11/18/2023 – The final game is upon us, and Polina Karelina has to win against the timid mouse character. If not, Fritz 19 won the battle against the humans, since the engine leads with 3:2. The Woman Candidate Master of the Bahamas has a FIDE rating of 1839, but is brave enough to fight the strong club player level! Luckily, the cowardly opponent is the weakest animal of Fritz 19. But on this difficulty level, it is a mighty mouse!

11/18/2023 – The 13th edition of the London Chess Classic will take place on December 1-10 as a 10-player single round-robin with a classical time control. The event will feature nine Super Grandmasters, including the rising star of Indian chess, Dommaraju Gukesh, and the American Hans Niemann, whose sensational victory over the then world champion Magnus Carlsen sent the chess world into turmoil.

11/18/2023 – The St. Louis Rapid & Blitz started on Monday at the Saint Louis Chess Centre. Three rounds of rapid chess will be played over three days. The local starting times of the rounds: 13:00 (19:00 CET), 14:30 (20:30 CET), 16:00 (22:00 CET). Broadcast with a 15-minute delay. With the videos and commentaries from the Saint Louis Chess Centre. | Graphics and photos: Grand Chess Tour

11/18/2023 – Does lightning strike twice? For some players, apparently so. But perhaps you need the aura of a chess legend to be able to achieve this. Magnus Carlsen plays another beautiful game and there is plenty of pattern recognition at work here, as well as some training in calculation! | 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.

11/18/2023 – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took the sole lead after the first day of blitz in Saint Louis, thanks to a fantastic 7/9 performance to give him a total score of 17/27. Trailing with 15 points each are Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi, with nine more games of blitz to be played on Saturday. | Photo courtesy of Saint Louis Chess Club, Lennart Ootes

11/18/2023 – In the diagram position, Black has just started to neutralize the strong bishop b3 with ...Be6. But Boris Spassky strongly objected - how about you?

11/15/2023 – In chess, blunders are inevitable. Of course, you might try to minimize them with tactical training, but you will never be able to get rid of them altogether. The same is true for unpleasant surprises. Whatever you do to be fully prepared for anything that might happen at the board, your opponent will still be time to time able to play a nasty unexpected move that gets you in a state of shock and horror. | Photo: A shocked Magnus Carlsen, analysing a game he played against Levon Aronian at the Grand Chess Tour tournament in Zagreb 2019 | Photo: Lennart Ootes

11/15/2023 – No more teams have perfect scores in either section of the European Team Championships. In the open tournament, Armenia joined Germany and Poland in the lead thanks to a 3-1 victory over Israel. In the women’s tournament, Germany joined Azerbaijan and France thanks to a 2½-1½ victory over Hungary. Meanwhile, Magnus Carlsen scored his third win of the event, as he helped Norway to grab 2 match points in their match against Finland. | Photo: Mark Livshitz

11/15/2023 – The 2023 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz kicked off on Monday with the first three rounds of rapid action, as the Grand Chess Tour makes its fourth stop of the year. After the first day of play, wildcard GM Le Quang Liem leads the field with 5.0/6, with GMs Alireza Firouzja and Ray Robson tied for second with 4.0/6. | Photo courtesy of Saint Louis Chess Club, Lennart Ootes

11/14/2023 – Fritz 19 comes with six sparring partners, each representing a completely different type of player. There is the aggressive attacker (Bull), the swindler (Fox) or the endgame crack (Turtle) and a few more. And those who train well will be rewarded. Stefen Liebig took a look at the brand new Fritz.

11/14/2023 – After Leon Mendonca lost against the GM Dog, it's Elisabeth Paehtz's turn to win a point for the humans! Unfortunately, the positional player, the owl, is programmed to play stable and solid. And even at strong club player level, the nocturnal bird can be a threat! However, Elli quickly gains a huge advantage with a well-known London System opening trick, which you can watch on one of her Fritztrainer's. But will it be enough? There is always the club chess player, and co-host Arne Kaehler to stir up weird move suggestions ...

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.