6/10/2023 – A final-round win over long-time leader Fabiano Caruana gave Hikaru Nakamura outright victory at the 11th edition of the Norway Chess super-tournament. Nakamura scored three wins and no losses in his nine classical games, which allowed him to climb to the second spot in the live ratings list. Caruana finished second, while 17-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh impressed by grabbing third place. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Norway Chess

6/10/2023 – In the diagram position White has just played 32.Rxf6!, which gives him an advantage after both 32...gxf6 and the game continuation 32...Dc3. There's a lot more to the position than I initially thought, though - let's climb up the variation tree!

6/10/2023 – In the sixth round of the Cairns Cup played on Friday, Anna Zatonskih won her game with black against Gunay Mammadzada and now stands alone at the top of the standings with a 4½/6 score. Elisabeth Paehtz is in second place after beating Nana Dzagnidze with white to reach a 3½/6 score. Zatonskih’s lead is not quite so clear, however, if you consider that the table is somewhat ‘skewed’ after Humpy Koneru withdrew due to health issues. | Photo: Crystal Fuller

6/9/2023 – From June 21 to July 2, the Global Chess League will be played in Dubai, with six excellent teams. Before that, inauguration events will take place in New York, London, Paris and Berlin. In Berlin, the event will take place next Sunday at the Schachfreunde Berlin, with Sebastian Siebrecht.

6/9/2023 – Hikaru Nakamura beat Fabiano Caruana in their last-round classical encounter to finish the tournament in sole first place. Nakamura climbed to the second spot in the live ratings list. Caruana got second place in Stavanger, while 17-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh impressed with his clear third place in the standings. | Replay the games with computer-assisted commentary.

6/9/2023 – In his new Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at a strategically complex line in the Najdorf that surfaced in a recent game in Norway Chess. And Daniel knows what he is talking about! | 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.

6/6/2023 – Following two rounds with 4 out of 5 games ending decisively, only Irina Krush and Bella Khotenashvili managed to score full points in round 3 of the Cairns Cup. Krush is now sharing the lead with Alexandra Kosteniuk on 2½ points. Anna Zatonskih stands in sole third place a half point behind the co-leaders. Zatonskih will face Kosteniuk with black in Tuesday’s fourth round. | Photo: Austin Fuller

6/6/2023 – Jon Speelman has an eye for unusual constellations and interesting chess games, and in his column he presents a game that was played recently, but brought back memories of times gone by: "Over the last few weeks, the game which has made much the greatest impression on me is the splendid rapidplay battle between Richard Rapport and Jan-Krzysztof Duda at the Superbet tournament in Warsaw. This magnificent slugfest quickly entered some sort of time portal and resurfaced in the mid-nineteenth century with White a huge amount of material down but the Black king under intense fire." | Photo: Jan-Krzysztof Duda at the Superbet Tournament in Warsaw 2023 | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/5/2023 – In this week's show, Karsten Müller looks at endgame highlights from the Dubai Open. Two queen endings were especially interesting. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

6/5/2023 – GM Romain Edouard is an expert on the Sicilian Dragon Variation. In his four-part series in ChessBase Magazine Extra he gives deep insights into the variations after 9.0-0-0 d5 and reveals a multitude of tactical motifs he came across in the course of his analyses. The second part deals with the main line 10.exd5. You can watch an excerpt from Edouard's 20-minute analysis here!

6/5/2023 – As a part of the Maharashtra Chess Festival, two chess legends, Peter Svidler and Nigel Short are facing young super-talents Vidit Gujrathi and Raunak Sadhwani. The latter got off to a great start, winning both games. But then the seniors struck back with emphatic victories. In round three the Young Talent won both games. This was followed by two draws. Report by ChessBase India.

6/5/2023 – He drew the Classical game against Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) in Round 5 of 11th Norway Chess 2023, and then was completely winning the Armageddon against the former World Rapid champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2731). However, Gukesh decided to repeat moves as draw with Black, which won him the match. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) and Hikaru Nakamura (USA) scored the only two Classical wins of the round against the tournament leader Fabiano Caruana (USA) and birthday boy Aryan Tari (NOR). The 'Speed King' Nakamura is now World no.2 again. Magnus Carlsen defeated Anish Giri in the Armageddon to win the match.