Specials of the Week
ChessCafe.com
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Round report 7
Norway Chess 2013
Round 7 of Norway Chess was another spectacular round, but this time even the venue itself was part of the spectacle. The players were transported by boat to …

Moiseenko Wins European Championship; Khotenashvili The Geneva Women’s Grand Prix
The Chess Mind Blog
The European Individual Chess Championship finished in a big tie for first, with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Alekseev, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander Beliavsky …

Karjakin Leads Norway Chess With Two Rounds Left; Carlsen Half a Point Behind
The Chess Mind Blog
I’ve been letting the Norway Chess reports slide, as I’ve been trying to catch up on work while also moving along in the back-and-leg saga. About the latter: I had a second …

Ramirez: Playing Kamsky under Pressure
ChessBase News
Last weekend Gata Kamsky and Alejandro Ramirez tied for first in the 2013 US Championship, making a playoff necessary. Here the 24-year-old “upstart” Ramirez faced one of the …

The joys of chess – Refuting the refutation
ChessBase News
Christian Hesse is a PhD from Harvard and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart. He is also an avid chess fan and has written a number of articles for our news page. …

Bela Khotenashvili won the Neva Fondation Women Grand Prix
Chessdom
Bela Khotenashvili In the last round, Georgian player Bela Khotenashvili managed to make a draw against Anna Ushenina and won the tournament. …

Karjakin, Carlsen and Anand win in Norway
Chessdom
A very exciting seventh round was seen today in Norway. Both the leader and his closest follower obtained full points, and the world champion also amassed a victory …

A surprise against the Sicilian
YMChessMaster
Hort-Polugaevsky Rest of the World v USSR Belgrade 1970. I remain to be convinced that many Black players are fully prepared against the line Hort tries in …

BCM Game of the Month June 2013
YMChessMaster
Karyakin-Nakamura Norway 2013 A topical Najdorf. …

Slav Explorations
Chess: A Singapore Column
Following an incisive online blitz loss to the Portuguese Grandmaster Luís Galego, who represented his country at ten Olympiads, this columnist was given an unexpected opportunity …

The Stonewall Guru
Chess at the Bag of Cats
You might say that there are a few of those around; Moskalenko, Ulibin, Agdestein, Karlsson, to mention a few of the Dutch Stonewall’s active practitioners. …

Looking forward to Deltalift Open
Chess at the Bag of Cats
At the very last second I managed to get an invitation to Deltalift Open, which starts tomorrow! This years edition will become a veritable wasps nest with a big part of the …

Go game of the week
Chess at the Bag of Cats
Today’s game was played between two rather strong players on the IGS Panda server a while back. I was deeply fascinated with the huge ko fight that arose in the middle of the board. …

Viswanathan Anand looking for strong finish at Norway Super Tournament
NDTV
World champion Viswanathan Anand remains a contender for the title despite being 1.5 points behind the leader as he will take on the lowest-ranked players in the …

Pestaño: Famous chess fanatics
Sun.Star
Almost every titled player (GMs, IMs etc.) can be considered chess fanatics as they play and study almost every day and a great number rely on the game as their …

NCFP-Davao to enhance Davao chess
Sun.Star
James Infiesto, regional director of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP), will be joining seminars spearheaded by the World Chess Federation …

All eyes on Sadorra, Laylo in Pacquiao Asian chess on Saturday
PhilBoxing.com
US-based GM Julio Catalino Sadorra and Darwin Laylo will lead a contingent of Filipino wood pushers to the $100,000 Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Open …

Schools to clash in chess event
Fiji Times
The Fiji Chess Federation wants to continue the momentum from last week’s Oceania Zonal Chess Championship to the Primary and Secondary Age-Group chess championships …

Dreams & Extremes for Nakamura in Norway
United States Chess Federation
GM Ian Rogers writes about the dreams that created Norway Chess 2013 and the extremes of our #1 rated player GM Hikaru Nakamura there so far. …

Boor & Rosen Top Chicago Chess Center Invitational
United States Chess Federation
Carl Boor and Eric Rosen topped the Chicago Chess Center UNAM Invitational. See key games and find out more about the CCC, which aims to create a metropolitan chess center in Chicago. …

Chasing the King (Part 2)
Chess.com
Last week I showed a couple of examples of a king hunt. This week we will see another example of a deposed king being chased across the board. First it somewhat willingly …

Champion chess-mates
Jewish News of Greater Phoenix
On Feb. 23, they both placed first in their respective age groups at the Arizona Scholastic State Qualifier chess tournament in Flagstaff, which then qualified them for the …

The Gambit (Manchester)
WhatsOnStage.com
Mark Reid’s first full length drama based on the story for Russian Chess champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov and their controversial world chess championship matches …

Specials of the Week
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Bela Khotenashvili is the winner of Fondation Neva Women’s Grand Prix
World Chess Federation
Bela Khotenashvili became the winner of Neva Fondation Women Grand Prix In the last round Georgian player Bela Khotenashvili managed to make a draw against …

Karjakin leads Norway Masters after 7 rounds, Carlsen close behind
The Week in Chess
Sergey Karjakin leads the Norway Supreme Masters with 5.5/7 after defeating Hikaru Nakamura in the final game to finish on the beautiful island of Flor & Fjaere. …

WGP Geneva: Khotenashvili wins with 8.0/11
ChessBase News
Georgian IM Bela Khotenashvili drew her final round game against Women’s World Champion Anna Ushenina and won Neva Women’s Grand Prix in Geneva. …

Norway 2013 Rd7: Karjakin, Carlsen, and Anand win
ChessBase News
After a near miss in the previous round, Vishy Anand steamrolled Teimur Radjabov with black in impressive fashion. Sergey Karjakin showed he was not going to relinquish …

Anand, Carlsen & Karjakin win in 7th round Norway
ChessVibes
Sergey Karjakin kept his half point lead at the Norway Chess tournament on Wednesday. The tournament leader defeated Hikarua Nakamura and his main rival Magnus Carlsen also won …

Norway Chess 2013 Round 7 Karjakin vs Nakamura and Hammer vs Carlsen
PowerPlayChess
Daniel King demonstrates Karjakin vs Nakamura and Hammer vs Carlsen from round 7 of the Norway Chess Tournament. …

Hendriks on Online Blitz
Chess: A Singapore Column
IM Willy Hendriks’ Move First, Think Later: Sense and Nonsense in Improving your Chess (NIC, 2012), a book recommended at the start of this column in September …

Singaporean Miniatures
Chess: A Singapore Column
An expeditious Caro-Kann win by Oey Liang Hien, the 1970 Singapore national champion: Robert Yap – Oey Liang Hien [B19] Siglap Community Club Open Championship …

Ethic Or Not? Overly Sensitive Question
Chess-News.ru
Hello! I’m glad that Chess-News give me the opportunity to explain the reasons why I left the European Championship after the 7th round. Indeed, it seems that …

Viswanathan Anand beats Radjabov; joint third now
NDTV
World champion Viswanathan Anand outclassed Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan to jump to joint third spot after the seventh round of Norway chess 2013 super tournament. …

32-year-old who cannot sit, walk plays chess to be grandmaster
Daily Bhaskar
Shailesh Nerlikar has not allowed his physical condition to become an obstacle in his progress. The 32-year-old, who suffers from chronic bone disease since childhood …

Popularity of Mind Game Growing … Gentler Sex Takes to Chess
AllAfrica.com
Following a weeklong mind-restructuring break, action in the highly competitive Namsports Namibia Premier Chess League (PCL) got underway at the …

Zambia withdraws from Africa Chess Championship
Xinhua
Zambia chess players will not take part in the 2013 African Chess Championships because Chess Federation of Zambia has failed to raise funds to send the team …

St. Andrew’s takes chess tournament titles
Barry’s Bay This Week St. Andrew’s Catholic School dominated at this year’s inter-school chess tournament May 8, winning both the A and B divisions and tying with George Vanier Catholic School in the …

Russian convicts beat Americans in cyber chess battle
Telegraph.co.uk
Russia’s team was made up of the country’s best chess-playing jailbirds and had heavyweight support from Anatoly Karpov, the Soviet grandmaster and former …

Chess champion Gata Kamsky forced to play to win
St. Louis Beacon
If there is one person who might be upset with the performance of 2013 U.S. Chess Champion Gata Kamsky, it is former New York Jets coach Herm Edwards. …

ICC takes eighth state chess championship
The News
Izard County Consolidated High School has an unbelievable record in state chess tournament play, and a case full of trophies to prove it. ICC won the state title in …

Specials of the Week
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Round report 6
Norway Chess 2013
Just like in previous rounds of Norway Chess 2013, round 6 offered a lot of entertainment for the audience. We saw one pretty brutal win, one pretty boring draw, one exciting draw …

Bela Khotenashvili became the winner of Neva Fondation Women Grand Prix
geneva2013.fide.com
In the last round Georgian player Bela Khotenashvili managed to make a draw against Anna Ushenina and won the tournament. Her nearest rival Anna Muzychuk had to win the …

Round 10: Bela Khotenashvili overtakes Anna Muzychuk in the lead
geneva2013.fide.com
In the tenth round of Neva Fondation Women Grand Prix Georgian player Bela Khotenashvili confidently won against Katerina Lagno and is half a point above of Anna Muzychuk …

Game of the day – round 10
geneva2013.fide.com
Another successfull test of Makogonov variation by Bela Khotenashvili in this tournament. 6…Na6?! This variation is very dubious,as other moves are more serious. …

Fondation Neva Women’s Grand Prix: Round 10
World Chess Federation
In the tenth round of Neva Fondation Women Grand Prix Georgian player Bela Khotenashvili confidently won against Katerina Lagno and is half a point above of Anna Muzychuk …

Without women, chess would be much less interesting
EICC 2013
Not only men play chess, but it’s a fact which some males cannot comprehend. Many chess enthusiasts think that only a man can be a true chess player. They are very mistaken. …

Kamsky Wins U.S. Championship in Playoff
The Chess Mind Blog
Alejandro Ramirez had a great tournament and gave Gata Kamsky a run for his money, but in the end experience prevailed as Kamsky won the U.S. Championship by finally …

Carlsen edges closer to Karjakin with Round 6 win against Radjabov in Norway
The Week in Chess
Magnus Carlsen ground out a win against Teimour Radjabov for the second time in a row from a virtually equal position to move within half a point of the leader Sergey Karjakin …

US Ch: Kamsky beats Ramirez in playoff
ChessBase News
The 2013 U.S. Championship went extra innings on Monday in a gripping tiebreak final. After splitting a pair of rapid games, GM Gata Kamsky won $30,000 and …

Norway 2013 Rd6: Carlsen closes on Karjakin
ChessBase News
Trying to sum up the incredible action of the day in a few lines is nearly impossible. The games were sharp, exciting, dramatic, and Playchess commentator GM Daniel King …

WGP Geneva: Khotenashvili leads alone
ChessBase News
It was the round of the Georgians, with GM Nana Dzagnidze beating Chinese IM Ju Wenjun and, more relevantly, IM Bela Khotenashvili defeating one of the tournament favourites …

Carlsen wins second game in a row in Norway
Chessdom The Norway Chess super-tournament continues and the fight for first place is getting livelier as Magnus Carlsen took down Teimour Radjabov and is now half a point behind the leader …

“Now I Am Fully In the Tournament!”
Chess-News.ru
Magnus Carlsen’s win over Teimour Radjabov in Stavanger was somehow similar to his victory over Azerbaijani player gained in London. At the press conference …

GM Francisco Vallejo Pons: “I Am the Kind of a Guy Who Just Likes a Little Bit of Everything”
Chess-News.ru
This is Chess-News, and today our guest is GM Vallejo Francisco from Spain. Unfortunately, you are not very happy with your game today, which ended in a draw? …

Norway Chess 2013 R6
Magnus Carlsen’s Blog
Today, against Teimur Radjabov I got a pleasant position from the opening. My strong bishop on b2 and his weak pawns on a6 and c6 provided me with a number of …

Norway Chess 2013 Round 6 Carlsen vs Radjabov
PowerPlayChess
Daniel King demonstrates Carlsen vs Radjabov from round 6 of the Norway Chess Tournament. …

Coffeehouse Blitzing
Chess: A Singapore Column
Although coffeehouse chess is a rare sight in the Lion City, every now and then it does happen. As it did very recently at one of the The Connoisseur Concerto outlets …

Wednesday’s 5-second tactics!
Spraggett on Chess
From the Continental in Bolívia this week. Black had just played 27…Qb8, attacking the White Rook. This is a serious error! White now has the opportunity to score the full point …

Viswanathan Anand draws against Russian Sergey Karjakin
NDTV
World champion Viswanathan Anand let Russian Sergey Karjakin off the hook and drew after a stellar performance in the sixth round of Norway Chess 2013 Super Tournament …

Yap claims Mandaue chess title
ABS CBN News
International Master Kim Steven Yap defeated Edcel Montoya in the ninth and final round to win the Mandaue Mayor’s Cup Chess Open Tournament at …

Azerbaijan to host 2016 Chess Olympiad
Business Standard
Azerbaijan won the right to stage the 42nd edition of the 2016 Chess Olympiad in the capital city of Baku from May 17 to 30. The other two application by Albena of Bulgaria and …

Premji leads Nilamani in chess tourney
E-Pao.net
With 13 points, S Premjit of table no.1 is leading till the end of the 5th round of the ongoing 18th Y Nilamani memorial open chess tournament-2013 being organised …

Mates check in for record chess match
This is Staffordshire
Two university students are hoping to break the world record for playing chess. Matthew Carr and Fraser Greenroyd started their marathon board battle yesterday at …

Local boys earn spot in Canadian Youth Chess Championship
Sault Ste. Marie
Several Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario students displayed great skills during the recent Franco-Ontarian Chess Tournament that took place in …

The Power of Positional Chess (Part 2)
Chess.com
I’m going to come clean here. It’s time to let the cat out of the bag and admit to something strange and weird. It concerns my chess, and it’s about a particular chess move. …

2013 US and Women’s Chess Champions
Live Trading News
The prestigious tournaments are part of the “Triple Crown” of chess championships held in the United States this year. The third event is the Junior Championship …

Cook County Inmates Take on Russian Prisoners
Patch.com
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Cook County Jail chess program head Dr. Mikhail Korenman will hold a press conference at 9 a.m. Wednesday with Russian officials via Skype. …

Chicago, Russian inmates to play online chess
Peoria Journal Star
Inmates in the Cook County jail are readying for an online chess match against inmates in Russia. The Cook County Sheriff’s office says the games will be played Wednesday morning. …

Russia and US play jailhouse chess tournament
BBC News
Ten convicts from prisons across Russia sat down to play the game in Moscow, with the encouragement of former World Champion Anatoly Karpov.

The Higher-Ups Write Them Out
Kasparov.com
People often ask me whether or not a good knowledge of chess is useful in Russian political life. Offended, I respond that chess has fixed rules and unpredictable results …