7/29/2024 – ChessBase Magazine Extra is the perfect complement to ChessBase Magazine. In the new CBM Extra #220: Videos by Felix Blohberger: Repertoire idea against the Reti Opening and Mihail Marin: Nepo’s Petroff. "Lucky bag" with 36 analyses by Bogdan Deac, Shreyas Royal, Samuel Shankland, Vaibhav Suri and many more. Update Service with over 55,000 new games!

7/29/2024 – The FIDE Centenary celebrations include some new and promising projects in cooperation with the World Federation for Chess Competition. In November, the World Youth Solving Championships for girls and boys will be held in Florianópolis, the capital of southern Brazil's Santa Catarina state, where juniors will be solving eight problems and endgames on November 4, during the free day of the World Youth Chess Championships. You can try your hand at a typical puzzle like the ones they will get.

7/29/2024 – For a sunny chess summer, there are three great offers available only this week (29 July to 4 August): the ChessBase Magazine subscription for €99.90 (instead of €109.80) and the bundles Ganguly: Endgame Essentials 1 & 2 for €49.90 (instead of €69.90) and Nick Pert: Typical Mistakes for €59.90 (instead of €79.90). All at a particularly favourable price. Don't miss this chance!

7/29/2024 – The World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships will be officially opened on 1 August in Astana, Kazakhstan. The five-day event will feature both the world champion, Ding Liren, and the world's top-rated player, Magnus Carlsen, alongside a star-stunned lineup of super-grandmasters playing alongside amateur players. Rounds 1-4 of the rapid are set to take place on Friday.

7/28/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 188th episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and continues to look at the long career of Viktor Kortchnoi, one of the best players of all time who never became World Champion. | Photo: Pascal Simon

7/28/2024 – Pieces have various roles in different stages of the game. Have you heard of 'marathon bishops'? GM Sundararajan Kidambi explores the concept, which he found while going through GM Axel Smith's book on colour complexes. Check out the detailed analysis, which employed a game by living legend Boris Gelfand to enrich your understanding of this new terminology - the concept is not new, though! | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

7/25/2024 – The 57th edition of the Biel Chess Festival is taking place on July 13-26 with its usual mix of elite tournaments, amateur events and attractive side activities. Remarkably, this edition will see two Triathlons taking place simultaneously: the Masters and the Challengers. Praggnanandhaa, Vincent Keymer and Le Quang Liem are the top seeds in the main event. | Follow the games live starting at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 17.30 IST)

7/25/2024 – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the third event in this year's Champions Chess Tour, the CrunchLabs Masters, after beating Alireza Firouzja in the Armageddon decider of the Division I Grand Final. MVL thus secured a spot in the tour's Finals, set to take place over-the-board at the end of the year. The deciding match saw the contenders playing a number of technical battles, with four games ending in draws to set up a sudden-death tiebreaker.

7/25/2024 – The strongest junior and senior chess players in the United States have returned to Saint Louis. On July 16-26, the top 10 players across three divisions - juniors, girls, and seniors - are competing for more than $135,000 in prizes. Find here all games, standings and the daily recap produced by the Saint Louis Chess Club. | Pictured: Vladimir Akoprian, who won the Seniors Championship with a round to spare. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

7/25/2024 – Le Quang Liem once again showed that the Triathlon format suits him perfectly, as he defeated Praggnanandhaa R on Wednesday to claim his third consecutive tournament victory in the Biel Masters - with a round to spare! In the Challengers, which was won by Saleh Salem on Tuesday, Alexander Donchenko defeated Vaishali R to secure second place. | Photos: Biel Chess Festival

7/24/2024 – On July 20, 2024, for the 100th anniversary of its founding, FIDE planned a monumental event. It is a quest to set the Guinness World Record for the most chess games played in 24 hours, asking players all over the world to help achieve this goal. They are asked to play at least one 5-min game on one of the platforms or applications joining the World Records Attempt, between July 20, 2024 00:00:00 CEST and July 21, 2024 00:00:00 CEST. Here are the results in a FIDE press release.

7/24/2024 – The 2024 CrunchLabs Masters is the third of four events preceding the Champions Chess Tour in-person Finals. The second day of action sees players fighting in the Division Placement stage, as they look to qualify for the double-elimination brackets. | Follow the games live video feed with expert commentary starting at 17.00 CEST (11.00 ET, 20.30 IST)