Robert Ris (born 1988) is an International Master (FIDE 2450+) who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On video portal The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous video courses and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He's started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.
3/29/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris shows how Levon Aronian surprised Wesley So in a classical line of the Nimzo-Indian. Aronian’s 5...c5!? worked out perfectly as he went on to win the game. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/22/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris shows how Levon Aronian surprised Wesley So in a classical line of the Nimzo-Indian. Aronian’s 5...c5!? worked out perfectly as he went on to win the game. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/12/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris has fun with a queen sacrifice that occurred in a game Gukesh and Vincent Keymer played at the Chess Festival Prague. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/29/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look how Praggnanandhaa and Vincent Keymer set the board on fire in the first round of the Prague Chess Festival. They started with an Italian and were both willing to enter a complicated and sharp theoretical line. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/26/2024 – The German Bundesliga is a traditional team tournament featuring some of the best players in the world. After 11 rounds in the 2023/24 season, Viernheim have a clear 3-point lead over the perennial favourites from Baden-Baden. In round 9, Viernheim’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov obtained a memorable attacking victory over Gata Kamsky. The game was expertly analysed by IM Robert Ris!
2/19/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at a game from Baadur Jobava, which helped the creative Grandmaster to win the Georgian Championship 2024. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
Anyone who seriously deals with openings cannot avoid the opening encyclopaedia. Whether beginner or grandmaster. The Opening Encyclopaedia is by far the most comprehensive chess theory work: over 1,463(!) theory articles offer a huge fund of ideas!
2/8/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at the final of the Chessable Masters, in which Magnus Carlsen won against Alireza Firouzja. But it was a close and exciting match, in which Firouzja showed how dangerous he is. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/3/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris once again turns his attention to the Tata Steel Tournament 2024 in Wijk aan Zee and analyses a fine and decisive win by Anish Giri in the final round against Max Warmerdam. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/26/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode Robert Ris takes a close look at the Spanish encounter between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, who continued to discued topics they had discussed in their World Championship Match 2023. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/20/2024 – In a Fast & Furious episode coming from Wijk aan Zee, Robert Ris analyses the enjoyable victory obtained by Alireza Firouzja out of a Berlin Defence with 5.Re1. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/14/2024 – In the second Fast & Furious episode of 2024, Robert Ris once again explores complex lines in the Caro-Kann. To do so, he goes over games played by two Chinese stars: Wei Yi and Ding Liren. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/9/2024 – Almost 30 years ago, at the 1995 edition of the Hoogovens Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Roberto Cifuentes and Vadim Zvjaginsev played an astounding game. Known as the ‘Pearl of Wijk aan Zee’, the encounter features a number of sacrifices, including a successful queen sacrifice. Zvjaginsev went all-in for the attack once Cifuentes made an innocent-looking move. Unmissable!
1/7/2024 – In the first Fast & Furious episode of 2024, Robert Ris presents a dangerous line against a popular variation of the Caro-Kann. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
12/30/2023 – In the last Fast & Furious episode of 2023, Robert Ris analysed a spectacular victory obtained by his 15-year-old student IM Arthur de Winter. Out of a fashionable line in the Sicilian Najdorf, White’s attack turned out to be faster than his opponent’s. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
12/14/2023 – In the new episode of his Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes a look at the brilliancy Wesley So won against Magnus Carlsen in the finals of the Champions Chess Tour in Toronto. A theoretically important and really impressive attacking game! | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
12/8/2023 – In the new episode of his Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris analyses Gukesh's win against Volokitin from the Chess Classic in London - an instructive game and maybe a crucial win for Gukesh who still has chances to qualify for the Candidates. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
11/25/2023 – In the new episode of his Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris analyses the amazing game between Nikolas Theodorou and Teimour Radjabov. The Greek grandmaster was incredibly well-prepared and crushed his opponent with the aid of some amazing sacrifices. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
11/17/2023 – In the new episode of his Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris looks at the games Robson-Xiong and Firouzja-So from the Saint Louis Rapid tournament. Both games featured a popular line in the Petroff Defence, in which Robson and Firouzja played aggressively, forcing Black to deal with a number of practical problems. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
Anyone who seriously deals with openings cannot avoid the opening encyclopaedia. Whether beginner or grandmaster. The Opening Encyclopaedia is by far the most comprehensive chess theory work: over 1,463(!) theory articles offer a huge fund of ideas!
Videos: Nico Zwirs on the Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 c6 5.f4) and part 2 of “Mikhalchishins miniatures”. “Lucky bag” with 53 commented games by Romain Edouard, Michal Krasenkow, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Gabriel Sargissian, Nodirbek Yakubboe
Dive into the fascinating world of the Sicilian Kalashnikov variation! We will uncover the secrets of this explosive opening from the very first moves: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5.
This Fritztrainer offers you the perfect addition to any Sicilian or Najdorf repertoire, and covers all the minor variations that White has tried to avoid the open Sicilian.
The Powerbook Philidor Defence 2024 is based on 33,000 computer games from the engine room of Schach.de as well as 21,000 games from Mega and correspondence chess.
Philidor Defence Powerbase 2024 is a database and contains a total of 4561 games from the Mega 2024 and the Correspondence Database 2024, 269 of which are annotated.
Anyone who seriously deals with openings cannot avoid the opening encyclopaedia. Whether beginner or grandmaster. The Opening Encyclopaedia is by far the most comprehensive chess theory work: over 1,463(!) theory articles offer a huge fund of ideas!
Videos: Nico Zwirs on the Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 c6 5.f4) and part 2 of “Mikhalchishins miniatures”. “Lucky bag” with 53 commented games by Romain Edouard, Michal Krasenkow, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Gabriel Sargissian, Nodirbek Yakubboe
Dive into the fascinating world of the Sicilian Kalashnikov variation! We will uncover the secrets of this explosive opening from the very first moves: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5.
This Fritztrainer offers you the perfect addition to any Sicilian or Najdorf repertoire, and covers all the minor variations that White has tried to avoid the open Sicilian.
The Powerbook Philidor Defence 2024 is based on 33,000 computer games from the engine room of Schach.de as well as 21,000 games from Mega and correspondence chess.
Philidor Defence Powerbase 2024 is a database and contains a total of 4561 games from the Mega 2024 and the Correspondence Database 2024, 269 of which are annotated.
€9.90
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