5/20/2023 – Shortly after the Superbet Chess Classic, the Superbet Rapid & Blitz will return with its second edition. The tournament is set to take place on May 21-25 at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. Joining five ‘full players’ from the Grand Chess Tour, five wildcards, including world number one Magnus Carlsen, will make their way to the Polish capital. | Photo: Grand Chess Tour

5/20/2023 – FIDE and the Georgian Chess Federation are organizing a match between top Ukrainian players Mariya and Anna Muzychuk and local stars Nino Batsiashvili and Meri Arabidze. The games will take place at the Hotel Legend in Batumi, Georgia, on June 5-11. Each of the matches will consist of six classical games. | Photos: International Chess Federation

5/19/2023 – Gennadi Sosonko was born in and grew up in the Soviet Union, in a golden age of chess. He emigrated in 1972, became a successful player and then an even more successful chess journalist and author. On 18 May he celebrated his 80th birthday. | Photo source: livelib

5/19/2023 – Women’s world champion Ju Wenjun scored a second consecutive upset win to go into round 3 of the Sharjah Masters sharing the lead with Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu (pictured). Ju got the better of third seed Vidit Gujrathi with the black pieces, while Pragg defeated Raunak Sadhwani with white. A total of 25 players stand a half point behind the leading duo, including top seeds Parham Maghsoodloo and Dommaraju Gukesh. | Photos: Tournament’s Facebook page

5/19/2023 – Kateryna Lagno and Tan Zhongyi are sharing the lead with 2½ points each after three rounds at the Women’s Grand Prix in Nicosia, the final stage of the series. The co-leaders kicked off the event with back-to-back wins and then drew their direct encounter on Thursday. Three players stand a half point back: Harika Dronavalli, Polina Shuvalova and Dinara Wagner. | Photo: FIDE / Mark Livshitz

5/18/2023 – In his Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes a look at the game Yoo-Maghsoodloo from the 1st round of the Sharjah Masters. A Classical Sicilian Rauzer with 7.Qd3 was soon transformed into a Sveshnikov-type of structure, in which Black succeeded with energetic play. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/15/2023 – In this week's show, Karsten Müller looks at endgame highlights from the German "Bundesliga". | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

5/15/2023 – The inaugural event of the 2023 Grand Chess Tour is the Superbet Chess Classic, a 10-player single round-robin taking place on May 6-14 at the Grand Hotel Bucharest. Just six days after wrapping up a legendary match in Astana, Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi meet in the elite tournament, which also includes the likes of Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana and defending champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. | Follow the games live with expert commentary, starting at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 17.30 IST)

5/15/2023 – Fabiano Caruana is leading the standings at the Superbet Chess Classic with one round to go. The US grandmaster showed great preparation as he finished his game against Anish Giri with a huge advantage on the clock — but Giri kept finding all the correct moves and eventually managed to secure a draw. Meanwhile, former co-leader Alireza Firouzja was defeated by Jan-Krzysztof Duda, who showcased good technique to collect his first win of the tournament. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

5/15/2023 – For the second year in a row, Manx Liberty won the British Four Nations League (4NCL) title. The team won all 11 matches, scoring 12 team points and finishing five points clear of White Rose and Cheddleton. | Photo: Manx Liberty

5/15/2023 – GM Leon Luke Mendonca scored an emphatic victory in the final round of Baku Open 2023. He finished with the same score 7/9 as GM Aleksandar Indjic (SRB) and GM Vladislav Kovalev, but won the tournament due to better tie-breaks. The performance rating of the 17-year-old: 2732. This is Leon's third rating open triumph in less than 2.5 months and five podium finishes in his last six strong open events. His performance this year is the definition of impressive. | Photo: FA Lana Afandiyeva

5/15/2023 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 125th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell": This tiem, he talks about Paul Morphy and Bobby Fischer. | Photo: Pascal Simon