5/2/2022 – In his Endgame Magic Show #192 Karsten Müller has a very special guest. Tichon Cherniaev, who's now in Hamburg, joins Karsten on an interesting endgame journey. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

5/2/2022 – Can you imagine a chess book, written by a master, which contains exactly one chess diagram, and the notation of a single 17-move game? And that you would not be able to put it down? That is what happens with this unique work, written by chess master Asa Hoffmann, with his wife Ginny. Asa has spent a lifetime hustling game in the clubs, parks and streets of New York, and his account of his days there is absolutely compelling.

5/1/2022 – Our columnist Jon Speelman found an old book by Alexey Suetin on his shelves. “Scribed in the ancient English descriptive tongue, I hadn’t touched it for years, but when opened, it proved to be a treasure trove of ‘old chestnuts’, some of which I’m going to share”. | Photo: The Spruce Crafts

5/1/2022 – 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 77th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman talks about pawn majorities. | Photo: Pascal Simon

5/1/2022 – ChessBase Magazine #207 provides, among many other things, all the games from the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 series, which was played in Berlin and Belgrade from February to April. Andrey Esipenko, Anish Giri, Grigoriy Oparin, Alexandr Predke, Sam Shankland, Wesley So, Vidit Gujrathi and Nikita Vitiugov are some of the Grand Prix participants who commented on their best games. Wesley So, who won the third tournament but missed out on qualifying to the Candidates Tournament, examines his victory over Leinier Dominguez with the black pieces. It's "The Analysis" of the issue, and it begins with the words "Back in beautiful Berlin". Take a look!

4/30/2022 – The traditional TePe Sigeman & Co tournament will take place on May 3-9 as an 8-player single round-robin event. An exciting mix of veterans and rising stars is likely to make for an enjoyable tournament, as defending champion Jorden van Foreest will be joined by the likes of Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Arjun Erigaisi and Hans Niemann. | Photos: FIDE

4/30/2022 – Castling is a fascinating move. According to Wikipedia, "it originates from the 'king's leap', a two-square king move added to European chess between the 14th and 15th centuries, which took on its present form in the 17th century". The intricacies of the rules of castling have inspired many studies. Specialized columnist Siegfried Hornecker presents some of them. | Photos: Pixabay

4/30/2022 – Two world champions, Steinitz and Euwe; a chess family, the Cramlings; and plenty of 1.d4 practitioners, Moiseenko, Gaprindashvili, and Miles are born under the zodiac sign of Taurus. Their power lies in their calmness. A proper Taurus acts thoughtfully, prudently, deliberately. They calculate what they do, everything else is considered unreasonable. They may allow their opponent a refreshing nap while they think about the next move. It would be fatal to consider them limited for that reason. | Photo: Pixabay

4/30/2022 – Getting active when you are underdeveloped is rarely a good idea - in the diagram position Black has just played 9...Qc7? intending to capture on c4. Can you punish this move with White?

4/30/2022 – The 55th edition of the Capablanca Memorial took place on April 19-28 at the historic Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana. Hans Niemann from the United States dominated the Elite group, scoring 7½ points in the 10-player single round-robin. The Premier group, a women’s tournament, was similarly dominated by Romanian IM Irina Bulmaga, who also collected 7½ points to finish two points clear of her closest chaser. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Saint Louis Chess Club

4/29/2022 – This week Robert Ris analyses how the young American talent Hans Moke Niemann turned the supposedly quiet line with 3.Bb5+ against the Sicilian into a dangerous weapon. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/29/2022 – The complete FIDE Grand Prix 2022 (Berlin I - Belgrade - Berlin II) with analyses by Esipenko, Giri, Oparin, Predke, Shankland, So, Vidit and Vitiugov. In addition, Rogozenco presents two selected games of the winners, Nakamura and Rapport, in the video - "Trend line put to the test": Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows new ideas in the English Four Knights Variation with 4.e4 Bc5!? (video) – "Magnetic square h7!": How to take apart Black’s castling position, tactics training with Oliver Reeh – "Bent Larsen, the highly creative Dane": CBM authors analyse their favourite games - "All in one": Igor Stohl examines 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.h4!? – "Complete repertoire against ´the Alapin": Markus Ragger introduces the enterprising 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Nf6!? (video) - "Bent Larsen - a universal player": Mihail Marin sheds light on the strategic skills of the great Dane (incl. video) and much more!