Archive for February, 2011
New: Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall.
Acclaimed biographer Frank Brady, who first met Bobby Fischer when the prodigy was just ten years old, has written a breathtaking and unique full-length biography containing more than 400(!) p
In the week after his succesful Tata tournament, Anish Giri appeared on national TV, in a very popular talk show. A day later he gave a simul against members of the Dutch parliament. Adding more fuel to the fire, the 16-year-old grandmaster recently
Dear chess friends!Please see the list of Arbiters' titles (International Arbiter, FIDE Arbiter) approved by the 1st FIDE Presidential Board meeting held in Antalya, Turkey on 4-5 of February 2011 on the FIDE Arbiters' Commission website, under the
In what could be loosely described as the unofficial world championship of chess engines, free chess engine Houdini beat commercial engine Rybka. The match lasted forty games and the final score was 23.5-16.5. Organizer Martin Thoresen: “I thin
Open letters… somehow it’s the preferred means of communication in the chess world. Today we received an open letter from FIDE Vice President Israel Gelfer, directed to Malcolm Pein, CEO of Chess Promotions Limited. The World Chess Federa
By means of a lengthy Word document sent to chess media on Tuesday, the Turkish Chess Federation responds to the open letter written by 18 participants of the 2010 Women’s World Championship. “The only good part of this painful incident i
FIDE on twitter
Feb 10
Dear chess friends!Please follow FIDE on twitter. All Internet users can now also read short messages and news from FIDE on twitter page.Please find us at http://twitter.com/fide_chess
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Dear Malcolm,
I received the announcement of Chess Promotions that you are withdrawing your offer to organize the FIDE World Championship match (FWCM) with great disappointment. I would like to provide the chess world with the correct facts which
Gambits at the highest level
Feb 10
For our ChessVibes Openings editors it was not difficult to pick a Game of the Week – of course they analyzed the spectacular Blumenfeld Gambit of Korchnoi-Vallejo, Gibraltar 2011. And there’s more romanticism in this week’s CVO #11