Review: Kasparov – How his predecessors misled him about chess
February 28, 2009 by Arne Moll · 7 Comments
Every chess player grows up learning combinations that work. As a kid, you learn to ’spot the combo’ quickly and you’re told that you will profit from this knowledge ever after. There’s hundreds of books that are written according to this method. But in real life, sadly,¬†combinations¬†often do not work at all.¬†Where are the books written about this phenomenon?¬†Now, we have one. Read more
Weekly Endgame Study (109)
February 28, 2009 by Yochanan Afek · 3 Comments
Every Saturday 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! Read more
Bacrot wins Aeroflot, Karjakin takes blitz
February 27, 2009 by Peter Doggers · 25 Comments
French GM Etienne Bacrot has won the 2009 Aeroflot Open in Moscow. He finished on on 6.5/9 alongside Alexander Moiseenko but the Frenchman took first place because he played more games with the black pieces than Moiseenko. Corus winner Sergey Karjakin took first prize at the World Blitz Championship Preliminaries. Read more
New & full of opening novelties: Yearbook 90
February 27, 2009 by New in Chess (ADVERTORIALS) · Comments Off
Yearbook 90 has just arrived!
In this issue of The Chess Player’s Guide to Opening News
you will find answers to urgent quenstions like:
– what was the most original gambit of the year 2008?
– will KingLoek finally admit defeat in the Botvinnik Slav?
– is the Berliner Variation of the Two Knights out of business?
– has Erwin l’Ami refuted Rybka in the Classical Nimzo?
– what were Perenyi’s ideas behind his all-out Attack on the Najdorf?
–can Black still hope for a win in Tiger’s Modern?
– how did the Senior World Champion rejuvenate the Morozevich French?
– with what gambit did Kasparov combat the Scandinavian in simuls?
– have Naiditsch and Bacrot succeeded in killing the Marshall Attack?
– has Nikolay Ninov found the ultimate Anti-Traxler plan?
– have new horizons opened in the sharp Leningrad Dutch?
– with what obscure variety of the Staunton Gambit can you catch Topalov?
– and much more!
“Fantastic value for money”, is what the British Federation for Correspondence Chess said about the Yearbook.
Pleas have a look at the full contents of Yearbook 90.
Shirov, Svidler and Mamedyarov play this Bundesliga weekend
February 27, 2009 by Peter Doggers · Comments Off
The 12th and 13th round of the Schachbundesliga take place the upcoming weekend and the top teams of Baden-Baden, Eppingen and Bremen will meet in Eppingen with very strong line-ups for some top-class matches. For the first time in its history, the Bundesliga has published the team line-ups in advance, in order to offer all chess fans an overview of some upcoming matches. Read more
Linares R7: Ivanchuk beats Aronian, Grischuk leads at half-time
February 27, 2009 by Peter Doggers · 14 Comments
The first half of Linares is over and it’s Grischuk who leads the field at 5/7, a point clear of Ivanchuk and Carlsen. In round 7, the Russian grandmaster drew Anand with Black while Ivanchuk inflicted a loss on Aronian – the second in a row for the Armenian. Carlsen drew with Radjabov and Dominguez-Wang Yue saw the same result. Read more
Topalov beats Kamsky 4.5-2.5, qualifies for World Championship Final
February 26, 2009 by Peter Doggers · 72 Comments
Veselin Topalov defeated Gata Kamsky today to score a 4.5-2.5 win in the Challenger’s Match in Sofia. In doing so, the Bulgarian qualified for a World Championship Match against Viswanathan Anand. Read more
Grischuk takes full point lead in Linares
February 26, 2009 by Peter Doggers · 13 Comments
In retrospect the 6th round of Linares 2009 might become a historical day: 18-year-old Magnus Carlsen beat World Champion Anand for the first time in his life. Grischuk, who entered the tournament after Topalov had to cancel, defeated Aronian and suddenly leads by a full point. There’s also the news that next year the first half of the tournament might be held in the United Arab Emirates. Read more
Does 4…Bc5 equalize in the Ruy Lopez?
February 25, 2009 by Editors · Comments Off
ChessVibes Openings #8 is out!
Our latest issue of ChessVibes Openings brings you the most important opening developments from last week, covering the Topalov-Kamsky match, Linares and Aeroflot. In Moscow, Russian GM Vitiugov cleary missed our recommendation for White in the Slav Marshall Gambit from issue #6 – he suffered unnecessarily in his game against Romanov! Our IMs also had a sober, theoretical look at the (in)famous game Mamedyarov-Kurnosov. Read more
All games drawn in 5th round Linares
February 25, 2009 by Peter Doggers · Comments Off
Levon Aronian and Alexander Grischuk are still sharing the lead in Linares after all round 5 games ended in a draw. Aronian accepted a quick peace offer by Wang Yue while Grischuk’s White repertoire had no answer to Carlsen’s Sveshnikov. Anand miraculously saved a rook ending against Ivanchuk and Dominguez had a narrow escape against Radjabov. Read more
