Ivanchuk on 4/4

And he did it again: Vassily Ivanchuk is now on 4/4 in Sofia after he beat Cheparinov today. This way he extended his lead since Radjabov-Topalov and Bu Xiangzhi-Aronian both ended in a draw. full story »

Four leaders at Limburg Open

After three rounds, only four players still have a 100% score at the ENCI Limburg Open: IM Robin Swinkels, IM Sergey Klimov, GM Vladimir Epishin and GM Friso Nijboer. We have a video introducing the tournament. full story »

R12: Gashimov beats Grischuk

And then, after a few less interesting days, the penultimate round in Baku was suddenly full of excitement, with great openings, great fights and great… results!? full story »

R11: Wang Yue joins Grischuk again

This morning it was nice and sunny again in Baku. However, ain’t no sunshine for Etienne Bacrot, who today played probably the worst move ever in his entire career, against Ernesto Inarkiev. The only other decisive result was Wang Yue-Svidler (1-0) and so the Chinese GM has joined Alexander Grischuk once again in the tournament standings. full story »

Inarkiev & Mamedyarov win

After yesterday’s drama we witnessed a much more quiet round today in Baku. Five draws didn’t change anything in the top of the standings. Inarkiev avoided timetrouble and beat Navara in a good game. Mamedyarov defeated Karjakin, who blundered a pawn in the early middlegame. full story »

Gashimov beats Kamsky, joins leaders

In the best round so far in Baku, Gashimov beat Kamsky and joined the leaders Grischuk and Wang Yue, who drew against each other. Updated report with videos. full story »

Kamsky joins the leaders

After their first rest day, most players obviously were full of energy again, and it showed. A good round with nice games and three decisions, one of them scored by Cheparinov - he beat Inarkiev. Svidler won a nice game against Karjakin and Kamsky the joined tournament leaders Wang Yue and Grischuk by defeating Adams. full story »

Hillarp Persson & Stellwagen are leading in Malmö

Tiger Hillarp Persson & Daniel Stellwagen are sharing the lead after five rounds of an incredibly combative Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmö, Sweden. Report with photos and videos. full story »

Topalov stars in a commercial

If you search for Kasparov on YouTube you’ll find several commercials. Recently a commercial was produced in which another former world champion is starring: Veselin Topalov. full story »

Wang Yue & Grischuk share lead

Not much happened in the fifth round of Baku 2008, except for the fact that Wang Yue, not exactly the favorite for tournament victory, climbed up to a shared first place. And Cheparinov scored his first half point by the way. Now with videos too! full story »

Press conferences Baku - like at Corus!

The press conferences with demoboard are always a big hit during Corus, and we’ve done the same twice now in Baku. So today more of this top material - enjoy! full story »

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 »

Baden-Baden prolongs title - again

Last weekend, for the third time in a row the Ooser Schachclub Baden-Baden has won the German team championships. We have videos again. full story »

Kramnik plays Werle & Sebag

This afternoon, at 14:00 CET, in Enschede, the Netherlands a special event takes place: in a simultaneous exhibition, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik plays IGM Jan Werle & WGM Marie Sebag. full story »

Lots of Australian chess videos

One of the strongest tournaments of Australia, the Doeberl Cup, was won by GM Varuzhan Akobian, before Zhang Zong and Surya Ganguly. These tournament organizers are also into chess 2.0 because they made lots of nice videos as well. full story »

First videos from Nice

At the Amber tournament, both Macauley and me are making videos for the tournament website. Naturally, you can see them here at ChessVibes as well. 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 »

Video round 13

This time one video, of round 13, in which Teimour Radjabov explains how you beat a 2700 player in two hours. full story »

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