Najer wins World Open

Again, an “Armageddon” game had to decide a major event in the United States, but the spectators and winner Evgeny Najer probably didn’t complain. Last Sunday, the Russian won the World Open in Philadelphia. full story »

Leko leads after beating Gustafsson

With a round to go, Leko has excellent chances to win his third Dortmund title. Today he beat Gustafsson and took over the lead from his opponent. Van Wely lost another short game, this time against Naiditsch. Update with video. full story »

So what’s next?

After many rapid and ‘real’ tournaments, many of you might be sick of chess by now. The real die hards however are reading this and probably think: what’s next? full story »

The Mainz Attraction II

ICC is pleased to announce they’re collaborating again with Chess Tigers, organizers of the popular annual Mainz Chess Classic in Germany, for a 2nd Chess960 Internet Qualifier for the FiNet and Ordix opens. full story »

Carlsen keeps on winning

The Magnus Carlsen fairy-tale goes on and on. At the Aerosvit tournament he shines again, starting off with a 4.5 out of 5 score. Virtually he’s the world’s number two now. full story »

Two top events start today

After a quiet week, today two top events start. In Foros (Ukraine) it’s time for the annual Aerosvit tournament and in Yerevan (Armenia) a strong rapid tourney takes place. full story »

Short wins in Romania

The King’s Tournament in Romania was won by Nigel Short. He scored 7 out of 10, half a one and a half point more than a Lajos Portisch and Ulf Andersson. full story »

Morozevich, well, he won of course

The header of this post couldn’t have been different. In Sarajevo, Alexander Morozevich proved once again how easily he can beat 2600 players, and won with one and a half point difference. full story »

Anand & Ivanchuk in today’s final León

Today Viswanathan Anand and Vassily Ivanchuk will play the final of the Advanced Chess tournament in León, Spain. Anand beat Vallejo on Friday, and yesterday Ivanchuk defeated Shirov. full story »

Morozevich on 6 out of 7

Due to his recent succes at the M-Tel Masters, Ivanchuk seemed to be taking over the number 3 spot in the world rankings but Morozevich is not letting him: the Russian is on a smashing 6 out of 7 in Sarajevo, a performance just below 3000! full story »

Mecking and other kings play in Romania

In Bazna, Romania this month many stars from the 70s and 80s have joined to play the “King’s Tournament”, among them Henrique Mecking, Lajos Portisch and Jan Timman. full story »

A Morozevich Gem

With a splendind attacking victory against Sergey Movesesian, current number 3 in the world Alexander Morozevich took the lead in the “Bosna 2008″ tournament. Annotated game. full story »

Rowson wins 2nd Capo d’Orso

The tournament in Sardinia has ended. Rowson kept his lead till the end and so he became the winner of the 2nd Chess Festival Capo d’Orso. We have a video with impressions of this in many ways beautiful event. full story »

Shulman & Zatonskih new US Champs

Yesterday, Yuri Shulman and Anna Zatonskih won the US Champship. A very quick draw was enough for Shulman to clinch his first title, but Zatonskih needed a tiebreak - video added! full story »

Najer wins President’s Cup

After the Grand Prix, a very strong open tournament was held in Baku: the President’s Cup, also dedicated to Heydar Aliyev. The Russian Grandmaster Evgeniy Najer emerged as the winner. full story »

Rowson wins first 5 in Sardinia

After the M-Tel Masters I didn’t fly back to Amsterdam, but via Rome to Sardinia. ChessVibes was invited by the organizers of the 2nd Festival Internazionale Capo d’Orso, where Jonathan Rowson is leading with 5 points out of 5 games. full story »

Ivanchuk wins M-Tel Masters 2008

Vassily Ivanchuk had decided that a sharp opening was suitable for the last round today. This says enough: what a wonderful winner we have! The Ukrainian beat Cheparinov, and we already have the press conference afterwards. Photos closing ceremony added. full story »

Video report round 9 M-Tel

Lacking time, I decided to limit the editing for this one, but instead you can watch the full press conference of round 9. Of course we’re talking about a new video of the M-Tel Masters. full story »

Topalov loses to Bu

After Bu almost beat Ivanchuk yesterday, he surprised everyone by winning his game against Topalov today! Ivanchuk increased his lead by drawing Aronian and the same result was seen in Radjabov-Cheparinov. full story »

Topalov narrows gap with Ivanchuk

Who would have guessed that? Vassily Ivanchuk was very close to a loss against numer last Bu Xiangzhi, but just managed to draw. Topalov beat Cheparinov and is now half a point behind; Aronian is clearly not himself here and lost with White against Radjabov. full story »

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