4/28/2020 – In his weekly show IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at the Candidates Tournament 1950 that ended almost on the day 70 ago, on May 1, 1950. Isaak Boleslavsky and David Bronstein shared first place. | Lawrence' show is available at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST, 12 Noon EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/28/2020 – Being the second of Anish Giri, Grandmaster Erwin l'Ami was kind enough to talk about the Candidates Tournament 2020 and how they experienced the whole situation from beginning to end in Yekaterinburg. In spite of wearing a mask in the air plane, to visiting the doctor twice a day, l'Ami and Giri were focusing on the tournament - they did not give in to the fear about the pandemic. | Photos: Alina l'Ami

4/28/2020 – On April 15th, ChessBase announced the Club Tournament Online on the playchess.com server. Some clubs already won the prizes worth €200 and we would like to feature one of them! Every club in the world can still join and participate to win a ChessBase 15 program, a ChessBase premium annual account and a ChessBase voucher worth €30.

4/28/2020 – "All rook endings are drawn" is a well-known witticism that highlights the fact that rook endings indeed have high drawish tendencies. In fact, even being one or two pawns up does not guarantee a win. However, the diagram position is definitely not a draw. How can Black win?

4/28/2020 – After Carlsen's loss on Sunday, two players joined him in the lead the very next day. Ding Liren defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi 2½:1½ to catch up with the world champion, while Hikaru Nakamura got one point in his match against Fabiano Caruana after losing on tiebreaks to also reach Carlsen's mark of eleven points. With two rounds to go in the round-robin section, there are four clear favourites to reach the semis. Round-up show by GM Daniel King. | Photo: Official site

4/27/2020 – In a follow up to last week's show Simon Williams will test your ability at solving some amazing endgame problems. Come and see how you get on! | Watch for free and on-demand (for a limited time, or forever with a ChessBase Premium account). (Normally 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST / 12 Noon EST).

4/27/2020 – Bobby Fischer won the 2. Tournament of Peace in Rovinj/Zagreb 1970 convincingly with a two point margin. Vlastimil Hort shared second place but felt that he and the other players "were more or less reduced to the role of spectators".

4/27/2020 – On Saturday, Germany's grandmasters won an online team match against Romania on playchess.com 36½:27½. Germany's top scorer was Elisabeth Pähtz who finished with 6½/8. However, Romania won the junior match 9½:6½.

4/27/2020 – Last month Edward Winter announced his decision, due to other commitments, to curtail his Chess Notes column, which began in 1982. Additions are now made only occasionally, but thousands of C.N. items and hundreds of feature articles remain online. It is a body of work unlike any other, covering a vast array of topics and spawning four anthologies. Edward Winter is also the author of one of the most acclaimed books in chess history: his monograph on Capablanca.

4/27/2020 – As the world goes through a global health crisis, chess stands out as a unique sport that has successfully resurfaced online to bring together professionals, amateurs, and fans around the world. Besides, chess can serve as an excellent platform for charity and collaboration. At the initiative of the tournament participants, the Chess Federation of Russia and the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation will co-support the first charity online tournament that will feature the country's strongest grandmasters. The event is scheduled to take place in mid-May. | Photo: Photo: Lennart Ootes

4/27/2020 – All games start with the opening but learning an opening can be difficult. After all, there's a reason why top grandmasters spend hours to develop and to refine their opening repertoire and why opening books are so popular. But on her new DVD the Canadian WGM Qiyu Zhou makes things easier and shows how you can master the basic principles of the opening without studying and memorizing endless variations.

4/27/2020 – Day one of the fifth round at the Magnus Carlsen Invitational saw the underdogs getting unlikely match victories. Anish Giri, who had won one game in seventeen attempts in the online event, took down sole leader Carlsen 2½:1½, while Alireza Firouzja scored his first three points by beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. IM Lawrence Trent recapped the action of the day. | Photo: Official site