4/22/2022 – Today at Trent's Tactics, we are about to solve one of the hardest puzzles we ever had on the show. The three examples by GM Alexander G. Beliavsky are beautifully gathered, and have a twist!

4/22/2022 – An action packed day saw five matches decided in the playoffs and one match (Caruana-Xiong) made it all the way to Armageddon, finishing in a dramatic time scramble. After all was said and done, Aronian, Dominguez, Sevian, and Caruana from the Open Field along with Krush, Tokhirjonova, Lee, and Abrahamyan from the Women’s Field advanced to the next stage of the Champions Bracket. | Photos: Austin and Crystal Fuller, Saint Louis Chess Club, Lennart Ootes

4/21/2022 – "The chess world isn't a safe place for us," says popular chess streamer Tallulah Roberts, aka "lularobs", recounting an incident at the blitz tournament of the Reykjavik Open 2022. Jamaal S. Abdul-Alim, 2013 Chess Journalist of the Year, explains "why chess tournaments can be hostile for women and girls". | Photo: Reykjavik Open

4/21/2022 – This week Robert Ris analyses how the young Indian Gukesh used a relatively new concept in the Sicilian Richter-Rauzer to win a nice and crucial game at the La Roda Open. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/21/2022 – It was a nobrainer decision for the young guy who started writing ChessBase 37 years ago: Hit arrow-right to execute a move. The number of people replaying games in some kind of chess software can be assumed to be in the millions. So the number of cursor-right chess keystrokes in nearly 40 years is probably a couple of hundred billions (US). Maybe even a trillion (10^12). Not clear whether this is a life time software achievement to be proud of. But its time to grant the poor arrow keys a bit of rest with some cool new replaying functionality.

4/21/2022 – A massive chess festival took place in Chihuahua, Mexico on April 12-17. Almost a thousand participants played in the numerous open tournaments, which included events for women, amateurs and different age categories. In the main event, Argentinian GM Sandro Mareco was the outright winner after scoring 7½ out of 9 points. Pablo Salinas (Chile), Kevin Cori (Peru) and Luis Ibarra (Mexico) finished a half point. | Photo: Official site

4/21/2022 – With 7.5/9 the Armenian Grandmaster Hrant Melkumyan was sole first at this year's Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia. The tournament has been held since 1963 and is Australia's most prestigious chess event. It is named after the Austrian self-made businessman Erich Doeberl, who emigrated to Australia in 1955. | Photo: Rosemary Doeberl, daughter of Erich Doeberl, with Hrant Melkumyan (Photo: Chesslife)

4/21/2022 – The inaugural American Cup kicked off today with plenty of decisive action as several players drew first blood in their individual matches within the Champions Bracket. Samuel Sevian (pictured) caused the biggest upset: he won with Black against Wesley So. | Photos: Austin and Crystal Fuller, Saint Louis Chess Club

4/20/2022 – In his "Game of the Week" show #512, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fine positional exchange sacrifice with which the 18-year old Indian star Arjun Erigaisi defeated his countryman Chopra Aryan in round 4 of the Fagernes Open in Norway. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/20/2022 – The ever-smiling Nigerian boy who made it to the news a bit over three years ago continues to climb the rating ladder. Tanitoluwa Adewumi, better known as Tani, is 11 years old and has just grabbed his first IM norm at the New York Spring Invitational. Once a refugee escaping a terrorist group, he is now a household name in the chess world. | Photo: Kayode Adewumi

4/20/2022 – Today, the first round of the American Cup, a knockout tournament with special rules, will be played. Almost all top players from the US take part in this event, which is organised by the Saint Louis Chess Center. They fight for a prize fund of 300,000 USD, and the three top seeded players are Levon Aronian (2785), Fabiano Caruana (2781) and Wesley So (2778). The first round starts at 13.00 local time. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

4/20/2022 – The Swiss Young Masters had to be canceled after round four. Five of the ten players showed symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 virus and tested positive. After four rounds, Adrian Gschnitzer led the tournament with 3.0/4. The Rapid tournament on Sunday will take place as planned. Press release...