3/15/2025 – From the diagram position, White started a powerful attack on the black king, but in the end failed to crown it. Can you do better?

3/15/2025 – On March 16, 2025 the Kasparov Chess Foundation Academy will host a live lecture by GM Alexander Onischuk. Participants have the unique opportunity to learn from his extensive experience, gaining insights into advanced strategies and game analysis. This event is part of KCF Academy's ongoing training program, crafted to provide high-quality chess education worldwide.

3/14/2025 – From 14 to 20 March, the Hotel del Lago hosts the Punta del Este Masters, a closed double round-robin tournament bringing together four Grandmasters and two International Masters from Spanish-speaking countries. Among them, the young Argentinean Faustino Oro, aged 11, and the Mexican Sion Galaviz, aged 19, will try to score the necessary points to obtain GM status. The event is part of the Punta del Este International Chess Festival, which will include open tournaments and promotional activities. | Photo: David Llada

3/14/2025 – The 2025 American Cup returns to Saint Louis, bringing together the nation's top chess players for a high-stakes competition. Organised by the Saint Louis Chess Club, the tournament follows a double-elimination format, testing players in both classical and rapid chess. Featuring elite grandmasters such as Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, as well as rising stars like Alice Lee and Carissa Yip, the event promises intense matches in both the open and women's sections. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

3/14/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris presents an exciting game from the Prague Chess Festival. Praggnanandhaa decided to take some risks in the Classical Variation of the King's Indian, but faced an excellently prepared Anish Giri, who went on to win the game in style. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/14/2025 – Analyses with ChessBase 18 are flexible: insights gained can be added to or changed at any time. This often leads to a re-evaluation of variations. In this tutorial episode, we will therefore explain how you can upgrade variations and insert or change evaluations. We will show how practical this is with the quick access bars next to and below the notation.

3/11/2025 – Magnus Carlsen representend his team Offerspill last weekend at the end of this year's Norwegian Elite Series and won all the three games he played. However, it was not enough to win the championship. Vålerenga (pictured) became Norwegian team champions ahead of OSS and Offerspill. | Photo: Kaido Kulaots via Facebook

3/10/2025 – On July 13, 2004, Bobby Fischer was detained in Japan with an invalid U.S. passport. That marked the beginning of a nine-month ordeal for him in Japanese custody. Among the supporters fighting for his release was former World Champion Boris Spassky, whom Fischer had dethroned thirty years earlier. Spassky, who passed last week, even wrote a personal letter of appeal to President George Bush, asking to be locked up in the same cell as Fischer. "And give us a chess set," he said.

3/10/2025 – What is the Ultimate Underdog chess game, ever played? This is obviously a very difficult question to answer, and moreover, very subjective. Nonetheless, one game would probably be set in the top 10 list - Adams vs. Torre from 1920. In this game, which is suspiciously beautiful, Adams tries really hard to sacrifice his queen several times, against the Mexican super talent Torre. Apparently, Adams was unknown, and not that strong of a chess player after all. Even if it was simply a brilliant analysis, it remains brilliant, and worthy to appear on this show.

3/10/2025 – England’s top female chess players are turning out among a strong field to compete for the Menchik Memorial title. The 2025 tournament will take place at the London Mindsports Centre in Hammersmith from March 20 to 24. The tournament is named after Vera Francevna Menchik (1906-1944), the pioneering chess player who became the first Women's World Chess Champion in 1927 – and went on to win the title seven more times, holding it for almost two decades. | World Wide Photos

3/10/2025 – In the classic Fort Knox Variation (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bd7), Black maneuvers the light-squared bishop to c6 in order to exchange it for a white knight and establish a super-solid setup. Yago Santiago discovered a new - and even safer - way of playing the Fort Knox in some of Arjun Erigaisi's games: In his opening article for the current CBM #224, Santiago presents the variation 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Bd7!? If White now reacts with 6.Nxf6+, he must be prepared for major complications after 6...gxf6! You can read the full article with all the annotated games this week as a free sample with your web browser in the ChessBase Books format!

3/10/2025 – The Scotch Gambit is a favourite at club level, offering a rich blend of attacking and positional ideas. Whether you prefer sharp tactical battles, or a more controlled strategic approach, this video course gives you everything you need to master this dynamic opening.