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World Cup semi-finals start with two (very) quick draws 26 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
The first day of the World Cup's semi-finals was a very short one: Dmitry Andreikin and Evgeny Tomashevsky drew in 14 moves while Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik drew in 16 moves. Photos by Paul...
World Cup: Caruana & Svidler out, Andreikin & Vachier-Lagrave through 26 Aug 2013 | 04:54 am
Sunday's tiebreaks of the World Cup in Tromsø saw more upsets as Dmitry Andreikin and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave both managed to beat their higher rated opponents, Peter Svidler and Fabiano Caruana. This ...
Weekly Endgame Study (335) 26 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving! --> IM Yochanan...
Gladwell on chess and the ‘10,000 hours rule’ 25 Aug 2013 | 01:51 pm
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the best-selling book Outliers, has written a piece on the website of The New Yorker dealing with some of the criticism he’s received over his popularization of the so-...
World Cup R5: Tomashevsky beats Kamsky, Kramnik also through 24 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
On Saturday two Russian grandmasters reached the semi-finals of the World Cup in Tromsø: Vladimir Kramnik and Evgeny Tomashevsky. Kramnik was under heavy pressure but held Anton Korobov to a draw, whi...
Kramnik beats Korobov in first game World Cup quarter-finals 23 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Vladimir Kramnik took the lead in his minimatch with Anton Korobov. The 14th World Champion defeated his Ukrainian opponent from a typical isolated queen's pawn position with the untypical plan of run...
Vesna Rozic loses hardest battle, dies at 26 23 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
The chess scene is shocked today by the news that two-times Slovenian Chess Champion WIM Vesna Rozic (2260) lost the battle with cancer and has passed away. Rozic was just 26 years old. The news was r...
New: read our books on your iPad 23 Aug 2013 | 04:14 pm
Meet the newest addition to our family: The New In Chess Books & Files App. Ever wished you could just tap on the moves in your chess book and they would play themselves on the board? Ever sighed at...
World Cup R4: Tomashevsky eliminates Morozevich in epic tiebreak 23 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
After another thriller of a tiebreak, Peter Svidler, Dmitry Andreikin, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Evgeny Tomashevsky qualified for the fifth round of the Tromsø World Cup. They beat Le Quang Liem, Ser...
World Cup R4: Korobov eliminates Nakamura 21 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
The second day of the World Cup's fourth round saw one more favorite being eliminated: Hikaru Nakamura lost his black game to Anton Korobov. Vladimir Kramnik drew with Vassily Ivanchuk to qualify, Fab...
