With players beginning to eye a spot in the semifinals, two-thirds of the games produced winners in round three of the 2011 U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women's Championship. The tournaments are being held concurrently from April 14-28 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

GM Naiditsch, GM Bacrot, and the Chess Evolution team join Chessdom.com for the Candidates Matches 2011, with live commentary of the games. Parallel computer analysis by the 3000+ ELO Stockfish, as well as minute by minute updates from Kazan will be available for all chess fans.

Group A: This half of the draw finally came alive with three wins in four games. Kamsky has company atop the leaderboard. Shulman - Ehlvest was a gambit line of Ragozin System. Ehlvest's 12...0-0 was a new move, and while it was playable White's position always seemed easier to handle. Shulman kept gaining ground and won in nice style, though it's funny that his showiest move, 35.Bxf7, was...

Για την πολίχνη Αμπού Γκος, που βρίσκεται λίγα χιλιόμετρα έξω από την Ιερουσαλήμ γράφει συχνά ο σημαντικότερος Ισραηλινός συγγραφέας, ο  Άμος Οζ, στα βιβλία του. Κατοικείται από αραβικό πληθυσμό και είναι ένας από...

Favourite Gata Kamsky came to the board in aggressive mood and his opponent clearly felt it. However the game itself was not an especially good one from Kamsky and he frittered away a decisive advantage to nothing before Akobian's final mistake (31...b2! instead of 31...g5??). The A-Group is regarded by everyone in Saint Louis as the stronger one and perhaps this is backed up by the fact that...

Favourite Gata Kamsky came to the board in aggressive mood and his opponent clearly felt it. However the game itself was not an especially good one from Kamsky and he frittered away a decisive advantage to nothing before Akobian's final mistake (31...b2! instead of 31...g5??). The A-Group is regarded by everyone in Saint Louis as the stronger one and perhaps this is backed up by the fact that...

                                        Στρατηγικη Μεγαλης Κλιμακας! Στρατηγικος Σχεδιασμος Αδυνατη δομη...

Grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran, who arrived in Dubai only for the one day blitz tournament and returned to Iran immediately after, won the ENOC Cup in the $4,000 Dubai Blitz tournament last Friday at the Dubai Culture and Chess Club in Dubai.

Jan ‘Gusti’ Gustafsson won the 2011 Thai Open in Pattaya, Thailand after finishing in a three-way tie for first place. The German Grandmaster finished equal on points with Paco Vallejo and Nigel Short but was awarded the 11th Thai Open title on tie-break. General info The 11th Thai Open was held April 11th-17th, 2011 at [...]

The 2011 U.S. Chess Championship and 2011 U.S. Women's Championship are taking place April 13-28 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL). Daily live games with computer analysis are available on the Chessbomb platform.

Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving! –> IM Yochanan Afek’s Official Website J. Rusinek 2006 White to play and draw Next week the solution. Solution last week A. Sochniev 2006 new [...]

Only a pair of rounds into the 2011 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship and already the whittling of the 24-player field is complete. Only two players have unblemished records – one in each tournament – but they got there in very different ways Saturday afternoon.

Jan Gustafsson took first place from Nigel Short and Francisco Vallejo Pons due to the tie-break of tougher opposition (it does seem that they finished in reverse order of rating which suggests the inability to play oneself was a factor here). All three won in the final round and they shared the 220,000 Baht (£4500) first prize. Below is the official press release and the top four games...

Jan Gustafsson took first place from Nigel Short and Francisco Vallejo Pons due to the tie-break of tougher opposition (it does seem that they finished in reverse order of rating which suggests the inability to play oneself was a factor here). All three won in the final round and they shared the 220,000 Baht (£4500) first prize. Below is the official press release and the top four games...

Έφυγε κι ο Νίκος Παπάζογλου...Καλό ταξίδι Νίκο...