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Game of the Week #524: F. Svane vs M. Adams

7/13/2022 – In his “Game of the Week” show #524 Merijn van Delft takes a look at fine game played in the last rounds of the German Bundesliga. In this game the young German Frederik Svane, who recently became a Grandmaster, outplayed Michael Adams in a Ruy Lopez. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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New: Winning Chess Strategies Vol. 1 + Vol. 2

7/13/2022 – In his new video course, the French top grandmaster Romain Edouard shows you how to win games by seizing the initiative with sacrifices. The course consists of two volumes: In the first volume, Edouard demonstrates patterns, and in the second course you are invited to test your knowledge. All new courses can now also be watched via stream, e.g. on mobile devices!
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Paul Morphy: The First of the Conquering American Chess Heroes (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884)

7/13/2022 – Paul Morphy needs no introduction. On the occasion of his 138th death anniversary, Eugene Manlapao revisits the exploits of the chess genius and the peculiar circumstances of his success that seemingly recurred in the rise of succeeding American champions.
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Biel: Le Quang Liem wins GM Rapid

7/13/2022 – On Monday, Vincent Keymer won the Accentus Chess960 tournament in Biel, on Tuesday Le Quang Liem won the Rapid GM tournament. He finished with 5.5/7 or 11/14 as players received 2 points for a win and 1 point for a draw. Keymer finished second to last with 2.5/7 or 5/14. | Photos: Biel Chess Festival
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FTX Road to Miami: Above the cut-off line

7/13/2022 – Sam Sevian is still the sole leader at the FTX Road to Miami online tournament after the third day of action. Two points behind him stands Arjun Erigaisi, who was the top scorer on Tuesday, as he won three games and lost one to collect nine points in rounds 9-12. With three rounds to go in the preliminaries, the likes of Anish Giri, Levon Aronian and Leinier Dominguez are in danger of not finishing above the cut-off line.
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A second IM norm for Tani Adewumi!

7/13/2022 – The quick ascent of Tani Adewumi continues. The likeable Nigerian boy who made the news three years ago while still living in a homeless shelter has collected his second IM norm in New York. Tani is only 11 years old, but has already shown a fierce playing style and a solid work ethic. These factors bode well for his chances to become an elite player in the future. | Photos: Tani’s Twitter account (second norm on the left)
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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!

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Svitlana's Smart Moves - Surprise!

7/12/2022 – You didn't expect those creative, and beautiful moves, did you? Svitlana presents some genuinely fine moves by masterful players like Frank James Marshall, David Bronstein, Bobby Fischer, Pal Benko, Richard Reti, Alexander Alekhine, and Mikhail Tal. Lean back, and enjoy the spectacle!
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Top Georgian GM Bela Khotenashvili needs your help

7/12/2022 – There are times when life puts you through extremely tough situations. Top Georgian female player GM Bela Khotenashvili and her husband IM Malkhaz Sulashvili have fought many battles over the chess board. But what they are going through right now is by far the toughest phase of their life. Their 1.5 year-old son Gabriel was detected with high risk neuroblastoma. To ensure appropriate treatment, they shifted to France from Georgia. However, the battle is long and in order to save Gabriel's life, they now need to shift to the USA or Spain. Funds are a major challenge and this is where you can help. Read the article to know more.
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Vincent Keymer wins Accentus Chess960 Tournament in Biel

7/12/2022 – In the Accentus Chess960 tournament at the start of the 55th Biel Chess Festival Vincent Keymer and Nodirbek Abdusattorov both finished with 5.0/7 and tied first. However, as Keymer won more games with Black, he won the tournament on tiebreak. | Photos: Schachfestival Biel.
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FTX Road to Miami: Sevian leads, Ju shines

7/12/2022 – Sam Sevian grabbed the sole lead on day 2 of the FTX Road to Miami online tournament. The US grandmaster collected a perfect 12/12 score on Monday, with one of his four wins obtained by default as Teimour Radjabov withdrew from the competition after round 5. Day 2 also saw Ju Wenjun collecting three wins to climb to the top half of the standings. The Chinese is the lowest-rated player and the only woman in the field. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Saint Louis Chess Club
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The winning zone

7/12/2022 – The bishop endgame in the diagrammed position will soon become an endgame, in which Black's queen fights against White's f-pawn. Black can win this endgame if his king is in the winning zone and close enough to White's f-pawn. Do you see how Black should proceed to win the game?
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Gukesh keeps winning in Spain

7/11/2022 – Indian prodigy Gukesh won his fifth consecutive tournament in Spain, fourth in this year. He scored an unbeaten 8/9 to win the 14th Gijon City Closed tournament, finishing 1½ points ahead of the competition. The youngest GM of India gained 9.7 Elo points and is now less than 7 points away from reaching the 2700-rating barrier. | Photo: Gijón 64
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Fischer vs Spassky – 50 years ago

7/11/2022 – Half a century ago, exactly on this day, the most famous chess match in history began: Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland. Five year ago we celebrated the event by reporting on it, game for game, as if it was all taking place live. Today we bring you links to all the reports we published at the time, starting with our full report on the drama that surrounded game one. It contains original film footage which nobody should miss.
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Endgame Magic #202 with Arne Kähler: Highlights from Norway Chess with Arne Kähler

7/11/2022 – Arne and Karsten look at endgame highlights form the Norway Chess Tournament, which was won by World Champion Magnus Carlsen, who is famous for his endgame skills. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.
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FTX Road to Miami: Xiong wins three in a row

7/11/2022 – Day 1 of the FTX Road to Miami online tournament saw Jeffery Xiong grabbing the sole lead after collecting three wins and a loss. The 21-year-old has a 1-point lead over four players sharing second place on 8/12 points. Some of the rating favourites, like Levon Aronian, Anish Giri and Teimour Radjabov, currently stand on the bottom half of the tournament table. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
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The Biel International Chess Festival starts - with three of the world's best U18-players

7/11/2022 – On Sunday, the 55th Chess Festival Biel opened in the Congress Centre in Biel. To kick things off, the Chinese top grandmaster Yu Yangyi gave a simul. Today the GM Triathlon begins with the Fischerrandom Tournament, at 13:00 local time (7:00 ET, 11:00 UTC). Three of the world's best U18-players start: V. Keymer, N. Abdusattorov, and D. Gukesh.
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Deal of the Week: Masterclass 1–14

7/11/2022 – Learn from the best players in the world! The "MasterClass" series introduces you to the facets of the chess legends. In interactive video format with training feedback! Volume 1 to 14 with Fischer, Carlsen, Kasparov, Karpov and many more! You can get them both this week at a sensational discount: instead of the €418 list price you can get them all, volumes 1-14, for just €199.90!
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Gelfand beats Anand in playoffs, wins Leon Masters

7/11/2022 – In one of the most exciting finals in recent years, Israeli GM Boris Gelfand won the blitz tiebreak against big favourite Viswanathan Anand to grab the Leon Masters title. No draws were seen in the final match between the living legends, as highly strategic games were featured from beginning to end. | Photos: Official site
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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!

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3.h4 against the King's Indian and Grünfeld

It's a great idea to take Grunfeld and King’s Indian players out of their comfort-zone right from the start! Let’s go 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 first and now play 3.h4!?

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Countering the Reti with 1...d5 and 2...Nd7

With the move 1…d5 we put one pawn in the centre. With the move 2…Nd7 we are threatning …e5 and putting a second pawn in the centre.

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Chessbase Magazine Extra 208

Videos: Nico Zwirs tests the dynamic 5...b5 in the Vienna Variation of the Queen's Gambit. Ivan Sokolov introduces 6.g3 as a surprise weapon in the Sicilian Four Knights Variation. "Lucky bag": 60 analyses by Anish Giri, David Navara and many more.

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Move by move - (how to) get into a master's mind!

The best way to improve at chess is to carefully study master games, stop at certain positions and think about candidate moves. Doing this on your own can be difficult and tiresome, but on this viddeo course, you will be guided by worldrenowned trainers!

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A Surprise Weapon against the Philidor Defence

The move suggested in this 60 minutes course is 5.Rg1, with the idea g4. The plus side is that you still get all the g4 ideas without losing a pawn.

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Winning Chess Strategies Vol.1 and 2

Throughout this video course, we will study how to master sacrifices and the initiative in several aspects: opposite-coloured bishops, the bishop pair, the exchange sacrifice, launching an attack, and the good moment to sacrifice will be covered.

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Winning Chess Strategies Vol.1 - The Art of Sacrifices and Initiative

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The "Special" of CBM #208: The FIDE World Championship 25 years ago

7/10/2022 – At the end of 1997, the first FIDE World Knockout Championship took place in Groningen. Vishy Anand won the final against Michael Adams. Strictly speaking, however, it was not a World Championship, but only a preliminary stage, because the winner had to play the defending champion Anatoli Karpov in a final in Lausanne directly after the tournament. In the "Special" of ChessBase Magazine #208 our authors (among others Martin Breutigam, Romain Edouard and Jan Markos) comment on their favourite game from Groningen. Imre Hera's analysis of the Beliafsky-Short encounter can be seen here. Have fun!
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León: Gelfand quicker than Esipenko

7/10/2022 – The second semifinal of the Leon Masters between Boris Gelfand and Andrey Esipenko was a thrilling affair. After a disastrous start with White, Gelfand won an excellent second game, which was followed by two draws. In the tiebreaks, the contenders traded wins before Gelfand won the Armageddon by out-blitzing his young opponent. | Photos: Official site
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Creating studies from games (1)

7/10/2022 – "Surprisingly often I watch sequences of moves in games that do not remind me of anything from my previous chess memory," writes endgame study composer Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen. In such cases, he will rush over to his chessboard and start thinking about turning it into a study. One way to do this is to strip the position and present the main idea as economically as possible. Slumstrup Nielsen's description of the process appeared in The Macedonian Problemist.
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León: Anand knocks out Santos, loses miniature

7/9/2022 – Vishy Anand won the last game of the semifinal to knock out Jaime Santos. Anand will face the winner of the semifinal between Boris Gelfand, another living legend who has already won the Magistral twice, and the young Russian GM Andrey Esipenko in Sunday’s final. | Photos: Official site
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Oldie goldie

7/9/2022 – Does Black have perpetual check in the diagram position after 14...Nf3+ - or more? A look back at a classic, played 125 years ago - enjoy!
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Starting Sunday: FTX Road to Miami online tournament

7/8/2022 – A group of chess stars will be flying to Florida this summer for the biggest esports chess tournament ever held on US soil. The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour will hold its second Major of the season, the FTX Crypto Cup, in Miami from August 15 to 21. But first, a thrilling battle for qualification in the sixth Tour event of the season will take place online from July 10 to 17 titled the FTX Road to Miami.
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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

3.h4 against the King's Indian and Grünfeld

It's a great idea to take Grunfeld and King’s Indian players out of their comfort-zone right from the start! Let’s go 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 first and now play 3.h4!?

€29.90

Countering the Reti with 1...d5 and 2...Nd7

With the move 1…d5 we put one pawn in the centre. With the move 2…Nd7 we are threatning …e5 and putting a second pawn in the centre.

€9.90

Chessbase Magazine Extra 208

Videos: Nico Zwirs tests the dynamic 5...b5 in the Vienna Variation of the Queen's Gambit. Ivan Sokolov introduces 6.g3 as a surprise weapon in the Sicilian Four Knights Variation. "Lucky bag": 60 analyses by Anish Giri, David Navara and many more.

€12.99

Move by move - (how to) get into a master's mind!

The best way to improve at chess is to carefully study master games, stop at certain positions and think about candidate moves. Doing this on your own can be difficult and tiresome, but on this viddeo course, you will be guided by worldrenowned trainers!

€29.90

A Surprise Weapon against the Philidor Defence

The move suggested in this 60 minutes course is 5.Rg1, with the idea g4. The plus side is that you still get all the g4 ideas without losing a pawn.

€9.90

Winning Chess Strategies Vol.1 and 2

Throughout this video course, we will study how to master sacrifices and the initiative in several aspects: opposite-coloured bishops, the bishop pair, the exchange sacrifice, launching an attack, and the good moment to sacrifice will be covered.

€59.80 €54.90

Winning Chess Strategies Vol.1 - The Art of Sacrifices and Initiative

Throughout this video course, we will study how to master sacrifices and the initiative in several aspects: opposite-coloured bishops, the bishop pair, the exchange sacrifice, launching an attack, and the good moment to sacrifice will be covered.

€29.90


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