World Chess Championship analysis by GM Danielsen (part 1 and part 2). Anand – Gelfand (Grunfeld 3.f3, part 1) Anand – Gelfand (middlegame and endgame) All videos WCC 2012

Live with GM Arkadij naiditsch and GM Csaba Balogh

GM Danielsen got correctly two of the openings of the World Chess Championship match so far. Here is a video with predictions for the opening moves that can also happen in games 3 and 4. See all videos by GM Danielsen here

The draw continued Nakamura’s pattern so far, as he has alternated winning and drawing through the first six games.

In a spectacular finish WGM Irine Kharisma Sukandar from Indonesia regained the top position and won the title of the Asian chess champion.

The 11th Asian Continental Individual Open Chess Championship was held on 4-14th May 2012 at The First Hotel in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi became the Asian champion despite the last round defeat against the inspired GM Salem Saleh from UAE. Negi finished on 7/9 points, same as China’s GM Yu [...]

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Radjabov Teimour, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana have confirmed the participation. The venue, tournament format and other participants will be announced later. Update: The field is now complete with Alexander Morozevich, Alexander [...]

Carlsen, Anand, Radjabov, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, average ELO 2790

FIDE Events Commission in cooperation with the German Chess Federation organized a FIDE IO Seminar in Gladenbach, Germany from 11th to 13th May 2012. Fifteen (15) participants from Germany and Belgium attended the seminar among them well known organizers and federations’ officials. The seminar consisted from the following topics: • Regulations Events Commission (Mission, Events [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive episodes of the 14th Dubai Open Chess Championship 2012 on its DD Sports Channel. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 15th May 2012 from 2200 hrs to 2230 hrs / 2030 [...]