9/28/2020 – With two rounds to go, Silla Bosch Serinsys has grabbed a one-point lead at the Spanish Team Championship taking place in Linares. Magic Extremadura defeated Jaime Casas in round five to climb to sole second place, while Beniaján Duochess, Solvay and Andreu Paterna still have chances to fight for the title as they stand two points behind the leading squad. | Pictured: Pia Cramling v Raquel Pablos | Photo: Spanish Chess Federation

9/27/2020 – Four times in a row, from 2016-2019, Komodo won the World Computer Chess Championship. And Komodo 14 is even stronger than its succesful predecessors and will help you to improve your game. With the Fritz Powerbook 2020 included, this "Autumn-Special" bundle, for only €89.90, is a "Championship Powerhouse" (offer valid till 30.9.)! 25 million opening positions, derived from millions of high-class tournament games, is what the Fritz Powerbook 2020 contributes. And if that isn't enough, all bundle-buyers have a chance to win a signed DVD by Indian super talent GM Nihal Sarin.

9/27/2020 – Alexander Donchenko won the ACP-ChessBase Knockout Tournament, which took place in the Emanuel Lasker Arena of the PlayChess server a couple of months ago. In an interview with Bojana Bejatovic, the German grandmaster talked about online chess, the psychological factor in the game and his advice for aspiring players. “No matter how much or how little you trained, you must be able to show as much of it as you can when it matters most, during a tournament game”, says Donchenko. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

9/27/2020 – The former leaders from Andreu Paterna are now sharing second place with Magic Extremadura after losing their Saturday encounter against Beniaján Duochess. Solvay and Silla Bosch Serinsys took this chance to grab the lead, with Solvay currently placed first on tiebreaks. However, while Silla Bosch Serinsys will play tailender Collado Villalba in round 5, Solvay will face the rating favourites from Beniaján. | Photo: Spanish Chess Federation

9/27/2020 – After diving into a philosophical puzzle, we are back on track with our logic riddles for chess players. In our ninth part of the series, we have two chess engines competing against each other. Funnily enough, they seem to be exactly equally strong, and the championship cannot find a decisive winner until someone is able to find a solution to this problem.

9/26/2020 – In 1949, four years after the end of World War II, the Allies divided Germany into West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany, FRG) and East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, GDR). In the second part of a series on the GDR composers, columnist Siegfried Hornecker continues to tell us how the chess composition scene was kept alive east of the Berlin Wall. | Pictured: Police personnel of the East German Volkspolizei wait for the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate in 1989 | Photo: SSGT F. Lee Corkran

9/23/2020 – Who is better, the bishop or the knight? It depends. In the endgame, when both sides fight on both wings, the bishop is usually better than the knight. But not always. One such exception is the diagram position. Here, the knight is better than the bishop. But how does Black win?

9/23/2020 – In memory of chess legend Wolfgang Uhlmann, who sadly passed away a month ago, we translate the interview he gave to Dagobert Kohlmeyer earlier this year. In the 1960s and 1970s, the grandmaster from Dresden was one of the absolute top chess players in the world. | Photos: Dagobert Kohlmeyer

9/22/2020 – When was the first time in your life you played chess? Most probably at the age of six to eight years? Whatever the answer is, we have an adorable quiz about young titled chess masters for you. If chess is a big part in your life, which isn't a bad thing at all, you should be able to guess at least seven out of twelve correctly. Here is your challenge!

9/22/2020 – "Before you move, take a deep breath to calm down," might be good advice for nervous players, but it was definitely good advice for the 13 chess players who took part in the first "Diving Chess" tournament of the Austrian Company Sports Organisation. After all, in this discipline of chess, you can think about as long about your move as you can hold your breath. | Photo: ÖBSV

9/22/2020 – The Russian IM Semen Khanin started at the Panchenko Memorial in Chelyabinsk as number 26 on the seeding list, but after nine rounds he finished first on tiebreak. Anastasia Bodnaruk dominated the Women's Tournament and finished clear first with 8.0/9. | Photo: Galina Popova

9/22/2020 – In the last instalment of a seven-part series, Sergio Negri presents a list of the knowns and unknowns regarding the origins of chess. The Argentine researcher concludes, “For now, it might be better not to know everything yet. [...] A suggestive and primordial mystery continues to haunt us: when did the magical and millenary game of chess appeared on Earth”. | Pictured: Chess Set (Shatranj in Iranian), glazed fritware, 12th century. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.