5/21/2022 – Vishy Anand continued his winning streak at the Superbet Rapid & Blitz tournament in Warsaw, as he kicked off day 2 with two straight wins before signing his first draw of the event in round 6. Anand has a 2-point lead over Richard Rapport, who collected full points in all three rounds on Friday. | Photo: Bryan Adams

5/20/2022 – In the first day of the Champions Chess Tour, Gawain Jones played the Kings Indian against Vidit Gujrathi because it is a very legit weapon. One of Svitlana's favourite openings deserves a second part, to get into some deeper strategic territory. What if White is castling on the queen side? We adjust our plans, and build up some important decisions. Svitlana analyses an interesting King's Indian game between Ivan Cheparinov, and Wang Yue!

5/20/2022 – After four rounds at the preliminaries of the Chessable Masters, 22-year-old Wei Yi is leading the standings table on 10/12 points. Three of the favourites stand two points behind — Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Anish Giri. The 16-player online tournament is played with a football scoring system. Half the players will move on to the knockout stage from the single round-robin set to run until Sunday. | Photo: Niki Riga

5/19/2022 – Vishy Anand scored three wins in as many games to take the lead at the rapid section of the Superbet Poland Rapid & Blitz Tournament. With six rounds of rapid left to go, the former world champion has a 2-point lead over a chasing pack consisting of Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian and Jan-Krzysztof Duda — players receive 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw in the rapid. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

5/19/2022 – This week Robert Ris shows how David Navara managed to beat the currently popular line with 3...a6 against the Queens Gambit Declined in a fine and instructive game played in the Czech Championship 2022. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/19/2022 – Munich will host the third leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2022-23, to be held from February 1-14, 2023. The venues, dates, and details for the other three legs in the WGP Series will be announced at the end of May. | Photos: FIDE

5/16/2022 – Four-time Indian women’s champion IM Padmini Rout reflects on ‘The 4 Player Types standard model’, a FritzTrainer authored by GMs Karsten Müller and Luis Engel. She writes, “This has been one of the most useful DVDs I have come across, and I recommend everyone to watch it. Know more about your strengths and weakness [and] what areas to work on”. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

5/16/2022 – Midsummer is traditionally the time of the Dortmund Chess Days. After last year's relaunch, the festival will be expanded this year with, among other things, a large international open. At the weekend, the pairings have been drawn, which also means that the schedule is fixed. It all starts on 17 July. | Photos: Dortmunder Schachtage

5/16/2022 – One of the fascinating aspects of new iterations of tablebases is submitting known positions to their 'divine' evaluation. The words "better" or "worse" cease to have any meaning and not only are all evaluations perfect and absolute, but so are the solutions. In the following article a share of cooks of studies as well as famous endgames and analyses are placed under the spotlight of the 8-piece tablebases.

5/15/2022 – Unashamed ultra-violence. Jon Speelman continues to share findings from his bookshelf, and today explores Irving Chernev’s “The 1000 best short games of chess”, a collection of miniatures first published in 1957. Speelman adds notes to selected games from the collection of thud and blunder.

5/15/2022 – 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 79th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman continues to talk about pawn majorities. | Photo: Pascal Simon

5/15/2022 – Yuri Averbakh is no more. Tributes are pouring in from all over the world to the late grandmaster, who had only recently turned 100 and chess fans had celebrated the day. Not many are aware that he wrote his autobiography years before. Our columnist had begun a series on this fascinating work and narrated how it all began. Then came the Ukraine war, and he could not bring himself to write anything in the face of this tragedy. Sadly, the war is continuing, and our columnist has reconciled himself to writing. Importantly, this series is a homage to the life and work of a great player. | Photo: Eric Koch / Anefo