7/2/2021 – The "Torneo Magistral de Ajedrez" is a four player online knock-out rapid tournament, organised by the Spanish city of Leon. In the first semifinal Leinier Dominguez won against Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun. In the second semifinal Boris Gelfand will play against local grandmaster Jaime Santos. | Photo: Justin Kellar

7/2/2021 – On the first day of play in the semifinals of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, Magnus Carlsen won the first set against Levon Aronian while Ding Liren got the better of Vladislav Artemiev. | Photo: FIDE

7/1/2021 – You read it yesterday: the 12-year-ole New Jersey lad Abhimanyu Mishra gained his final GM norm, to become the youngest grandmaster in history. Sagar Shah of ChessBase India spoke to Abhi about the key game, and how he turned tables against his GM opponent; but also about his motivation and his future plans in chess. It is quite revealing to hear this boy speak about his remarkable accomplishments.

7/1/2021 – This week, the well-known Dutch trainer Robert Ris takes a look how Black can spice up the Sicilian Dragon even if White tries to have a quiet life. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

7/1/2021 – The "Top 12" competition sees some of the world’s best players battle it out to claim the French club championship. This year players such as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Veselin Topalov and Jorden Van Foreest show their class in this 11-round event. However, this competition also serves as an excellent platform for amateurs who seldom get to play against such strong opponents. Dhananjay Khadilkar asked Mathieu Ternault (pictured), a wine maker by profession, and Mickael Hutois, a professor for mathematics, how it feels to play in such an event. | Photo: Dhananjay Khadilkar

7/1/2021 – Nihal Sarin was the dominant player at the Silver Lake Open: the young Indian and reigning U18 World Champion won the tournament with 8.0/9 and a rating performance of 2809. His compatriots Raunak Sadhwani and Abhimanyu Puranik won silver and bronze. | Photo: Rupali Mulick

7/1/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look how Magnus Carlsen surprised Peter Svidler - and chess fans around the world - with an unusual move in the starting position of the Najdorf Sicilian. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

7/1/2021 – Two of the four quarterfinal matches at the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament were decided on tiebreaks. After winning the first set and the first game of the second set, it seemed like Magnus Carlsen was going to have an easy day at the office, but back-to-back wins by Wesley So meant it would all be decided in blitz. The world champion finally moved on to the semis thanks to a win and a draw in the 5-minute games. Levon Aronian also had a tough time against Arjun Erigaisi, but managed to advance, while Vladislav Artemiev and Ding Liren won their matches in the rapid section of the second set. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/30/2021 – This remarkable lad from Englishtown, New Jersey, playing with great determination under Covid restrictions in Hungary, has scored his third and final GM norm. He has earned the title at the age of 12 years, 4 months, and 25 days, which is 66 days sooner than Sergey Karjakin in 2002. This comes after he had broken the record of youngest US master (at nine years and two months), and youngest International Master ever (at 10 years, nine months, and three days). Congratulations, Abhi!

6/30/2021 – The traditional Chess Masters Tournament of the city of Leon goes online again. The four participants are Leinier Dominguez, Boris Gelfand, Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and Jaime Santos, who represents the host. The tournament starts today at 15:30 CEST (9:30 ET, 13:30 UTC) and will end on Sunday.

6/30/2021 – After eight of nine rounds the young Indian Grandmaster Nihal Sarin leads at the Silver Lake Open Veliko Gradiste with 7.0/8 and is half a point ahead of his countryman Raunak Sadhwani and the Serbian GM Branko Damljanovic, against whom Sarin has to play with Black in round nine. | Photos: Rupali Mullick

6/30/2021 – Over 460 female players from 82 countries participated in the individual and team tournaments within the Queens’ festival global chess tournaments run from June 11 to June 27. The ambitious global project aiming at connecting women chess players from around the world of all ages and all rating groups was organized by FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess in cooperation with FIDE Events Commission and with the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as well as Asian Chess Federation, African Chess Confederation, European Chess Union, and Confederation of Chess for Americas. | Pictures: FIDE