Picture and article posted by http://www.chessbase.com/ Chess soon to be a million dollar business? Interview with Dutch businessman Bessel Kok Will chess soon become a millions dollar business like boxing or soccer? Dutch media tycoon Bessel Kok, 65, is...
ChessBase interview with Nigel Short
What happened to Nigel? The Montreal International Chess Tournament 2007 will be remembered not for Ivanchuk’s convincing victory but for the negative score by Nigel Short. Minus six by a super-grandmaster, a 2430 performance, all of this ripe for...
Neues Deutschland interviews Aronian
Neues Deutschland: At the Chess Olympiade 2006 you won Gold with the Armenian team. Do you want to crown this achievement with a world championship title in 2007? Levon Aronian: I will do my best and hope to be...
SPICE on ChessBase
A few days ago, my long time friend Frederic Friedel, founder of ChessBase, did a item about my commencement address and SPICE at Texas Tech University. Here is the link to that event. You can also watch the video...
Kramnik to miss Dortmund?
Our friends from ChessBase just reported that Kramnik has fallen ill and he may miss Dortmund. When asked about his participation in the Super-GM tournament in Dortmund Kramnik’s manager informed us that the situation was unclear. In his current...
Kramnik discussed the cheating issue with CB
On cheating and what to do about it Frederic Friedel: You have agreed to talk about cheating in chess. Did you cheat in Elista? Vladimir Kramnik: No, I never cheated in my life. Not only in chess, but especially...
Interview with WC Kramnik
Frederic Friedel, founder of ChessBase, did an interview with World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. Click here to read the interview and watch the video clips. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Bulgaria: Let Topalov play in Mexico City
This is a press release by the Bulgaria Chess Federation, published by our friends at chessbase.comPosition of the Bulgarian Chess FederationThe forthcoming tournament for world championship in Mexico starting on 11th September 2007 represents the end of one cycle...
The Elista Twilight Zone
ChessBase just published a full article about the Elista accusations by the Topalov team. You can read it here. It is getting stranger and stranger by the day. Read and make your own conclusion. It has become a real...
Accusations, refutations, feedback on ChessBase
Our friends from ChessBase just published a follow up article about the Nigel Short accusation against Topalov on DNA Sport. ChessBase also published a number of comments from their readers regarding their decision to publish the interview with GM...