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Vassily Ivanchuk's recent mugging in Sao Paulo shocked the chess world but it's far from being the only mishap to befall a chessplayer on the way to or from ...

"In contrast to the middlegame and the endgame, where theory is objective and accepted by everyone, in the opening each chess player makes his choices in ...

Lubomir Kavalek wrote in the Huffington Post that in the annals of chess history the final result of the 2010 Chess Classic would show Magnus Carlsen as the ...

The 2010 Women's World Chess Championship is about to start in Hatay, Turkey, heralding either a new champion, or confirming the incumbent. In 2008 ...

This is one you really do not want to miss. Star international trainer and commentator Maurice Ashley reveals a secret he discovered on his way to becoming a ...

He was one of the most prolific chess composers. His endgame studies were elegant, witty, entertaining, simple and beautiful. Henri Rink's ultimate collection of ...

On Thursday Vishy Anand embarked on a trip from his house in Madrid, Spain, to the World Championship match. He got as far as Frankfurt, Germany, and was ...

Many books have been written about the American chess genius and world champion Bobby Fischer. But now there is a remarkable new one, by German GM ...

Just a couple of years ago the shocking pawn sacrifice 5.g4 entered the theory of the dignified Philidor Defence. If you check with the ChessBase online ...

The event was staged in Teheran to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Four classical, four rapid and four blitz games between ...

12/2/2008 – "I don't know how many times I have said to myself," says the world class GM and world championship runner-up, "that it makes no sense at all to ...

1270 players took part in the event, hailing from 141 different countries. 722 men and 548 women played a total of 6050 games. In the end Armenia and Georgia ...

Sunday, a free day at the World Championship in Bonn, Germany – and our chess expert, Levon Aronian, was stuck without Internet access at the European ...

7/29/2008 – Simultaneous events are chess spectacles. Only a few games make it to the textbooks, and the atmosphere is informal and noisy. But Vishy Anand ...

The Modern Benoni is one of the sharpest openings against 1 d4. Black is ready for active counterplay, especially with his pawn majority on the queenside.

11/9/2007 – Recently John Nunn, retired world-class grandmaster, won the 31st World Championship for problem solvers. In our report we showed you some ...

Still mystified by Vladimir Kramnik's blunder in game two of his match against Deep Fritz? After our attempts at an explanation of this extraordinary blackout we ...

He had a terrible year, with bad health and skipped tournaments. Now Vladimir Kramnik is on the rebound. In September he is due to play a reunification match ...

Schachwunderkind Magnus Carlsen strikes again. In devastating form the young Norwegian GM took first place at the Arnold Eikrem Memorial in Gausdal, a full ...

Last Sunday ESPN aired a story about Bobby Fischer. Jeremy Schaap traveled to Iceland and reported on what he found. But he mainly went there to confront ...