8/20/2022 – Eduardo Iturrizaga and Marta García won the 2022 Spanish Championships. The event was a 9-round Swiss open played on August 11-19 at the RL Aníbal Hotel in Linares, Andalusia. Iturrizaga, who transferred to Spain only last year, won his second consecutive title, while Garcia, 22, achieved her first triumph in the women’s championship. | Photos: Spanish Chess Federation Facebook page

8/20/2022 – In this King's Indian position, it's Black to move - and he can quickly take the full point if White isn't careful. You have been warned!

8/20/2022 – With two rounds to go, Magnus Carlsen is in the sole lead at the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami. Carlsen lost his match against Jan-Krzysztof Duda in blitz tiebreaks —gaining 1 point in the standings— while former co-leader Praggnanandhaa was defeated by Le Quang Liem in the rapid section of their match. What had become a two-horse race for first place has now three players fighting for tournament victory, as Alireza Firouzja won a fourth match in a row and now stands two points behind the leader. | Pictured: Jan-Krzysztof Duda at the opening ceremony

8/20/2022 – A field with well-established GMs and young stars is fighting it off in Miami at the FTX Crypto Cup. Our in-house expert Karsten Müller is following the games looking to find the most intriguing and instructive ending positions. Do not miss his on-point analyses! | Pictured: Praggnanandhaa in 2018 | Photo: Amruta Mokal

8/19/2022 – In his Power Play Show, Daniel King finds inspiration in a game from the Women’s Olympiad. Tournament sensation Oliwia Kiolbasa defeated Indian rising star Vaishali after converting her advantage in a fascinating rook endgame. This is the starting point for a discussion with related games. | 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.

8/19/2022 – Sipke Ernst has made a successful Fritzrainer last year, tackling the "flexible Open Spanish". The Dutch Grandmaster is back again, with "3.h4 against the King's Indian and Grünfeld". Time to ask him about when he started to play chess, his feeling when reaching the Grandmaster title, a rating of over 2600, and one of his most passionate hobbies - Arm wrestling! We also analyse one of his favourite games he ever played. Luke Mcshane was the opponent, made a beautiful sacrifice, which Sipke countered wonderfully. | Photo: Sipke Ernst FB

8/19/2022 – Viktor Kupreichik was a top chess player. The Grandmaster won the Belarusian Championship in 1972, and 31 years later as well, in 2003. His four tactics, which Lawrence has found for us to solve, are fun puzzles. Furthermore, when Lawrence and Arne try to solve the ChessBase tactics, you can witness their worst fail ever! It is painful to watch, but the questions remains: Can you find the mistake they made in their calculation?

8/19/2022 – High-stakes 1v1 competition is pretty rare in the chess world. But just before the Olympiad in Chennai top Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri faced off against India's Number Three Vidit Gujrathi in the first ChessBase India Original Death Match: Blindfold, Blitz and Bullet. You can follow all the action in a six-hour Death Match video – which so far has had over 350,000 views. | Report by Himank Ghosh.

8/19/2022 – The junior players impressed at the Chess Olympiad in Chennai. 13 of the world's top 20 juniors played on their countries' national teams. And ten of these 13 juniors improved their ratings significantly. But a few "oldies" also had remarkable results.

8/19/2022 – This week Robert Ris will have a look at a model game in the Sveshnikov, played by Fabiano Caruana (with Black) against Greek GM Dimitris Mastrovasilis at the Chess Olympiad 2022 in Chennai. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

8/19/2022 – With three rounds to go at the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami, Magnus Carlsen and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu continue to dominate the field, as they both won a fourth consecutive match on Thursday. Carlsen defeated Le Quang Liem, while Pragg got the better of Levon Aronian. Alireza Firouzja, who beat Jan-Krzysztof Duda, stands in sole third place, four points behind the leaders.

8/18/2022 – Fischer leads by three points. The Match of the Century was coming to a head, with Spassky, despite all his efforts, unable to reduce the deficit. "I felt that Fischer was like a large fish in my hands," he lamented, "one that was slippery and hard to hold on to. At certain moments I let him slip. And then again the psychological torment would begin. Everything had to be begun again from the start ..." Spassky was beginning to feel despondent. | Photo: Skáksamband Íslands