1/26/2024 – This episode is a must-watch for every endgame beginner, and soon to be expert. Svitlana is presenting some essential endgame positions and how to deal with them. May it be rook vs. bishop, queen vs. rook, and other positions, which every chess player had on the board already, at least once in their life. Our advice: Use Fritz 19, and replay the positions from the replayer to actively learn the patterns you saw in this video.

1/26/2024 – In the recently concluded ChessBase Christmas Composition Contest, we received many entries, and thus the decision-making was much harder! The problems submitted were tested upon the criterion of economy, harmony and aesthetics. We decided to make three articles on it, with the final one being about the prize-winners! Hope you have fun replalying these very nice little puzzles!

1/26/2024 – This week GM Daniel King looks at some games from the Tata Steel tournament, focusing on the question of technique. How do you finish a game cleanly? | 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.

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.

1/26/2024 – From the 1960s to the 1980s, Klaus Darga and Hajo Hecht, together with Wolfgang Unzicker, Lothar Schmid, Robert Hübner and Helmut Pfleger, formed the backbone of the German national team. Hajo Hecht and Klaus Darga will soon be celebrating their 85th and 90th birthdays, respectively. Helmut Pfleger recalled their long-standing friendship in his latest column for "Die Zeit", one of the most influential and renowned weekly magazines in Germany. | Photo: Karin Darga

1/26/2024 – How you play chess reflects your actual personality. If you play chess with more timidity and reservation, you're likely a passive person who resorts to a diplomatic approach in the face of conflict. While a person who attacks like Mikhail Tal is likely to confront conflict head-on and rather impulsively. So, to what category do you belong?

1/25/2024 – Game 3 of the 1972 match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky has been analysed countless times. But there are still many open questions and new discoveries to be made. Karsten Müller invites you to help him solve the riddles emerging from this fascinating, historic encounter.

1/25/2024 – Gukesh D. and Nodirbek Abdusattorov scored full points on Wednesday to go into the second rest day of the Tata Steel Masters sharing the lead with 6½/10 points. Sharing third place at a half-point distance are Praggnanandhaa R. and Anish Giri, while Ian Nepomniachtchi is one of four players standing a half point further back — Nepo joined this group thanks to a victory over world champion Ding Liren. In the Challengers, Marc’Andria Maurizzi won again and now has a full-point lead over Leon Luke Mendonca. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess Tournament / Lennart Ootes

1/25/2024 – The FIDE Trainers’ Online Seminar will be held on February 2-4, 2024. The seminar is being organized by the Asian Chess Federation in cooperation with the FIDE Commission for Women in Chess under the supervision of the FIDE Trainers’ Commission. Artur Yusupov, Hou Yifan and Antoaneta Stefanova will be among the lecturers.

1/24/2024 – Play like Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura & Co! ChessBase Magazine gives you the chance to do just that: in an interactive training format with video feedback, you can go through selected games by top players “Move by Move” - together with our author, Robert Ris. We invite you: this week you can replay Magnus Carlsen's Black win against IM Bojan Maksimovic from ChessBase Magazine #217 - directly via your web browser in the new ChessBase Books format. CBM #217 is the first issue to include full mobile access. So, you can load it directly with your web browser on your iPad, tablet or Mac. Have fun!

1/24/2024 – Five games ended decisively, all favouring the player who had the white pieces, in round 9 of the Tata Steel Masters. Praggnanandhaa R. and Nodirbek Abdusattorov scored victories and joined the 4-player leading pack, which also includes Gukesh D. and Anish Giri. Former co-leader Alireza Firouzja, on his part, was defeated by Alexander Donchenko. Firouzja is now one of three players standing a half point behind the leaders. In the Challengers, Marc’Andria Maurizzi remains atop the standings after beating Divya Deshmukh. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess Tournament / Jurriaan Hoefsmit

1/23/2024 – FIDE and World Chess are set to launch a Women’s Wednesday Online Tournament series, a a groundbreaking move to elevate women's participation and recognition in the world of chess. The weekly event, hosted on the FIDE Online Arena platform (chessarena.com), and represents a significant stride in empowering women within the chess community. Press release.