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Abhyankar

• Chronicle of a suicide (1)

ACP Cup

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)

Adams

• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)

Aeroflot Open

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

age

• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)
• Khalifman: “Anand’s a genius. He emanates light” (4)
• Kramnik on competing with Carlsen (9)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part I (0)
• Gelfand on computers and FIDE (0)
• Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess” (1)

Akopian

• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)

Alekhine

• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Kasparov on ending his work with Carlsen (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)
• Ivanchuk on chess genius (1)

Alekseev

• Classical Anand, Romantic Topalov (4)

aliens

• Remembering Smyslov (7)

Almasi

• Bareev takes the blame for defeat (updated) (0)

Amber

• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• “I don’t consider chess a game. It’s theatre.” (0)

Amplico Life

• Nuclear physics on the side (0)

Anand

• Moscow bids for Anand-Gelfand match (updated) (20)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 13 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 12 (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 9 (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 7 (3)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 2 (0)

Anand-Kramnik

• Kramnik on the liberation of losing the crown (0)

Andreikin

• Interviews from the World Junior Championship (0)

Anna Muzychuk

• Farcical end to strong women’s event (7)
• Interviews from the World Junior Championship (0)

Anti-Moscow

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

Arkhipov

• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)

Armenia

• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Aronian

• It’s the end of classical chess as we know it (and I feel fine) (9)
• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• Grischuk and Aronian’s views on their match (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 4 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 3 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 1 (7)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Your questions for GM Levon Aronian (46)

Aslamova

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Astrid Lindgren

• The Kid Carlsen (14)

astrology

• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)

Averbakh

• Kramnik and the robot (5)

Azerbaijan

• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)
• Kasparov on ending his work with Carlsen (0)
• Gashimov at Crestbook (0)

Azmaiparashvili

• Carlsen and the Candidates – a retrospective (15)
• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Gashimov left out of Azerbaijan team for Olympiad (6)
• Kasparov on ending his work with Carlsen (0)
• Gashimov at Crestbook (0)

Baba Vanga

• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)

Bacrot

• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• How can you play against Feller? (3)

Badmaev

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Baku

• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)
• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Baku Open

• Kamsky on the Candidates Matches (0)

Bardyshev

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Bareev

• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)
• GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part I (7)
• Kramnik: For now Magnus is my “client” (6)
• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)
• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)
• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)
• Russia beats Russia (0)
• Bareev: “Today Ian played like a genius!” (0)
• Bareev takes the blame for defeat (updated) (0)

Barski

• “Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool” (0)

Barsky

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty” (46)
• Morozevich demonstrates his win against Svidler (2)
• Svidler demonstrates his win against Timofeev (3)
• Morozevich and Grischuk demonstrate their wins (5)
• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Grischuk and Aronian’s views on their match (4)
• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)

Bartel

• Russia beats Russia (0)
• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)
• Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second (18)

Bazna

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)

Beliavski

• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)

Beliavsky

• What the press don’t write about (0)

Benoni

• Aronian and the Benoni (1)

Berbatov

• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)

Berlin

• Gelfand on computers and FIDE (0)

Bessarabov

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Biel 2011

• Morozevich: “The Higher League wasn’t in my plans” (5)

Bilbao

• Kramnik: “99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand” (11)
• Kramnik on blitz (0)

Bilbao Masters 2010

• Sergey Shipov commentating live on Tata Steel Chess 2011 (0)
• Kramnik: For now Magnus is my “client” (6)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Anand – Carlsen (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Carlsen – Shirov (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Carlsen – Kramnik (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Anand – Kramnik (11)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Carlsen – Anand (5)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Kramnik – Carlsen (2)

Bivol

• Blondes versus brunettes (1)

blindfold

• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)

blitz

• Kramnik on Nakamura, blitz and Carlsen (0)
• Shipov wins blitz (0)
• Kramnik on blitz (0)

Blitz WC

• Radjabov to challenge Grischuk’s place? (3)

Blondes versus brunettes

• Blondes have more fun (4)
• Blondes versus brunettes (1)

Bobby Fischer

• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)

Bogoljubov

• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Bondarev

• Making a drama out of a crisis (8)

Bondarevsky

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)

Botvinnik

• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Botvinnik Memorial

• Moscow bids for Anand-Gelfand match (updated) (20)
• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)
• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)

Brezgina

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Bronstein

• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)
• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Aronian and the Benoni (1)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Budapest Gambit

• GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part II (0)

bullet

• Kramnik on Nakamura, blitz and Carlsen (0)

Burtasova

• Morozevich’s commentary on a trademark win (2)

Campomanes

• FIDE, and new website, to change the face of chess? (9)

Candidates 2011

• Kasparov’s verdict on Carlsen’s withdrawal (13)
• Radjabov decides not to tilt at FIDE windmills (8)
• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)
• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)
• Aronian: I won’t travel to Baku (0)

Candidates Matches

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)
• It’s the end of classical chess as we know it (and I feel fine) (9)
• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)

Capablanca

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer (3)
• Karpov on the Pozner show (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)
• Ivanchuk on chess genius (1)

Capablanca Chess

• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)

Carlsen

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)

Caruana

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)
• Shirov on a roll at Wijk (0)

Castro

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)

Charochkina

• Blondes have more fun (4)

Che Guevara

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)

cheating

• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Danailov’s dances (6)

Chess in Schools

• Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer” (1)

Chess960

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)
• It’s the end of classical chess as we know it (and I feel fine) (9)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Kramnik: I thought of banning castling before the 10th move (26)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• “One of those things that distinguish us from the Neanderthals” (1)
• Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer (3)

ChessPro

• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Kramnik on Nakamura, blitz and Carlsen (0)

Chiburdanidze

• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)

Chigorin

• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Chinese School

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)
• Rauf Mamedov on the Chinese School (0)
• Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage (0)

Chuchelov

• Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains (1)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)

Chuck Norris

• Banking on Kasparov (1)
• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)

Churchill

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)

computers

• Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer” (1)
• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• Kramnik: I thought of banning castling before the 10th move (26)
• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• The massacre of the innocents (1)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)

Cotroceni International

• Farcical end to strong women’s event (7)

Crestbook

• Your questions for GM Judit Polgar (42)
• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 6 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 5 (17)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 4 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 3 (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 2 (2)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 1 (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 4 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 3 (2)

cube

• Kramnik: “99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand” (11)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

Cultural Village

• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)

Daly

• “Svidler is Svidler” – Bareev on the Russian team’s start (0)

Danailov

• Danailov’s dances (6)
• Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die” (5)
• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• Radjabov to challenge Grischuk’s place? (3)
• Carlsen and the Candidates – a retrospective (15)
• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Kramnik: “99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand” (11)
• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)
• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)
• Topalov, Didier Drogba and romanticism in chess (3)

Dasha Kasparova

• Can you match Garry Kasparov? (9)

De Firmian

• “One of those things that distinguish us from the Neanderthals” (1)

Deep Blue

• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)

Doggers

• The great Anand’s little ideas – part III (3)

Dohoyan

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Karjakin on his rivalry with Carlsen (0)

Dokhoyan

• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)

Dolzhikova

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)

Dominguez

• Shirov on missing his chance to win Wijk (0)
• Shirov on a roll at Wijk (0)

Dortmund

• Kramnik on competing with Carlsen (9)
• Kramnik on the liberation of losing the crown (0)

Dortmund 2010

• Sergey Shipov commentating live on Tata Steel Chess 2011 (0)
• Ponomariov: “Since becoming World Champion I haven’t worn that lucky sweater once” *FAKE* (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Mamedyarov – Ponomariov (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Le Quang Liem – Kramnik (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Kramnik – Naiditsch (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Ponomariov – Kramnik (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Kramnik – Le Quang Liem (10)

draws

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• Aronian on draws and… “I’m like an animal” (0)
• “Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool” (0)

Dreev

• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)

Dubov

• Aronian interview at new Russian chess site (0)

Dufek

• Chronicle of a suicide (1)

Dvoretsky

• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)
• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)

Dvorkovich

• Karpov hits back (2)
• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Dzagnidze

• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)

ECU election

• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)
• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)
• Topalov, Didier Drogba and romanticism in chess (3)

Efimenko

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)
• Ponomariov: “Since becoming World Champion I haven’t worn that lucky sweater once” *FAKE* (7)

Elista

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)
• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)
• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)
• Topalov on Kramnik and the Russians (0)
• Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess” (1)

Elistaev

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Eljanov

• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Kramnik and the robot (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 9 (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 7 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 6 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 5 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 4 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 3 (4)
• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)

endgames

• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)

European Club Cup

• Grischuk interviewed at Crestbook (2)

European Individual Championship 2011

• Judit Polgar: “I love chess” (7)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains (1)
• Danailov’s dances (6)
• On women (0)
• What the press don’t write about (0)
• The massacre of the innocents (1)
• How can you play against Feller? (3)
• First impressions from Aix-les-Bains (3)
• The future belongs to 1. g3! (9)

European Women's Championship

• Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die” (5)

Euwe

• Karpov on the Pozner show (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Extra Time

• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Fedorchuk

• The massacre of the innocents (1)

Feller

• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Danailov’s dances (6)
• The massacre of the innocents (1)
• How can you play against Feller? (3)

FIDE

• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)
• Ilyumzhinov: Gaddafi “an amateur who knows how the pieces move” (10)
• Ilyumzhinov plays chess with Gaddafi (1)
• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• Voices from Kalmykia (2)
• Making a drama out of a crisis (8)
• Karjakin on Nakamura (Crestbook interview) (0)
• Gelfand on computers and FIDE (0)

FIDE election

• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• “Kirsan released into space” (2)
• Karpov hits back (2)
• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)
• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)
• Karpov and the stolen manuscript (0)
• Kramnik on competing with Carlsen (9)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)
• Karpov on the Pozner show (0)
• “How can it get worse? Here’s how…” (0)

FIDE elections

• Kamsky on the Candidates Matches (0)
• Aronian: I won’t travel to Baku (0)

Fischer

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)
• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Kasparov’s verdict on Carlsen’s withdrawal (13)
• Radjabov decides not to tilt at FIDE windmills (8)
• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• Carlsen and the Candidates – a retrospective (15)
• Kramnik: “Kasparov took that sporting defeat as a declaration of war” (4)
• Topalov, Didier Drogba and romanticism in chess (3)

Fischer-Spassky 1992

• Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer (3)

Flesch

• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)

Flohr

• Remembering Smyslov (7)

Fominykh

• Blondes have more fun (4)
• Blondes versus brunettes (1)
• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Kramnik on Nakamura, blitz and Carlsen (0)
• “Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool” (0)

football

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

Fritz

• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)

Gaddafi

• Ilyumzhinov: Gaddafi “an amateur who knows how the pieces move” (10)
• Ilyumzhinov plays chess with Gaddafi (1)

Gajewski

• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)
• Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second (18)

Gallagher

• What the press don’t write about (0)

Galliamova

• “If it comes to an endgame the trainers need Validol” (1)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)

Game of the month

• Chesspro game-of-the-month scandal? :) (0)

Gashimov

• Gashimov: “I’ve got a will to win” (1)
• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)
• Gashimov left out of Azerbaijan team for Olympiad (6)
• Gashimov at Crestbook (0)
• Rauf Mamedov on the Chinese School (0)
• Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage (0)

Gelfand

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Moscow bids for Anand-Gelfand match (updated) (20)
• It’s the end of classical chess as we know it (and I feel fine) (9)
• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 6 (4)

Gelfer

• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• Making a drama out of a crisis (8)

Geller

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s press conference (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 4 (4)

genius

• Ivanchuk on chess genius (1)

Gerber

• Making a drama out of a crisis (8)

Gibraltar

• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)

Giri

• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 12 (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 6 (3)
• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)
• Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second (18)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

Girya

• Blondes have more fun (4)

Gligorić

• Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer (3)

Gligorich

• Aronian’s chess idols (0)

Glukhovsky

• “The weak-willed don’t become top chess players” (0)
• Kramnik on blitz (0)

Golubev

• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• Russia-USA in the Russian press (9)

Grand Slam

• Kramnik on blitz (0)

Granda

• “It’s genuine class” – Bareev on Grischuk’s Houdini act (6)

Grischuk

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty” (46)
• Morozevich and Grischuk demonstrate their wins (5)
• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• It’s the end of classical chess as we know it (and I feel fine) (9)
• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 6 (4)

Gulko

• Ilyumzhinov plays chess with Gaddafi (1)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)

Gunina

• Blondes have more fun (4)
• Blondes versus brunettes (1)
• Farcical end to strong women’s event (7)

Guseinov

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)

Gustafsson

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)

Hammer

• The Kid Carlsen (14)

Hauchard

• How can you play against Feller? (3)

hedgehog

• Laznicka, the vengeful forest animal? (0)

Higher League

• Morozevich: “The Higher League wasn’t in my plans” (5)
• Morozevich’s commentary on a trademark win (2)

Hou Yifan

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Houdini

• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)

Huebner

• Remembering Smyslov (7)

Huzman

• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)

IBM

• Topalov, Didier Drogba and romanticism in chess (3)

Ilyumzhinov

• Moscow bids for Anand-Gelfand match (updated) (20)
• FIDE, and new website, to change the face of chess? (9)
• Ilyumzhinov: Gaddafi “an amateur who knows how the pieces move” (10)
• Ilyumzhinov plays chess with Gaddafi (1)
• Chess in Krakow (4)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Kasparov’s verdict on Carlsen’s withdrawal (13)
• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)

Ilyumzinov

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)

Inarkiev

• Morozevich’s commentary on a trademark win (2)

ING Bank

• Banking on Kasparov (1)

Ivanchuk

• Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer” (1)
• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• God created man, but the Queen’s Gambit made them equal (6)
• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• Gashimov: “I’ve got a will to win” (1)

Jakovenko

• First impressions from Aix-les-Bains (3)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)

Jakubiec

• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)

Jobava

• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)

Kalmykia

• “Kirsan released into space” (2)
• Karpov hits back (2)
• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Kamsky

• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Gata Kamsky: I can’t play like Grischuk and Kramnik (9)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s press conference (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 4 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 3 (2)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 2 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 4 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 3 (0)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)

Kamsky-Topalov

• Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage (0)

Kapustin

• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)

Karjakin

• Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty” (46)
• Morozevich and Grischuk demonstrate their wins (5)
• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Nepomniachtchi back in the race (1)
• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 9 (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 7 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 6 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 5 (0)

Karlson

• The Kid Carlsen (14)

Karpov

• Karpov, Kramnik and Kasparov on Spassky (10)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• Judit Polgar: “I love chess” (7)
• The future belongs to 1. g3! (9)
• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Banking on Kasparov (1)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Kasparov’s verdict on Carlsen’s withdrawal (13)
• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)

Kashlinskaya

• Blondes have more fun (4)
• Blondes versus brunettes (1)

Kasimdzhanov

• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Chronicle of a suicide (1)

Kasparov

• Karpov, Kramnik and Kasparov on Spassky (10)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• Judit Polgar: “I love chess” (7)
• What the press don’t write about (0)
• The massacre of the innocents (1)
• Can you match Garry Kasparov? (9)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)

Kazan

• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)
• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

KC-Conference

• Your questions for GM Judit Polgar (42)
• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Your questions for GM Levon Aronian (46)
• “One of those things that distinguish us from the Neanderthals” (1)

Kentler

• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)

Keres

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Khalifman

• Danailov’s dances (6)
• What the press don’t write about (0)
• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)
• Grischuk interviewed at Crestbook (2)
• Bareev takes the blame for defeat (updated) (0)
• Khalifman: “Anand’s a genius. He emanates light” (4)

Khanty-Mansiysk

• Making a drama out of a crisis (8)

Kharms

• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)

Khismatullin

• “Topalov won the game in the best traditions of Bareev’s favourite chess player” (0)

Khomich

• Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess” (1)

Kiev

• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)

Kobzon

• The future belongs to 1. g3! (9)

Komarov

• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)
• Ponomariov: “Since becoming World Champion I haven’t worn that lucky sweater once” *FAKE* (7)

Kommersant

• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Korchnoi

• Gelfand and Grischuk’s press conference (8)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Banking on Kasparov (1)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part I (0)
• Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.” (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Korneev

• “One of those things that distinguish us from the Neanderthals” (1)

Kosteniuk

• Kramnik and the robot (5)
• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)
• Women’s Chess Champion Kosteniuk wishes Kramnik a happy birthday (0)

Kovalev

• Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains (1)

Krakow

• Chess in Krakow (4)

Kramnik

• Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer” (1)
• Karpov, Kramnik and Kasparov on Spassky (10)
• Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty” (46)
• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• It’s the end of classical chess as we know it (and I feel fine) (9)
• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Gata Kamsky: I can’t play like Grischuk and Kramnik (9)

Krasenkow

• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Grischuk interviewed at Crestbook (2)
• “One of those things that distinguish us from the Neanderthals” (1)
• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)

Krogius

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Kseniya Simonova

• “I don’t consider chess a game. It’s theatre.” (0)

Kutin

• Gelfand and Grischuk’s press conference (8)
• Kramnik and Radjabov’s post-match press conference (20)

Kuznin

• Blondes have more fun (4)

Lam Minh Chau

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Larsen

• Aronian’s chess idols (0)

Lasker

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Laznicka

• Laznicka, the vengeful forest animal? (0)
• Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage (0)

Le Quang Liem

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Le Quang Liem – Kramnik (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Kramnik – Le Quang Liem (10)
• Bareev and the shoe thrower (0)

learning chess

• Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.” (0)

Lebedev

• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)
• “If it comes to an endgame the trainers need Validol” (1)
• “Svidler is Svidler” – Bareev on the Russian team’s start (0)

Leko

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• Kramnik: For now Magnus is my “client” (6)
• Bareev takes the blame for defeat (updated) (0)
• Shirov on a roll at Wijk (0)
• Kramnik: “One of the toughest games of my whole life” (0)
• “Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool” (0)
• Svidler on Kramnik’s opening preparation, and Shirov’s top 5 (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Levitov

• Moscow bids for Anand-Gelfand match (updated) (20)
• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)
• Russia beats Russia (0)
• Russia-USA in the Russian press (9)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)
• Kramnik on competing with Carlsen (9)

Libya

• Ilyumzhinov plays chess with Gaddafi (1)

Linares

• Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die” (5)
• Final interviews from Linares (0)
• Online game commentary ends on cosmic note (0)
• “Topalov won the game in the best traditions of Bareev’s favourite chess player” (0)
• Aronian and the Benoni (1)

Livanov

• The Kid Carlsen (14)

Ljuboevic

• “Topalov won the game in the best traditions of Bareev’s favourite chess player” (0)

London Chess Classic 2010

• Sergey Shipov commentating live on Tata Steel Chess 2011 (0)
• Kasparov’s verdict on Carlsen’s withdrawal (13)
• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 7 (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 6 (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 5 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 4 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 3 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 2 (2)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 1 (0)

Lyubov Bruk

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)

M-Tel Masters

• Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die” (5)

Mair Mamedov

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Makarycheva

• FIDE, and new website, to change the face of chess? (9)

Makropoulos

• Ilyumzhinov: Gaddafi “an amateur who knows how the pieces move” (10)
• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• Radjabov to challenge Grischuk’s place? (3)
• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)
• Gelfand on computers and FIDE (0)

Malakhov

• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)
• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)
• Bareev: “Today Ian played like a genius!” (0)
• Bareev takes the blame for defeat (updated) (0)
• Russia-USA in the Russian press (9)
• “If it comes to an endgame the trainers need Validol” (1)
• “Svidler is Svidler” – Bareev on the Russian team’s start (0)
• Kramnik: “99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand” (11)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)

Mamedov

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)
• Rauf Mamedov on the Chinese School (0)

Mamedyarov

• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 4 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 3 (0)
• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 9 (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 7 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 6 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 5 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 4 (0)

Marabou

• Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer” (1)

Marek Kondrat

• Banking on Kasparov (1)

Maria Muzychuk

• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)

Martinovic

• The massacre of the innocents (1)

Marzolo

• How can you play against Feller? (3)

Mastrovasilis

• The future belongs to 1. g3! (9)

Mat

• The great Anand’s little ideas – part I (10)

McFarlane

• Grischuk and Aronian’s views on their match (4)

McShane

• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 5 (4)

Mendeev

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)

Midight Sun

• The Kid Carlsen (14)

Mig

• Can you match Garry Kasparov? (9)
• “The weak-willed don’t become top chess players” (0)

Mikhail Vasiliev

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Minsk Open

• Khalifman: “Anand’s a genius. He emanates light” (4)

Moiseenko

• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)

Monty Python

• GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part II (0)

Morozevich

• Morozevich demonstrates his win against Svidler (2)
• Morozevich and Grischuk demonstrate their wins (5)
• Morozevich: “The Higher League wasn’t in my plans” (5)
• Morozevich’s commentary on a trademark win (2)
• GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part II (0)
• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)
• Gashimov left out of Azerbaijan team for Olympiad (6)
• Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess” (1)
• Malicious rumours that Kramnik’s being helped by Topalov (0)

Morphy

• Remembering Smyslov (7)

Motylev

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Karjakin on his rivalry with Carlsen (0)

Movsesian

• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• Radjabov to challenge Grischuk’s place? (3)

Muzychuk

• Ponomariov: “Since becoming World Champion I haven’t worn that lucky sweater once” *FAKE* (7)

Naberezhnye Chelny

• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)

Nadezhda Kosintseva

• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)

Naiditsch

• Shipov’s live commentary on Kramnik – Naiditsch (0)

Najdorf

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

Nakamura

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 12 (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 11 (3)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 9 (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 8 (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 3 (0)
• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 4 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the London Classic, Rd 2 (2)

nature or nurture

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part I (0)

Navara

• Gashimov: “I’ve got a will to win” (1)
• Bareev: “Today Ian played like a genius!” (0)

Nepomniachtchi

• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains (1)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 13 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 11 (3)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 10 (5)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 6 (3)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 4 (1)
• Sergey Shipov commentating live on Tata Steel Chess 2011 (0)
• Nepomniachtchi back in the race (1)

Niepomniachtchi

• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)

Nijinsky

• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)

Nikitin

• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)

Not the Nine O'Clock News

• GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part II (0)

Novoye Russkoye Slovo

• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)

Nyzhnyk

• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)

Odessky

• Your questions for GM Levon Aronian (46)
• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)
• Ilya Odessky returns in style (5)
• Ilya Odessky’s family threatened by criminals (6)
• “The weak-willed don’t become top chess players” (0)
• Aronian on draws and… “I’m like an animal” (0)
• “Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool” (0)

Oksana Ivanchuk

• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)

Olszewski

• “One of those things that distinguish us from the Neanderthals” (1)

Olympiad

• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• How can you play against Feller? (3)
• Nepomniachtchi back in the race (1)
• GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part I (7)
• Kramnik: I don’t have Kasparov’s approach – first place or nothing (1)
• Kramnik: For now Magnus is my “client” (6)
• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)
• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)
• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)

Onischuk

• Russia-USA in the Russian press (9)

openings

• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)
• Kramnik on his Wijk performance (0)

Paikidze

• Blondes have more fun (4)

Pantsulaia

• On women (0)

Parligras

• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)

Pasarelu

• Farcical end to strong women’s event (7)

PCF

• Vladimir Malakhov: chess player, nuclear physicist (6)
• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)

Pein

• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• The great Anand’s little ideas – part I (10)

Petroff

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)
• Gelfand on computers and FIDE (0)

Petrosian

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)
• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer (3)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part I (0)
• Aronian’s chess idols (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Pilsbury

• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)

Pirc

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

planet Kirsan

• Voices from Kalmykia (2)
• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)

Pogonina

• Kramnik and the robot (5)

poker

• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• Grischuk interviewed at Crestbook (2)

Polgar

• Your questions for GM Judit Polgar (42)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• Judit Polgar: “I love chess” (7)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• On women (0)
• Ivanchuk on chess genius (1)

Ponomariov

• Kramnik: I thought of banning castling before the 10th move (26)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Your questions for GM Ruslan Ponomariov (19)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)
• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)
• “Svidler is Svidler” – Bareev on the Russian team’s start (0)
• Ponomariov: “Since becoming World Champion I haven’t worn that lucky sweater once” *FAKE* (7)
• Karpov proposes holding Candidates Matches in Kiev (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Mamedyarov – Ponomariov (4)

Pope John Paul II

• Chess in Krakow (4)

Potemkin

• Blondes have more fun (4)
• Nepomniachtchi back in the race (1)
• Kramnik and the robot (5)
• Aronian interview at new Russian chess site (0)

Potkin

• Judit Polgar: “I love chess” (7)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains (1)

Pozner

• Karpov on the Pozner show (0)

preparation

• Svidler on Kramnik’s opening preparation, and Shirov’s top 5 (0)

Privorotsky

• Banking on Kasparov (1)

Radjabov

• Grischuk and Aronian’s views on their match (4)
• Kramnik and Radjabov’s post-match press conference (20)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 4 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 3 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 2 (0)
• Radjabov decides not to tilt at FIDE windmills (8)
• Radjabov to challenge Grischuk’s place? (3)
• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Gashimov left out of Azerbaijan team for Olympiad (6)
• Gashimov at Crestbook (0)

Ragimov

• Gashimov left out of Azerbaijan team for Olympiad (6)

Rammstein

• Ponomariov: “Since becoming World Champion I haven’t worn that lucky sweater once” *FAKE* (7)

RCF

• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• Karpov hits back (2)
• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)
• Kramnik on competing with Carlsen (9)

Reggio Emilia

• Gashimov: “I’ve got a will to win” (1)

Rentero

• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)

Repkova

• Farcical end to strong women’s event (7)

Reshevsky

• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 4 (4)

Riazantsev

• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)

Robert Kubica

• Banking on Kasparov (1)

robots

• Kramnik and the robot (5)

Rodshtein

• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

Roiz

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)

Romanishin

• How can you play against Feller? (3)

Rubinstein

• Gelfand at Crestbook Part I (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Rublevsky

• Russia-USA in the Russian press (9)
• Gelfand on computers and FIDE (0)

Russian Championship 2010

• Nepomniachtchi back in the race (1)

Russian Superfinal

• Morozevich: “The Higher League wasn’t in my plans” (5)

Russian Superfinal 2011

• Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty” (46)
• Morozevich demonstrates his win against Svidler (2)
• Svidler demonstrates his win against Timofeev (3)
• Morozevich and Grischuk demonstrate their wins (5)

Rustamov

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)

Rybka

• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)
• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part II (1)

Sadler

• The future belongs to 1. g3! (9)

Safarli

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)
• Gashimov left out of Azerbaijan team for Olympiad (6)

Sargissian

• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)
• Sergey Shipov previews the Olympiad (5)

Saulina

• Blondes versus brunettes (1)

Savina

• Blondes have more fun (4)

Savinov

• Nepomniachtchi back in the race (1)
• The Kid Carlsen (14)

Scheveningen

• Banking on Kasparov (1)

Schiffers

• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)

Selivanov

• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Senchishin

• Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer” (1)

Shanghai

• Kramnik: “99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand” (11)

Shipov

• Your questions for GM Judit Polgar (42)
• GM Levon Aronian answers your questions: Part I (17)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 6 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 5 (17)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 4 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 3 (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 2 (2)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates Final, Game 1 (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 4 (4)
• Shipov’s live commentary on the Candidates SF, Game 3 (2)

Shirov

• Ivanchuk: “I could have become a writer” (1)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 3 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 9 (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 7 (0)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 6 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 5 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 4 (0)

Short

• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Gashimov: “I’ve got a will to win” (1)

Shostakovich

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)

Shulman

• Russia-USA in the Russian press (9)

Shvedchikov

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Sielicki

• Chess in Krakow (4)
• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)

Sjugirov

• Morozevich’s commentary on a trademark win (2)
• First impressions from Aix-les-Bains (3)
• Bareev and the shoe thrower (0)

Slyusarchuk

• Sergey Shipov on Ukraine’s other chess genius (2)

Smyslov

• Remembering Smyslov (7)

So

• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)

Sofia Rules

• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die” (5)
• Gashimov: “I’ve got a will to win” (1)
• Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second (18)
• Shipov’s preview of Anand-Topalov (0)
• Topalov on Kramnik and the Russians (0)
• Karjakin on Nakamura (Crestbook interview) (0)
• “Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool” (0)

Sokolov

• On women (0)
• Bareev takes the blame for defeat (updated) (0)

Sosonko

• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)

Soviet School

• Boris Gelfand: A completely happy man (13)
• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)
• Classical Anand, Romantic Topalov (4)

Soviet Sport

• Nepomniachtchi back in the race (1)

Spassky

• Karpov, Kramnik and Kasparov on Spassky (10)
• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer (3)
• Spassky: “I liked that the rook moved in straight lines and ate everything.” (0)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Sport Express

• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)

stainless steel rat

• Your questions for GM Ruslan Ponomariov (19)

stamps

• Karpov and the stolen manuscript (0)

Steinitz

• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)
• Karpov on the World Champions (5)

Steven Seagal

• Ilyumzhinov: Chuck Norris owes me a bottle of whisky (3)

Strauss

• Ponomariov: “Since becoming World Champion I haven’t worn that lucky sweater once” *FAKE* (7)

style

• Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess” (1)

Sulypa

• Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains (1)
• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)

Surov

• FIDE, and new website, to change the face of chess? (9)
• Vassily Ivanchuk (2): “Flawed games are the most beautiful” (7)
• Judit Polgar: “I love chess” (7)
• Blondes have more fun (4)
• Blondes versus brunettes (1)
• Farcical end to strong women’s event (7)
• Remembering Smyslov (7)
• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)
• Radjabov to challenge Grischuk’s place? (3)
• Kramnik and the robot (5)

Sutovsky

• It’s the end of classical chess as we know it (and I feel fine) (9)
• Carlsen and the Candidates – a retrospective (15)
• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)
• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Svidler

• Svidler: “The circus is travelling to Khanty” (46)
• Morozevich demonstrates his win against Svidler (2)
• Svidler demonstrates his win against Timofeev (3)
• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• The massacre of the innocents (1)
• First impressions from Aix-les-Bains (3)
• The future belongs to 1. g3! (9)
• GM Peter Svidler answers your questions: Part II (0)

Świercz

• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• Interviews from the World Junior Championship (0)
• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)
• Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second (18)

Taimanov

• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Can you match Garry Kasparov? (9)
• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Classical Anand, Romantic Topalov (4)

Tal

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)
• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)
• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)
• Topalov, Didier Drogba and romanticism in chess (3)
• Analysing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer (3)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part I (0)
• Karpov on the Pozner show (0)
• Kasparov on ending his work with Carlsen (0)
• “Chess isn’t something squalid, chess is very cool” (0)

Tal Blitz

• Bareev and the shoe thrower (0)
• Kramnik on blitz (0)

Tal Memorial

• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• Kramnik: I don’t have Kasparov’s approach – first place or nothing (1)
• Kramnik: “If Topalov becomes champion it will be a disaster for chess” (1)
• Kramnik: “One of the toughest games of my whole life” (0)
• Aronian on draws and… “I’m like an animal” (0)
• Malicious rumours that Kramnik’s being helped by Topalov (0)
• “Magnus’ trainer had clearly not done enough work” (0)

Tal Memorial 2010

• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)
• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 9 (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 7 (0)
• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 6 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 5 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 4 (0)
• Ilya Odessky returns in style (5)

Tal Memorial 2011

• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)

Tal Memorial Blitz

• Women’s Chess Champion Kosteniuk wishes Kramnik a happy birthday (0)

Tarrasch

• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 3 (4)
• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)

Tata Steel 2011

• Mark Taimanov at 85 (5)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 13 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 12 (1)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 11 (3)
• Your questions for GM Levon Aronian (46)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 10 (5)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 9 (8)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 8 (7)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Tata Steel Chess 2011, Rd 7 (3)

Tatiana Kosintseva

• “Fortune beckoned… then melted into thin air” (1)

Terekhov

• The unplayed 32…Kf8!! in Carlsen-Kramnik (0)

time control

• What the press don’t write about (0)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)

Timofeev

• Svidler demonstrates his win against Timofeev (3)
• Morozevich and Grischuk demonstrate their wins (5)
• Morozevich’s commentary on a trademark win (2)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Svidler on Rd 9: “As I don’t know the Grünfeld Defence…” (3)
• Bareev: “Today Ian played like a genius!” (0)

Tiviakov

• “Kramnik wasn’t prepared in the opening” (0)
• Shirov on a roll at Wijk (0)

Tkachiev

• FIDE, and new website, to change the face of chess? (9)

Tolush

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)

Tomashevsky

• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Topalov

• “Who plays better, Ivanchuk in good form or Carlsen?” (20)
• Gata Kamsky: I can’t play like Grischuk and Kramnik (9)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 4 (0)
• Shipov’s live commentary on Candidates QF, Game 3 (0)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: “I’m a very ambitious person” (2)
• Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die” (5)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Bits and Pieces #1 (3)
• Carlsen and the Candidates – a retrospective (15)
• Shirov interviewed at Crestbook (0)

Tukmakov

• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)

Turova

• Farcical end to strong women’s event (7)

Tymoshenko

• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)

UEP

• Candidates Matches once more in turmoil (5)

Ukraine

• Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage (0)

Vachier-Lagrave

• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)

Vaganian

• Mikhail Tal and contemporary chess (10)

Valery Chekhov

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Vallejo

• Gashimov: “I’ve got a will to win” (1)

van den Berg

• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)

van Wely

• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)

Vasiliev

• Karjakin reflects on moving up in the world (10)
• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)
• Grischuk: I was worried I’d forgotten how to play chess (1)
• Gelfand and Grischuk’s final press conference (3)
• Grischuk and Aronian’s views on their match (4)
• Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating (0)
• Danailov: “Chess should either change, or die” (5)
• Levitov on the collapse of the London match (3)
• Birth of a Supernova: Vasiliev reports from Wijk aan Zee (6)
• Carlsen and the Candidates – a retrospective (15)

Vasiukov

• Anti-hero? Evgeny Vasiukov on Viktor Korchnoi (24)

Vietnamese Chess

• Le Quang Liem and the Soviet School of Chess (7)

Vitiugov

• Classical Anand, Romantic Topalov (4)

Vocaturo

• “It’s genuine class” – Bareev on Grischuk’s Houdini act (6)

Volokitin

• Ivanchuk: “People look at some of us as eccentrics” (3)

Vuckovic

• “If it comes to an endgame the trainers need Validol” (1)

Wang Hao

• Aronian: I’ve never considered myself a strong blitz player (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 9 (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 8 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 7 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 6 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 5 (0)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 4 (0)
• Ilya Odessky returns in style (5)
• Shipov on the Tal Memorial Rd 3 (4)

Wang Yue

• Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage (0)

WC 2010

• Kramnik: “99% of the chess world was rooting for Anand” (11)
• The great Anand’s little ideas – part III (3)
• The great Anand’s little ideas – part II (4)
• Khalifman: “Anand’s a genius. He emanates light” (4)
• The great Anand’s little ideas – part I (10)
• “The Russian player we played a match against in 2006 in Elista doesn’t exist for us!” (11)
• Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second (18)
• Topalov, Didier Drogba and romanticism in chess (3)
• Gelfand at Crestbook Part II (5)
• Aronian: I won’t travel to Baku (0)

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

• Can you match Garry Kasparov? (9)

WhyChess

• FIDE, and new website, to change the face of chess? (9)

Wijk

• Shirov on missing his chance to win Wijk (0)
• Kramnik on his Wijk performance (0)
• Kramnik on beating Carlsen at Wijk (0)
• “Kramnik wasn’t prepared in the opening” (0)
• Shirov on a roll at Wijk (0)

Wijk 2011

• Vladimir Kramnik on 2010 (8)

Wirig

• Danailov’s dances (6)

Wojtaszek

• Russia beats Russia (0)
• The great Anand’s little ideas – part III (3)
• The great Anand’s little ideas – part II (4)
• Interviews from the World Junior Championship (0)
• The great Anand’s little ideas – part I (10)
• The Polish Chess Federation responds (2)
• Wojtaszek on being Anand’s second (18)

World Blitz Championship

• Radjabov decides not to tilt at FIDE windmills (8)
• Kramnik and the robot (5)

World Cup

• GM Ruslan Ponomariov answers your questions: Part I (3)
• Vassily Ivanchuk: I can still become World Champion (13)
• “How can it get worse? Here’s how…” (0)
• Laznicka, the vengeful forest animal? (0)
• Rauf Mamedov on the Chinese School (0)
• Highlights from extratime.az’s World Cup coverage (0)
• Karjakin on his rivalry with Carlsen (0)

World Junior Championship

• Interviews from the World Junior Championship (0)

World Mind Games

• Ilya Levitov: “For me, classical chess is opera” (7)

World School Championship

• Chess in Krakow (4)

World Team Championship

• Leko explains his break from chess (17)
• Evgeny Bareev: “A lot of people live in China” (14)
• Gashimov at Crestbook (0)

Yakovich

• Gelfand on computers and FIDE (0)

Yazici

• Update on the Gashimov saga (9)

Zagrebelny

• Online game commentary ends on cosmic note (0)

Zak

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)

Zangalis

• Spassky: “I knew the openings badly” (3)
• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)

Zawadzka

• On women (0)

Zhou

• Rauf Mamedov on the Chinese School (0)

Zhukov

• “Chess punished the whole team” – Russian views on the Chess Olympiad (21)

Zhukova

• Grischuk interviewed at Crestbook (2)

Znosko-Borovsky

• The forgotten recollections of Chigorin’s daughter (4)

Zontakh

• Shipov’s final letter from Aix-les-Bains (1)