11/21/2025 – More than 360 players, including World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and former champion Magnus Carlsen, have confirmed their participation in the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships in Doha from 25 to 30 December. The field features leading grandmasters, rising talents and returning legends across both the open and women's events. With over €1,000,000 in prizes and strong entries in every section, this year's edition promises a highly competitive end to the chess calendar.

11/21/2025 – The World Cup began on 30 October in Goa, India. Two hundred and six players entered the tournament; three weeks later, only four remain and will now meet in the semifinals. China’s Wei Yi faces the Russian GM Andrey Esipenko, while Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan takes on his compatriot Nodirbek Yakubboev. The top three finishers qualify for the Candidates Tournament. The winner earns 120,000 USD, the fourth-placed player 50,000. But who has the best chances of winning the event — and securing a spot in the Candidates? | Photos: Michal Walusza

11/21/2025 – The preliminary stage of the Women's World Team Championship concluded on Thursday in Linares, with Russia and Georgia topping their respective groups and eight teams advancing to the knockout phase. The final round brought clear outcomes in both pools, alongside a few notable surprises, including India's qualification with a reserve lineup and Ukraine's early exit after two costly defeats. Several intriguing matchups now await in the quarterfinals, most notably China v. United States. | Pictured: Russian IM Polina Shuvalova | Photo: Pavel Dvorkovich

11/20/2025 – The Charlotte Chess Center and the Naroditsky family have launched the "Naroditsky Memorial and Fellowship Fund" to honour the life and work of GM Daniel Naroditsky, whose passing in October profoundly affected the chess community. The initiative aims to establish a permanent 4-million-dollar endowment supporting two projects dear to him: an annual elite blitz and rapid tournament in Charlotte and a fellowship for promising young players. | Image: Charlotte Chess Center

11/20/2025 – Britain’s most prestigious chess tournament, the XTX Markets London Chess Classic, is back this month with a world-class field and even more at stake at Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium. he 2025 edition, the 15th, features a stacked line-up of super grandmasters battling for a total £50,000 prize fund between November 26 and December 5. What makes it vitally important, however, is that the result of this tournament could determine who is the next world champion.

11/20/2025 – The second day of the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Team Championship in Linares saw high-quality chess and dramatic moments. While Team FIDE extended its lead in Pool A, Hou Yifan produced a standout performance in Pool B with a precise win in her tournament debut. The battle for the remaining knockout spots is heating up – in both groups, tense final rounds lie ahead. | Photos: FIDE/Raul Martinez, Pavel Dvorkovich

11/17/2025 – The 2025 FIDE World Women’s Team Championship will be held in Linares, Spain, one of the most iconic cities in world chess, from November 17 to 24, 2025. Just three days before the official opening ceremony of the championship, FIDE has confirmed the composition of the two competitive pools. The average ratings of the teams range from 2207 (Peru) to 2496 (FIDE).

11/17/2025 – Karsten shows 2 endgames from Goa. The following is nice win for White. How to start? | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

11/17/2025 – Ashwin Subramanian, Software Engineering Leader at Intel and lifelong chess enthusiast, was inspired to take up competitive chess after watching the 1990 Kasparov–Karpov match, with Anand becoming a huge inspiration from the very beginning! After Kasparov retired in 2005, he never imagined he’d get to watch him and Anand play competitively again... until St. Louis happened! Armed with his camera and decades of admiration, Ashwin captured the Anand–Kasparov showdown from just a few feet away and sent us these magnificent pictorial impressions from the Clutch Chess event.

11/17/2025 – The current ChessBase Magazine provides ten opening articles with new repertoire ideas for every ambitious player. Very often concepts are involved that allow you to take your opponents out of their comfort zone early on. One example from CBM #228 is Sergey Grigoriants' article on the King's Indian without c2-c4. In an overview text, the GM from Hungary presents the important variations and ideas. For further study, six games with detailed commentary are included in the article, three of which are by the German GM Rasmus Svane, who has perfected this system for himself. You can view Grigoriants' complete CBM article this week as a free sample in the ChessBase Books format.

11/17/2025 – Eight players now remain in contention at the FIDE World Cup in Goa, where Sunday's round-of-16 tiebreaks completed the quarterfinal lineup. Alexander Donchenko, Jose Martinez, Sam Shankland (pictured) and Andrey Esipenko advanced alongside earlier qualifiers, ensuring a diverse field in which no participant has yet played in a Candidates Tournament. With seven nations represented and three coveted Candidates places at stake, the knockout event enters its decisive phase on Monday. | Photo: Eteri Kublashvili

11/16/2025 – The group stage of the FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship 2025 concluded on Saturday, with Morgan Stanley, Deloitte 1, Greco and Google advancing to the semifinals. A visit from super-GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu added a special moment to the day, which featured the return legs of the double round-robin format. With standings settled in both pools, teams now prepare for Sunday's decisive matches that will determine this year's corporate world champions. | Photos: Eteri Kublashvili / FIDE