Nakamura wins ICC’s trip to Mainz

Second seed GM Hikaru Nakamura (Smallville) of the USA reasserted his authority as one of the top dogs on ICC on Sunday by winning the Mainz Chess Classic online Chess960 title. Read more

Daily puzzle 23608

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



Yesterday’s solution:

Two attacking manuals

This month, two new attacking manuals were published by Gambit: The Art of Attacking in Chess by Zenon Franco and How to Crush Your Chess Opponents by Simon Williams. Let’s have a look. Read more

Photovideoart

Artists can be inspired by just anything, like two old men playing a game of chess in the street. The following video, well, it’s just… photovideoart! Read more

Daily puzzle 22608

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



Yesterday’s solution:

So what’s next?

After many rapid and ‘real’ tournaments, many of you might be sick of chess by now. The real die hards however are reading this and probably think: what’s next? Read more

Weekly Endgame Study (76)

Every Saturday an endgame study is published at ChessVibes, selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck with the instructional occupation of solving a study! Read more

Daily puzzle 21608

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



Yesterday’s solution:

Anand on the origin of chess

TIME’s 2008 Summer Journey is dedicated to “Games people play”. The chess section is written by no one else than world champion Viswanathan Anand. Read more

We don’t like to show off, but..

This is what some of the critics have to say about
Forcing Chess Moves by Charles Hertan:

“By organizing and explaining the nature of great chess moves
Hertan has brought us all closer to being able to find them.”
Former US Champion GM Joel Benjamin

“An intensive training course for advanced players (…) You will
increase your tactical striking powers a lot.”
Dr Erik Rausch, Rochade Europa

“When the clock is ticking away, and you have too many viable
candidate moves to choose from, remember Hertan’s advice.”
Steve Goldberg, ChessCafe

“The categories in this book are quite unusual (…) An ample and accurate collection of startling problems bulging with combinative surprises.”
Harold Dondis, The Boston Globe

“The price is low for a volume with so many pages and so much content.”
Stephen Dann, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Make a great move, have a look here.

Thank you FIDE

And suddenly Aerosvit is not included in the next rating list. Are you still there? We don’t really get it ourselves, so let’s just go and look at some chess games. Read more

Daily puzzle 20608

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



Yesterday’s solution:

Chat with Sergei Movsesian

Tonight it’s possible to join a live chat with top grandmaster GM Sergei Movsesian. The session is starting at 20:00 hrs CET at the Novoborsky Chess Club website.

Carlsen will be the world’s no. 2

On July 1, 2008 Magnus Carlsen will be the world’s no. 2. He just drew his game against Sergey Karjakin in Foros and earlier today, FIDE confirmed to ChessVibes that the Aerosvit tournament will indeed be included in the July 1st rating list. Read more

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Daily puzzle 19608

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



Yesterday’s solution:

Carlsen wins Foros, already

With a round to spare, Magnus Carlsen secured clear first place at the Aerosvit tournament today. He drew with Volokitin (after trying hard, for a change) and Eljanov-Karjakin saw the same result. Read more

8 minutes with Gata

GM Gata Kamsky was at the top of a six-way tie for first at the National Open (June 5-8). In an 8 minute interview with Chess.FM, Kamsky discusses his time in Vegas and his thoughts on the upcoming World Championship candidates match with Veselin Topalov, scheduled for November in Lvov, Ukraine. Read more

Daily puzzle 18608

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



Yesterday’s solution:

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