ChessVibes editors GM Erwin L'Ami and IM Merijn van Delft, both currently participating in the Open Dutch Championships in Dieren, were fired on the spot today. The direct cause is the supposed cheating by Erwin L'Ami during the first and secon...
An interview with the Rybka team on the future of computer chessComputer chess is everywhere. Chess engines reign supreme. Their expertise ranges from endgame tablebases to amazing tactical resources in the middlegame to surprising opening novelti...
This is a review of the Dutch chess magazine Matten. The magazine is completely in the Dutch language and therefore we decided to publish this review only in Dutch too.
Today not only the finals of the Candidate matches in Elista have begun, but also the "Ultimate Computer Challenge" computer match between Deep Fritz and Deep Junior. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the FIDE, appears to sponor the match himself. ...
An opening that is currently not very popular at the highest level, is the Tarrasch Defence. You mainly see Slavs, Queen's Indians and thanks to Radjabov many King's Indians as well these days. Although Grischuk uses the Tarrasch occasionally, no ...
During the last Corus tournament I received good news: a new edition of John Nunn's classic Secrets of Practical Chess (1998) was forthcoming. In those days (1998) I was working for Chess and Goshop Het Paard in Amsterdam, and I often had to advis...
Last Saturday was the day: the debut of World Champion Vladimir Kramnik in the Premier League of the Dutch competition. In the top match between Share Dimension Groningen and HSG Hilversum, for the first time since Max Euwe, another reigning champ...
The Chessvibes reporters are everywhere! They're in Moscow, in Morelia, and soon in Linares as well. But also, of course, in their hometown, Amsterdam. Yesterday, the last round of the championship of Amsterdam was played at the Wethouder Verheij ...
In group B two of the three leaders lost their game yesterday. Bologan was not able to keep a draw position and lost against Sargissian. The top game between Vachier-Lagrave and Eljanov resulted in a victory for the latter. Especially the way the ...
At the end of the fourth round of the Corus Chess Tournament, when almost everybody had gone home already, something unsual happened in the C-group: in the game between Stellan Brynell and Mihail Krasenkow, after 66 moves the ending of two knights...
Reports of chess tournaments are usually about what's going on in the playing hall. At least as interesting is what's going on in the press room, where this year at Corus the ediorial team of Chessvibes has access for the first time. The press roo...
What's the first thing you do when you see a new opening book? Look up the variation you know most about and?Ǭ†check what is said?Ǭ†about it.?Ǭ†Surprisingly enough, this?Ǭ†is often a disappointment, and usually you don't even buy it because?Ǭ...
Last update 20.52 CETThe third round has just started at Corus. From Wijk aan Zee we will be reporting live today as much as possible. There will certainly be exciting games today. The theoretical 'KID'-fight between Shirov and Radjabov, for examp...
And off we go! The first moves have been played and can be followed here. While editors peter and forest already did useful camera work, they now have to make moves of their own in the Weekend matches. Meanwhile, the live reports on Chessvibes wil...
Cheating is hot news. Last week there was an article on Chessbase about the Indian player D.P.Singh who was allegedly caught cheating. During Corus, where Topalov and Kramnik are both participating, there will probably also be talked about the in...
The cool thing about analysing your own games is that you can never tell beforehand how long you will be analysing. A serious tournament game against a strong opponent?Ǭ†might be forgotten?Ǭ†only hours after the game, while a relatively unimport...
Good news at the end of the year. Someone posted images on Youtube of the dramatic eleventh match game Karpov-Kasparov, Seville 1987! Kasparov's faces after Karpov's blunder 35.Rc6?? have become legendary but were not, as far as I know, available ...
In the 'subjective reporting' category, we bring you the following news: yesterday, Homburg Apeldoorn 1 became blitz champion of The Netherlands. Following the rollercoaster-ride of IM's Manuel Bosboom (12,5 out of 13) and Merijn van Delft (12 out...
Every chess player knows the comparisons between the game of chess and war, between the game of chess and 'life'. But computers show that the game of chess should actually not be compared to real life combat or life itself, but rather to... the un...
On November 23, Apeldoorns chess centipede Karel van Delft turned fitfy. To celebrate this, Merijn and Marijke van Delft had come up with a highly unusual present for their father: a blitz tournament with the creme de la creme of the Dutch and Ape...
A question that is not heard enough these days, is: should we actually be glad with all these matches between Man and Machine? Of course there are many perspectives from which you can try to answer this question.The sensationalist in me looks in p...
In de week na de KNSB-zaterdag verschijnen er op schakers.info en schaakbond.nl altijd vele verslagen van de gespeelde wedstrijden. Omdat doggers-schaak niet achter wil blijven en bovendien in een groeiende behoefte wil voorzien, hebben wij de han...
Today Topalov will have White for the last time in the 'normal chess' part of the match. The expectations are high. Will he finally play 1.e4, or will he stick to his original preparation? It's not improbablte that he will - e.g.?Ǭ†like Kasparov ...
Foto: FIDEStop the presses: Kramnik has won the tenth match game with White in an impressive manner. The match is now equal again: 5-5. With two games to go, it's hard to name a favorite. The reader will have realized by now that we at Doggers-sch...
