11/12/2020 – Today, Hikaru Nakamura and Haik Martirosyan will meet in the sixth match of the round of the last 16. They will play 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz, and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet chess. Follow the games live, with commentary. Start: 18:00 CET, 9 a.m. Pacific.

11/12/2020 – In this week's show, well-known Dutch trainer Robert Ris takes a look at a classical game, in which Botvinnik introduced a fascinating and aggressive idea in the Queen's Gambit into practice. | "Fast and Furious" is available from 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET / 16:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

11/12/2020 – ChessBase 16 is already in the starting blocks and will be released on 17th November 2020. Now everyone wants to know: what are the new features in this version? What innovations are on the horizon? And what is the "key to new ideas"? ChessBase co-founder Matthias Wuellenweber, who has developed all ChessBase versions since 1986 with his team, presents the most interesting innovations in a video. Part 3 of the five-part series (in which ChessBase programmer Jeroen van den Belt is also involved) deals with "Novelty-Mining" and how it is done.

11/12/2020 – The Benko Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5) may be a rare guest an top-level chess but at amateur and club level, the pawn sacrifice continues to be popular. In fact, many 1.d4 players lack a clear concept against the dangerous gambit. In the new ChessBase Magazine #198 IM Christian Braun suggests to simply turn the tables and to offer the Benko player a few sharp gambits, which he should think about twice before accepting them!

11/12/2020 – The second wave of the Corona pandemic prevents top players again from playing live tournaments, but they still play online. For example, in the Speed Chess Championship 2020, a knock-out blitz tournament in which 16 of the world's best players in the world fight on chess.com for a $100,000 prize fund. In the fifth match of the first round, Levon Aronian won 14-11 against Ian Nepomniachtchi. The match was not without mistakes, but exciting and entertaining. | Picture: chess.com

11/11/2020 – ChessBase 16 is already in the starting blocks and will be released on 17th November 2020. Now everyone wants to know: what are the new features in this version? What innovations are on the horizon? And what is the "key to new ideas"? ChessBase co-founder Matthias Wuellenweber, who has developed all ChessBase versions since 1986 with his team, presents the most interesting innovations in the video. Part 2 of the five-part series (in which ChessBase programmer Jeroen van den Belt is also involved) deals with "opening surveys" and how they are calculated.

11/11/2020 – In his "Game of the Week" show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a classic encounter with the Queen's Gambit: Bobby Fischer's win against Boris Spassky in the sixth game of their legendary match in Reykjavik 1972. Fischer deviated from his usual 1.e4, and dared to play a Queen's Gambit against Spassky, at that time the world's greatest expert of that opening. Fischer won a model game. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Skáksamband Íslands – Icelandic Chess Federation

11/11/2020 – “I prefer to play strong chess players, because after the game no matter whether you win or lose you learn something. Like Beth, I read many books by chess world champions, I tend to admire playing styles more than the individual”, writes women’s world champion on a new article published on Newsweek. By Beth, she refers to the main character in “The queen’s gambit”, the hit series on Netflix. | Photos: FIDE

11/11/2020 – One hundred years ago, in 1920, one year before he became the third World Champion in the history of chess, José Raúl Capablanca, published his famous book "My Chess Career", which is considered as one of the classics of chess literature. In this book Capablanca talks about his career and reveals how his style and play developed. Uvencio Blanco Hernández explains why the book became a classic and is still worth reading.

11/11/2020 – What do Fabiano Caruana and the winner of the next tournament in the Playchess Autumn Series have in common? The trainer! On Wednesday, November 11, you have the chance to win a training session with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, trainer and second of Fabiano Caruana. The Playchess Blitz tournament on last Wednesday, November 4, was won by the young German Felix Meißner, who decided that it was a good idea to follow Fischer's example - Meißner won all his games and finished the tournament with 9.0/9!

11/10/2020 – Inspired by the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit" IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at a fine game with this opening: A. Karpov vs A. Yusupov, USSR Championship 1988. | Lawrence’s show is available at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 14:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

11/10/2020 – ChessBase 16 is already in the starting blocks and will be released on 17th November 2020. Now everyone wants to know: what are the new features in this version? What innovations are on the horizon? And what is the "key to new ideas"? ChessBase co-founder Matthias Wuellenweber, who has developed all ChessBase versions since 1986 with his team, presents the most interesting innovations in the video. Part 1 of the five-part series (in which ChessBase programmer Jeroen Van Den Belt is also involved) deals with "opening novelties" at the highest level.