9/6/2024 – The semifinals of the Speed Chess Championship are taking place on 6 September at Espot in Paris. In the second semi, Magnus Carlsen faces Hans Niemann - the winner will play Alireza Firouzja, who defeated Hikaru Nakamura by a 16-11 score, in Sunday's final match. | Follow the action live starting at 20.30 CEST (14.30 ET, 0.00 IST)
It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
9/6/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at a critical line of the Taimanov Sicilian - an exciting response to 1.e4, and the basis for a repertoire Robert proposed in a recently published ChessBase course. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
9/6/2024 – Vladimir Tukmakov faced Viktor Korchnoi in the USSR Championship, 1970, and played a famously brilliant game, in the Nimzo-Indian, Bronstein variation. While the Black King tries to escape a devastating attack, Korchnoi still finds the time for counterattacks, and builds up some intense threats. Tukmakov decides to invest his attack in a new idea! Svitlana's analysis of the whole game, is in great detail, as always. The Smart Moves continue in October, after the Olympiad in Budapest.
9/6/2024 – The new issue of ChessBase Magazine is bursting with interesting topics: Ju Wenjun's career and style of play is just one of them. The often interactive format also deals with fortresses, the principle of bad pieces, current tournament games, endgames and much more.
9/5/2024 – Ju Wenjun was among the 10 players who received invitations to participate in the main event of the Women's Speed Chess Championship. The tournament was a 16-player knockout tournament, also featuring participants who had prevailed in the qualification process. In the final, Ju faced Polina Shuvalova and obtained a clear 12½-9½ victory, as she outscored her opponent in all 3 sections of the match. | Photo: Gu Xiaobing
9/5/2024 – Musician and chess fan Jason Kouchak was inspired by the beautiful summer to write a chess song. Together with his friend Stephen Johnstone, he celebrates the anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Starlight Express' with a fast-paced game of chess and a skate ride, and looks forward to the upcoming Global Chess Festival. | Photos: Julian Paix (unless otherwise noted)
9/5/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at Fabiano Caruana's win against Anish Giri in the last round of the Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis. A game that shows how Caruana continuously strives to get better and to be an even more complete player. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
9/5/2024 – The final stages of the Julius Baer Women's Speed Chess Championship are taking place on 2-5 September. In the match for the title, women's world champion Ju Wenjun faces Polina Shuvalova in a confrontation consisting of 5-minute, 3-minute and 1-minute games. | Follow the action live starting at 14.00 CEST (8.00 ET, 17.30 IST)
9/5/2024 – One hundred ninety-seven teams have registered for the open section of the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest. With FIDE currently encompassing 201 national federations, the registration numbers fall short by just four federations. As is often the case, not every registered team will make it to Budapest for various reasons. Nevertheless, this Olympiad is set to break participation records.
9/5/2024 – Surya Shekhar Ganguly defeated Sam Shankland in their 8-game online match with the unique scoring system devised by Venceslav Rutar - which changes the scoring of draws into three categories based on the material disparity. Surya won the match by a 26-11 score, after grabbing 5 wins. Shankland collected 1 win, and 3 games ended in 'equal draws'. While there were no 'favoured' nor 'unfavoured' draws in the match, the format advocated for fighting chess as we got to see so many interesting games.
9/4/2024 – On Friday 6th September at 20:00 CEST in Paris an explosive duel that the chess world has been waiting for for weeks will begin: Hans Niemann will face Magnus Carlsen in the semi-finals of the chess.com Speedchess Championship. After his defeat against Niemann in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, Carlsen indirectly accused Niemann of cheating, which led to heated discussions, headlines around the world and a defamation suit by Niemann. Alireza Firouzja will play Hikaru Nakamura in the second semi-final. The four finalists in Paris will play online on the computer, but will face each other live.
9/4/2024 – In the final round of a Dutch tournament (in Waddingxveen 1979) World Champion Anatoly Karpov beat the second-placed GM Vlastimil Hort. But could the world-class Czech grandmaster have prevented this happening? This was the question we asked in our last Riddle. Today we provide you with the answer.
9/4/2024 – Ju Wenjun will face Kateryna Lagno in the second semifinal of the Women's Speed Chess Championship. Ju and Lagno knocked out Alice Lee and Valentina Gunina in Tuesday's quarterfinals, respectively. The women's world champion got a clear victory over Lee in the 5-minute and 3-minute sections, while Lagno outscored Gunina in the 1-minute segment of their match. | Photo: Alexander Demianchuk
Biel 2024 Chess Festival with analyses by Le Quang Liem, Donchenko, Bjerre and others. Sokolov, King and Zwirs show new opening ideas in the video. 10 repertoire articles from the Dutch to King's Indian and much more.
Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik discovered a unique way to combat the Nimzo-Indian through an alternative move order: 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g3/Qb3
Most of the material on which the Sicilian Paulsen Powerbook 2024 is based comes from the engine room: 439,000 games. An impressive number to which 51,000 games from correspondence chess and the Mega were added.
Looking for a realistic way to play for a win with Black against 1.e4 without taking unnecessary risks? The Taimanov Sicilian is a reliable system, and hence one of the best options out there!
Have you always wanted to play the Sicilian as Black, but been discouraged by the abundance of options for White? Here is the solution to becoming a lifelong successful Sicilian player!
9/3/2024 – Ernst Cassirer was a prominent and important German philosopher, who was born 150 years ago on July 28, 1874, in Breslau. In 1919, he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the newly founded University of Hamburg, but after the Nazis rose to power, Cassirer emigrated to England, where he taught philosophy at Oxford. Later, he moved to the United States via Sweden, teaching at both Yale University and Columbia University in New York, where he died on April 13, 1945. Apart from philosophy Cassirer's great passion was chess, and he occasionally discussed both with Emanuel Lasker.
9/3/2024 – From 20 November to 14 December, the world championship match between world champion Ding Liren and his challenger Dommaraju Gukesh will be held at the Resort World Sentosa in Singapore. 14 games will be played. In the event of a tie, there will be a play-off. The prize fund amounts to 2.5 million dollars. FIDE has now announced the regulations and the exact schedule.
9/3/2024 – Shortly after his 97th birthday Andreas Dückstein, one of the oldest FIDE title holders, passed away. Over the course of his long career, Dückstein played against countless chess legends, beating some of the greats and drawing with others. Dückstein possessed grandmaster strength and was only denied the title for formal reasons. FIDE finally made him an honorary grandmaster. Martin Stichlberger pays tribute to Austria's record international. | Photos: Dückstein Collection, Martin Stichlberger, unless otherwise stated.
9/3/2024 – On Friday, September 6th, there is going to be a touchy encounter between former World Champion and World number one Magnus Carlsen, and upstart GM Hans Niemann, 21. The pair will meet for the first time across the board since the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, where their game sparked cheating allegations and a $100 million lawsuit. GM Jorden van Foreest, who has recently encountered Hans in evening blitz sessions, tells us what he thinks of the strength of this rising star.
9/3/2024 – The first two matches of the quarterfinals in the Women's Speed Chess Championship took place on Monday. Polina Shuvalova (pictured) and Vaishali Rameshbabu advanced to the semifinals after knocking out two former women's world champions, Hou Yifan and Alexandra Kosteniuk, respectively. Both matches were really hard-fought, with Shuvalova only beating Hou in the bullet tiebreaker. | Photo: FIDE / Lennart Ootes
Biel 2024 Chess Festival with analyses by Le Quang Liem, Donchenko, Bjerre and others. Sokolov, King and Zwirs show new opening ideas in the video. 10 repertoire articles from the Dutch to King's Indian and much more.
Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik discovered a unique way to combat the Nimzo-Indian through an alternative move order: 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g3/Qb3
Most of the material on which the Sicilian Paulsen Powerbook 2024 is based comes from the engine room: 439,000 games. An impressive number to which 51,000 games from correspondence chess and the Mega were added.
Looking for a realistic way to play for a win with Black against 1.e4 without taking unnecessary risks? The Taimanov Sicilian is a reliable system, and hence one of the best options out there!
Have you always wanted to play the Sicilian as Black, but been discouraged by the abundance of options for White? Here is the solution to becoming a lifelong successful Sicilian player!
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