Vishy Anand, the world champion, has responded to the limp draws in the candidates matches and the surprise victory there of Israel's Boris Gelfand by restating his own credentials with a bravura ...

FOR the last decade, three players – Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik – have dominated chess. They’re always in the top three spots in the world rating list and are likely to ...

The fifth round at Wijk aan Zee was rather like the first four, plenty of interesting chess, Alexey Shirov won again and the Dutch, in the main, were tonked. Shirov has beaten the three Dutchmen in ...

Alexey Shirov's brand of fearless chess was again in evidence he took first place at the Hrokurinn Chess Festival held at the Reykjavik Art Museum. Shirov remained undefeated and scored 7/9 to finish ...