11/14/2023 – With over 10 million games the Mega Database 2024 is the indispensable chess database for every chess player, for preparation or chess training in all conceivable facets - now available in the updated 2024 edition, also as Big Database without annotated games and update service. Also new: the Corr Database 2024 Correspondence Chess Database with 80,000 tournaments and 2.3 million correspondence games - for players who want to know even more.

11/13/2023 – The Sicilian Najdorf is one of the most popular openings after 1.e4 and is part of the repertoire of almost all top players. In two volumes, the young Hamburg grandmaster presents all of White's answers and shows how Black can aggressively realise his strategic plans. With exercises and tests.

12/1/2022 – The ChessBase Magazine Extra is the perfect addition to the ChessBase Magazine and keeps you informed about everything that happens in tournament chess. The current issue - CBM Extra #210 - contains training videos with Robert Ris and Mihail Marin (total playing time: just under 1 hour) and 38 deep and comprehensive analyses by Anish Giri, Romain Edouard, Lubomir Ftacnik, Michal Krasenkow, and many others.

12/1/2021 – Start the new year well-prepared. In the updated Mega Database 2022 you will now find over 9.2 million games, from the first recorded games in the history of chess to games played in October 2022. The Mega is chess history and contains almost all top games ever played, many of them annotated by top players of the past and of today. The huge database is an invaluable tool to prepare for your opponents, to study chess and to enjoy chess!

11/17/2020 – Welcome to the new Mega Database 2021! Learn from annotated games, enjoy top tournaments or have a look at the opening repertoire of the world's best! The Mega Database 2021 contains more than 8,4 million games. With a current ChessBase program and our update service you can regularly update the database with new games – round about 5,000 every week!

4/9/2020 – The new Opening Encyclopaedia 2020 is ideal for your opening training. Whether you want to build a solid opening repertoire or whether you are looking for new ideas for your repertoire: A huge pool of opening ideas and high-quality analyses is waiting for you. The Opening Encyclopadia 2020 includes all (!) opening overviews of the ChessBase Magazines from previous years, as well as more than 6,800 opening surveys with more than 38,000 illustrative games. Plus 40 videos with a total runtime of 14 hours.

4/7/2020 – The Benoni Defense leads to asymmetrical, double-edged positions that give Black good chances to play for a win. On his new DVD, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, coach and second of Fabiano Caruana, shows why the Benoni is much better than it's theoretical reputation and that it is an entirely solid line which offers Black a lot of dynamic possibilities.

3/19/2020 – Charlie Storey is an FM from England, English Chess Federation Academy Coach and U18 Team Coach. His second FritzTrainer is a follow-up to the popular release "The Sniper" a club player's weapon for Black. The White Sniper is characterised by three moves against any black setup: 1.g3 2.Bg2 and 3.c4 though not necessarily in that order. Think of The White Sniper as a Hyper-Accelerated Sicilian Dragon against anything that Black plays.

3/9/2020 – Erwin l’Ami explains the Benko Gambit! Through model games l’Ami explains all topical lines of the Benko Gambit, occasionally asking the viewer interactive questions that help the viewer to grasp the ideas behind this opening. Pal Benko described in his autobiography that his gambit was initially regarded as a joke by his peers, but practice has shown it to be a dangerous weapon which is easy to learn.

1/6/2020 – The Najdorf is one of the most dangerous variations of the Sicilian Defence. Fighting against it is always difficult, but GM Sergei Tiviakov demonstrates a very effective way to combat this popular opening.

12/5/2019 – Pattern recognition is an important tool in modern chess, as it helps you to better understand the characteristics of a position. Particularly when you have been confronted with a surprise opening system played by your opponent, relying on general principles is an asset. In this video series, IM ROBERT RIS explores ten key elements of opening play. While these themes are found throughout chess literature this time you will get actively involved yourself as well!

10/25/2019 – Introducing the all-new London system series from "Ginger GM" Simon Williams (and now available for Mac!)! Why bother learning hundreds of complex variations when you can play a simple yet deadly opening — the London System with 2.Bf4. And to cement your London skills, let Simon show you all the complications in the London System one has to know as White, giving you the tactical tools for a successful practice with the new "Tactic Toolbox" series. After all, the player who knows the typical motifs has an advantage over the board.

9/26/2019 – A very special Deal of the Week! Our latest in elite GM training! The Ruy Lopez is one of the oldest openings which continues to enjoy high popularity from club level to the absolute world top. In this video series, American super GM Fabiano Caruana, talking to IM Oliver Reeh, presents a complete repertoire for White.

8/17/2019 – The Nimzowitsch Defence, 1.e4 Nc6, is a lesser-known and by far less popular branch of opening theory from the great strategist Aron Nimzowitsch. Unlike the Nimzo-Indian Defence, which has acquired a reputation as one of the soundest replies to 1.d4, 1...Nc6 as an answer to 1.e4 is generally thought to be one of the least sound replies. The main reason for that lies probably in the fact that Black wilfully blocks his c-pawn as soon as move 1, which more dogmatic players will regard as highly suspicious. There are, however, many other factors besides the mobility of the respective c-pawns, and this video series will explore rather rare, yet fully playable lines for Black.

7/30/2019 – Eight years have passed since the creation of the DVD "No Fear of 1.d4 (Volume 1)" in which Sergei Tiviakov, among other things, explained how to play the Queen’s Indian Defence with Black. Now the moment has come to update the readers with the latest news and trends in this important opening. In his new video series, Tiviakov presents a complete repertoire for Black against the Queen’s Indian Defence.

6/26/2019 – These days there's no shortage of information on opening theory. Everyone, even an amateur, with a bit of study can play main line theory like a pro GM. In such circumstances, perhaps it's all the more salient to question to our opponents using openings which are sound, but less mainstream. That's what Simon Williams sets out to do in his latest DVD on the Torre Attack, and DAVIDE NASTASIO has the review.

5/27/2019 – All world champions leave their mark on chess. Past champions had different styles but each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well. Steinitz laid the first foundations, Lasker embodied fighting spirit, Capablanca pure techique, Alekhine attack, Tal magic, Petrosian defence, Smyslov harmony. Let one of the greatest endgame experts, Karsten Müller, improve your endgame skills with this historical review — in 13 hours of interactive video lectures!

5/21/2019 – NEW: A pair of new releases from the popular English grandmaster Simon Williams are out today. The Torre Attack and the Colle–Koltanowski System work perfectly against most Black setups and will be a perfect accompanying DVD to Williams' earlier best-seller on the London System. Info and sample videos...

5/20/2019 – This program thinks like no other chess engine in the world. Inspired by the ideas of AlphaZero and Leela, the authors set out to implement a "Monte Carlo Tree Search". The result: Komodo 13 MCTS – an engine which looks for candidate moves in an incredible new way, and finds moves no other engine can. It enhances the traditional brute force engine that has reached well over 3400 points on the Elo scale.

4/10/2019 – There's a new edition of our very popular compilation of opening knowledge — but it's more than an update. Naturally, the Opening Encyclopaedia 2019 has been extended to include all the latest lines and trends, but it has also been redesigned to enhance its usability for fast and easy access to your favourite openings. It has hundreds of opening articles by leading experts, and high-class opening videos to enhance your understanding. Is there a better way to keep abreast of openings theory?

3/27/2019 – An exclusive discount, only through Sunday, March 31st! Get the two-volume bundle for a special price! Super-GM WESLEY SO published two opening DVDs: 1.b3, the so called Nimzo-Larsen-Attack, for White and his black secrets in the modern Italian. Read the review and get them in a package today and save! Here's a peek.

3/26/2019 – The London System, which for a long time had been the reputation of a rather harmless sideline, has developed into a very popular opening, and World Champion Magnus Carlsen is only one of many top players who plays it regularly. The London System indeed suits the modern approach to openings very well: White does not necessarily strive for an opening advantage but is content to develop his pieces and hopes to outplay his opponent in the middlegame. However, the London System is more dangerous than it seems and if Black is not careful he can easily wind up in a bad position. Theory develops fast today, even in less concrete systems.

3/22/2019 – An exclusive discount, only until Monday, March 25th! Get the three volume set as a bundle for 83% off the regular price! It's routinely described by the esoteric term "chess blindness." In the series "What Grandmasters do not See", chess trainer and world-class commentator MAURICE ASHLEY strips away from the myth, and for the first time explains why the root of these mistakes is more often based on the psychology of human learning. Here's a peek.

3/7/2019 – A two-volume series on the English Opening from opening theoretician and Grandmaster MIHAIL MARIN who offers a complete repertoire for White after 1.c4! For many great players from different generations the English opening has been a logical complement to 1.d4. By delaying the advance of the d-pawn White can avoid certain popular defences such as the Nimzoindian or the Grünfeld, to return to the 1.d4 paths a few moves later. But White can go further and build up a purely English repertoire, based on 1.c4 and 2.g3, which is the aim of these two DVDs.