6/21/2023 – It has almost become a tradition: at the end of the school year, a thousand primary school students once again played an outdoor chess tournament on Bremen’s market square! The project “Schach macht schlau” (Chess makes you smart) has been running since 2018, with 43 schools now participating and offering one hour of chess per week in regular lessons. Senator for Education Sascha Aulepp opened the tournament together with project initiator Marco Bode. This time, the “Dog” team won and the students of the Augsburger Straße primary school were allowed to take the trophy home! | Photos: Nils Rohde

6/20/2023 – You are the kind of chess player who likes to analyse passionately, perhaps directly on the screen, using ChessBase. You regularly save your analyses and to make sure that you can find them again you have a list of 30 chapters which systematises the games with the help of a text entry on the first move. In spite of this loving care it still happens that analyses disappear. How can this be? What has gone wrong? ChessBase expert Martin Fischer has the answer!

6/20/2023 – After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the long-running ASEAN Age Group Championships have resumed. The 21st ASEAN+ Age Group Championship is currently being held in Bangkok, Thailand from 17-26 June 2023 and has attracted 328 players from 15 countries. As in the previous 20 editions, classical, rapid and blitz tournaments will be played in categories ranging from under 8 to under 20, for both boys and girls. | Photo: Thailand's young national champion and No. 1 ranked player leads representatives from all participating countries in pledge for fair play. | Photo: Prin Laohawirapap

6/20/2023 – The Armenian team emerged victorious at the European Pair Blitz Chess Championship, which took place in Kraków on Monday. The Armenian pair, women’s tournament winner Elina Danielian and the open event runner-up Shant Sargsyan, finished ahead of the teams from the Netherlands (Elina Roebers and Benjamin Bok) and Azerbaijan (Gunay Mammadzada and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov). | Photos: Walusza Fotografia

6/20/2023 – In the diagram position Black is two pawns up, but White's b-pawn is dangerous. So dangerous that Black needs to be precise to win. What should Black do?

6/19/2023 – In this week's show, Karsten Müller looks at endgame highlights from the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Nicosia, which was surprisingly won by Dinara Wagner, the lowest-rated player in the field. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

6/17/2023 – The ASEAN Age Group Championships is an extremely important event for young kids living in the ASEAN countries. They include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar. Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Timur Leste. However, if you look at the name carefully, it says ASEAN+ and the + indicates that more countries are welcome at the championships — China, India, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. It will be held in 14 age groups from the 17th to the 27th of June 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand. Along with this tournament, there is also an ACC-ECU symposium which will witness the presence of Artur Yusupov, Zurab Azmaiparashvili and many other famous names.

6/16/2023 – In a new article published on Forbes India, former world champion Vishy Anand reflects on how India has come to be recognised as a global chess powerhouse. Anand writes: “So, when I started the academy with Westbridge Capital, the idea wasn’t just to get Indians to play chess, but to see how we can get Indians to the very top”. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

6/16/2023 – In his new Power Play Show, GM Daniel King looks at the remarkable move ...Rg8 played in the game between Aryan Tari and Nodirbek Abdusattorov at the Norway Chess super-tournament. | 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.

6/16/2023 – Endgame theory consists of various concepts. Unlike the opening, the theory in the endgame is not getting influenced by the computer. Knowing certain concepts will always help to understand various endgame theories. Correspondence squares is one of those must-know concepts. Is it only limited to pawn endgames? GM Sundararajan Kidambi explores a concept which he found quite complex since his childhood. | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

6/16/2023 – The Aimchess Rapid Play-In featured a number of top-notch grandmasters, who had to go through a difficult open event to fight for a spot in the next stage of the Champions Chess Tour. Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Levon Aronian and Eduardo Iturrizaga made it through in the end. GM Karsten Müller followed the games closely and highlighted a few instructive endgames for us to learn from. Find here four examples which showcase the technical ability of Carlsen, So, Daniil Dubov and Bogdan-Daniel Deac. | Photo: Alina l’Ami

6/15/2023 – The Kasparov Chess Foundation, in association with the European Chess Academy and the Trainers Commission of the European Chess Union, present the first European conference for chess trainers. The event will take place during the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz tournament in Zagreb, the third stage of this year’s Grand Chess Tour.