The chief of Spartak Vidnoe killed in Moscow Itar-Tass and many other Russian media reported yesterday that the businessman Shabthai Kalmanovich was killed by an unknown gunmen in Moscow. Among his other activities Kalmanovich was the chief of the...
Interview with Vishy Anand
Interview with Vishy AnandPublished by ChessToday.net An interesting interview by Harry Schaack with world champion Vishy Anand has been published at the official website of the Mainz Chess Classic Festival. In excerpts below Anand speaks about his rivals in...
Chess Today Online Chess Auction
Online Chess Auctionby GM Alex Baburin The latest GM Square online chess auction took place in mid February 2009. You can see its results posted at our website in word and pdf formats. For the next few days you...
Big news by Chess Today
The following was just reported by GM Golubev of Chess Today, the best daily Chess Newspaper, one which I read daily: Karjakin to play for Russiaby GM Mikhail Golubev Yesterday Yury Vasilyev included in his ChessPro report from Nalchik...
Chess Today Auction
Dear chess friends, Note that our online chess auction is in progress at http://www.gmsquare.com/chessauction/index.html There are 106 lots posted and at the time of writing 208 bids have been registered. Bidding is, of course, most intense around the closing...
Basic chess tactic
White to move. What is the best continuation for White? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Congratulations to Chess Today!
Big congratulations to the team of Chess Today! It is their 3,000th daily e-chess newsletter! Well done everyone! For those of you who follow my blog regularly, I am sure you noticed that I mentioned quite a few times...
GM Golubev interviews Ivanchuk
Interview with Ivanchuk In January Mikhail Golubev interviewed Vassily Ivanchuk for Ukrainian newspaper Komanda. Alex Baburin has translated that interview for Chess Today. If you do not have Chess Today, you can subscribe it by going to www.ChessToday.net. It...
3-way tie for 1st at Groningen Chess Festival
Information by ChessToday.net Groningen Chess FestivalThis traditional event finished in the Netherlands a few days ago. It consisted of several tournaments. A-Open, Final Standings: 1-3. GM Gagunashvili (GEO, 2576), IM Swinkels (NED, 2451) and GM Rotstein (GER, 2496) –...
Find the best continuation
White to move. What is the best continuation for White? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar