Tata Steel Chess India - Live!

12/1/2022 – The Tata Steel Chess India event is taking place from November 29 to December 4 at the National Library of India in Kolkata. An open tournament and a women’s event are being played concurrently, with the same format and the same prize fund. A rapid and a blitz section will take place, with ten players per tournament. | Follow the games live with expert commentary by Tania Sachdev and Sagar Shah starting at 7.30 CET (2.30 ET, 12.00 IST)
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Tata Steel India: Nihal surges ahead

12/1/2022 – Day 2 of the Tata Steel India Chess event once again finished with sole leaders in both tournaments. In the open, Nihal Sarin climbed to sole first place after scoring 2½ out of 3 points, while among the women, Nana Dzagnidze could have lost her last two games of the day, but instead drew both times and is still in sole first place with three rounds to go. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Chessbase 17: Taking engine functions to the next level

11/30/2022 – Chess engines have been helping chess players for over 40 years, first as opponents, and later as analysts, but over that lengthy timeframe, very little has been added to the core landscape of chess engine analysis. ChessBase 17 aims to change that and seriously extend the analysis done, and the information it produces.

Women’s Candidates - Pool B: Live

11/30/2022 – Half the field of the Women’s Candidates Tournament will battle 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 the ancient city of Khiva, Uzbekistan. | Follow all the games live with expert commentary starting at 11.00 CET (5.00 ET, 15.30 IST)
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Women’s Candidates: Two draws to start

11/30/2022 – At 3 p.m. local time on Tuesday (11 a.m. CET) Pool B of the Women’s Candidates tournament kicked off in Khiva, Uzbekistan. Aleksandra Goryachkina gained an advantage against Alexandra Kosteniuk, but gave it away in time trouble. The game between Tan Zhongyi and Kateryna Lagno also ended in a draw. | Photos: Xushnud Baltaev / FIDE
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Tata Steel India: Shakh and Nana on 3 out of 3

11/30/2022 – The Tata Steel Chess India event kicked off on Tuesday in Kolkata. Each of the two tournaments has a sole leader with 3 out of 3 after the first day of rapid chess. In the open, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov has taken the lead, while among the women, Nana Dzagnidze tops the standings with six rounds to go in the rapid section of the event. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
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Winners crowned at World Senior Championship 2022

11/29/2022 – The 30th edition of the FIDE World Senior Chess Championship in Assisi (Italy) ended on Saturday, November 26, after a hard fight until the last minute. In the 50+ group, the Georgian Grandmaster Zurab Sturua became the new World Champion. The Women's World Champion in this group was WGM Elvira Berend (Luxembourg). In the 65+ group the title went to English GM John Nunn (pictured), the women's title was won by GM Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgia). | Photos: FIDE
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Wonderful stalemates

11/29/2022 – It is a well-known but still slightly surprising fact that king, bishop and outside pawn cannot win against a bare king if the defending king is in front of the pawn and the bishop does not control the queening square of the pawn - a constellation Hans Kmoch called the "impotent pair". In the diagram position Black is close to such a draw but has to be precise to reach it. What should he do?

Endgame Magic #216 - with Jana Schneider

11/28/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #216 Karsten Müller and German female top player Jana Schneider look at endgame highlights from the finals of the Meltwater Chess Champions Tour. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

Famous chess cheating tales - Part 1

11/28/2022 – Cheating in chess has a long and storied history, none of these stories ever penetrated the public eye, having been relegated to books on history and anecdotes on the game of chess. This all changed when a cheating controversy in chess became known throughout the US and then the world, and at its center was a 19-year-old American.

The next Magnus Carlsen in Molde?

11/28/2022 – With Magnus Carlsen, chess has become incredibly popular in Norway and the Norwegian Junior and Children's Championships attracted a lot of young players. Maybe one of them is the next Magnus Carlsen? Holger Blauhut reports. | Photos: Holger Blauhut and the organisers
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Mueller on Meltwater

11/28/2022 – Tireless in his quest for truth, Karsten Mueller brings up the rear with a selection of instructive and sometimes jawdropping endgames. Wesley So is both teacher and student as he overwhelms one opponent but stumbles in a simplified rook endgame against another. Be sure to see the notes to the last game with some amazing shots sure to leave you scratching your head.

Women’s Candidates: Pool B players make their way to Khiva

11/28/2022 – Half the field of the Women’s Candidates Tournament will battle it out in a knockout event to decide who faces Lei Tingjie, winner of Pool A, in a final match next year. Pool B will take place from November 29 to December 11 at the Hotel Farovon Khiva in the ancient city of Khiva, Uzbekistan. | Photos: FIDE / David Llada
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Magnus Carlsen applauds Indian chess talents and fans

11/27/2022 – Magnus Carlsen was in scintillating form in San Francisco, where he won the Champions Chess Tour Finals. In round 6 he played an excellent match against Praggnanandhaa. After the match ended, we were able to get Magnus on the livestream to discuss some of the critical moments from the match. It was a special interview that ended with Magnus praising the work that ChessBase India is doing and giving a big shout-out to the Indian talents and fans! | Photo: Amruta Mokal
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Naka and Gukesh among star-studded field at Tata Steel Chess India

11/27/2022 – Top International Grandmasters, top Indian men and women Grandmasters, young Indian talents and Viswanathan Anand — as the ambassador and advisor of the tournament — will enrich the fourth edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. For the first time, a women’s tournament will be played with the same format and the same prize fund. The tournament will take place from November 29 to December 4 in Kolkata.
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Understanding before Moving 101: Play the Sicilian! (3)

11/27/2022 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 101st instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman continues to explain why it is good to study and to play the Sicilian. | Photo: Pascal Simon
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Happy birthday - Vlastimil Jansa turns 80!

11/27/2022 – Today, the Czech Grandmaster Vlastimil Jansa celebrates his 80th birthday. For many years, Jansa was one of the best Czechoslovak players, and he took part in ten chess Olympiads and was Czechoslovak national champion three times. In his youth, he was also part of the national junior team of Czechoslovakia - the football team. In 2018, he became senior world champion. Eduard Frey congratulates. | Photo: Jansa at the World Senior Championship 2022 in Assisi | Photo: Tournament page
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Study of the Month - Patterns and pictograms

11/26/2022 – Pattern recognition is a major feat of the human brain, albeit one that can lead to wrong outputs. Examples include seeing faces where there are none, known as pareidolia. Once it was believed that the planet Mars has a face structure on it, speculations about former inhabitants of the planet ran wild, later it turned out that this isn't the case and could be attributed to the low resolution of the photo. | Photo: Pixabay

China beats Uzbekistan, wins World Team Championship

11/26/2022 – By beating Uzbekistan in the final match, China won the World Team Championship in Jerusalem. The Chinese squad won both sets by a 2½-1½ score to claim the title. Meanwhile, in the match for third place, Spain got the better of India in tiebreaks, with wins for Jaime Santos and David Anton in the blitz decider. | Photo: Mark Livshitz
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