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Friday, March 18, 2011 22:43
On March 19th and 20th the 12th and 13th round of the Schachbundesliga will take place. We present the pairings at the venues Muelheim, Delmenhorst, Munich and Emsdetten - it's already known that Baden-Baden will show up with Alexei Shirov and Peter Svidler at top boards.
The top match of the weekend will take place in Muelheim: The host awaits...
Friday, March 11, 2011 17:56
The F.E.B. #8 is out! French cheating, open letter feuds, Carlsen in New York, Cappelle la Grande, and the best team names from the World Amateur Team Championships. With special guest Malcolm Pein, plus a Kiss parody band's ode to bughouse and blitz. Don't miss this one!
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Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:05
Please note that you now can download the full index of ChessVibes Openings 0-114 in PDF for free. Click here to know what we covered so far.
For fans of the Ruy Lopez, CVO #114 is a must. And who isn't? The opening of all openings comes along different ways, like the Keres Variation (11...Nd7 in the Closed, but under pressure these days) or a...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011 17:05
Today the 2011 edition of the Reykjavik Open starts, with one of the strongest and largest groups of chess players in years. The top 10 of registered players has Luke McShane, Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Jan Gustafsson, Ivan Sokolov, Ahmed Adly, Yuriy Kuzubov, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Sune Berg Hansen, Vladimir Baklan and Boris Chatalbashev.
The organizers...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 20:56
Next Saturday already is the first round of the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. This year Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Grischuk, Vasily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Boris Gelfand, Hikaru Nakamura, Vugar Gashimov and Anish Giri play. For the very last edition of this...
Thursday, March 03, 2011 17:16
Sometimes a top player has cooked up a nice surprise for a strong opponent. It won't stay unnoticed, and so it can only be used once. But who cares, when the point has been scored? Last weekend Nisipeanu won a nice game in the Bundesliga with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Nd4 and now 5.Nxe5!? - find out more about this in ChessVibes Openings #...
Friday, February 25, 2011 19:42
The most important match of the weekend will take place in Bremen. The only serious contender of Baden-Baden is facing the strong team of Mülheim. Bremen needs to win in order not to loose the contact to the top of the table. The match starts on Saturday on 2pm and will be broadcast live in the net as any other games from the Schachbundesliga....
Thursday, February 24, 2011 17:23
Le Quang Liem again won the strongest open in the world, despite a loss in the eighth round against the ever-uncompromising Bulgarian Cheparinov. This fascinating King's Indian (a Main Line with 11.g4) is the Game of the Week in ChessVibes Openings #112. Other lines that are covered this week: the Ruy Lopez (4...Nge7), the Queen's Gambit Accepted...
Friday, February 18, 2011 18:17
Already this week the ChessVibes Openings subscribers received many opening ideas and novelties, played at the Aeroflot Open, in their mailbox. Have you heard of the Brazilian Taimanov? Why is the Russian System of the Grünfeld popular again? What to do against the 5.h3 King's Indian? And, not to be missed: the spectacular Game of the Week Le...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 20:53
This year the traditional chess festival in Leon (Spain) will take place June 2-6. Instead of a knock-out with four players, this time only two players have been invited: Viswanathan Anand and Alexei Shirov. The two will play six games with 60 minutes plus 10 seconds increment per move.
PRESS RELEASE
Anand-Shirov: Rapid Art
The World Champion...
