6/11/2024 – After five rounds GM Nodirbek Yakubboev from Uzbekistan is the sole leader at the UzChess Masters. With 3.5/5 he is half a point ahead of Chinese Grandmaster Yu Yangyi and GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Javokhir Sindarov from Uzbekistan. The UzChess Masters is a strong 10-player round robin, in which all players have an Elo rating of 2600+ while eight of the participants have a rating of 2700+. Round 6 starts on Tuesday at 12.00 CEST (6.00 ET).
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It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
6/11/2024 – This year's French Team Championship was particularly exciting. Five of the eight teams entered the champions' group with 18 points. The team from the host city of Chartres then went on to win four matches and the title. | Photos: French Chess Federation
6/11/2024 – Knights are tricky, but passed pawns can be even trickier. In the diagram position Black has powerful passed pawns - and a way to win. What should she do?
6/11/2024 – A 6-day festival featuring two round-robins and an open tournament is taking place in Madrid. Famous chess personalities, such as Levy Rozman, Eric Rosen and Anna Cramling, are participating. Among the raising stars invited to play, 10-year-old Faustino Oro stands out, as he attempts to become the youngest International Master of all time.
6/10/2024 – The UzChess Cup has seen plenty of exciting games in the first five rounds of play. Nodirbek Yakubboev obtained upset wins over Vidit Gujrathi and Parham Maghsoodloo to grab the sole lead with 3½/5 points. Standing a half point back are top seed Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Yu Yangyi and Javokhir Sindarov. There are no rest days at the event taking place in Tashkent, which is set to end on Friday. | Photos: Official website
6/10/2024 – In the Endgame Magic Show #271 Karsten Müller and Arne Kähler take a look at recent endgames, in which zugzwang played a crucial role. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
6/10/2024 – The FIDE Ethics Commission caused a stir with a decision over the weekend. At the request of three FIDE members, including Peter Heine Nielsen, it threatened to expel the Russian Chess Federation for violating FIDE guidelines and also reprimanded FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich. | Photo: The FIDE Ethics Commisstion at a meeting 2020: on the screen: Francois Strydom (RSA). From left to right: Ravindra Dongre (IND), Rajesh Joshi (NEP), Yolander Persaud (GUY), non-voting member Yuliya Levitan (USA). | Photo: FIDE
6/10/2024 – In an exclusive interview for ChessBase, the international chess arbiter Shohreh Bayat sat down with international chess journalist Tatiana Flores to talk about how her life has changed since the hijab incident in 2020 and how she’s built a new one for herself in the UK. The 37 years old Iranian also looked back on her early successes as a chess player and gave interesting insights into the challenges of an arbiter’s job.
6/10/2024 – Bishops often wonder where they should be going. This is a difficult question that Jan Markos answers in his new course 'The Career Paths of Bishops'. Using carefully selected examples, he provides an instructive insight into the world of the specialists on the diagonals.
6/9/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 181st episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and continues to look at the career and games of Anatoly Karpov, World Champion from 1975 to 1985. | Photo: Pascal Simon
6/9/2024 – The Cairns Cup, an elite-level female chess tournament created by the Saint Louis Chess Club, returns this June and will feature ten of the world’s best female chess players. The ten-player round robin tournament will be hosted at the World Chess Hall of Fame from June 12 to 23. The top seeds are Tan Zhongyi, Mariya Muzychuk and Nana Dzagidze, while rising star Alice Lee and defending champion Anna Zatonskih (pictured) are also included in the field. | Photo: Crystal Fuller
6/9/2024 – The inaugural edition of the Norway Chess Women tournament, an event featuring the same format and the same prizes as the open super-tournament, saw top seed Ju Wenjun grabbing outright victory after beating Lei Tingjie in their classical-chess confrontation. Anna Muzychuk, who beat Humpy Koneru in Armageddon, finished in sole second place. | Photo: Stev Bonhage / Norway Chess
6/9/2024 – Magnus Carlsen won the Norway Chess super-tournament for a sixth time in his career after beating Fabiano Caruana in their final-round Armageddon encounter. Hikaru Nakamura grabbed second place despite losing in the rapid tiebreaker against R Praggnanandhaa. It was precisely Pragg who finished third, leaving Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana and Ding Liren behind, in the bottom half of the tournament standings. | Photo: Stev Bonhage / Norway Chess
We boldly confront the Caro-Kann Defense with the upcoming move 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d3!? With this highly strategic choice, we disrupt Black’s typical patterns and comfort zones and enter an early endgame full of chances for you.
On this all-new ChessBase video course, IM Andrew Martin introduces you to this exciting world, so that you can begin playing the Sicilian in your own games. The main themes and ideas of the Open Sicilian are discussed.
Videos by Felix Blohberger: A new sacrifice idea against the French and “Mikhalchishin’s Miniatures” (Part 3). “Lucky bag” with 44 analyses by Emanuel Berg, Romain Edouard, Alexandr Fier, Michal Krasenkow, Yago Santiago, Vaibhav Suri and many others.
In 23 video lessons you will learn everything you need to know about the King's Gambit, the Vienna Game, the Italian, the Evans Gambit, the two-knight game, the Scottish, the Steinitz and Berlin defences, the Open Spanish or the exchange variation, Marsha
In this video course we will explore in depth some familiar concepts regarding the bishops. For example, everyone knows that a bishop-pair should grant him a positional edge.
With the move 7.Qa4+, Kotyk presents a simplified variation that requires less theoretical knowledge, yet still offering strong attacking potential. You will learn how to respond effectively to your opponent's moves, and steer the game in your favour.
I give promising mainlines for white against all black’s main replies to 1.d4 d5 that are engine-proof, easy to learn and can be played almost instantly.
6/8/2024 – The Romanian Chess Federation started the Romania Grand Prix in 2022 with the objective of providing young Romanian players the chance to play in strong tournaments in their home country. The federation has made great efforts to make Romania the new European Chess Capital. The total prize fund in the entire GP 2024 is €175000, €30000 for each of the five Grand Prix events and €25000 for the Finals. | Photo: Federația Română de Șah
6/8/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes another look at one of his favourite subjects - wins by the underdog, the nominally weaker player. The underdog win in this episode came at the World Junior Championship and it was Abhimanyu Mishra, the world's youngest ever grandmaster, who suffered. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
6/7/2024 – The 12th edition of the Norway Chess super-tournament is taking place from May 27 to June 7 in Stavanger. An open event and a women’s event are being played concurrently with an identical number of players, the same format and an equivalent prize fund. Both world champions — Ju Wenjun and Ding Liren — are participating, besides world number one Magnus Carlsen. | Follow the games live starting at 17.00 CEST (11.00 ET, 20.30 IST)
6/7/2024 – There are many interesting repertoire suggestions in the Opening Encyclopaedia. You'll have to try them out for yourself to see if they suit you! The best way to do this is to play against Fritz19 using the “Play against database book” function, i.e. you can load databases, games for opening articles and opening analyses directly as an opening book and play against them. Fritz 19 not only displays the very informative articles of the encyclopaedia, with Fritz you can explore the repertoire suggestions in a playful way, against different types of players! See for yourself how you can test Robert Ris' recommendation for the Max Lange Attack in the Two Knights with just a few mouse clicks using Fritz 19.
6/7/2024 – After nine rounds no less than five players finished first with 7.0/9 each at the Chess Festival in Munich: Vladimir Fedoseev, Giga Quparadze, Dmitrij Kollars, Pavel Eljanov and Frederik Svane. Fedoseev, who started the tournament as the number one seed, had the best tiebreak. | Photo: Fedoseev (left, with White) against Kollars | Photo: Katharina Reinecke/German Chess Federation
We boldly confront the Caro-Kann Defense with the upcoming move 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d3!? With this highly strategic choice, we disrupt Black’s typical patterns and comfort zones and enter an early endgame full of chances for you.
On this all-new ChessBase video course, IM Andrew Martin introduces you to this exciting world, so that you can begin playing the Sicilian in your own games. The main themes and ideas of the Open Sicilian are discussed.
Videos by Felix Blohberger: A new sacrifice idea against the French and “Mikhalchishin’s Miniatures” (Part 3). “Lucky bag” with 44 analyses by Emanuel Berg, Romain Edouard, Alexandr Fier, Michal Krasenkow, Yago Santiago, Vaibhav Suri and many others.
In 23 video lessons you will learn everything you need to know about the King's Gambit, the Vienna Game, the Italian, the Evans Gambit, the two-knight game, the Scottish, the Steinitz and Berlin defences, the Open Spanish or the exchange variation, Marsha
In this video course we will explore in depth some familiar concepts regarding the bishops. For example, everyone knows that a bishop-pair should grant him a positional edge.
With the move 7.Qa4+, Kotyk presents a simplified variation that requires less theoretical knowledge, yet still offering strong attacking potential. You will learn how to respond effectively to your opponent's moves, and steer the game in your favour.
I give promising mainlines for white against all black’s main replies to 1.d4 d5 that are engine-proof, easy to learn and can be played almost instantly.
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