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The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) represents a dying breed of whole-heartedly altruistic promotion of chess. FICS was created with the sole purpose of making internet chess accessible to all parts of the globe – FOR FREE! The Free Internet Chess Server offers nearly every variant of chess with the most popular being Bughouse Chess, Crazyhouse, Loser’s Chess, Suicide, and Atomic chess. FICS also provides a variety of different interfaces for chess players of all [...]

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 [...]

The 2011 Tal Memorial was an exceptionally strong event with many of the world’s very best chess players in attendance. This was one of the closest tournaments I have ever witnessed at any level, as no one was able to break away from the pack until the very end. Magnus Carlsen continues to dominate the chess world with another solid victory at a top tier event. Carlsen tied for first at the 2011 Tal Memorial [...]

The winner of the 2011 FIDE World Cup may have been chosen but the tournament has yet to go. Here are the latest updates from the 2011 FIDE World Cup. Svidler has won the cup with first place after defeating Grischuk. Ivanchuk has also guaranteed himself a spot for the candidates tournament after drawing game 1 of his consolation match with Ponomariov to determine who would take 3rd place honors and a guaranteed place in [...]

The Semi-Finals of the FIDE Chess World Cup, as expected, featured an incredibly high class of chess. The battle for the chess world cup turned to be one between 2 Russians and 2 Ukranians. Ironically enough, it was the Russians who won and will now have to face each other off into the finals. Here is an update on how the semi-finals went down. Svidler Crushes Ponomariov Svidler was able to overcome Ponomariov in game [...]

As Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) beat Teimor Radjabov (AZE) and Alexander Grischuk (RUS) beat David Navara (CZE) in tiebreakers yesterday, they will join Peter Svidler (RUS) and Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) in the Semi-Finals of the 2011 FIDE World Chess Cup. This is one of the strongest FIDE World Cup tournaments ever, with the average rating of the Semi-Finals to be over Svidler won his match by drawing the first game and creatively whipping up a dangerous [...]

Ruslan Ponomariov finally defeats Cuban GM Lazaro Bruzon, then defeats Gashimov. You may recall a video I did earlier where Cuban GM Bruzon was really holding his own against Ruslan Ponomariov despite having an ELO nearly 100 points lower. However, as expected, Ponomariov eventually triumphed. Although Ukraine’s Ruslan Ponomariov must have been exhausted after winning an 8 game marathon match against Cuba’s Lazaro Bruzon, he was able to cruise through round 5 against a very [...]