2nd Press conference Anand

For a moment it wasn’t sure who was going to do the press conference: Aronian or Anand. It turned to be Vishy and Levon was promised that if he’ll win the tournament, he’ll certainly be the one. Read more

A funny non-chess video

As an exception, a funny little video (not about chess) in between, made by my brother. This way I get him some extra views. Gotta help the family, right?

Corus round 11

The moment of truth has come. Three more Corus rounds to go, and today’s the first. A long weekend of top chess! (video added) Read more

A Strategic Opening Repertoire

Only ten years ago, highly specialised opening books were the exception. Now they are the norm. Opening analysis has exploded in size.

That is why A Strategic Opening Repertoire by John Donaldson and Carsten Hansen is such a welcome book.

This is a new and greatly expanded (twice the size) second edition of an instant succes of ten years ago. It presents a repertoire that will serve you for the rest of your career, as it will not fail because of one sharp novelty.

Based on 1.Nf3, 2.c4 and 3.g3, the aim is to obtain small but lasting advantages by using solid positional ideas, with an emphasis on understanding rather than memorizing.

The main advantages of this repertoire are:

• you will have less to learn
• you will acquire a set of strategically connected and understandable ideas
• you will get the home-court advantage because you will be on familiar territory.

With many well-annotated model games, this book is very accessible for club players. Please have a look here.

Gibraltar: Four on three

Only four players are left with a perfect score in Gibraltar, and none of them is Chinese. Read more

Daily puzzle 250108

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday’s solution:

Macauley’s Tribute to Fischer

On this rest day at Corus, we return once more to Bobby Fischer, by showing Macauley’s video (or should we say mini-documentary?) which he created in Wijk aan Zee last Saturday. Read more

Daily puzzle 240108

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.



Yesterday’s solution:

Press conference Ljubomir Ljubojevic

Former world’s no. 3 Ljubomir Ljubojevic faced Nxf7 today, just like Kramnik yesterday, and he hadn’t seen Topalovs press conference. Still, he beat Timman, and here he shows how. Read more

R10: interview Karpov

Just like yesterday, Anatoly Karpov, special guest here in Wijk aan Zee, has been looking for quite a while, and quite interested as well, at the TV screens here in the press room. He agreed to a short interview. Read more

Chinese squad calls at Gibraltar

At the 6th Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which started yesterday, a Chinese squad form the big favourites. Read more

Daily puzzle 230108

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.



Yesterday’s solution:

Press conference Veselin Topalov

An amazing piece of opening preparation. For this reason, the critics won’t like this game, but hey, this is modern chess. A complicated game explained by the world’s no. 3. Read more

Topalov-Kramnik 1-0, no handshake

It’s actually pretty ridiculous that it’s the news of the moment, but we know you want to hear about it, so here it is: there was no handshake between Topalov and Kramnik (and neither of them protested about it). Two videos added. Read more

Thanks for that!

During the last three days, ChessVibes.com has been unreachable for a total period of approximately seven hours. According to our hosting provider, at several points their server couldn’t handle the CPU load anymore. Read more

Daily puzzle 220108

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.



Yesterday’s solution:

Short-Cheparinov: 1-0

In a very convincing manner, Nigel Short has beaten Ivan Cheparinov today, surely getting a certain amount of satisfaction along the way. Read more

Daily puzzle 210108

What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow.



Yesterday’s solution:

Press conference Viswanathan Anand

Again, a full round of Corus was overshadowed by other news. A pity, especially for Anand, who won a great game against Topalov. His press conference, a great little intermezzo, in periods of chess idiocy. Read more

R8: Anand beats Topalov

Corus round 8 see the world’s no. 2 (and world champ) against the world’s no. 3: Anand-Topalov. In C, the top clash Braun-Caruana is scheduled. Read more

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