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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 London Chess Classic 2011 is guaranteed to be a shoot-out this year as all the players are coming in hungry for blood and glory.  Maybe I’ve been watching too many “Dirty Harry” movies lately, but I think these guys mean business.  And they better, because the Sofia rules will be applied at the 2011 London Chess Classic, meaning 3 points for a win and 1 point for a draw.  I’m a huge fan of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 2011 FIDE World Chess Cup has been insane as always, with every player pushing harder for the win with every round. The Knockout format has become a trademark of this event, and deservedly so as this encourages highly entertaining chess only at the cost of the participants’ nervous systems. Ruslan Ponomariov is a fierce attacking player who has been a member of the 2700 club for quite some time now. His opponent, Lazaro Bruzon, [...]

This year’s 2011 St. Louis International Match features the world’s #5 player Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2774) versus the world’s #8 Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR, 2754) as well as 16 year-old GM Ray Robson (USA, 2522) Vs GM Ben Finegold (USA 2494). It’s an interesting exhibition match system, with a total of 10 games (6 classical time control, followed by 4 rapid time control games). As the classical portion of the match ended on May 22nd, Nakamura [...]