9/9/2024 – ChessBase Magazine regularly focuses on a current top tournament and offers an exclusive review of the event with analyses from the participants. In the new issue #221, we take a look back at the Biel 2024 Chess Festival, which - among others - included two grandmaster tournaments in a triathlon format. Not only the winner of the Masters, Le Quang Liem, comments on one of his games, but Jonas Bjerre, Alexander Donchenko, Abhimanyu Mishra and Ihor Samunenkov also contribute analyses from Biel. In this week's free CBM reading sample we offer you the analyses of Le Quang, Donchenko and Bjerre in the famous ChessBase book format. Take a look!
Biel 2024 Chess Festival with analyses by Le Quang Liem, Donchenko, Bjerre and others. Sokolov, King and Zwirs show new opening ideas in the video. 10 repertoire articles from the Dutch to King's Indian and much more.
Biel 2024 Chess Festival with analyses by Le Quang Liem, Donchenko, Bjerre and others. Sokolov, King and Zwirs show new opening ideas in the video. 10 repertoire articles from the Dutch to King's Indian and much more.
9/9/2024 – Legendary players and rising stars will come together to compete in Budapest at the 45th Chess Olympiad. Hosted by the BOK Sports and Conference Centre, the Olympiad will offer an array of satellite events. The Judit Polgar Chess Foundation will take you on a special adventure to its Chess Palace, the International Chess Federation will present its 100-year history in an exhibition, and amateur players will be able to participate in competitions, a chess quiz and more, organized by the Hungarian Chess Federation.
9/8/2024 – The Women's Chess Olympiad will set a participation record this year with 184 teams registered. Teams like Liechtenstein, Guernsey and Grenada will make their debut. According to the average rating of their rosters, the top teams are India (2467), Georgia (2462), Poland (2422), China (2416), and Ukraine (2400).
9/8/2024 – The final match of the Speed Chess Championship is taking place on 8 September at Espot in Paris. Magnus Carlsen faces Alireza Firouzja in a 180-minute match featuring 3 sections of blitz and bullet chess. Hikaru Nakamura grabbed third place in the Championship by beating Hans Niemann on Saturday. | Follow the action live starting at 18.00 CEST (12.00 ET, 21.30 IST)
9/8/2024 – Hikaru Nakamura obtained third place in this year's Speed Chess Championship after beating Hans Niemann by a 21-9 score on Saturday. Nakamura prevailed in all 3 sections of the match, getting up to a 13-point lead during the bullet segment. This is the first time Nakamura does not reach the final of the Speed Chess Championship. | Photo: chess.com / Maria Emelianova
9/8/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 194th episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and looks at the career of Vladimir Kramnik, the 14th World Champion in the history of chess. | Photo: Pascal Simon
9/7/2024 – A few days ago, FIDE announced a significant format change for the 2024 World Rapid & Blitz Championships. In a major shift from the traditional structure, the 2024 World Blitz Championship will be decided through a 2-stage format. The first stage will follow the familiar Swiss system, and the top 8 players from this initial stage will qualify for the knockout phase.
9/7/2024 – Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen reached the final match of the Speed Chess Championship after obtaining clear victories over Hikaru Nakamura and Hans Niemann respectively. Firouzja's play was impressive and left Nakamura out of an SCC final for the first time in history, while Carlsen was always in control in his match against Niemann. Nakamura and Niemann will play a match for third place on Saturday, while the battle of generations between Carlsen and Firouzja will take place on Sunday. | Photo: chess.com / Maria Emelianova
9/6/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at a critical line of the Taimanov Sicilian - an exciting response to 1.e4, and the basis for a repertoire Robert proposed in a recently published ChessBase course. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
9/6/2024 – Vladimir Tukmakov faced Viktor Korchnoi in the USSR Championship, 1970, and played a famously brilliant game, in the Nimzo-Indian, Bronstein variation. While the Black King tries to escape a devastating attack, Korchnoi still finds the time for counterattacks, and builds up some intense threats. Tukmakov decides to invest his attack in a new idea! Svitlana's analysis of the whole game, is in great detail, as always. The Smart Moves continue in October, after the Olympiad in Budapest.
9/6/2024 – The new issue of ChessBase Magazine is bursting with interesting topics: Ju Wenjun's career and style of play is just one of them. The often interactive format also deals with fortresses, the principle of bad pieces, current tournament games, endgames and much more.
9/5/2024 – Ju Wenjun was among the 10 players who received invitations to participate in the main event of the Women's Speed Chess Championship. The tournament was a 16-player knockout tournament, also featuring participants who had prevailed in the qualification process. In the final, Ju faced Polina Shuvalova and obtained a clear 12½-9½ victory, as she outscored her opponent in all 3 sections of the match. | Photo: Gu Xiaobing
Biel 2024 Chess Festival with analyses by Le Quang Liem, Donchenko, Bjerre and others. Sokolov, King and Zwirs show new opening ideas in the video. 10 repertoire articles from the Dutch to King's Indian and much more.
Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik discovered a unique way to combat the Nimzo-Indian through an alternative move order: 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g3/Qb3
Most of the material on which the Sicilian Paulsen Powerbook 2024 is based comes from the engine room: 439,000 games. An impressive number to which 51,000 games from correspondence chess and the Mega were added.
Looking for a realistic way to play for a win with Black against 1.e4 without taking unnecessary risks? The Taimanov Sicilian is a reliable system, and hence one of the best options out there!
Have you always wanted to play the Sicilian as Black, but been discouraged by the abundance of options for White? Here is the solution to becoming a lifelong successful Sicilian player!
9/5/2024 – Musician and chess fan Jason Kouchak was inspired by the beautiful summer to write a chess song. Together with his friend Stephen Johnstone, he celebrates the anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Starlight Express' with a fast-paced game of chess and a skate ride, and looks forward to the upcoming Global Chess Festival. | Photos: Julian Paix (unless otherwise noted)
9/5/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at Fabiano Caruana's win against Anish Giri in the last round of the Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis. A game that shows how Caruana continuously strives to get better and to be an even more complete player. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
9/5/2024 – The final stages of the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship are taking place on 2-5 September. In the match for the title, women's world champion Ju Wenjun faces Polina Shuvalova in a confrontation consisting of 5-minute, 3-minute and 1-minute games. | Follow the action live starting at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 17.30 IST)
9/5/2024 – One hundred ninety-seven teams have registered for the open section of the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest. With FIDE currently encompassing 201 national federations, the registration numbers fall short by just four federations. As is often the case, not every registered team will make it to Budapest for various reasons. Nevertheless, this Olympiad is set to break participation records.
9/5/2024 – Surya Shekhar Ganguly defeated Sam Shankland in their 8-game online match with the unique scoring system devised by Venceslav Rutar - which changes the scoring of draws into three categories based on the material disparity. Surya won the match by a 26-11 score, after grabbing 5 wins. Shankland collected 1 win, and 3 games ended in 'equal draws'. While there were no 'favoured' nor 'unfavoured' draws in the match, the format advocated for fighting chess as we got to see so many interesting games.
9/4/2024 – On Friday 6th September at 20:00 CEST in Paris an explosive duel that the chess world has been waiting for for weeks will begin: Hans Niemann will face Magnus Carlsen in the semi-finals of the chess.com Speedchess Championship. After his defeat against Niemann in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, Carlsen indirectly accused Niemann of cheating, which led to heated discussions, headlines around the world and a defamation suit by Niemann. Alireza Firouzja will play Hikaru Nakamura in the second semi-final. The four finalists in Paris will play online on the computer, but will face each other live.
Biel 2024 Chess Festival with analyses by Le Quang Liem, Donchenko, Bjerre and others. Sokolov, King and Zwirs show new opening ideas in the video. 10 repertoire articles from the Dutch to King's Indian and much more.
Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik discovered a unique way to combat the Nimzo-Indian through an alternative move order: 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g3/Qb3
Most of the material on which the Sicilian Paulsen Powerbook 2024 is based comes from the engine room: 439,000 games. An impressive number to which 51,000 games from correspondence chess and the Mega were added.
Looking for a realistic way to play for a win with Black against 1.e4 without taking unnecessary risks? The Taimanov Sicilian is a reliable system, and hence one of the best options out there!
Have you always wanted to play the Sicilian as Black, but been discouraged by the abundance of options for White? Here is the solution to becoming a lifelong successful Sicilian player!
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