9/25/2021 – In the diagram position Black has enough material for the queen, so the key to victory for White must be the attack on the king. Which is protected by a lot of pieces - but how can White break through Black's defence?

9/25/2021 – In football, the German word "Schwalbe" (the swallow bird, and the football term for "diving") is an attempt by a player to feign a foul by deliberately dropping himself in a tackle with an opposing player to gain an unfair advantage. The Schwalbe in chess, doesn't mean that players fake a fall to the ground, and knock off the chess pieces to work out a mate in four. Columnist Siegfried Hornecker shows us the way on how to solve chess problems with the thematic idea of the Schwalbe, and takes us on a journey about the history of the German chess problem society. | Photo: www.dieschwalbe.de

9/24/2021 – Lawrence Trent has taken a well-deserved holiday, but doesn't want to forget the good times and travels to the Bahamas in the News Review. Jokes aside, he takes a closer look at the lawsuit of Nona Gaprindashvili and the Netflix show "Queens Gambit". Furthermore, the British IM wants to watch the new film about Karpov and Korchnoi, not only because he played against Korchnoi in the past.

9/24/2021 – In this week’s show, GM Daniel King, following Magnus Carlsen's brilliant win in a bishop endgame, looks at more of the same. Even at one of his own games... | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

9/24/2021 – With one round to go, the team of Mednyi Vsadnik managed to take the sole lead at the European Club Cup in Struga, North Macedonia. The Russian club is one team point ahead of AVE Bovy Nor (Czechia), and has good chances to win the event. In the last round they play against Team XtraCon from Denmark. In the women's event South Ural (Russia) leads with two team points and the much better tiebreak and is almost certain to become first. | The seventh and final round start starts at 15.00 CEST (9.00 ET, 18.30 IST).

9/24/2021 – The organisers of the TePe Sigeman & Co tournament once again put together a highly interesting field with young and experienced grandmasters. The players did not disappoint and the first day brought four interesting games and four decisions. | Photos: Lars OA Hedlund (Tournament page)

9/24/2021 – Tomorrow, Saturday, 25 September, ten players will play the final tournament of the Champions Chess Tour 2020/2021: the eight winners of the individual tournaments of the series and two players who received wildcards. Unlike the previous tournaments, the final will be played as a round robin with no knock-out stage. First prize is 100,000 USD.

9/23/2021 – On this updated DVD, experts including Daniel King, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller, Oliver Reeh and Niclas Huschenbeth examine the games of the 16th World Champion. Let them show you how Carlsen tailored his openings to be able to outplay his opponents strategically in the middlegame or to obtain an enduring advantage into the endgame, and bear witness to how the Norwegian always managed to find a way to pose his opponents serious problems, even in apparently level endings. This 2nd edition features additional new recordings by all the authors and an extra chapter with a special look at Carlsen by Daniel King.

9/23/2021 – This week, well-known Dutch trainer Robert Ris shows how Black can get good attacking chances in the Four Knights Variation of the English Opening, using one of his own games from the Dutch Team Championship as example. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

9/23/2021 – When the FIDE officially introduced the title of Grandmaster in 1950, only one German received the title - Friedrich Sämisch. Alexander Alekhine once pointed out that "he could play among the very best, if he only managed to quit his extreme smoking". What Alekhine seemed to have forgotten was Sämisch's perennial addiction to time-trouble. Michael Dombrowsky, author of Sämisch's soon-to-be-published biography, wrote a tribute to this unique character to celebrate Sämisch's 125th birthday. | Image: British Chess News

9/23/2021 – The Saint Louis chess club and its sponsor Rex Sinquefield have done a lot for chess in the U.S. and the world, and they continue to organise top tournaments. Beginning on the 5th of October, the club will host the U.S. chess championship tournaments 2021, for women and men. With players such as Caruana, So, Dominguez, Shankland, Xiong, Krush and Yip both tournaments are strongly contested, though Hikaru Nakamura, U.S. Champion 2005, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2019 is missing from the line-up. Over the course of eleven rounds, the 2 x 12 competitors will battle for a prize-fund of almost 200,000 USD, the qualification for the World Championship cycle, and of course, the title of U.S. Champion 2021.

9/23/2021 – Currently, Magnus Carlsen is in Struga, in North Macedonia, where he plays in the European Club Cup for Offerspill, his Norwegian club. During the event Carlsen found time to sign the contract about the regulations of the World Championship Match against Ian Nepomniachtchi in November. Carlsen's sponsor Unibet used the occasion to ask the World Champion some questions about the contract, the match and his preparation. | Photo: Unibet