On the 1st of March 2009 in spanish Linares supertournament"s 9 tour games had been played. Magnus Karlsen, (2776,Norway) after his defeat Iт 8 tour from Levon Aronian (2750,Armenia ) in the gamewith ...
On the 25 and 26 of February world chess champion’s nomination contenders Veselin Topalov (2791, Bulgary) and Gata Kamsky (2729, USA) had played sixth and seventh games of the tournament.
US grand maste...
English grandmaster Michael Adams has scored a victory in Ruy Lopez Tournament 2008 in a Spain town of Merida. The peculiarity of the festival was that the players had to choose only a Ruy Lopez openi...
The final round of Russian Team Championship took place on April 13th in Dagomys.
The ahead-of-schedule winner of the tournament “Ural” from Ekaterinburg was meeting “FINEK-GazPromBank” from St. Petersburg...
To the surprise of specialists the new Dutch Chess Champion is Jan Smeets (2578), who is not even in the first hundred of FIDE male rating.
In the last round of the championship Smeets has defeated his...
After the end of the 10th Russian Team Championship, which took place in Dagomys, the ahead-of-schedule winner of the championship has been revealed. It is “Ural” from Ekaterinburg, which headed the tou...
There are following chart categories available for chess:
Chess chart is a list of the mos...
A system by professor Glicko is used to calculate chess rating.
Its main difference from Elo rating c...
Very often (each day, as a matter of fact) we receive messages regarding chess timing problems. They...
Onsite chat is turned off at the moment. Online dialogue is allowed only during a chess game with th...
Chess applet is a special game window in which you can manage your chess game. It is important to un...