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ChessVibes launched in early 2007 and has quickly risen in popularity to be one of the biggest chess news websites in the world, establishing a reputation of quality and quantity with excellent daily articles about chess. ChessVibes offers an interesting perspective on the concept of chess news, providing a different take from opinionated journalists Peter Doggers, Thomas Richter, Arne Moll, and others. ChessVibes does a great job of presenting behind-the-scenes info with tongue-in-cheek analysis, resulting [...]

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 is the strongest chess tournament ever held in Wijk Aan Zee, bringing in 14 of the world’s top players in the A group to boast an average FIDE rating of 2755! The organizers have really done an incredible job of putting the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 together, featuring 8 of the top 10 highest rated chess players in the world (only missing former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik [...]

The 54th “Torneo di Capodanno” Reggio Emilia Super-Tournament ended with an exciting finish yesterday as going into the last round there was a 3-way tie between Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Morozevich, and Anish Giri. It was a chess tournament organizer’s dream, as none of the 3 tournament leaders played each other in the last round of the 6 player double round robin. As Anish Giri was unable to generate a strong attack with the black pieces [...]

The 54th “Torneo di Capodanno” chess tournament is being held in Reggio Emilia, Italy and starts on December 27th 2011, ending on January 6, 2012. The organizers of the Reggio Emilia 2011 chess tournament have done an incredible job of putting together an all-star line up of 2700+ FIDE players: Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexander Morozevich, Hikaru Nakamura, Nikita Vitiugov, Fabiano Caruana, and Anish Giri. Just one week before the tournament began, last year’s winner Vugar Gashimov [...]

After we noticed that GM Anish Giri was reposting many of our tournament analyses on his website, we caught up with him and asked him if he’d be kind enough to do a short 20 minute interview with us. In this chess interview Anish Giri talk’s about everything ranging from recent chess cheating scandals, strategies towards improving your FIDE and more! How to be a Grandmaster Series People always want to know how Grandmaster’s achieved [...]

Sigeman 2011 ended yesterday night with a 3-way tie for first: Wesley So, Anish Giri, and Hans Tikkanen.  Giri and Tikkanen faced off today, with Giri attempting to win the tournament outright by playing an aggressive variation of the Grunfeld as black.  Giri sacrificed a pawn with 11. …b6!? to gain counterplay on the open c-file, however Tikkanen was able to neutralize black’s initiative through multiple exchanges to achieve a R+N endgame with an extra [...]

The Sigeman Chess Tournament 2011 has certainly been entertaining this year, with prodigy Anish Giri leading the field with Hans Tikkanen going into the last round.  Superstar Alexei Shirov is unfortunately continuing his slump with 2/4 points against lower-rated opposition. In yesterday’s round, Giri played 111 moves against Jonny Hector – attempting to grind down Giri. However, Hector was able to hold the draw in a pawn down rook ending. Shirov was unable to create [...]