and just was gradually...

Magnus Carlsen scored yet another tournament win in taking the ACCENTUS GM group of the 44th Biel Chess Festival with a round to spare. Carlsen drew a game with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave where only he in the end was in any danger at all, in a generally balanced struggle. Closest rival Alexander Morozevich was worse shortly out of the opening on the white side of a Semi-Slav and just was gradually...

If you're already familiar with the Informant, or at least with my reviews of previous issues, you'll have a good idea of what to expect: several hundred games and game fragments with languageless annotations, along with sections on combinations and endings, along with a "mini-informant" dedicated to a top player. Those are the meat, there's also a recap of the voting on the best game and...

Is it the water there or something? Vladimir Kramnik would probably be the highest-rated player in the history of the world, by a long way, if one tallied all and only his Dortmund performances over the years. With his win today over Georg Meier, he has nearly assured himself of his 10th victory there, with a two point lead with three rounds to go. His 6/7 score is good for a performance rating...

With the guiding star of the ninth world champion Tigran Petrosian, who dethroned Mikhail Botvinnik in 1963, chess became the country's national sport. Serzh Sargsyan, President of the Republic, is also heading the Armenian Chess Federation and recently chess lessons were introduced into the curriculum in all schools.

Vladimir Kramnik is very close to winning his 10th Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. Today the Russian defeated Georg Meier and extended his lead to two full points, as Le Quang Liem drew with Hikaru Nakamura. Anish Giri won his first game, against Ruslan Ponomariov. More later. General info The 39th Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes [...]

In the battle of the last two perfect scores, David Howell beat Stephen Gordon to reach 4-0. In 2.5/3 territory, Michael Adams, Nigel Short and Gawain Jones all won their games to reach 3.5/4, probably setting up these pairings for round 5 of the British Championship: Adams-Howell and Jones-Short. The Adams-Short showdown will have to wait at least one more round.

Magnus Carlsen struggled against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave once again (despite having White), but managed to obtain enough counterplay to hold the balance. And that was good enough to clinch clear first in the 2011 edition of Biel, as Alexander Morozevich lost his first game in the tournament. Morozevich played the ultra-sharp Anti-Moscow Gambit in the Semi-Slav against Fabiano Caruana, and it...