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Targu Mures: Nisipeanu wins ahead of 13-year old Ukrainian IM

6/15/2022 – Rating favourite Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu (pictured, on the left) won the Targu Mures Open, a tournament that is part of the Romanian Grand Prix, a series of strong open events in Romania. In round 1 Nisipeanu lost against WGM Mihaela Sandu but he recovered and finished sole first with 7.0/9, ahead of the 13-year old Ukrainian IM Ihor Samunenkov who was sole second with 6.5/9. Irina Bulmaga (pictured, on the right) won the women's prize and sent a report. | Photos: CS Juvenes | Facebook
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"I like chess and all the things connected to it": An interview with Petr Boleslav

6/15/2022 – In 2019, the Prague Chess Festival took place for the first time and currently, the 4th Prague Chess Festival is played - with two interesting grandmaster tournaments, the Masters and the Challengers, an Open, the Futures, a tournament for young players, and a number of side events. In an interview, Petr Boleslav, organiser and tournament director of the Prague Chess Festival, talks about the background of the tournament and reveals why he decided to become a chess organiser. | Photo: Petr Boleslav at the opening of the Chess Festival | Photo: Petr Vrabec
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Easy play against the Budapest Gambit

6/15/2022 – The Budapest Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4) has its most loyal followers in club chess. 1.d4 players who are confronted with the gambit have to reckon with the fact that their opponents are far more familiar with the positions, if only because of the number of games they have played with that system. In the current ChessBase Magazine Extra 207 Ivan Sokolov shows a little-known but very convenient way for White to gain a nice advantage without extensive study of opening theory. You can watch an excerpt from his video analysis here!
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Prague: Le beats Salem to grab the sole lead

6/14/2022 – Le Quang Liem grabbed the sole lead at the Masters section of the Prague Chess Festival after beating Saleh Salem in Tuesday’s sixth round. Pentala Harikrishna is in sole second place a half point back. In the Challengers, former sole leader Vincent Keymer was held to a draw by Marcin Krzyzanowski, which allowed Nodirbek Abdusattorov to climb to the shared lead thanks to a win over Max Warmerdam. | Photo: Petr Vrabec
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Daniel Naroditsky is new NYT chess columnist

6/14/2022 – Almost eight years ago, in 2014, it was with deep chagrin that we announced the demise of the decades-old chess column in the venerable New York Times. Its most recent upkeeper at the time was the New York Times journalist, Dylan Loeb McClain, who still writes about chess affairs for the paper. It is with pleasure that we can trumpet its resurrection at the hands of GM Daniel Naroditsky.
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A missed chance

6/14/2022 – Mate ends the game and mating attacks also occur in the endgame. In the diagrammed position it is White to move. What should he do?
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Komodo Dragon 3

The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at an Elo level of over 3500!

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New: Fritztrainer streaming for tablets, iPads & smartphones

6/14/2022 – Fritztrainer video courses now run everywhere! They run in a stand-alone app for Windows and Mac; they run in the ChessBase programme; and now, brand new, they are streamable in the ChessBase video portal - for tablets, iPads and smartphones! In fact, regardless of whether you order the download or the DVD: you can watch the Fritztrainer as a stream in the video portal!
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Prague: Keymer leads Challengers, Abdusattorov close behind

6/14/2022 – All five games finished drawn in round 5 of the Masters section at the Prague Chess Festival, which left Le Quang Liem and Pentala Harikrishna sharing the lead on 3½ points. Meanwhile, in the Challengers, Vincent Keymer kept the sole lead after beating Peter Michalik with the black pieces. Nodirbek Abdusattorov (pictured) also won and is now in sole second place, a half point back. | Photo: Vladimír Jagr
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Anand's fantastic performance in Norway Chess!

6/13/2022 – Vishy Anand played some fantastic chess in the Norway Chess 2022. He finished 3rd in a very strong field, defeating Magnus twice in the event - once in blitz and other at the Armageddon. He very nearly got the better of World Champion in classical as well. In this article, we talk with Vishy about his overall performance, his games in the event, his resignation against Shakh, and a lot more.
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Endgame Magic #198: Rook endings

6/13/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #198 Karsten takes a look at interesting rook endings played in the first half of the year. Rook endings occur more often than any other ending and the examples Karsten picked contain important theoretical positions and patterns. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
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All set for the event of the year: the Candidates Tournament

6/13/2022 – The FIDE Candidates Tournament is the ultimate qualifier for the FIDE World Championship. Eight prominent grandmasters will compete for a top spot in this double round-robin event in Madrid, Spain, from 16 June to 5 July 2022. The first place is all that matters, as the winner qualifies to face the reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the match for the chess crown. | Picture: FIDE
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It's all in your mind! (1)

6/12/2022 – Are you able to play a game of chess without view of the board? Can you solve problems and studies by just looking at a position or a diagram? Well, grandmasters and very strong players can stun us with feats of mental skill that we mortals are scarcely able to comprehend. We start our series with an experiment in which you can try competing with some great chess prodigies.
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Understanding before Moving 83: Basics of the Benko Gambit (2)

6/12/2022 – 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 83rd instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman continues to explain why playing the Benko Gambit might be a good choice for club players. | Photo: Pascal Simon
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More endgames from Stavanger

6/12/2022 – A number of remarkable endgames from the Norway Chess tournament have caught the eye of GM Karsten Müller. In the four games included in this article, our in-house specialist shows examples of pawn races with rooks still on the board, the need to find precise roads in pawn endgames and how to keep a king from escaping a sequence of checks with rook and knight. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Norway Chess
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Prague: Le and Harikrishna share the lead in the Masters

6/12/2022 – Le Quang Liem and Pentala Harikrishna are sharing the lead with 3 points after 4 rounds at the Masters section of the Prague Chess Festival. The two co-leaders have three players standing a half point back going into the event’s one rest day. Meanwhile, Vincent Keymer is the sole leader in the Challengers section, also with 3 out of 4. | Photo: Petr Vrabec
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Magnus Carlsen wins Norway Chess for a fourth straight time

6/11/2022 – Magnus Carlsen won the Norway Chess Tournament for a fourth time in a row after beating Veselin Topalov in Armageddon on Friday. The world champion would not have grabbed the title had Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Teimour Radjabov in their classical game. Radjabov held the draw despite having almost no time on the clock, allowing Carlsen to once again win his home event. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
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The art of attack

6/11/2022 – From the diagram position, Black hunted down the exposed white king with some extraordinary moves. Can you find them all?
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Daniel King’s Power Play Show: The great Yuri Averbakh

6/10/2022 – In his “Power Play Show” Daniel King focuses on one of Yuri Averbakh’s biggest contributions to chess theory: the King’s Indian Defence system he developed and pioneered in the 1950s. Still one of the most reliable setups up to this day! | 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.
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The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1 & 2

This video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

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The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1

This video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

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The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.2

his video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

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The Stonewall Attack in 60 Minutes

The Stonewall Attack (d4 followed by e3 and possibly f4) is an old-fashioned opening, almost forgotten, not thought to give White any advantage at all. Yet it still packs a punch and is not so easy to defend against. It is especially good for club players

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Santasiere's Folly: 1.Nf3 followed by b4 in 60 Minutes

White gains space on the queenside, forces the opponent to use their own resources right from the start of the game and creates a complicated position.

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Key Concepts of Chess - Pawn Structures Vol.1

In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures. “Open and half-open files” and “the pawn chain” will be covered extensively on this video course. New: now also available as stream!

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Norway Chess: Games and standings

6/10/2022 – The tenth edition of the Norway Chess Tournament is taking place from May 31 to June 10 in Stavanger. A 10-player single round-robin, the event uses a unique format: in case of a draw in the classical game, an Armageddon follows to have a winner in every single encounter. The action kicks off at 17.00 CEST (11.00 ET, 20.30 IST). | Follow the games live with computer analyses and expert commentary.
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Trent's Tactics - Kotov's syndrome and Trent's beautiful queen sacrifice

6/10/2022 – As promised last episode, we wanted to display the beautiful queen sacrifice by Lawrence Trent from the HSK Gm Invitational open. But the main part of today, is the legendary GM Alexander Kotov, which Arne didn't even know about before. The "Kotov Syndrome" is named after the Soviet Grandmaster, and it describes a situation, where you think about an important position for too long, not finding the winning move, and with little time left, make a blunder instead. Probably all of us have been there.
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Norway Chess: Mamedyarov climbs to second place as Anand blunders

6/10/2022 – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Vishy Anand to climb to sole second place with a round to go at the Norway Chess Tournament. The Indian star, who was having a great run in Stavanger, made a one-move blunder and immediately resigned the game on move 22. Meanwhile, Magnus Carlsen beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Armageddon to keep the sole lead — the world champion goes into Friday’s final round a half point ahead of Mamedyarov. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
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Prague: Shankland beats Salem

6/9/2022 – Defending champion Sam Shankland bounced back from his first-round loss against Le Quang Liem by beating Saleh Salem with the white pieces in the Masters section of the Prague Chess Festival. This was the only decisive game of the day. A more eventful second round in the Challengers saw four players scoring wins with white — one of the winners was Vincent Keymer, who grabbed the sole lead as the only participant who scored back-to-back victories in the first two rounds. | Photos: Petr Vrabec
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Robert Ris’ Fast and Furious: Shirov impresses in Limburg

6/9/2022 – This week Robert Ris looks at a fine victory by Alexei Shirov, who recently defeated Jorden van Foreest in a 4-game mini match that took place in Limburg. Fire on board! | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Matthew Sadler thinks the "4 Player Types Model" is worth a look

6/9/2022 – Are you an 'Activist', a 'Theorist', a 'Reflector' or a 'Pragmatist’, the four types of players identified by Karsten Müller and Luis Engel in their ChessBase course about player types? It might help to know, and in a review in the "New in Chess Magazine" English Grandmaster Matthew Sadler talks about the pros and cons of such a model and argues that it is useful to identify your strengths and weaknesses if you want to improve your game.
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Komodo Dragon 3

The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at an Elo level of over 3500!

€99.90

The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1 & 2

This video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

€59.80 €54.90

The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1

This video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

€29.90

The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.2

his video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

€29.90

The Stonewall Attack in 60 Minutes

The Stonewall Attack (d4 followed by e3 and possibly f4) is an old-fashioned opening, almost forgotten, not thought to give White any advantage at all. Yet it still packs a punch and is not so easy to defend against. It is especially good for club players

€9.90

Santasiere's Folly: 1.Nf3 followed by b4 in 60 Minutes

White gains space on the queenside, forces the opponent to use their own resources right from the start of the game and creates a complicated position.

€9.90

Key Concepts of Chess - Pawn Structures Vol.1

In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures. “Open and half-open files” and “the pawn chain” will be covered extensively on this video course. New: now also available as stream!

€29.90


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