6/6/2022 – Vishy Anand regained the sole lead at the Norway Chess Tournament thanks to a victory in Armageddon over former co-leader Magnus Carlsen. The Indian missed a huge chance to defeat the world number one in their classical encounter, but quickly managed to recover from the setback to get an all-important win in the sudden-death decider. Anish Giri and Aryan Tari scored three points by winning their classical games with the white pieces. | Photos: Lennart Ootes

6/5/2022 – 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 82nd instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman explains why playing the Benko Gambit might be a good choice for club players. | Photo: Pascal Simon

6/4/2022 – At the Tata Steel Masters 2022 Jorden van Foreest got the opportunity to conduct a long-planned opening experiment: In the Sicilian with 2.Nc6 he surprised his opponent Praggnanandhaa with 3.Bc4?! "Finally, here it was. There aren't all that many good reasons for why I like the move, the main probably being the fact that it looks so stupid :-)", writes the young Dutchman at the beginning of his analysis in the new CBM Extra #207. And the game continued no less exceptionally: after 3...e6 4.0-0 d5 5.Bb5! dxe4 6.Ne5 Qc7 7.Nxc6 bxc6 8.Bc4! White hast lost a pawn and moved his bishop three times in the opening! In the end, with a bit of luck, Van Foreest still won the game. It's "The brillancy" in CBM Extra #207. On top of that, the new edition offers no less than 56 annotated games and over an hour of video training with Elisabeth Pähtz and Ivan Sokolov.

6/4/2022 – Round 4 of the Norway Chess tournament was played on Friday. Magnus Carlsen won his classical against Anish Giri, and was awarded three points for his victory. Previously in the sole lead, Viswanathan Anand, playing with Black, had to settle for a draw against Wesley So before losing the Armageddon game. Anand received only one point in this round and is now sharing the lead with Carlsen. Round 5 will be played on Sunday after a rest day. | Photos: Lennart Ootes

6/4/2022 – It is said that "Vishy" Anand only needed seconds to find White's winning continuation in the diagram position - whereas you have all the time in the world!

6/3/2022 – Leon Mendonca recently won the HSK GM Invitational tournament, with 7 out of 9. Lawrence Trent played in the very same tournament, and reached the 50% mark, with 4.5 out of 9. Their game ended in a draw. Since Leon was still in Hamburg, we managed to have a Trent's Tactics show together. Maybe Lawrence, and Arne, thanks to Leon, finally went beyond the ChessBase tactics training rating of 2500? But, perhaps it was actually a huge challenge? Watch the video to find out how it went.

6/3/2022 – In his “Power Play Show” Daniel King looks at games from Norway Chess including Anand's win over Vachier-Lagrave where he shows brilliant technique. Daniel goes into some detail in the 3.Bb5+ Sicilian, and looks at alternatives to Black's play in the game. | 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.

6/3/2022 – The International Chess Festival Prague will start on 7 June and promises to be a highlight in this year's chess calendar. The event includes three invitational tournaments, the Masters, the Challengers and the Futures and several Opens, and the line-ups of these tournaments are exciting. | Photo: Vincent Keymer | Photo: Grenke Chess

6/3/2022 – Vishy Anand is still the sole leader at the Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger. The Indian beat Wang Hao in Armageddon, while his closest chaser, Wesley So, also won in the sudden-death decider against Anish Giri. Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won their classical encounters to grab three points in Thursday’s round. | Photos: Norway Chess

6/2/2022 – This week Robert Ris looks at the game Wang Hao vs Anish Giri from the Norway Chess Tournament. Both sides were ready for a Najdorf, both sides were well prepared and both sides were willing to enter sharp and complicated lines. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/2/2022 – Anatoly Karpov and Tigran Petrosian are two Gemini world champions with outstanding positional and defensive skills. Alireza Firouzja and Hans Moke Niemann are also Gemini but will they be able to follow the path of Karpov and Petrosian and become world champion? Gemini are sometimes the fastest thinkers of all the signs of the zodiac, but they sometimes also have to deal with lapses of concentration. | Photo: Pixabay

6/2/2022 – In his “Game of the Week” show #518, Merijn van Delft takes a look how the 16-year old Indian talent Praggnanandhaa convincingly smashed Anish Giri's Grunfeld at the Chessable Masters. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.