10/25/2022 – The FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich announced during the opening ceremony of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament in Monaco, that Pool B for this event will be hosted in the ancient city of Khiva, in Uzbekistan. The event will take place from November 28 to December 11. | Photo: Fulvio Spada

10/25/2022 – Last week the 25th Hoogeveen Chess Festival celebrated chess again - with matches and tournaments. Local hero Lucas von Foreest won his match against Luke McShane and Daniel Dardha from Belgium won his match against Max Warmerdam. The Open finished with a "Final Four" finale which was won by Robert Hovhanissyan. Frans Peeters reports. | Photos: Frans Peeters

10/25/2022 – The World Junior Championships in Sardinia ended on Saturday with a double success for players from Azerbaijan. In the Open, the 18th seed IM Abdulla Gadimbayli (photo) finished with 8.0/11 and shared first place with four other players but won the tournament on tiebreak. In the "Girls" section WGM Govhar Beydullayeva scored 8.5/11 to share first place with Assel Seribay from Kazakhstan but also won because of her better tiebreak-score. | Photos: Przemek Nikiel

10/25/2022 – Pawn endings should be calculated very carefully. In the diagrammed position it is White to move and draw. How?

10/25/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #212 Karsten Müller and his guest David Navara look at endgame highlights from the Aimchess Tournament. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

10/24/2022 – There is love at first sight, as everyone knows, and there are, somewhat surprisingly, "statistics at first sight". What is that? In the infamous matter labelled by now as "the Hans Niemann cheating case" (a title that S.S. Van Dine would have greatly appreciated, as well as the mystery surrounding the case) such "statistics at first sight" have attracted the undisputed attention of every party involved – and above all the attention of the ones not involved. | Picture: The rating development of Hans Niemann

10/24/2022 – 188 years ago, from June to October 1834, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais of France and Alexander McDonnell of Ireland played a series of five matches to determine who was the world's best player of their time. La Bourdonnais won with an overall score of 45 wins, 27 losses and 13 draws. Today, this series of matches is considered to be the first inofficial World Championship match. It helped enormously to popularize chess and led to a number of remarkable games. Eugene Manlapao has the details. | Pictured: Stamp issued by the postal administration of the Solomon Islands in 2013

10/23/2022 – Half the field of the Women’s Candidates will battle it out in a knockout event to decide who qualifies to a final match set to take place sometime in 2023. Pool A will take place from October 24 to November 6 at the Hotel Hermitage in Monte Carlo.

10/23/2022 – 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 96th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman continues to discuss structures that are typical for the Queen's Gambit Declined. | Photo: Pascal Simon

10/23/2022 – After her first round win, Lilit had a winning position in her second game, but wasn't able to convert it, and drew. The draw against Anna Kubicka felt like a loss, and the IM had to recover quickly, to be prepared for the next round. Everybody knows the feeling after a loss in a tournament. But how to tackle those emotions, which pull you down best? Lilit has some good advice in this third episode.

10/23/2022 – In the third and final instalment of the Chess Artistry Adventure series, we bring you seven more studies, six of them originals, by world-class composers like Arpad Rusz, Amatzia Avni, Michael Pasman, and more. We also briefly discuss the composers and try to understand how they can turn positions from games into original compositions. Like in the previous article, we also have an assortment of flavours here. Some of the studies are concrete and tactical, while others are a bit on the technical side. However, regardless of style, each composition is deeply instructional, and you can be sure to come out wiser as a chess player if you go through them all.

10/22/2022 – The FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship is back with its second edition. The over-the-board final will take place at the Berjaya Natura Hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 25-30 October. The 8-player lineup will include defending champion Wesley So, classical chess champion Magnus Carlsen and rapidplay specialist Hikaru Nakamura.