11/11/2016 – Game 1: Draw! The Champ played the Trompovsky. Magnus Carlsen starts the match with White, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was not present at the opening gala in the Plaza Hotel at the Fifth Avenue but joined the show via Skype. More...

11/11/2016 – The World Championship is about to begin from the 11th of November 2016. But Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin are not the only two super elite grandmasters playing chess on American soil. Four top players are battling it out in Saint Louis in a very interesting tournament that makes the participants play against each other in different time controls. On the first day we witnessed only one decisive game, but what a game it was! Topalov played like Mikhail Tal, sacrificed a piece for no visible compensation and beat Fabiano Caruana.

11/11/2016 – In part I we brought you, how the plan was made for all the chess players of Mumbai to meet and watch the movie Queen of Katwe. In the second part we bring you the details of how Daniel King managed to not only teach the children a new opening but also made their day with jokes and superb anecdotes! Yes, there was a live question and answer session with Power play man himself and we have the full 31 minutes of video footage.

11/11/2016 – Tactics can seem deceptively simple, particularly when seeing an engine analysing grandmaster games. Strange, however, how difficult it is to find the right move and to calculate variations properly when playing yourself. It is easier if you solve tactical puzzles regularly. In the ChessBase Magazine and his tactics column Oliver Reeh helps you to do so.

11/11/2016 – As we reported previously, the World Chess Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin, which starts on Friday, will include a novel 360° Virtual Reality broadcast. The moves will be broadcast live, free of charge, with a widget on our news page, where readers can get full VR access for $15 – $99 for the entire event and 2017 events. The organisers have also created an interesting Chess Map of New York.

11/10/2016 – The Chess World Championship 2016 is about to begin. The whole world will turn their eyes to New York to see whether World Champion Magnus Carlsen retains his title against challenger Sergey Karjakin. Millions of people all over the world will follow the match via the internet. More than ever before.

11/6/2016 – On June 6th this year one of the all-time greats of chess, Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, passed away. In his final years, debilitated by a series of strokes and bound to a wheelchair, he attended the Zurich Chess Challenge each year, in fact playing a match himself in 2015. To honor the unforgettable chess legend there will be a special memorial tournament from April 13th to 17th, 2017 in Zurich. Take note of these dates – you can participate as well.

11/6/2016 – After officially retiring from professional play, many fans might have worried the Hungarian star would drop out of the chess world, but these fears seem to have been put to rest. We first saw Judit Polgar embrace new roles such as coach of the Hungarian ‘Open’ team at the Olympiad, and now as another first, when Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin battle it out in New York City, she will be the official commentator. Judit Polgar talks about her expectations, her preferences and her plans.

11/6/2016 – "I would like to pose you with a rook endgame, which was one of the best calculations I have done in my chess career till date," writes Avathanshu Bhat. He was faced with a rook and three pawns vs rook and three pawns ending and had to calculate quite deeply to win it. You are asked to do the same on our interactive PGN player. After you have excercised your chess skills you can listen to the video analysis of the player himself.

11/5/2016 – "A Dutch legend, a Syrian refugee and a 64 year-old Israeli… and chess, of course. That's all it takes to rediscover the pleasure of the 64 squares, through the pleasure of the others. One doesn't necessarily need to be around Carlsen to feel the spark of the beauty of chess. The light in a chess player's eyes wired for this game is just as fascinating and, perhaps, the best mirror a chess lover could possibly find." Thus starts an illustrated report by Alina L'Ami.

11/5/2016 – Readers will recall the recent announcement made by FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov that both Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, the foremost tech moguls of our age, would be visiting the World Chess Championship in New York City. In an interview to TASS, a Russian news agency, he stated that invitations had been tendered to both, and had been accepted. Wishing to follow-up on this in order to learn more, we reached out to them.

11/4/2016 – François-André Danican Philidor played three opponents, Paul Morphy took on eight. In the 20th century Pilsbury played twenty, Koltanovsky 34 and Najdorf 45. Now a leading blindfold grandmaster, Timur Gareyev, is planning to set a new record by playing 47 games simultaneously while blindfolded. The event will take place at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. You can participate: the organisers are looking for funds and players.