5/13/2010 – The Max Euwe Centrum is located in the Max Euweplein 30-a in Amsterdam. It is a chess promotion center which periodically holds high-category events, like the one that is currently running and pits five talented young Dutch players against experienced grandmasters. Top pairing: Nigel Short vs Anish Giri. Find out why Anish was barred from the opening ceremony.

5/12/2010 – Naturally Anand's victory was celebrated most of all in India, where he has around one billion fans. The broadsheets were full of the event – with rush video or telephone interviews, of which we have a number of examples for you to enjoy. The reporters also descended on Anand's parents and extracted statements from them. Review of the reports and feedback from our readers.

5/12/2010 – The endgame of rook+bishop against rook+knight is also known in chess literature as the Fischer ending, at least if the side with the bishop has the upper hand. The name arose because the American world champion Robert James Fischer was very successful with this distribution of material against Soviet grandmasters, with one of many examples being the fourth game in his Candidates match against Taimanov in Vancouver 1971. Karsten Müller has annotated for ChessBase Magazine Online a recent model example of the Fischer endgame, namely the game Jakovenko-Rakhmanov. ChessBase Magazine Online.

5/12/2010 – In this tutorial on the Playchess software, you will discover some of the new features in the interface related to broadcasts – such as watching several boards at once, not to mention many of the great options available for free to premium accounts such as multimedia commentary of events, and multimedia lectures (openings, famous games, etc.). Don't miss out on the fun.

5/11/2010 – After eight rounds top Czech GM David Navara still had a clean, 100% score and a performance rating in the 32 hundreds.This did not seem realistic and was recalculated using a proposal by computer scientist Ken Thompson. In the final round David generously drew a game and thus obtained a proper Elo performance: 2963. But the debate continues: how should we evaluate 100% or 0% results?

5/11/2010 – Viswanathan Anand, playing black in the final game, avoided a decision by rapid and blitz tiebreak. In a balanced Queen's Gambit Declined, the World Champion took a shot at weakening his Bulgarian challenger's king. Veselin Topalov panicked, as in a flash his chances were dashed and the Bulgarian could wrap up his defence. A fantastic final game by Anand who retains his crown.

5/11/2010 – "Before the game I tried to guess the opening," says our commentator GM Anish Giri, "and believe it or not, I actually managed to predict it!" Anand played the solid or trustworthy Queen's Gambit Declined, employed a relatively unknown idea, equalized and profited from a suicidal pawn exchange by his opponent. "Great and flawless play by Anand," says Anish in his instructive analysis.

5/10/2010 – It started out as a "boring" draw, but turned into YADEG – yet another dramatically exciting game. In his last white game in regular time controls Anand searched for a decisive advantage, and then on move 49 took a very brave decision – one that could have easily backfired, as our commentator, Dutch Champion GM Anish Giri thinks. More instructive analysis.

5/10/2010 – One round before the end of the event GM Tatiana Kosintseva of Russia was leading by a point and a half; in the end she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix by exactly that margin – and a 2735 performance. The prize was € 6,500 and, if we interpret the pictures correctly, a dashing bridegroom from the Caucasus Mountains. Final illustrated report.

5/10/2010 – "If Indian chess, once a faceless form struggling to establish for itself an identity, is now a full-bodied force of nature, powered by young minds for whom all the world's a stage, it is because of the inspiration inherited from a path-breaker..." This description of a one-man revolution by Siddhartha Mishra in the E-Paper version of the Indian Express is a must-read portrait of Vishy Anand.

5/9/2010 – Once again we bring you a treat: an extensive and didactic look at the last game in this match, one in which, as our analyst GM Anish Giri shows, World Champion Anand was in greater danger than most people realised. However, the Indian GM navigated safely around the treacherous endgame cape and finally it was Challenger Veselin Topalov who had to force the draw. Very instructive analysis.

5/9/2010 – He is best known as the General Secretary of the Moldova Chess Federation, and as the father of IM/WGM Almira Skripchenko, but anyone who plays the a6 Slav should remember that it was Feodor Skripchenko who first introduced it into tournament practice. For a number of years this kind-hearted and enthusiastic man had been battling cancer. On Saturday he resigned the game.