4/18/2016 – Eduard Y. Gufeld is one of the more interesting personas of twentieth century world chess. His untimely demise in 2002 was a great loss to the chess world. Eduard would have turned eighty this March, and friend Elmer Sangalang honors him with and article aimed at the younger generation of ChessBase readers, who should not forget that chess is not all about winning but, more importantly, about creating a work of art.

4/17/2016 – 1963/64 Bobby Fischer won the US Championship with 11.0/11. A player winning the event 2016 with the same score was promised 64,000 USD. But no one will. After So and Caruana drew their game in round three and Robson split the point against Xiong, Caruana, So and Robson lead with 2.5/3. In the women's tournament Abrahamyan, Yip and Paikidze lead with 2.5/3 each.

4/17/2016 – Shocker: after the Ukrainian Chess Federation failed to pay the full amount due to FIDE from the Women's World Championship last month, the FIDE Presidential Board, at its meeting in Moscow, decided to suspend its services for the UCF – temporarily suspended. The most visible consequence is that top GMs will be appearing as unrated in events – e.g. Pavel Eljanov at Norway Chess 2016 on Tuesday.

4/16/2016 – After two rounds three players lead the US Championship 2016 with 2.0/2: Fabiano Caruana, who won convincingly against Sam Shankland, Wesley So, who won less convincingly against Akshat Chandra, and Ray Robson, who profited from Alexander Onishuk's errors. Hikaru Nakamura drew against Gata Kamsky. In the Women's tournament Tatev Abrahamyan and Carissa Yip keep a perfect score.

4/16/2016 – At the end of February IM Nisha Mohota played in the Cannes open tournament in France. With 79 title-holders the event was extremely strong and perfect to fight for norms and rating points. However, there was one small problem. The former Indian National Champion just couldn't focus on chess! But why? Nisha Mohota's beautiful pictorial report gives an answer.

4/16/2016 – After an unusually long period away from competition, Alina L'Ami explains she broke her fast from tournament play with a flurry of events one after the other, starting with the Karpos Open held in the charming and culturally rich city Skopje in Macedonia. Whether enjoying the unique partying on April 1st, or the many sites to see, there was never a dull moment.

4/15/2016 – In three days, on 18th April, the Altibox Norway Chess tournament will begin. With World Champion Magnus Carlsen as favorite. Before the tournament Klaudia Prevezanos interviewed Carlsen for the "Deutsche Welle" and Carlsen talked about computers, his preparation for the Norway Chess tournament, the World Championship, and his relationship to Sergey Karjakin.

4/15/2016 – Wesley So won his game in 28 moves in the first round of the US Championships 2016 against Gata Kamsky. Was it some amazing bit of home preparation or poor opening play by Gata? After our analysis we have come to the conclusion that Kamsky was unprepared and would have fared much better if he would have had a look at ChessBase's DVD on the Breyer. Pavel Eljanov suggests two antidotes for Black which give the second player a fine position. High quality recommendations.

4/15/2016 – With Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So three of the world's best player take part in the US Championship 2016. They all started well into the tournament and showed their class by beating their first round opponents in textbook fashion. In the women's tournament the favorites Krush and Zatonskih started less convincingly.

4/15/2016 – In round six of the Bangkok Open Dutch Grandmaster Loek Van Wely conceded his first half point by drawing against GM Francisco Vallejo Pons from Spain. This allowed German Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, who won a fine game against Nie Xinyang from China, to catch up with Van Wely. After six rounds the Dutch and the German grandmaster share the lead with 5.5/6 each.

4/15/2016 – 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.

4/14/2016 – The Governor of the state, a Bollywood super-star, eminent sports personalities and more than 600 fans gathered to felicitate the pride of Indian chess Viswanathan Anand, who was feted with the Hridaynath Award. There were some highly entertaining speeches and Q&A session of 20 minutes with Anand. We have beautiful pictures by Amruta Mokal plus speeches and videos that give you an overall feel of how things transpired.