Women’s Candidates - Pool B, Semifinal: Live

12/9/2022 – Half the field of the Women’s Candidates Tournament is battling it out in a knockout event to decide who faces Lei Tingjie, winner of Pool A, in a final match next year. The tournament is taking place from November 29 to December 11 in Khiva, Uzbekistan. In the semifinal Aleksandra Goryachkina plays against Tan Zhongyi. | Follow all the games live with expert commentary starting at 11.00 CET (5.00 ET, 15.30 IST)
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The World Championship 1972 calendar - Door 9

12/9/2022 – The 1972 World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasski is regarded as one of the most critical moments in the history of chess, occurring 50 years ago. To present you with this year's Christmas calendar in the proper setting, Arne swiftly constructed a time machine, and went back 50 years. Of course, the 1972 World Cup is the main calendar focus this time! You have the opportunity to guess, count, and conduct research every day for a chance to win one of 90 ChessBase prizes. Your chances of winning one of the major prizes increases, the more questions you can correctly guess. | Photo: Original by World Chess Hall of Fame

Carlsen and Caruana to face off in Speed Chess Championship QF

12/8/2022 – The 2022 edition of the Speed Chess Championship is in its final stages. Magnus Carlsen returned to participate after losing at the 2020 semifinals, and will be looking to stop Hikaru Nakamura’s reign, who has won every single edition since 2018. In the quarterfinals, Carlsen will face none other than 2018 World Championship challenger Fabiano Caruana.
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The World Championship 1972 calendar - Door 8

12/8/2022 – The 1972 World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasski is regarded as one of the most critical moments in the history of chess, occurring 50 years ago. To present you with this year's Christmas calendar in the proper setting, Arne swiftly constructed a time machine, and went back 50 years. Of course, the 1972 World Cup is the main calendar focus this time! You have the opportunity to guess, count, and conduct research every day for a chance to win one of 90 ChessBase prizes. Your chances of winning one of the major prizes increases, the more questions you can correctly guess. | Photo: Original by World Chess Hall of Fame

Karjakin wants to become President of the Russian Chess Federation

12/8/2022 – The Chechen federation has nominated the 2016 World Championship challenger to run against incumbent Andrey Filatov. Karjakin was banned for six months by the FIDE Ethics Commission for advocating Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and continues to be an ardent supporter of Putin. | Photo: Tass
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Women’s Candidates: Goryachkina safely keeps the balance

12/7/2022 – The second game of the Women’s Candidates semifinal in Khiva between Aleksandra Goryachkina and Tan Zhongyi ended in a draw. As in game one, the Queen’s Gambit Declined appeared on the board, this time with Tan Zhongyi marshalling the white pieces. The Chinese player did not gain any advantage and the game ended in a draw on move 40. | Photo: Timur Sattarov/ FIDE
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CBM 210: Indo-Uzbek Rivalry and a Chinese star in waiting - A Review

12/7/2022 – ChessBase Magazine offers a window to the world of professional chess. Issue #210 contains 7578 recent games, (45 annotated) 12 opening surveys, 9 demo lectures and several exercises for training. Annotators include Anish Giri, Ajun Erigaisi, Gabriel Sargissian, Ivan Sokolov, Luke McShane, Pentala Harikrishna, Pragganandhaa, Maria Muzychuk and Wesley So among others. The icing on the cake is a feature on Ding Liren who will play the world championship match with Ian Nepomniachtchi now that Carlsen has announced that he will not defend the title. Prof. Nagesh Havanur took a closer look.

Game of the Week #545: Lohia vs Van Delft

12/7/2022 – In his “Game of the Week” show #545 Merijn van Delft presents one of his own games - an interesting loss he suffered against 13-year-old Sohum Lohia from England at the Benidorm Open. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

The World Championship 1972 calendar - Door 7

12/7/2022 – The 1972 World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasski is regarded as one of the most critical moments in the history of chess, occurring 50 years ago. To present you with this year's Christmas calendar in the proper setting, Arne swiftly constructed a time machine, and went back 50 years. Of course, the 1972 World Cup is the main calendar focus this time! You have the opportunity to guess, count, and conduct research every day for a chance to win one of 90 ChessBase prizes. Your chances of winning one of the major prizes increases, the more questions you can correctly guess. | Photo: Original by World Chess Hall of Fame

Women’s Candidates: A 98-move draw

12/6/2022 – The match to decide who will face Lei Tingjie in the final of the Women’s Candidates Tournament kicked off on Tuesday in Khiva. Aleksandra Goryachkina had the white pieces, found herself in a slightly inferior position, and in the end managed to get a draw against Tan Zhongyi. | Photo: Timur Sattarov
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Presents from the "Nikolaus"

12/6/2022 – In Germany, the 6 December is the day of "Nikolaus" - a day for small presents, and on the evening of 5 December children in Germany put out their shoes, hoping that "Nikolaus" will fill them overnight with chocolate, sweets or other presents. To celebrate this nice custom ChessBase offers its customers the new "60 Minutes" course "A dangerous weapon against the Caro-Kann" by Andrew Martin for free. Buy a new course (or something else) and get the "60 Minutes" course for free...
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FIDE news: GM title for Elisabeth Pähtz confirmed, World Championship match in Mexico?

12/6/2022 – After achieving her third Grandmaster norm in the Grand Swiss Tournament in Riga 2021 Germany's number one women player Elisabeth Pähtz (pictured) finally seemed to have secured the title, but when it turned out that her second norm might not have been valid, things got complicated. But in FIDE's decisions of the Council meeting on 25 November Pähtz's title was now confirmed. And Mexico was mentioned indirectly as possible host for the World Championship match between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2023. | Photo: Lars OA Hedlund
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The World Championship 1972 calendar - Door 6

12/6/2022 – The 1972 World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasski is regarded as one of the most critical moments in the history of chess, occurring 50 years ago. To present you with this year's Christmas calendar in the proper setting, Arne swiftly constructed a time machine, and went back 50 years. Of course, the 1972 World Cup is the main calendar focus this time! You have the opportunity to guess, count, and conduct research every day for a chance to win one of 90 ChessBase prizes. Your chances of winning one of the major prizes increases, the more questions you can correctly guess. | Photo: Original by World Chess Hall of Fame
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The battering ram

12/6/2022 – In queen endings attacks on the king occur quite often. How did White use the power of his king and queen to win the game?

The Winning Academy 16: How to Avoid Blunders (2)

12/5/2022 – Every chess player blunders. Even the brains of the very best in the world sometime take a day off. We are humans, and errors are an inherent part of human nature. And yet, few things in chess are as discouraging as losing a good game after a silly mistake. Sometimes, one blunder spoils an entire tournament: a week’s amount of work is gone in a minute or two. But Jan Markos has good news for you. A lot of blunders can be avoided by a little discipline and a few simple tricks.
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Endgame Magic #217 - with Jana Schneider

12/5/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #217 Karsten Müller and German female top player Jana Schneider look at endgame highlights from Jana's games. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

ChessBase 17: the Buddy Engine

12/5/2022 – Among the numerous powerful new features in ChessBase 17, one of the most striking has to be the introduction of the Buddy Engine in the panoply of engine tools. This innocuous named tool is the lynchpin in the new engine data shared with users, effectively innovating on a standard that has changed very little in decades. Don't miss this overview and video!

The World Championship 1972 calendar - Door 5

12/5/2022 – The 1972 World Championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasski is regarded as one of the most critical moments in the history of chess, occurring 50 years ago. To present you with this year's Christmas calendar in the proper setting, Arne swiftly constructed a time machine, and went back 50 years. Of course, the 1972 World Cup is the main calendar focus this time! You have the opportunity to guess, count, and conduct research every day for a chance to win one of 90 ChessBase prizes. Your chances of winning one of the major prizes increases, the more questions you can correctly guess. | Photo: Original by World Chess Hall of Fame

Mustafa Yilmaz wins 2022 Turkish Championship

12/5/2022 – Mustafa Yilmaz emerged as the winner of the 2022 Turkish Championship. The native of Mamak claimed his third national title, repeating his triumphs of 2009 and 2017. The 2022 Turkish Championship, a 10-player round-robin tournament with classical time control, took place in Kemer, a seaside resort in the province of Antalya, from 25 November to 3 December. | Photos: Turkish Chess Federation
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