3/3/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris presents a game that might inspire you to pick up the Najdorf or confirm your belief in this opening: a model win by Danish Grandmaster Jonas Buhl Bjerre, played at the Challengers Tournament in Prague. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/3/2025 – A trapped piece is a piece that has no escape squares or squares where it can safely move without being captured. Even ‘heavier’ pieces can become ensnared, as can minor pieces. Today GM and International Trainer Efstratios Grivas shows us what can happen to such pieces if you are not careful. Annotated games.

3/2/2025 – The 2025 Grand Chess Tour marks its 10th anniversary with a record $1.6 million prize fund and the return of the GCT Finals - held for the first time in South America, in São Paulo. Featuring an elite field, including world champion Gukesh Dommaraju and past GCT winners, the tour will span classical and rapid and blitz events across multiple cities. With legendary support from the Saint Louis Chess Club and Superbet Foundation, this milestone edition promises thrilling battles at the highest level of chess.

3/2/2025 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In episode 219 of his "Understanding before Moving" show Herman looks at the career of Peter Leko. | Photo: Pascal Simon

3/2/2025 – When you work with a programme on a regular basis, you should make that work as pleasant as possible. ChessBase 18 offers endless possibilities - and that goes for the look too. Make your workspace individual and pleasant. In part 4 of our new series of tutorials we will show you how easy it is to design your individual notation so that analysing with it is a maximum pleasure.

3/2/2025 – Vincent Keymer continues to go all-in at the Masters section of the Chess Festival in Prague: the German went for an attack against Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and lost. As a result, Pragg caught up with his compatriot Aravindh Chithambaram in the lead. Meanwhile, Wei Yi bounced back from his loss on Friday with a win over David Navara. | Photo: Petr Vrabec

2/27/2025 – In his new Game of the Week show Merijn van Delft looks at a game from the German Bundesliga - and at a game, in which Vincent Keymer, Germany's number 1, played against Frederik Svane, Germany's number 2 - it was an interesting game. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

2/27/2025 – After Georgia and Kazakhstan, Monaco is the third stop on the current Women's Grand Prix series. Ten players will be competing for points and a place in the Women's Candidates Tournament from 18 to 27 February. Live daily from 15.00 local time - though the last round starts at 14.00.

2/27/2025 – Vincent Keymer had a good start at the Masters section of the Chess Festival in Prague: he defeated top seed Wei Yi in Wednesday's first round. The second victory of the day was secured by Sam Shankland, who won against Ediz Gürel. The three remaining games all ended in draws. There were also two wins and three draws in the Challengers: the two winners were Jonas Buhl Bjerre, who beat Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis with black, and Ivan Salgado Lopez, who defeated Divya Deshmukh with white. | Photo: Petr Vrabec

2/27/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes an in-depth look at a fascinating theoretical battle between Alireza Firouzja and Hikaru Nakamura. Last week they added three more games to their theoretical discussion in the Italian Opening, battling it out in a line that Hikaru used against Alireza at last year's Candidates - and since then a few more games have been played in this variation. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

2/27/2025 – Tata Steel 2025: Analyses by the tournament winners, Praggnanandhaa and Nguyen, as well as Abdusattorov, Giri, Harikrishna, L'Ami, Mendonca, Suleymanli, Van Foreest and Yakubboev + video review by Blohberger - Chess legend Viktor Kortschnoj: exclusive collection of 24 annotated games from 1960 to 2006 plus video by David Navara – Modern Petroff: Balázs Csonka sheds light on the Damiano Variation 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4!? - “The fortress - rien ne va plus!”: Dorian Rogozenco shows a classic fortress motif with queen + pawn against rook + pawn - The cheeky queen: Surya Ganguly shows in the video that 4.Qxd4 is also an option against the Sicilian with 2...e6! and much more.

2/27/2025 – Four decisive games in round eight of the Monaco Women's Grand Prix had a major impact on the tournament standings. Kateryna Lagno, the sole leader going into the round, drew her game, allowing Batkhuyag Munguntuul and Aleksandra Goryachkina to catch up after scoring key victories. Tan Zhongyi also won, keeping her title chances alive. With only one round remaining, three players share the lead, while two others remain within striking distance. | Photo: FIDE / Niki Riga