Archive for Announcement
Saturday, May 07, 2011 20:38
This morning we proudly sent the very first issue of our brand new magazine ChessVibes Training to our early subscribers. Are you one of them? Go check your inbox and have a great weekend! ;-) Not yet? Naturally you can still join the party from week 1!
Want to improve your chess? See more combinations, understand middle game plans, hear about...
Saturday, April 30, 2011 19:10
The F.E.B. #9 is out! The FEB tackles Nice... errr... Monaco and the last (sniff, sniff) Amber Blindfold and Rapid tourney, PLUS, find out what's up with the European Championship, with clips from the most famous Frenchman, Sebastian Feller, Paco Vallejo Pons, and Peter Heine Nielsen. Don't miss this one!
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Saturday, April 23, 2011 19:54
In just two weeks from now we'll be launching our brand new, second PDF (+PGN) magazine ChessVibes Training. Our target audience is the average club player who wants to improve his/her chess. Today wanted to let your know that in the past week we have added multiple subscription options, iDEAL as a way of paying for our Dutch fans, a discount for...
Friday, April 22, 2011 18:04
Last week, the always inspiring Ian Nepomniachtchi used Bobby Fischer's 6.h3 line against the Najdorf to beat Dmitry Frolyanov with a crushing mating attack. Guess what, IM Robert Ris enjoyed analysing this as the Game of the week in ChessVibes Openings 120. By the way, if you subscribe before May 1st, you pay less.
The price goes up, slightly...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 21:32
The fourth Grand Slam Masters Final will be held from September 25th till October 11th, 2011 and like its first edition, there will be six participants. The tournament, a double round-robin, will again be held in both Bilbao, Spain and a partner city, to be announced. Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura have already qualified for the...
Sunday, April 17, 2011 0:24
Meet our brand new, second PDF (+PGN) magazine! It's called... tatatataaaaa... ChessVibes Training. Inspired by the success of our first magazine ChessVibes Openings, we have decided to launch a second, weekly magazine. The first issue will be published in exactly three weeks, on Saturday, May 7th. ChessVibes Training will be quite different from...
Thursday, April 14, 2011 22:07
This week's ChessVibes Openings #119 provides a deeper look into the brilliant attacking game Zhao Jun-Xiu Deshun and discusses its Sämisch Nimzo along the way. Besides, we have a look at the 5.Nc3 line of the Petroff, the 'Réti Gambit' (1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c6 4.c4), the Slav with 6.Ne5 and the Chebanenko Slav. Subscribe for just 25 Euros a...
Saturday, April 09, 2011 5:52
Now that's what we call hard core theory: one of the seconds of World Champion Vishy Anand playing the Poisoned Pawn variation of the Sicilian Najdorf. Learn all the ins and outs in ChessVibes Openings issue 118, which analyzes the theoretical game Nisipeanu-Wojtaszek from the European Championship. Other variations treated this week are the...
Friday, April 08, 2011 0:55
Hot news from Germany: the participants and full pairings of Dortmund 2011. We just received a press release which announced the 39th Sparkassen Chess Meeting. From 21 to 31 July Vladimir Kramnik, Ruslan Ponomariov, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Le Quang Liem and Georg Meier will play in Dortmund.
The 39th edition of the Dortmund chess festival...
Monday, April 04, 2011 20:28
Since last week more than 1,500 people like ChessVibes on Facebook. To celebrate this, we're giving away three copies of The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3: Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill by Karsten Mueller and Merijn van Delft!
Together with GM Karsten Mueller, our co-editor IM Merijn van Delft wrote the book The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3: Test...
