In a tournament honoring the great Soviet world champion Mikhail Tal, two of Tal’s foremost modern disciples did not exactly shine. Spanish GM Alexei Shirov and Russian GM Alexander Morozevich ...

Alexei Shirov was cheated. In 1998 he became Garry Kasparov's challenger for the world title by defeating Vladimir Kramnik in a qualifying match. Shirov was not paid for the win. His "award" was to ...

Alexei Shirov is currently 59 th in the world, but, back in 1992, he was the world’s number 2 and in 1998 a very serious challenger for the world championship title. The 43-year-old, born very much in ...

An international game proves to be wild. By E. Steven Doyle and Peter J. Tamburro/FOR INSIDE JERSEY To begin, we have a wild game from the international arena taken from issue 121 of the Chess ...

Alexei Shirov, 41, of Latvia, and Daniil Dubov, 15, of Russia, have just completed a six-game match dubbed the "Battle of the Generations." In this case, wisdom has prevailed over youthful energy.

“I decided it was time to answer your oft-repeated line about Garry Kasparov’s shabby treatment of his challenger, Alexei Shirov,” begins a long letter from Owen Williams, the world champion’s manager ...

World champion Viswanathan Anand won a tournament and sent a message last week with his 4 1/2-1 1/2 rapid-match triumph over Spanish GM Alexei Shirov in the 24th annual Masters Tournament in the ...

Alexei Shirov has been hovering around the world championship throne for quite a long time. In 1998, he won a match against Vladimir Kramnik and gained the right to play a world title match with Garry ...