» Dejan Bojkov: Try the Sicilian Kalashnikov! 03.02.2012 – The Kalashnikov Variation (B32) is a close relative of the Sves...
07/02/12 13:44 from Chessbase News
The final round at the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival was as exciting as they can get. Seventeen-year-old Women\'s World Champion Hou Yifan finished in first place at 8.0/10, which Nigel Short catching her in points (but not perform..
» Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at the Moscow Open 2012 opening ceremony
30/01/12 07:28 from World Chess Federation - FIDE
On Saturday 28th of January the main tournaments of RSSU International Chess Cup “Moscow Open 2012” have started. Struggle for prize-winning places was entered by 1470 chess players from 26 countries of the world, including 95 internationa..
» Chess Problems: Solutions and a bonus from Pal Benko 07.02.2012 – Here are the solutions to the last installment of prob...
07/02/12 13:44 from Chessbase News
It was his first Turkish Championship, and GM Dragan Solak took the title with a final-round win. Dragan has recently completed his transfer from the Serbian Chess Federation to the TCF and will represent the Turkish national team at the ne..
» A talk with legendary Lajos Portisch Part II 02.02.2012 – In this second part of a fascinating talk with Lajos Portisc...
07/02/12 13:44 from Chessbase News
The first two bids to stage the next Candidates Tournament for the World Championship received by FIDE are from Bulgaria and Azerbaijan. But one of the two top candidates, Levon Aronian of Armenia, warns that he will not be able to accept t..
» Kübra Öztürk wins Turkish Women\'s Championship 04.02.2012 – There were two dominating female players in this event: Kübr...
07/02/12 13:44 from Chessbase News
Another installment, this time of \"Rock solid\" endings, picked out and analysed by our resident endgame expert GM Karsten Müller from the games that were played at the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. His popular ChessBase Maga..