7/25/2024 – Le Quang Liem once again showed that the Triathlon format suits him perfectly, as he defeated Praggnanandhaa R on Wednesday to claim his third consecutive tournament victory in the Biel Masters - with a round to spare! In the Challengers, which was won by Saleh Salem on Tuesday, Alexander Donchenko defeated Vaishali R to secure second place. | Photos: Biel Chess Festival
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.
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.
7/24/2024 – On July 20, 2024, for the 100th anniversary of its founding, FIDE planned a monumental event. It is a quest to set the Guinness World Record for the most chess games played in 24 hours, asking players all over the world to help achieve this goal. They are asked to play at least one 5-min game on one of the platforms or applications joining the World Records Attempt, between July 20, 2024 00:00:00 CEST and July 21, 2024 00:00:00 CEST. Here are the results in a FIDE press release.
7/24/2024 – The strongest junior and senior chess players in the United States have returned to Saint Louis. On July 16-26, the top 10 players across three divisions - juniors, girls, and seniors - are competing for more than $135,000 in prizes. | Follow all the games live with expert commentary, starting at 20.00 CEST (14.00 ET, 23.30 IST)
7/24/2024 – The 2024 CrunchLabs Masters is the third of four events preceding the Champions Chess Tour in-person Finals. The second day of action sees players fighting in the Division Placement stage, as they look to qualify for the double-elimination brackets. | Follow the games live video feed with expert commentary starting at 17.00 CEST (11.00 ET, 20.30 IST)
7/24/2024 – This week GM Daniel King analyses a beautiful game played by 10-year-old Faustino Oro, the youngest International Master in the world. He outplays his Grandmaster opponent in grand strategic style, showing remarkable restraint along the way! | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.
7/24/2024 – On 17 July, the fifth edition of the Belt and Road Women's Chess Festival began in Shaoxing, Shanxi Province, China. Tan Zhngyi won a rapid chess tournament, with Stavroula Tsolakidou and Antoaneta tying for second place. The rapid event is followed by an international open with a very substantial prize fund (1st prize: USD 40,000). | Photos: Liang Ziming
7/24/2024 – Two very different Grand Finals were seen in Division II and Division III of the CrunchLab Masters. While Alexander Grischuk needed two matches (seven games in total, including an Armageddon) to take down Vidit Gujrathi in Division II, Arjun Erigaisi quickly defeated Evgeny Alekseev by a 2½-½ score in Division III. The Division I Grand Final between Alireza Firouzja and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will take place on Wednesday.
7/24/2024 – The strongest junior and senior chess players in the United States have returned to Saint Louis. On July 16-26, the top 10 players across three divisions - juniors, girls, and seniors - are competing for more than $135,000 in prizes. Find here all games, standings and the daily recap produced by the Saint Louis Chess Club. | Pictured: Alice Lee, who is sharing the lead with Rose Atwell in the Girls' Championship | Photo: Lennart Ootes
7/24/2024 – Saleh Salem secured tournament victory at the Challengers Triathlon in Biel after beating Vaishali Rameshbabu with the white pieces on Tuesday. The Emirati GM was declared the winner thanks to his whopping 11-point lead over Alexander Donchenko. In Biel's flagship event, the Masters Triathlon, on the other hand, there were no winners at the start of the final phase. Le QUang Liem thus continues to be the sole leader ahead of Haik Martirosyan. | Photos: Biel Chess Festival
7/23/2024 – Two program packages that are designed to make you stronger, to seriously improve your results in games and tournaments. Fritz 19 lets you practice practise and analyse, the Opening Encyclopedia tells you exactly what you should play in order to succeed. You can simply load variations into Fritz 19 and try playing them against the program – at your level of play. The perfect practical opening training! Instead of €239.80 for both programs, this week you can get the package for just €179.90.
7/23/2024 – Pictorial portraits of ten chess players from many different countries, engaged in various sections (GMT Masters Triathlon, GMT Challengers Triathlon, Masters Open, and Amateur Open) at the 57th edition of the Biel Chess Festival. An unparalleled mix of chess activities! Our author, who lives in Biel, presents both known and unknown faces from the Festival | Photos: Organiser (Simon Bohnenblust, Peter A. Steffen)
7/23/2024 – Surya Ganguly, the experienced GM from West Bengal, is playing at the Masters Open Tournament in Biel. In an entertaining interview conducted by Arne Kaehler, Surya shares anecdotes from his lengthy chess career and responds to rather unexpected questions. Not to be missed!
7/23/2024 – The strongest junior and senior chess players in the United States have returned to Saint Louis. On July 16-26, the top 10 players across three divisions - juniors, girls, and seniors - are competing for more than $135,000 in prizes. Find here all games, standings and the daily recap produced by the Saint Louis Chess Club. | Pictured: Rose Atwell, who is now sharing the lead with Alice Lee in the Girls' Championship | Photo: Lennart Ootes
In almost every chess game there comes a moment when you just can’t go on without tactics. You must strike to not giving away the advantage you have worked for the whole game.
In this video course, kings will play a role of strong and active pieces. We will explore how Kings can be helpful in defence and prophylaxis, or even in attack!
The Triceratops system is an ancient and dependable strategy, requiring White to prepare for only three potential reactions from Black—significantly less work compared to preparing for the Grünfeld and King's Indian defences.
Unlock the excitement of the Beefeater Variation (1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5?!) in this 60-minute video course! Dive into an aggressive and daring strategy where Black gives up the dark-squared bishop early.
2024 Candidates Tournament with analyses by Gukesh, Pragg, Vidit, Firouzja and Giri. Kasimdzhanov, Engel and Marin show opening trends from Toronto in the video. 10 repertoire articles from English to Queen's Indian and much more!
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
7/23/2024 – Alireza Firouzja advanced to the Division I Grand Final in the online CrunchLab Masters by beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the losers' bracket final. On Wednesday, following a rest day, Firouzja will face Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who had already defeated Firouzja in the winners' bracket final. In Division II, Alexander Grischuk and Vidit Gujrathi reached the Grand Final, while Arjun Erigaisi and Evgeny Alekseev will face off in the Grand Final of Division III. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess Tournament / Lennart Ootes
7/23/2024 – Against bishops it is often a good strategy to build a blockade. In the diagram position it is Black to move - how could he have built a blockade and saved the game?
7/22/2024 – In the Endgame Magic Show #276 Karsten Müller takes a close look at two fascinating endgames from the Norway Chess Tournament. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
7/22/2024 – FIDE has published the official entry and starting lists for the Chess Olympiad in Budapest (11 to 22 September). In the open tournament, the USA, India and China are the top teams in the seeding list according to Elo. The German team is in tenth place. In the Women's Olympiad, Georgia leads the seeding list. The German women are eighth in the seeding list. | Photos: FIDE
7/22/2024 – “Finishing off the opponent's king is, and remains, the ultimate goal of a chess game, and in order to memorise the checkmating patterns and know how to use them successfully in your own games, only one thing helps: practise again and again!”. Oliver Reeh introduces his tactics column in the new ChessBase Magazine #220 with these words. Is there anything to add? Let's go! Take advantage of the CBM reading sample of the week and go king hunting with Oliver Reeh. Here and now and directly via your web browser!
7/22/2024 – The blitz section of the GM Triathlons at the Biel Chess Festival decided which players would qualify for the final phase and thus fight for the 2024 title. There was particular tension in the Masters, where the Indian superstar Praggnanandhaa had to work hard to make it through, as he had a strong showing to qualify in third place after all. In the Challengers, Saleh Salem has a huge advantage in the standings thanks to an outstanding performance in the blitz, as he scored 9 out of 10 possible points. | Photos: Biel Chess Festival
In almost every chess game there comes a moment when you just can’t go on without tactics. You must strike to not giving away the advantage you have worked for the whole game.
In this video course, kings will play a role of strong and active pieces. We will explore how Kings can be helpful in defence and prophylaxis, or even in attack!
The Triceratops system is an ancient and dependable strategy, requiring White to prepare for only three potential reactions from Black—significantly less work compared to preparing for the Grünfeld and King's Indian defences.
Unlock the excitement of the Beefeater Variation (1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.d5 Bxc3 5.bxc3 f5?!) in this 60-minute video course! Dive into an aggressive and daring strategy where Black gives up the dark-squared bishop early.
2024 Candidates Tournament with analyses by Gukesh, Pragg, Vidit, Firouzja and Giri. Kasimdzhanov, Engel and Marin show opening trends from Toronto in the video. 10 repertoire articles from English to Queen's Indian and much more!
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
Knights add irrational content to any position. However, in this video tutorial you will learn how to tame them.
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