9/28/2022 – When chess gets featured extensively in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Sunday Times and even VICE, while Elon Musk also weighs in and when it’s the subject of sketches by Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert in the same week, you’d normally think this was good. This time round, in his editorial in the October issue of CHESS Magazine, Malcolm Pein is not totally sure.

9/28/2022 – Kateryna Lagno grabbed the sole lead at the Women’s Grand Prix in Astana after scoring a fourth win in a row on Tuesday. Lagno defeated Zhu Jiner with the black pieces, while former co-leader Aleksandra Goryachkina signed a quick draw in her game against Zhansaya Abdumalik. Alexandra Kosteniuk and Polina Shuvalova also scored full points in round 9. | Photo: FIDE / Anna Shtourman

9/27/2022 – From building character to sharpening cognitive abilities to meliorating neurological disorders like Autism, the benefits of the ancient game of chess are many and wide-ranging. In fact, having evolved through one and a half millennia, it is more than just a game today. It is a cultural and intellectual phenomenon: an inspiration for visual artists, a playground for experimentation for scientists, and a pedagogical tool for educationists; but more than anything else, it is a common tongue connecting people across gender, ethnicity and generation. Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival is an event that is held every year in Budapest, Hungary, to celebrate this very diversity of chess. It is a gala that invites not only players but professionals from various other disciplines with the sole aim of promoting chess in all its myriad facets. This year the singular event is taking place on the 8th of October. We walk you through its different planned activities and present four original studies for solving that are part of its special program, Chess Artistry Adventure, in memory of the late Pal Benko.

9/27/2022 – This book contains a revealing self-portrait of Abhimanyu Mishra. The youngest grandmaster in the history of chess tells the story of a highly ambitious family project. Supported by his father, mother and sister, Abhi sets out to beat a nineteen-year-old world record. In June 202, at the height of the Covid pandemic, he succeeded against all odds: ‘I should have been jumping with excitement, but my heart was so full that I ended up teary-eyed in my father's arms.’ Book review.

9/27/2022 – In the diagrammed position it is Black to move. Endgames with bishops of opposite colours have large drawish tendencies but here Black's passed b-pawn and the active black king are more important. How should Black proceed?

9/27/2022 – An exciting eighth round at the Women’s Grand Prix in Astana, with five out of six games ending decisively, left Aleksandra Goryachkina and Kateryna Lagno (pictured) sharing the lead on 6/8 points. Notably, Goryachkina defeated former co-leader Zhu Jiner with the white pieces. Zhu now stands in sole third place, a full point behind the leaders. | Photo: FIDE / Anna Shtourman

9/24/2022 – Magnus Carlsen and Arjun Erigaisi moved on to the final of the Julius Baer Generation Cup after beating Vincent Keymer and Le Quang Liem, respectively. The match between Arjun and Le went to tiebreaks, while Carlsen got a 3-1 victory over Keymer. A 2-set match will decide the winner of the tournament.

9/23/2022 – In his Power Play Show, Daniel King looks at a couple of recent games featuring brilliant attacks - simply stunning. | 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.

9/23/2022 – In the women's chess world, certainly Judit Polgar is the absolute legend. Not only was she among the top ten of the chess world for quite a while, she also played powerful attacking chess, with stunning tactics. Lawrence found four of them, which are instructional, and lovely to solve.

9/23/2022 – The International Chess Federation has shared a statement regarding the scandal that has taken over the chess over. FIDE wrote: “As the world’s chess governing body, it is our duty to protect the integrity of the game and its image, and in view that the incident keeps escalating, we find it necessary to take a step forward”. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

9/23/2022 – On 29 September Anna and Mariya Muzychuk will give a simultaneous event against 30 opponents in the European Parliament in Brussels. On this occasion, the two Ukrainians will also receive an award from the Emanuel Lasker Society.

9/23/2022 – FIDE has announced a new world championship: an Open World Team Championship in which club teams can participate. The partner of the World Championship, which will offer a prize fund of 250,000 euros, is the logistics company WR Group based in Düsseldorf, Germany, where the tournament is "tentatively" scheduled to be played in May 2023.