Video interview Jan Smeets

Of course I also had an interview with the winner in the men’s Dutch Championship, Jan Smeets. He defeated Daniel Stellwagen with White and to his surprise, his other rivals did not win. full story »

Video interview Zhaoqin Peng

Yesterday, Zhaoqin Peng won the Dutch Women Chess Championship for the 10th time. Is she still motivated to win the 11th one? She answers in a video interview. full story »

Chess Informant no. 100

Exclusive interview with editor-in-chief Aleksandar Matanovic

Recently, the famous Chess Informant reached a milestone: edition no. 100 was published. Facts, figures and an exclusive interview with 77-year-old editor-in-chief Aleksandar Matanovic. full story »

Grand Prix: who plays where?

In about a month time, the first Grand Prix will already be played. What do we know of it? Who will play, and where? All info and a video interview with Geoffrey Borg. full story »

Videos from the Bundesliga

This weekend the 10th and 11th round of the world’s strongest club competition, the Bundesliga, have been played. We have results, games and, most importantly, video interviews! full story »

Simen Agdestein on Magnus Carlsen

Yesterday morning I had an interview with GM Simen Agdestein. It was about his appearance in the Norwegian version of Dancing with the Stars, about his football career, about him playing the piano and of course about Carlsen, lots of Magnus Carlsen. full story »

Australia has a 3rd GM

He did it. Today Zong-Yuan Zhao became the third grandmaster of his continent. The 21-year-old Australian only needed one and a half month to do so. An interview, taken right after today’s game. full story »

Monkey Men Berg & Hillarp Persson

This morning Ian & Cathy Rogers, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Emanuel Berg and I went up the Rock of Gibraltar. Especially known for its ape colony. I did an interview with the two Swedish players and the apes (watching them). full story »

R4: Judit, Loek, and Vlad win

In the fourth round we see the two leaders Carlsen and Aronian facing each other, and Anand playing 1.d4. Surprising, until you realize whom he’s playing. Two videos added full story »

Carlsen and Aronian win again

The second has just started and it promises new excitement. We’re looking forward to Topalov-Ivanchuk but of course there’s also Kramnik-Radjabov - for the KID fans: Radja did go for 2…g6 and 3…Bg7. And Nigel Short put up another… Evans Gambit! Two videos added full story »

Kasparov on Dutch tv

Yesterday night, Garry Kasparov was the (only) guest of a 2,5 hour television program on Dutch tv. You can still watch it here.

Interviews Opening Ceremony

The Corus Chess Tournament 2008 has officially been opened. This afternoon we were at the opening ceremony and afterwards we had short interviews with a number of players.We begin with Kramnik, Leko en Carlsen. full story »

Interview with Garry Kasparov (Part 2)

As promised, today the second part of Gert Devreese’s interview with Garry Kasparov. This part is about Kasparov’s chess career and especially about the matches against Karpov and Kramnik. It hasn’t been published anywhere before. Enjoy! full story »

Interview with Garry Kasparov (Part 1)

For everybody who’s looking for a good read during Christmas, we have a special treat. Chess journalist Gert Devreese had an interview with Garry Kasparov in april this year. After he saw our article on Kasparov’s simul in Belgium, Gert made the interview available for ChessVibes too, and it has not lost its topicality. Today part 1 of the interview, which was published before in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard. It is about Kasparov’s political career but also for example about his wife and kids. Tomorrow you can read the part about Kasparov’s chess career (which wasn’t published anywhere before). Enjoy! full story »

Interviews Wojtaszek & Ftacnik

National champion Baden-Baden finished their Bundesliga weekend with another small victory: 4,5-3,5 against Hamburg, who actually won on the first three boards 2-1. Like McShane, Wojtaszek held world champion Anand on a draw (and he told us more about it before the camera), Bacrot couldn’t break “Gusti’s” resistance and Vallejo Pons lost again; this time he was mated by Ftacnik (who also tells us more about the game in a video). full story »

Vishy, Fressi, Gusti

Friday Hamburg had already beaten Bremen and despite Luke McShane’s draw with Black against Viswanathan Anand, national champion Baden-Baden beat the home club too yesterday: 3,5-4,5. SK Hamburg didn’t have trouble beating Turm Trier: 5,5-2,5. I did three short interviews after these matches. Because Luke McShane preferred not to talk before the camera, I had to go for “plan B” and ask Viswanathan Anand how their game went. Laurent Fressinet, one of the star players of home club Bremen, tells if you can still play for a win in the Ruy Lopez and what Jan Gustafsson is doing with ten kiwis, well, see for yourself. full story »

Reinderman qualifies for Corus C, participants made public

Today the last participants of the Corus Chess Tournament have been made public: those of Grandmastergroup C. With nine GMs, and the well-know mixture of talent, experience and ladies, it’s going to be an interesting group again. First seed is Evgenij Miroshnichenko from Ukraine. Dimitri Reinderman qualified last Wednesday, by winning the Cultural Village Tournament, where I interviewed him. full story »

Round 3.1: five wins for White

The games (and especially the resuts) in the World Cup start to look like those of these days’ super tournaments. In meetings between players of about the same (high) level White doesn’t lose that often and in this first session of round 3, 11 times the game ended in a draw and 5 times it was White who won. Mamedyarov was defeated by Cheparinov and Adams, Kamsky, Jakovenko and Wang Yue also started with victories. full story »

Big long interview with Viktor Korchnoi

It’s time for some chess culture. Time for the one and only living legend that’s left (leaving out Smyslov and Lilienthal, who don’t play anymore): Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi. He doesn’t do that many interviews anymore, but this week he sat down to talk to Europe-Echecs, who have built up an impressive resume in a short time, there in Moscow. Watch and enjoy this 20 minute-interview with one of the greatest players alive. Not to be missed! full story »

“Let’s go interview Kasparov”

“What the heck, let’s just go. If you don’t try…” This was all I needed to convince co-editor Arne, yesterday around five in the afternoon, to join. Join my foolish, naive but also bold, and, above all, fun plan to travel to Lint, Belgium, to interview Gary Kasparov. If we would explain that we had immediately jumped into the car when we heard about the simul, that we came all the way from Amsterdam and after several detours we had found that television studio in that little Belgium town right in time, who on earth would refuse a small interview? full story »

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