8/10/2021 – The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss and Women’s Grand Swiss will be held in Riga in the format and dates originally scheduled: from 25 October to 8 November 2021. The difficult decision to relocate the tournament from Douglas, its original planned location, was forced due to the strict COVID-19 restrictions still in place in the Isle of Man. | Photo: Diego Delso

8/9/2021 – Britain’s first-ever outdoor chess festival, ChessFest, attracted 6,000 visitors at London’s Trafalgar Square, and featured a varied programme of fun activities, including live chess games with actors, grandmaster simuls, mass teach-ins and video shows. The organisers, Chess in Schools and Communities, say they would like to make ChessFest an annual event. Tim Wall reports. | Photo John Beardsworth

8/9/2021 – In the "Endgame Magic Show #155" Karsten Mueller talks with Abhimanyu Mishra about the endgame. In the old days people said that one should just go into the endgame against a young player which then would win itself. But Abhimanyu Mishra, the world's youngest Grandmaster ever, proves this to be wrong. He knows a lot about endgames, has watched all 154 previous "Endgame Magic" shows, and stuns Karsten again and again with insights and questions. In the current show the young Grandmaster proves his defensive skills in rook endings, but in some examples Abhimanyu is also attacking, when he is no less resourceful. | "Endgame Magic" is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

8/9/2021 – A draw in the second set of the finals was enough for Wesley So to secure first place at the second edition of the Chessable Masters. The Filipino-born grandmaster thus obtained his third title in this year’s Champions Chess Tour. Le Quang Liem finished in a remarkable second place, while Vladislav Artemiev got the bronze after beating Levon Aronian in the match for third place.

8/9/2021 – The game Adolf Anderssen against Lionel Kieseritzky, the "Immortal Game", played in London 1851, is arguably the most famous game in the history of chess. Anderssen won with a brilliant mating combination after sacrificing huge parts of his army. But his opponent Lionel Kieseritzky also played an "Immortal Game". Stephan Oliver Platz discovered this game and uses it as a starting point to take a close look at Kieseritzky's contribution to the King's Gambit.

8/8/2021 – The Chessable Masters is the eighth event of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Sixteen strong grandmasters are set to play a preliminary stage lasting three days to find out who moves on to the quarterfinals. In the knockout stage, each encounter is decided over two days. The action kicks off at 17.00 CET (11.00 ET, 15.00 UTC).

8/8/2021 – 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 39th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman takes another look at critical moves, this time with the help of a fine game by the young Garry Kasparov. | Photo: Tommy Grooten

8/8/2021 – Wesley So convincingly won the first of the finals at the Chessable Masters by twice beating Le Quang Liem after launching successful sacrificial attacks. Meanwhile, Levon Aronian and Vladislav Artemiev drew the first set in the match for third place. | Photo: Meltwater Champions Chess Tour

8/7/2021 – The 2021 FIDE World Cup concluded on August 5 with Jan-Krzysztof Duda defeating Sergey Karjakin by a score of 1½-½ in the finals. Joshua Doknjas takes a look at five interesting games from the second half of the event, focussing on the performances of the two finalists. | Photo: Eric Rosen

8/7/2021 – Le Quang Liem and Wesley So made it into the finals of the Chessable Masters after eliminating Levon Aronian and Vladislav Artemiev respectively. Le’s match went to Armageddon, while So drew the second set after having won the first 4-game mini-match. Expert analyses by GM Karsten Müller. | Photo: Champions Chess Tour

8/7/2021 – In the diagram position 23.Nxf6! gxf6 leads to a winning advantage for White. Knowing this, can you remove possible obstacles on the way?

8/6/2021 – By a score of 23–22, Northern California triumphed over Texas at the national tournaments of state chess champions held July 31–August 3. Each state could send five representatives, and each representative played six games. Individual champions were also crowned. Woman International Master Alexey Root reports from the Cherry Hill, New Jersey site, which also hosts the U.S. Open. | Photos: Alexey Root