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Tuesday, February 07, 2012 15:56
The second episode of the Extreme Chess Championships was recently published uploaded to YouTube. In this chess reality TV show, created by Jennifer Shahade, her brother Greg Shahade and Daniel Meirom, a group of young Americans...
Monday, February 06, 2012 19:33
Igor Lysyj won the top group of the International RSSU Chess Cup on Sunday in Moscow, Russia. The festival, formerly known as the Moscow Open, had...
Monday, February 06, 2012 17:33
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012 22:19
While Sue’s been busy writing on our road trip I haven’t forgotten about my Game of the Month (actually I had but Sue emailed me to remind me!). I... |
Monday, January 16, 2012 17:51 Hello again everybody. After a few days in Malaysia eating delicious noodles and pork buns, we arrived into New Zealand very early Wednesday morning... |
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Sunday, January 22, 2012 13:08 I’m not really in the habit of plugging chess books, nor authors. But I’m going to make an exception for Victor Moskalenko, well-known author of The... |
Saturday, January 07, 2012 17:46 The LCC has established itself very quickly and was as usual well organized. The addition of an extra player proving an inspired decision, as well as... |
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Friday, January 20, 2012 17:54 The Chess in Schools and Communities Charity is an integral part of the London Classic event and has made great strides in it’s short existence,... |
Thursday, January 05, 2012 17:45
Ah, the New Year. That magical time of the year when, amazingly, every man and his dog, filled with hope and promise, resolves to change, revamp... |
 Friday, December 16, 2011 22:05 Hikaru Nakamura was recently interviewed by Daniel King about his cooperation with Kasparov (which, as we now know, is already over). To my surprise... |
 Wednesday, August 31, 2011 18:46 There are dozens of chess improvement books on the market - impossible to read them all. But even if you're tired of keeping track of the good ones,... |
 Thursday, November 10, 2011 17:20 Our most faithful readers know that (very) occasionally we pay attention to a chess publication in the Dutch (our native) language, when we feel we... |
 Thursday, July 21, 2011 19:15 The ChessVibes editors are enjoying their summer holiday in various ways. While Peter and Robert played an open in Ikaria, Greece, and Merijn... |
 Wednesday, October 19, 2011 15:51 From the start of this website back in 2006 there has been no clear rule about which content would (should?) be published, except for: what kind of... |
 Thursday, July 07, 2011 20:35 For more than a decade Grünfeld aficionados have been suffering from a scarcity of complete books on this major and exciting opening. But at last, GM... |
 Thursday, December 08, 2011 11:23 It's a little known fact that the playing venue of the London Chess Classic is actually not that easy to reach from the City. The office where I work... |
 Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:53 After becoming a bit depressed this week by reading such chess headlines as Billboard hero Magnus Carlsen blundering and former Soviet hero Mikhail... |
 Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:56 While reading a very serious op-ed about the developments on the Greek crisis in the Financial Times, I suddenly had the very non-serious realization... |
 Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:16 The chess world is in a crisis. In tournaments like Biel and Dortmund, all the public gets is games full of mistakes. Something must be done to end... |
 Saturday, October 15, 2011 21:44 Watching the 7th game of the Kasparov-Short blitz match last week made me realize once again how radical Fischer’s proposal to shuffle all the pieces... |
 Monday, April 04, 2011 5:46 When you read an open letter like the one on cheating, signed by a number of participants of the European Championship in Aix les Bains, there are... |
 Friday, February 03, 2012 13:44
We have just received: The Modern Morra Gambit
In this completely revised and updated 2nd edition, Hannes Langrock continues to explore this... |
 Monday, January 30, 2012 12:23
This is what some of the critics had to say about Yochanan Afek’s and Emmanuel Neiman’s Invisible Chess Moves "In fact, this book is about the... |
 Wednesday, February 01, 2012 15:41
We have just learned that one of our books has won the ChessCafe Book of the Year Award!
Two international voting rounds have determined that... |
 Friday, January 20, 2012 16:27
New in our shop: The Caro-Kann: Move by Move
In this book, Cyrus Lakdawala examines the Caro-Kann, which enjoys a richly deserved reputation as... |
 Monday, January 30, 2012 12:31
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 Wednesday, January 18, 2012 20:36
We have just received from Moscow: Isolani Strategy
The isolated d-pawn or Isolani as Aaron Nimzowitsch referred to it, is one of the cardinal... |
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