8/19/2010 – The chess match between Zahar Efimenko and Arkadij Naiditsch, organised by Universal Event Promotion and the Mukachevo Chess Club 32x64 in Mukachevo, Ukraine, was won by Naiditsch. The German GM held on to a second-round lead and drew the rest of the games to by a 3.5:2.5 score. Final report with game commentary by GM Mikhail Golubev.

8/19/2010 – In the sixth round, The Experience team once again outscored the Rising stars, closing the distance to 15.5-14.5. Nakamura beat Ljubojevic to come within a half point of Rising Star leader, Giri. Gelfand continues to stamp his authority, this time beating Howell, and van Wely scored his first NH Chess win after sixteen tries. Round six report with pictures and Gelfand's notes to his game.

8/18/2010 – Whenever White plays 4.Bd2 in the Bogo-Indian, most games end up after 4...Qe7 in an Indian-type position, in which Black is under pressure but can has chances to draw after the exchange of his problem dark-squared bishop. Mihail Marin presents a completely different variation. After 4...a5 5.g3 d5 6.Qc2 Nc6 7.Bg2 dxc4 8.Qxc4 Qd5 White cannot avoid the exchange of queens and the game immediately enters the ending. It's a good position to start out from, and the variation is also objectively playable. You will find another 11 articles on the DVD of CBM 137. Read: Marin's complete article

8/18/2010 – The Elo rating system has done good service for half a century. But can we devise a more accurate method for measuring chess strength and predicting results. Kaggle, an organisation that provides a platform for data-prediction competitions, is giving statisticians 65,000 games which they must use to predict the results 7,800 other games. There are prizes for the best new systems.

8/17/2010 – With two elite players in the Experience team, the youths are in no position to simply stroke their egos with superior Elos, and sure enough, both Svidler and Gelfand gave Nakamura a rough time with Ljubo also taking some of his own at Wesley So's expense. On the flipside, Anish Giri took the lead in the Rising Stars with 3.5/5 after two wins. Report for rounds four and five with games and pictures.

8/17/2010 – In a close finish there was just one tie for medals: Russian GMs Dmitry and Sanan Sjugirov both scored 10.0/13 points, with the former taking Gold on tiebreak points. In the Girls' section top seed Anna Muzychuk survived a little scare in the penultimate round and took clear first, ahead of Olga Girya and Rout Padmini. Final report with beautiful pictures by Marek Skrzypczak.

8/17/2010 – This morning informed sources in Iceland told us that the results of the DNA tests that were conducted after the extraction of tissue samples from Bobby Fischer's grave have revealed that the paternity claim of Marilyn Young is without basis. "It is completely ruled out" that Jinky Young can be the biological daughter of the former World Champion. Now the story is out in many leading news sources.

8/17/2010 – Ukrainian GM Zahar Efimenko has not been able to equalise his match against GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany, in spite of enterprising play. In game four Efimenko had his opponent on the ropes with the black pieces, but missed his chance when he ran out of time. What exactly happened is described in the extensive match commentary by GM Mikhail Golubev.

8/17/2010 – Everybody knows it, the 1895 encounter in Hastings, where the first World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz, who had just lost his title to Emanuel Lasker, played the German Count Curt von Bardeleben. Steinitz crushed his opponent in a game that is firmly imprinted in the annals of chess history. 115 years later GM Lubomir Kavalek takes another fond look at it.

8/16/2010 – It was an epic match with 50 slow games and 200 rapid games, spanning 250 games in all. The Chinese took the slow games 27-23, but in the rapid games they barely edged out the visiting team 101-99. Individually, the Chinese men's team won their encounter, while the Russian women won theirs. To conclude the coverage we bring you a number of pictures in this illustrated report.

8/16/2010 – Recently Stephen Kullas, a review author at ChessCafe, installed our flagship program on his computer – and was impressed by the "enormous scope" of the software. He did run into a bit of trouble when accessing the one-year Premium Playchess.com account which is part of the Deep Fritz 12 package (he needed to give his serial number every time he logged in). Here's how to solve this problem.

8/16/2010 – The French magazine Europe Echecs has a very outspoken interview with FIDE presidential candidate Anatoly Karpov, who accuses the incumbent of putting pressure on countries and delegates. Meanwhile Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has visited Israel and Palestine, while the ECU presidential candidates Silvio Danailov and Ali-Nihat Yazici have published campaign statements. Election news.