6/23/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look how Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won a fine positional and attacking game in a popular opening line against Teimour Radjabov at the Grand Chess Tournament in Paris. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/23/2021 – The new edition of one of our favourite books, by problemist Werner Keym, now contains 400 famous examples of brilliant games, remarkable, sometimes outrageous studies, and preposterous chess problems. The book includes a lot of subsidiary diagrams that makes it particularly easy to read. We bring you a number of entertaining examples: for instance, can you find a forced mate in two in this position? There is only one key move that will do it.

6/23/2021 – The seventh leg of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour will be played from June 26 until July 4. Dubbed the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, the event will feature a $100,000 prize fund. Remarkably, the highest-rated woman player in the world, Hou Yifan, will take part in the tournament. Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So, currently placed first and second respectively in the tour standings, will also participate.

6/23/2021 – We have renovated: the ChessBase video portal presents itself in a new look. But the most important thing: you will now find what you are looking for much faster! Over 5,000 training videos are ready for you! All of them are fully indexed, so that you can use the search board to search all the videos for positions. Content has also been cleaned up: while we now offer "chess entertainment" on our YouTube channels, the focus on the video portal is now on chess training. High-quality training material on openings, middlegames, endgames. We regularly publish new training lessons from top trainers such as Daniel King, Karsten Müller, Herman Grooten, Robert Ris or Lawrence Trent. Real premium content for premium users! Come in!

6/23/2021 – Thanks to a remarkable performance in the second half of the blitz section, Wesley So won the Paris Rapid & Blitz Tournament with one round to spare. The Filipino-born grandmaster finished the tournament three points clear of second-placed Ian Nepomniachtchi, after losing only one out of the 27 games played in the French capital. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/22/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the National Open in Las Vegas, focusing on the game Levy Rozman vs Christopher Yoo in round 5, a superb attacking display by the "internet's chess teacher". And Lawrence will talk about the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament and the Prague Masters. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/22/2021 – 170 years ago, on 21 June 1851, Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky played one of the most famous games of all time: the so-called "Immortal Game", in which Anderssen sacrificed a large part of his army to mate the enemy king. Since then this game has been included in countless anthologies, it continues to be a popular choice for live exhibition games, it has been quoted in films, and the decisive position has been printed on T-shirts. It also played a role in the novel "Writers & Lovers" by American author Lily King.

6/22/2021 – Thanks to a remarkable performance in the second half of the blitz section, Wesley So won the Paris Rapid & Blitz Tournament with one round to spare. The Filipino-born grandmaster finished the tournament three points clear of second-placed Ian Nepomniachtchi, after losing only one out of the 27 games played in the French capital. | Full report to follow shortly. | Pictured: So next to Gilles Betthaeuser, founder of AOS in 1997 | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/22/2021 – After three days of rapid chess, the blitz section of the Paris Rapid & Blitz Tournament kicked off on Monday. Alireza Firouja was the strongest in the first half of the blitz phase, while Vladimir Kramnik had a rough time facing his younger opponents. Wesley So still leads the overall standings. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/22/2021 – In the National Open in Las Vegas five players shared first with 7.0/9. The 15-year-old Arthur Guo had the best tiebreak and won the tournament. | Photos: Tournament page National Open

6/22/2021 – Knights that fight against pawns in the endgame can be versatile or very clumsy. In the diagram position the black knight turned out to be very versatile. How did it help Black to win the game?

6/22/2021 – The man behind the Komodo Dragon 2, Larry Kaufman, was a successful broker in the mid-80s. He earned enough money to retire for the rest of his life and lie in a hammock, reading books. But instead, he won the senior chess championship in 2008 to become a chess Grandmaster at the age of over 60 years, worked on several chess engines, like Machack, Rybka, and of course, the Komodo series, steadily played on the highest "Shogi" level for decades, and wrote plenty of books - his newest one "Chess Board Options" just came out a week ago. In the interview with Kaufman, there is even more to discover about his fascinating life. | Photos: Larry Kaufman