5/31/2022 – The Hamburg Chess Club hosted a GM tournament and an IM tournament last week. Leon Mendonca from India won the GM tournament. Frederick Svane scored a GM norm — 24 hours later Svane's third and last GM norm in the Bundesliga was also official. In the IM tournament, Brandon Clarke was the clear winner. | Photo: Hugo Schulz, Vasilios Kotronias, Leon Mendonca, Frederik Svane and Frank Bracker (Frank Bracker)

5/31/2022 – The new Extra #207 offers, among other things, over an hour of video training with Elisabeth Pähtz and Ivan Sokolov. Germany's best female chess player presents one of her favourite weapons against the Gruenfeld Defence in a short video series. And Sokolov's contribution deals with a topic that should be interesting for many 1.d4 players, especially at club level: The GM from the Netherlands shows a method with which a nice advantage can be comfortably achieved against the Budapest Gambit. This issue's "Brilliancy" comes from Jorden van Foreest, who takes a critical look at his Sicilian experiment (3.Bc4) from the Tata Steel Masters 2022 against Praggnanandhaa. In addition, the "Lucky bag" with 56 annotated games offers a great mix of analyses and surprising ideas. ChessBase Magazine Extra is the perfect complement to ChessBase Magazine. Available as a single issue or by subscription (6 issues per year). Available as a download or on DVD.

5/31/2022 – This year's Norway Chess Tournament in Stavanger started on Monday evening with a blitz tournament. After five rounds Magnus Carlsen led the field but then lost against Wesley So - after trying 1.a4 - and Vishy Anand. So, who had started the tournament with a loss against Wang Hao, used his chance and won the tournament with 6.5/9, one full point ahead of Carlsen who finished second with 5.5/9. | Photos: Norway Chess

5/31/2022 – IM Herman Grooten will offer rules-of-thumb and concepts to give clubchess players the necessary guidance to try and find the right paths in their own games. In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures, ones that appear quite often in games and that will be very recognisable to club-chess players. Now, you also have the option to watch all of your favourite Fritztrainers in our "Video-Section" as a stream!

5/31/2022 – Pawn endings require precise calculation. In the diagrammed position it is Black to move and win. But how?

5/30/2022 – The tenth edition of the Norway Chess Tournament starts with a blitz tournament, which will decide who gets more whites in the main event. It is a single round-robin with a time control of 3 minutes for the game plus 2-second increments per move. The action kicks off at 18.00 CEST (12.00 ET, 21.30 IST).

5/30/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #196 Karsten Müller and the young Ukrainian talent Tykhon Cherniaiev look at rook endings, the kind of endings that occur most often in practice. But Karsten and Tichon end the show with an analysis of two amazing endgames, in which bishops fight against knights. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

5/30/2022 – Surprising news from Romania: As the Romanian Chess Federation announced, Richard Rapport and his wife Jovana will join the Romanian Chess Federation. Hungary thus loses its top player. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

5/30/2022 – Nodirbek Abdusattorov (pictured) won the strong 5th Sharjah Masters in the United Arab Emirates. After nine rounds Abdusattorov and local hero Saleh Salem shared first place with 7.0/9, but thanks to his better tiebreak Abdusattorov won the tournament. The best woman player in the 80-player field was Valentina Gunina. | Photos: Tournament page

5/30/2022 – This article, which appeared in the June issue of the British Magazine CHESS, is about two Grandmasters of Chess Composition – Oleg Pervakov and Christopher Jones – and about books they have produced containing selections of their output. You can try to solve them yourself on our live diagrams, with or without engine assistance, and then look at the annotated solutions on our live replay boards. A good way to study chess, don't you think?

5/30/2022 – On May 17th almost all products were 25% off due to our ChessBase discount day. This year we tried something new in addition - The ChessBase Live stream! Daniel King, Robert Ris, Sipke Ernst, Elisabeth Paehtz, Nick Pert, Svitlana Demchenko, Lawrence Trent, Karsten Mueller, Markus Ragger, and Andrew Martin, Larry Kaufman, and Mark Lefler joined the host, Arne Kaehler. Every half hour, all viewers could win a €25 Voucher! The winners were drawn.

5/29/2022 – The tenth edition of the Norway Chess Tournament is set to kick off on Monday, with a blitz tournament which will decide who gets more whites in the main event. An impressive lineup, including Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand and Veselin Topalov, will fight in a 9-round all-play-all with a unique format — in case of a draw, an Armageddon follows. Richad Rapport, who will play the Candidates in a few weeks, withdrew from the tournament; Aryan Tari stepped in (pictured). | Photo: Lennart Ootes