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Norway Chess: So beats Carlsen in Armageddon, Anand leads

6/2/2022 – Viswananathan Anand is the man of the hour. He got his second three-point win at the Norway Chess tournament on Wednesday, as he beat Veselin Topalov and now leads the standings table with 6 points. Wesley So won in Armageddon after drawing his classical encounter against Magnus Carlsen. | Photos: Norway Chess
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The (final) Weekly Show: Round 1 of Norway Chess

6/1/2022 – In his final ‘Weekly Show’ Lawrence Trent focuses on the Norway Chess Tournament and the game of the day is the smooth and effortless victory by Vishy Anand over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in round 1. | Lawrence’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here
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Norway Chess: So, Anand score three-pointers

6/1/2022 – Wesley So and Vishy Anand grabbed an early lead at the Norway Chess super-tournament in Stavanger. So beat Teimour Radjabov, while Anand got the better of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov drew their classical encounters and went on to win the Armageddon. All five decisive games seen on Tuesday favoured the player with the white pieces. | Photos: Official site
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FIDE ratings June 2022

6/1/2022 – At the beginning of the month, FIDE published the new world ranking list. Since there have been more FIDE-rated tournaments recently there has been some movement on the list but Magnus Carlsen, Hou Yifan, Alireza Firouzja and Zhou Jiner are still the best players in the various categories.
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Maxime Lagarde and Laurent Fressinet triumph in French blitz and rapid championships

6/1/2022 – Grandmasters Maxime Lagarde (pictured) and Laurent Fressinet won the Internationaux de France blitz and rapid championships that were played over the weekend at Port-Marly near Paris. Lagarde won the blitz tournament with 11.0/13, and Fressinet won the rapid tournament with 8.0/9. | Photo: Lennart Ootes (Archive)
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The greatest prodigy of all time

6/1/2022 – The claim to be the best ever in chess, in any category, is usually backed up by either hard numbers (Karpov's number of grandmaster tournament wins is not open to debate), or strong opinions such as the best absolute player. But the debate on the greatest prodigy seems to lie somewhere in between, depending on your criteria. Read this article and see if you agree. (photo: Capablanca at age four)
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Mendonca clear winner at the Hamburg GM tournament

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)
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New: CBM Extra #207

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.
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Norway Chess: Wesley So wins the blitz tournament

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
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New: Herman Grooten: Key Concepts of Chess – Pawn Structures Vol. 1 + 2

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!
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A tricky king

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

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).
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Endgame Magic #196 with Tykhon Cherniaiev: Endgame highlights from the Chessable Masters

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.
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Richard Rapport joins Romanian Chess Federation

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
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Nodirbek Abdusattorov wins Sharjah Masters

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
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Studies with Stephenson

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?
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The 25% Discount stream winners!

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.
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Norway Chess kicks off Monday, Rapport withdraws

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
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The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1 & 2

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The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1

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The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.2

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The Stonewall Attack in 60 Minutes

The Stonewall Attack (d4 followed by e3 and possibly f4) is an old-fashioned opening, almost forgotten, not thought to give White any advantage at all. Yet it still packs a punch and is not so easy to defend against. It is especially good for club players

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Santasiere's Folly: 1.Nf3 followed by b4 in 60 Minutes

White gains space on the queenside, forces the opponent to use their own resources right from the start of the game and creates a complicated position.

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Key Concepts of Chess - Pawn Structures Vol.1

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Understanding before Moving 81: Pawn Majorities (5)

5/29/2022 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 81st instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman continues to talk about pawn majorities. | Photo: Pascal Simon
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Remembering Machgielis “Max” Euwe on his 121st birth anniversary

5/29/2022 – Machgielis “Max” Euwe is one of the most esteemed figures in chess history. A teacher and a professed chess amateur, he did the unthinkable when he became world champion in 1935, defeating an all-time great in Alexander Alekhine. On top of that, he was a perennial top player from the late 1920s to the 1950s, an outstanding writer, and Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) President in the latter part of his life. On the recent occasion of Euwe’s 121st birth anniversary, Eugene Manlapao explores the life and times of chess’ 5th world champion.
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Kateryna Dolzhykova gives a simul for charity in Frankfurt

5/29/2022 – DZ-BANK and the chess club of the Cultural and Sports Association of the Deutsche Bundesbank organized a charity simultaneous exhibition with the Ukrainian national champion WIM Kateryna Dolzhykova at the premises of the bank in Frankfurt.
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Study of the Month - Double trouble queens

5/28/2022 – Polarchy or Polyarchy is the idea to have the burden of government on the shoulders of multiple people, as opposed to the monarchy that only sees one king or queen with all the burden. In chess, the king remains the sole objective of the game, but in rare cases one might be faced with the constellation that said king is joined not only by one but two queens. | Photo: Pixabay
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Congratulations! Andy Soltis turns 75 - an interview

5/28/2022 – 75 years ago, on 28 May 1947, the American Grandmaster and renowned writer Andrew "Andy" Soltis was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. In an extensive interview Soltis talks about his chess and his writing career, chess in New York, the Marshall Chess Club, playing blitz against Bobby Fischer and about Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen. | Photo: Marcy Soltis
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Indian whirlwind I

5/28/2022 – In the diagrammed position Black wins with 22...Nxf4!, this much is revealed - all the rest will be up to you. Enjoy!
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Komodo Dragon 3

The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at an Elo level of over 3500!

€99.90

The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1 & 2

This video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

€59.80 €54.90

The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.1

This video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

€29.90

The French Defence - Structures, Tactics and plans Vol.2

his video course is aimed as a tactical guide for Black, featuring the most typical combinations for the French structures.

€29.90

The Stonewall Attack in 60 Minutes

The Stonewall Attack (d4 followed by e3 and possibly f4) is an old-fashioned opening, almost forgotten, not thought to give White any advantage at all. Yet it still packs a punch and is not so easy to defend against. It is especially good for club players

€9.90

Santasiere's Folly: 1.Nf3 followed by b4 in 60 Minutes

White gains space on the queenside, forces the opponent to use their own resources right from the start of the game and creates a complicated position.

€9.90

Key Concepts of Chess - Pawn Structures Vol.1

In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures. “Open and half-open files” and “the pawn chain” will be covered extensively on this video course. New: now also available as stream!

€29.90


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