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This morning we proudly sent the very first issue of our brand new magazine ChessVibes Training to our early subscribers. Are you one of them? Go check your inbox and have a great weekend! Not yet? Naturally you can still join the party from week 1
New: The Joys of Chess
May 6
We have just received from our printers: The Joys of Chess: Heroes, Battles & Brilliancies .
The Joys of ChessFantastic moves, intriguing thought experiments, strange insights and hilarious jokes: author Christian Hesse offers vistas you have ne
Gata Kamsky defeated Veselin Topalov in the second game of his Candidates match in Kazan, Russia. With two more games left, the American leads 1.5-0.5. The games Grischuk-Aronian, Gelfand-Mamedyarov and Kramnik-Radjabov ended in draws. For now the ga
Perhaps you’ve seen it already, but in case you haven’t: one of our readers pointed out to us the Italian chess documentary Chess me out – talk on board, which was posted on the internet already three years ago. Among others, Alexan
All games in the FIDE Candidates matches, which started today in Kazan, Russia, ended in draws. Levon Aronian seemed to be close to a victory but his opponent Alexander Grischuk managed to reach a drawn pawn ending. In Radjabov-Kramnik, Mamedyarov-Ge
Just out: New In Chess 2011/3 – with 106 pages of chess delight .
- Levon Aronian absolutely fabulous in Amber farewell
- Viktor Kortchnoi: ‘I caused Petrosian’s fatal illness’
- Nigel Short on his worst simul
- Genna Sosonko on ‘Magicians
According to the ChessVibes readers, Levon Aronian is the clear favorite to win the FIDE Candidates matches which start tomorrow in Kazan, Russia. Based on 1,000+ votes, Armenia’s number one grandmaster gained an astonishing 65.19%, followed by
Anton Korobov won the strong Nakhchivan Open in Azerbaijan. The Ukrainian grandmaster was the only player to finish on 7/9, half a point ahead of Zoltan Almasi (Hungary), Paco Vallejo (Spain), Ivan Sokolov (The Netherlands) and Alexander Ipatov (Spai
We’ve tried hard to resist, but by now it’s impossible to avoid the story about Andrey Slyusarchuk, a Ukrainian neurosurgeon and showman who ‘beat’ Rybka 4 in a 2-game match, playing blindfold, which was shown on national TV.
My previous review, in which I discussed three recent chess puzzle books, was admittedly somewhat grumpy and pessimistic about the future of this particular genre, and some readers took offence at this. So this time round I’m going look at thre