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18.06.2013 15:59 Anatoly Karpov shows his age in defeat by Sergey Karjakin

Moscow's 10-player Tal Memorial, which starts its third round at noon on Saturday, is a major test for the chess elite as the world chess champion Vishy Anand, 43, and the No3 Vlad Kramnik, 38, take on the cream of the young generation. Besides the world No1 and title challenger, Magnus Carlsen, 22, the field includes Russia's Sergey Karjakin, 23, and Italy's Fabiano Caruana, 20, both now in the top six. Karjakin and Caruana have their sights on their contemporary Carlsen and the Russian finished ahead of him on Norwegian soil last month. Caruana also impressed in his latest event, the world grand prix qualifier in Greece, where he tied second and won in classic style in the final round. When rising chess talents are on a winning streak it ...

18.06.2013 00:49 Queen's Gambit, Slav Defence

New ideas in various Slav systems!

16.06.2013 15:52 Top Seven in the World Skip Two Chess Tournaments

Chess Grandmasters from Azerbaijan and Vietnam won two fast-play world chess championships last weekend that were notable because none of the top seven chess players bothered to show up. The World Rapid Chess Championship was captured by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan, and Le Quang Liem of Vietnam took the World Blitz title. Both chess tournaments were held in Khanty-Mansiysk, in central Russia, and the location may have been a reason that so many chess players among the world’s best stayed away. Some of those players, including Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Sergey Karjakin of Russia, decided instead to play in a competing rapid chess tournament in Kiev, Ukraine. Rapid and blitz chess also do not carry the prestige of ...

16.06.2013 13:50 French Defence

Less ambitious White systems against the French

16.06.2013 00:23 King's Indian Defence

Another nail in the coffin of the 9.Nd2 Ne8 line?

14.06.2013 16:31 Rough Road to Victory at Grand Prix in Greece

Leinier Domínguez Perez needed a little help to overcome a bad start and go on to win the Grand Prix chess tournament in Thessaloniki, Greece. Domínguez, a Cuban chess grandmaster, lost in Round 1 to Gata Kamsky, the current United States chess champion. In Round 3, Domínguez was losing to Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, but Ivanchuk ran short on time, blundered and lost. After that, it was a duel between Domínguez and Kamsky, with the Italian chess grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, the top seed, at their heels. Domínguez’s help came from Caruana, who beat Kamsky in the last round while Domínguez was vanquishing Veselin Topalov, a former world chess champion from Bulgaria. At the end, Domínguez was a half-point in front of Kamsky and ...

14.06.2013 14:32 Caro-Kann, Pirc, Alekhine's and Scandinavian Defences

New ideas in the Caro-Kann

13.06.2013 00:06 Daring Defences

Grunfeld lines that have attracted the World's top players

12.06.2013 15:49 Nigel Short continues run of success with shared first place in Malmo

Globe-trotting Nigel Short has added another success to his long list of chess tournament victories with shared first prize in the Sigeman Invitation at Malmo, Sweden. Top-seeded Short, 48, tied on 4.5/7 with two fast rising teenagers. Hungary's Richard Rapport, 17, was the No2 seed while Sweden's Nils Grandelius, 18, came through in the final round. Long ago Short himself was a chess prodigy but now he fights off younger rivals by using his wealth of experience from a career whose peaks were a match victory over Anatoly Karpov and a world title challenge to Garry Kasparov. His best current results are in chess events against slightly weaker opponents and two of his trademarks are his readiness to bring out offbeat openings like the Evans Gambit and his regular blitz sessions on the internet. It ...

12.06.2013 13:05 d-Pawn Specials

More grandmaster testing for the Tromp!

10.06.2013 16:03 Keeping Eyes on the Clock as Well as the Chess Board

Time controls, which require chess players to make a minimum number of moves in a prescribed amount of time (40 moves in two hours is common), keep games from becoming unreasonably long. But they can cause a player to forfeit if the time limit is exceeded. Competitors can fall into that trap if they...

08.06.2013 16:43 Chess: The Game of Tension

On June 2, on his 39th birthday, Gata Kamsky defeated Russia's Alexander Morozevich at the FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Thessaloniki, Greece. The U.S. chess champion took a half point lead into the last round. But last games are often full of tension, the pressure rises and blunders are made. Could...

06.06.2013 16:36 Iron man Kamsky falls just short in Thessaloniki in chess tourney

American GM Gata Kamsky came up just short of a remarkable double this week, blundering in a level position Monday against Italian GM Fabiano Caruana in the final round of the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki, Greece, to allow Cuban GM Lenier Dominguez Perez to pass him for the tournament title. Fati...

04.06.2013 15:59 For the No. 1 Chess Player On Earth - A Road Game

Norwegian Magnus Carlsen Heads to India to Play the World Chess Champion — On His Home Turf. Magnus Carlsen is that rare chess grandmaster who is both the No. 1 player in the world and, according to the U.K. edition of Cosmopolitan magazine, one of the 100 sexiest men of 2013. ("Check this hottie ...

02.06.2013 23:08 Nimzo and Benoni Systems

New Nimzo ideas

01.06.2013 15:56 Fide confounds doubters with succesful series of Grand Prix chess tournaments

There was widespread scepticism when Fide, the global chess body, announced its Grand Prix of six elite chess tournaments, qualifying two winners for the 2014 world title candidates. Several events in the previous GP had to be staged in obscure former Eastbloc venues, so Fide's belief that the new s...

31.05.2013 16:34 The Machine: Stage set for Kasparov v Deep Blue chess thriller

The ground-breaking chess battle between Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Blue in 1997 was a pivotal moment in the relationship between man and technology. Matt Charman's new play The Machine explores the human drama at its centre. "I didn't want to write a play that was just about chess," admits Ma...

29.05.2013 16:09 Two top chess grandmasters fall in miniatures in Greece

After a long weekend, let’s go with a couple of really short chess games. In an age of vast chess game databases, computer-aided study and 25 move-deep opening theory, it’s remarkable how even the world’s very best chess players can get themselves into trouble before the game has barely begun....

29.05.2013 00:14 Dragon Sicilians

Even Super GMs are human!

27.05.2013 16:32 At the Bottom of the Top 10, but No. 1 at a Norway Chess Event

The Norway Chess 2013 tournament was among one competitor’s greatest triumphs, and the results offered hope to two others but were a disappointment — again — for the world chess champion. The winner was Sergey Karjakin, a Russian chess grandmaster who is ranked No. 10 in the world. He emerged ...

25.05.2013 16:24 Magnus Carlsen's erratic form gives hope to rivals such as Vishy Anand

There is a paradox at the top of international chess. The world No1, Magnus Carlsen, leads the chess ratings by a wide margin, yet his recurrent form dips during major chess tournaments give hope to his rivals. Carlsen faltered at the end of last month's London candidates, then again a few days ago ...

23.05.2013 15:33 Karjakin Wins Norway Chess 2013, Edges Carlsen and Nakamura

Magnus Carlsen, the world's top-rated chess player, is expected to win every tournament he enters. The Norway Chess 2013 Super Tournament was tailored for him as a tribute to his previous successes. For the first time, he would compete in his homeland against some of the finest chess players in the ...

21.05.2013 15:27 Magnus Carlsen recovers from recent form slump at elite Norway chess event

The form crisis that hit Magnus Carlsen at the end of the London candidates continued at the start of this week's Norway elite chess event, where the world No1 started with four nondescript draws, while his Russian rival Sergey Karjakin, 23, began with a flier, four straight wins. But when they met ...

19.05.2013 15:21 U.S. Chess Titles End Up in Familiar Hands

Gata Kamsky and Irina Krush have turned the United States Chess Championships into something of their personal playground in the last several years, and this year was no different. On the men’s side of the tournament, Kamsky captured his third title in four years and his fourth over all by winning...

19.05.2013 12:04 English and Flank Openings

The Capablanca System revisited

17.05.2013 15:37 Kamsky tops Ramirez in playoff for U.S. chess title

It came down to a single “armageddon” playoff game, but top-seeded GM Gata Kamsky claimed the 2013 U.S. chess championship in a thrilling finish Monday at the Chess Club Scholastic Center of St. Louis. He defeated Texas GM Alejandro Ramirez in a rapid playoff after the two finished atop the 24-p...

17.05.2013 12:08 King Pawn Openings

Really important novelties!

15.05.2013 15:30 Chess champion Gata Kamsky forced to play to win

If there is one person who might be upset with the performance of 2013 U.S. Chess Champion Gata Kamsky, it is former New York Jets coach Herm Edwards. I’m not sure if Edwards is a chess player, but his long-viral media tirade that proclaimed “Hello?! You play to win the game!” was a line of th...

13.05.2013 15:26 Chess Championship Drama, Months Early

The World Chess Federation has decided that the World Chess Championship match in November will be held in Chennai, India, the hometown of the titleholder, Viswanathan Anand, and that the prizes will total $2.55 million. Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian who will challenge Anand in the match, immediatel...

13.05.2013 12:03 Open Sicilians

Games from the Russian Team Championship dominate!

11.05.2013 15:38 Chess Art Under Alekhine's Watchful Eye

Every few years somebody discovers the French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), connects him with chess and quotes him:"While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." Duchamp was exaggerating, but he loved chess and he was a decent chess player. In three chess oly...

09.05.2013 16:19 Kamsky, Krush hold lead in U.S. chess title chase

Top seeds GM Gata Kamsky and IM Irina Krush are setting the early pace at the U.S. men’s and women’s chess championships that got underway Friday at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, with each posting three wins in their first three games. Krush already has booked a win over arc...

07.05.2013 15:33 Chess Federation Agrees to Lead Effort Against Cheating

The Association of Chess Professionals announced on Monday that the World Chess Federation had finally agreed to create a committee to come up with ways to detect and stop cheating. The announcement came as the number of cheating accusations has mounted. The latest was last month at the Cork Congres...

05.05.2013 17:32 Double defeat leaves confident Vlad Kramnik with egg on his face

This week's elite Alekhine Memorial, followed by Norway on 8-18 May and Moscow's Tal Memorial on 12-24 June, will determine the pecking order among the world's top chess players, and in particular whether the 22-year-old No1 Magnus Carlsen will continue his extraordinary dominance. There has already...

03.05.2013 15:24 Russians outgunned

Kramnik and Svidler are outplayed by the French as Vachier-Lagrave takes the lead at the Alekhine Memorial. The Alekhine Memorial is sponsored by Russian businessmen Gennady Timchenko and Andrei Filatov and organised by the Russian Chess Federation, but the Russian chess players are not performing. ...

02.05.2013 19:27 Four-way tie in the Alekhine Memorial chess tournament

Adams has Gelfand, Aronian and Vachier-Lagrave for company, reports Malcolm Pein. Michael Adams lost to Boris Gelfand in the only decisive game of the third round at the Alekhine Memorial, but remains in the joint lead. In round four, Adams salvaged a draw from a position that was lost just before t...

30.04.2013 16:08 Top chess players in action at home and abroad

It’s an embarrassment of riches for a chess journalist these days, with not one but two major chess tournaments in progress across the pond and the U.S. chess championships gearing up to start in St. Louis later this week. In Zug, Switzerland, GMs Gata Kamsky and Hikaru Nakamura, the top-rated Ame...

28.04.2013 15:48 Chess Tournament Seeks to Turn the Game Into an Art Form

The Alekhine Memorial chess tournament began last weekend as an unusual attempt to highlight chess as an art form. The first half of the event was held in a temporary building at the Tuileries Garden in Paris just west of the Louvre, and it has now moved to the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Andr...

26.04.2013 15:42 Michael Adams beats world chess champion Vishy Anand for second time

Michael Adams, the England No1, has beaten the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, with the black pieces for the second time in four months. The 41-year-old Cornishman, who scored against the Indian at the London Classic, did it again this week in the opening round of the Alekhine Memorial in Paris, ...

24.04.2013 15:41 Kaidanov, Karff voted into U.S. Chess Hall of Fame

From Kashdan, Koltanowski and Keres back in the day to Korchnoi, Karpov and Kasparov in the modern era, the “K” section of the encyclopedia has long been a thick and fertile source of chess greatness. Two more entries can be logged this month as the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis announced...