Great fighting game from Sochi

Today we focus on one specific game from the Russian Team Championship (Volokitin-Movsesian), where the Ural team from Ekaterinenburg is leading with ten points out of six matches. 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 »

Four nations meet

Their top player is in Mexico, but the Norwegians do manage to attract some attention anyway by inviting England, Latvia and Sweden for their Four Nations Chess Challenge. full story »

Bundesliga Weekend (II)

In this second Bundesliga report we look at round 9. Again, Baden Baden crushed their opponents - it’s not that exciting in Germany. full story »

Bundesliga Weekend

It’s Bundesliga weekend again. Amongst others, Morelia/Linares participants Carlsen, Shirov and Ivanchuk play for their German clubs. full story »

Baden-Baden leader again

Before the “winterstop” started, this weekend title holder OSC Baden-Baden and three other clubs catched up with the other teams, and played their third and fourth rounds of the Bundesliga. After this the situation in the German national league is back to normal, because with victories against Turm Trier, SC 1950 Remagen and Godesberger SK the home team, with Peter Svidler on board one, took the lead. 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 »

Dutch chess player banned after using PocketFritz

Poll added, on the right, in the grey column.

Last Saturday, while playing a game for his club, a Dutch chess player got caught outside the playing hall, holding a PDA. On the screen, a chess position was visible. It appeared that the player had entered the actual position of the game into PocketFritz. His game was declared lost, and yesterday the player was punished severely by the competition manager of the Dutch Chess Federation: a ban till the end of the season 2009-2010. full story »

Linex-Magic retains national title

After they recently won the European Club Cup in Kemer, the Spanish top team Linex-Magic also prolonged their status as Spanish national champion this weekend. In Calvia (on the island of Mallorca) they beat Intel - Tiendas UPI in the semis and Cuna de Dragones in the final. This was the same final as last year. Like in Turkey, Linex-Magic’s big hero was Ivan Cheparinov. full story »

NSI de Eenhoorn starts live

Thanks to our sponsor, my club NSI de Eenhoorn could purchase four electronical boards at the start of the season (next year we’d like to buy four more). At this very moment the match NSI de Eenhoorn 2-DBC from Dutch national league 3D starts. Four boards from this match can be followed online at this link. Enjoy!

Who gives in to whom?

Recently it became clear that next season (2007-2008) no less than four of the nine rounds of the Dutch Premier League will clash with the German Bundesliga rounds. For both Dutch and German chess professionals this is a very unfortunate situation. My question to the Dutch Federation concerning this issue caused a useful email discussion. full story »

OSC Baden-Baden prolongs Bundesliga title

Just like last year the Ooser Schachclub Baden-Baden became club champion of Germany, in other words the winner of the Bundesliga, the stronges league in the world. By beating Werder Bremen 6-2 on Saturday, Baden-Baden secured the first spot already. full story »

Chess analytical report Share Dimension - HSG

Last week in Groningen the top match in the Duch league, between Share Dimension and HSG, was played. In a great ambiance, Groningen had spared no pains or costs to turn the match into a great event. At the end home club Share Dimension defeated HSG 6,5-3,5. Earlier on this website you cound enjoy an impression of the atmoshphere; in this article I collected some game fragments from this crucial match for you. full story »

Round 5 Dutch league: HSG still leading

After the first, lengthy overview of the Dutch league (called ‘Meesterklasse’) it’s time to pay some more attention to the top of the Dutch team competition. Last weekend the fifth round was played, and now it’s clear that we’re dealing with a race between two teams: HSG from Hilversum and Share Dimension from Groningen. full story »

Live games NSI de Eenhoorn start

At this very moment the match NSI de Eenhoorn-ASV from Dutch national league 2a starts. Four boards can be followed online, at this link. Enjoy!

Homburg Apeldoorn Dutch blitz champion

In the ’subjective reporting’ category, we bring you the following news: yesterday, Homburg Apeldoorn 1 became blitz champion of The Netherlands. Following the rollercoaster-ride of IM’s Manuel Bosboom (12,5 out of 13) and Merijn van Delft (12 out of 13), Roeland Pruijssers and myself could only follow humbly, though Roeland did this with considerably more gusto than yours truly. full story »

Lower league now live too at NSI de Eenhoorn

The Dutch chess club NSI de Eenhoorn from Hoorn has a scoop again. After they started to broadcast games of their first team on the internet, it’s now time for the lower teams. Tonight the match NSI De Eenhoorn III - Purmerend IV, from the third regional league, will be played and the first four boards can be followed online. full story »

Bundesliga: Porz beats Baden Baden

This weekend was the second Bundesliga weekend and the most important match was OSC Baden Baden against SG Köln Porz. While Baden Baden player Anand was playing blitz all weekend in Moscow, his team mate Shirov did play, after he took a couple of plains earlier from the Russian capital. Beating Vaganian, he couldn’t prevent his team from losing to Porz. full story »

NSI de Eenhoorn live again

Four boards from the clubmatch NSI de Eenhoorn-SOPSWEPS ‘29 can be followed live today. In the Dutch league, my club NSI de Eenhoorn is the first club to show parts of their home team matches online to the world. Today it’s a postponed match from Dutch leage 2A. The opponents couldn’t play last week but had a good reason: one of the team members got married! Four boards can be followed today at this link.

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