6/25/2024 – Although the selection of three Indian players in this year’s FIDE Candidates Tournament was a significant event in itself, there was a certain sadness in everyone's hearts as Arjun Erigaisi, despite coming close to qualifying multiple times, could not secure a spot. In an exclusive interview with ChessBase India Hindi’s Niklesh Jain, Arjun discussed missing out on the FIDE Candidates, his future goals, recent performances, and upcoming tournaments.

6/24/2024 – It is incredible to see how many drawish or marginally better endgames is Magnus Carlsen able to win. The computer claims the advantage of the Norwegian is minimal, let us say +0,2 or +0,4, and yet he wins. Again, and again. What is his secret? Jan Markos tries an answer. | Photo: Magnus Carlsen at the World Blitz Championship 2022 | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/24/2024 – To conduct a successful attack on any part of the board, you need pieces. You need to gather as much power force as possible and force your opponent to kneel down under the unbearable pressure. In more simple words, if the ratio of your attacking pieces surpass the ratio of your enemy’s defensive pieces, then you are in the right track! Even if you cannot see directly a decisive blow, you must be assured that sooner or later the opportunity will come in sight… Let international chess trainer Efstratios Grivas explain the concept with a game he played thirty years ago.

6/24/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris shows how Chinese Grandmaster Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament demolished a French Defense, in which Black was a bit too daring and reckless. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/24/2024 – The Superbet Chess Classic, the second event in this year’s Grand Chess Tour, is set to take place from June 26 to July 5 at the Grand Hotel Bucharest in Romania’s capital. All nine GCT regulars will participate, and will be joined by local rising star Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Defending champion Fabiano Caruana is the rating favourite, with Ian Nepomniachtchi (pictured, center) and Nodirbek Abdusattorov the second and third seeds respectively. | Photo: Grand Chess Tour 2023 / Lennart Ootes

6/23/2024 – The English Championships came to an end on Sunday in Kenilworth. Both the open and the women’s sections were decided in rapid tiebreakers, with Gawain Jones beating Michael Adams in the open and Elmira Mirzoeva beating Katarzyna Toma in the women’s. Coincidentally, both champions entered the final round of the event standing a half point behind the players they would later beat in the playoffs. | Photo: London Chess Classic

6/23/2024 – Tan Zhongyi signed a quick draw with Alexandra Kosteniuk to become the outright winner of the Cairns Cup in Saint Louis. The Chinese star finished the event with an undefeated 6/9 score. In the one decisive game of the final round, Anna Muzychuk defeated Alice Lee to secure sole second place. This was Muzychuk’s second win in a row, after having collected seven draws in the first seven rounds of the event. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/23/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 183rd episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and looks at the life and games of Garry Kasparov who many consider to be the best player of all time. | Photo: Pascal Simon

6/23/2024 – In celebration of International Chess Day and the FIDE’s 100th anniversary, FIDE invites all chess players in the world to participate in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record on July 20. All chess players are invited to support the attempt by participating in OTB tournaments or playing online, thus demonstrating the unity and passion of the chess community.

6/22/2024 – The Cairns Cup is taking place on June 13-24 at the World Chess Hall of Fame. Tan Zhongyi, Mariya Muzychuk and Nana Dzagnidze are the top seeds in the 10-player single round robin with a classical time control. The event features one of the strongest female fields, as they compete for a total prize fund of $200,000. | Follow the action live starting at 20.00 CEST (14.00 ET, 23.30 IST)

6/22/2024 – GQ magazine is conducting a series of video portraits of celebrities in which they are asked to name their ten “essentials”. For the English striker Harry Kane, chess is one of them. The Queen’s Gambit series has inspired him, and he regularly plays online, with his family and the other Bayern professionals. Kane also revealed who the best Bayern professional in chess is — not him. | Photo: Video GQ

6/22/2024 – Nowadays, White's play from the diagram position is part of the standard repertoire of every attacker - though White has two promising options in the current position. Can you pick the right one?