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Chessable Masters, Day 2: Live

5/20/2022 – The Chessable Masters is the fourth of nine tournaments of the current Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. In the preliminary 16 players will fight for a place in the knockout phase. Magnus Carlsen will be up against a number of promising talents and a number of strong veterans. Play start daily at 18.00 CEST (12.00 EST, 16.00 UTC). Follow the games live and with commentary.
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ChessBase 16 - Mega package Edition 2022

ChessBase 16 - Mega package Edition 2022

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ChessBase 16 - Mega package Edition 2022

ChessBase 16 - Mega package Edition 2022

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Komodo Dragon 3

The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at an Elo level of over 3500!

€99.90

Svitlana's Smart Moves - The King's Indian Part 2

5/20/2022 – In the first day of the Champions Chess Tour, Gawain Jones played the Kings Indian against Vidit Gujrathi because it is a very legit weapon. One of Svitlana's favourite openings deserves a second part, to get into some deeper strategic territory. What if White is castling on the queen side? We adjust our plans, and build up some important decisions. Svitlana analyses an interesting King's Indian game between Ivan Cheparinov, and Wang Yue!
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Grand Chess Tour Superbet Tournament Warsaw: Live

5/20/2022 – The second tournament of the Grand Chess Tour 2022 is taking place in Warsaw from May 17-23, and consists of a rapid and a blitz tournament. After three rounds of rapid, Vishy Anand is in the sole lead on a perfect 6 out of 6 score. Day 2 starts Friday, May 20, at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 12.00 UTC). Follow the games live with expert commentary.
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Chessable Masters: Wei Yi leads

5/20/2022 – After four rounds at the preliminaries of the Chessable Masters, 22-year-old Wei Yi is leading the standings table on 10/12 points. Three of the favourites stand two points behind — Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Anish Giri. The 16-player online tournament is played with a football scoring system. Half the players will move on to the knockout stage from the single round-robin set to run until Sunday. | Photo: Niki Riga
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Superbet Poland: Anand’s perfect day

5/19/2022 – Vishy Anand scored three wins in as many games to take the lead at the rapid section of the Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz Tournament. With six rounds of rapid left to go, the former world champion has a 2-point lead over a chasing pack consisting of Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian and Jan-Krzysztof Duda — players receive 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw in the rapid. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
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Robert Ris’ Fast and Furious: Playing against 3...a6 in the Queens Gambit Declined

5/19/2022 – This week Robert Ris shows how David Navara managed to beat the currently popular line with 3...a6 against the Queens Gambit Declined in a fine and instructive game played in the Czech Championship 2022. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Munich to host a leg of Women’s Grand Prix 2022-23

5/19/2022 – Munich will host the third leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2022-23, to be held from February 1-14, 2023. The venues, dates, and details for the other three legs in the WGP Series will be announced at the end of May. | Photos: FIDE
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Online Player Encyclopedia - Players, profiles, and pictures (with video!)

5/19/2022 – Users of ChessBase are undoubtedly familiar with the Player Encyclopedia that comes with Mega Database, a massive archive of players and photos that allow you to view games with a picture of that player instead of just their name. There is an online version with ChessBase Account, but offers much more. Read the tutorial or watch the video to find out why.
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Ding Liren confirmed to play in the Candidates

5/18/2022 – As expected, Ding Liren is the eighth participant in the Candidates Tournament 2022. The Chinese top GM replaces the suspended Sergey Karjakin as the highest-rated player after World Champion Carlsen. The Candidates Tournament begins on 17 June in Madrid and the winner will play Magnus Carlsen for the World Championship.
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Game of the Week #516: A fine attack by Nico Zwirs

5/18/2022 – In his “Game of the Week” show #516, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fine attacking win by Dutch IM and ChessBase author Nico Zwirs. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Carlsen and Ding head the field at the Chessable Masters

5/18/2022 – The world’s top two chess stars go head-to-head starting Thursday at the Chessable Masters, the fourth leg of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Norway’s world champion Magnus Carlsen will face Ding Liren, who returns having regained his second spot in the world ranking. The field also includes two of the most promising rising stars in the chess world, Praggnanandhaa and Abhimanyu Mishra.
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Wojtaszek and Rudzinska win Polish Championships 2022

5/18/2022 – On 17 May, the Polish National Championships ended in Kruszwica. In the open tournament, played in knockout format, defending champion Radoslaw Wojtaszek won his fifth title. But the women's tournament ended with a big surprise. | Photos: Polish Chess Federation
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Anand among wildcards at the Superbet Rapid & Blitz in Poland

5/18/2022 – The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland will be held at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw on May 17-23. It will feature four full tour players and six wildcard players. The field will be headed by Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Levon Aronian. Vishy Anand and Jan-Krzysztof Duda are the highest-rated wildcards included in the mix. The first round of the Rapid Tournament starts 19 May, 14.00 CEST (8.00 EST, 12.00 UTC). | Photo: Lennart Ootes (Croatia GCT, 2019)
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Komodo Dragon 3

The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at an Elo level of over 3500!

€99.90

Top Choice Repertoire: Play the French Defence Vol.1

In this two-volume video course former world-champion and startrainer Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows you the ins and outs of this hugely complex opening.

€29.90

Top Choice Repertoire: Play the French Defence Vol.2

In this two-volume video course former world-champion and startrainer Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows you the ins and outs of this hugely complex opening.

€29.90

ChessBase Magazine 207

FIDE Grand Prix 2022: Esipenko, Giri, Vidit, Oparin, Predke, Shankland, So and Vitiugov comment + videos by Rogozenco. "Special" on Bent Larsen. Opening videos by Kasimdzhanov, Ragger and Marin. 11 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire!

€19.95

Opening Encyclopaedia 2022

The new Opening Encyclopaedia offers fast access to all openings. Openings are sorted via the menu by name & ECO Code for fast and easy access to your favorite openings.

€99.90

Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.3 - The Hedgehog

Throughout my playing career I have found the Hedgehog one of the most difficult type of positions to master. The basic aim of this video is to improve understanding of these complex positions and to help tournament players score better.

€29.90

Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.4 - Dynamic pawn structures

Studying this video course should greatly improve the viewer’s handling of dynamic pawn positions! As with all my other video courses material here is predominantly aimed at improving players and tournament players.

€29.90

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The Weekly Show: A clutch victory by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

5/17/2022 – In his ‘Weekly Show’ Lawrence Trent focuses on the Superbet chess classic. The game of the day is the clutch victory by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the tiebreak vs Levon Aronian which secured him the tournament win. | Lawrence’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here
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Wilhelm Steinitz, the thinker, and the dawning of chess’ classical age

5/17/2022 – Wilhelm Steinitz looms as one of the largest figures in chess. Earning the distinction of being the first ever World Champion in 1886, he was a successful competitive player and chess journalist whose theoretical teachings revolutionized chess and laid the foundations of the modern game. He is, arguably, chess’ greatest thinker.
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New: Komodo Dragon 3

5/17/2022 – It is a vastly improved and 100-130 Elo stronger version of this classical program. The gain in playing strength offers real practical advantages: Komodo Dragon 3 takes only about a quarter of the time to play or analyze at the same level as Dragon 2! The large Elo increase is due to a new net structure for NNUE with a corresponding new net, as well as various optimizations and improvements in the search. Order it today – at a special Discount Day price!
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Check, Mate, Donate! Online Charity Tournament for Ukraine

5/17/2022 – Under the motto "Check, Mate, Donate", the two Swiss juniors Oliver Angst (photo, left) and Vincent Lou have organised an online tournament for the benefit of Ukraine Aid and are calling for people to join in. For 5 Swiss francs, you can join in, play and help. Thursday, 29 May from 20:00 CEST ( 14:00 ET, 18:00 UTC).
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The king is a strong piece

5/17/2022 – Passed pawns can be very powerful and they are even more dangerous if they have help from their king. In the diagrammed position it is White to move, and what did he do with his king to support his passed pawns to win the game?
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Endgame Magic Show #194 with Arne Kaehler

5/16/2022 – In his Endgame Magic Show #194 Karsten Müller is joined by Arne Kaehler, and they look at endgames from the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Oslo Esports Cup, which was won by Jan-Krzysztof Duda. But in one of their individual games tournament favourite Carlsen defeated Duda in an interesting endgame. Take a look! | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
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Komodo Dragon 3

The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at an Elo level of over 3500!

€99.90

Top Choice Repertoire: Play the French Defence Vol.1

In this two-volume video course former world-champion and startrainer Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows you the ins and outs of this hugely complex opening.

€29.90

Top Choice Repertoire: Play the French Defence Vol.2

In this two-volume video course former world-champion and startrainer Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows you the ins and outs of this hugely complex opening.

€29.90

ChessBase Magazine 207

FIDE Grand Prix 2022: Esipenko, Giri, Vidit, Oparin, Predke, Shankland, So and Vitiugov comment + videos by Rogozenco. "Special" on Bent Larsen. Opening videos by Kasimdzhanov, Ragger and Marin. 11 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire!

€19.95

Opening Encyclopaedia 2022

The new Opening Encyclopaedia offers fast access to all openings. Openings are sorted via the menu by name & ECO Code for fast and easy access to your favorite openings.

€99.90

Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.3 - The Hedgehog

Throughout my playing career I have found the Hedgehog one of the most difficult type of positions to master. The basic aim of this video is to improve understanding of these complex positions and to help tournament players score better.

€29.90

Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.4 - Dynamic pawn structures

Studying this video course should greatly improve the viewer’s handling of dynamic pawn positions! As with all my other video courses material here is predominantly aimed at improving players and tournament players.

€29.90


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