11/23/2020 – The Skilling Open is the first stop of the 2020-21 Champions Chess Tour. With 16 participants, the event will be played on November 22-30. A single round robin tournament to be played from Sunday to Tuesday will decide who moves on to the knockout stage.The top eight will advance to a 6-day knockout. The action each day begins at 17:00 GMT (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET). Read the full report on Day 1 | Pictured: David Antón | Photo : Alina l’Ami

11/22/2020 – The $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour kicks off today with the Skilling Open. World champion Magnus Carlsen is the top seed. Shortly before the start of the much anticipated tournament, the Norwegian talked about Netflix’s hit series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’. Carlsen found it extremely enjoyably, but also a little too unrealistic. | Photo: Play Magnus Group

11/22/2020 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the second part of his new ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving" Herman explains how to find ways to improve the activity of your pieces. | Photo: Hans Hoornstra

11/21/2020 – The first Online Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities, organized by the International Chess Federation, kicks off today (November 21) and will run until December 3, a day recognized by the United Nations as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The competition brings together 400 players from all over the world, including two grandmasters. | Photo: David Llada

11/21/2020 – The $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour, a series of ten online tournaments featuring elite players, kicks off November 22 with the Skilling Open. The 16 participants will first play a single round robin to decide who moves on to the knockout stage. World champion Magnus Carlsen and Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour runner-up Hikaru Nakamura will both be playing in the 9-day inaugural event.

11/19/2020 – A journey in fantasy and harmony, that is the chess and music project "The Queen's Journey" by musician and chess lover Jason Kouchak. The main target group of the project are children, especially girls. The message is that chess is fun and helps you to develop your personality. Spice Girl Geri Halliwell supported the project. | Photo: Julian Paix

11/18/2020 – The well-known US journalist Christiane Amanpour invited Garry Kasparov and Judit Polgar for an online talk on CNN and spoke to the two chess legends about the success of the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit", women in chess, and their encounters at the board.

11/18/2020 – In a recent review for ChessBase, Albert Silver stated that Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ was “the best chess-related movie or series to grace the screen, from the tour de force performance by Anya Taylor-Joy to the gorgeous cinematography”. But, is this opinion shared only by the loyal legions of chess fanatics? Or is the series actually a hit? According to the ratings and the reviews on mainstream media, it is one of the best releases of the year!

11/17/2020 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent congratulates Mickey Adams, who celebrates birthday today. Lawrence looks at the game J. Polgar vs M. Adams, 1999 and talks about the career of the English top grandmaster. | Lawrence's show is available at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 14:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Ray Morris-Hill

11/17/2020 – Welcome to the new Mega Database 2021! Learn from annotated games, enjoy top tournaments or have a look at the opening repertoire of the world's best! The Mega Database 2021 contains more than 8,4 million games. With a current ChessBase program and our update service you can regularly update the database with new games – round about 5,000 every week!

11/15/2020 – World number 2 Fabiano Caruana and Polish star Jan-Krzysztof Duda are facing each other in the seventh match of the round-of-16 at the Speed Chess Championship. They will play 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz, and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet chess. Follow the games live, with commentary. Start: 18:00 CET, 9 a.m. Pacific.

11/14/2020 – Following the success of the Magnus Carlsen Tour, chess24 and the Play Magnus Group announced the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour, a series of ten online tournaments featuring elite players. The action kicks off November 22 with the first ‘Regular’ tournament, the Skilling Open. Six ‘Regular’ tournaments, three ‘Majors’ and the ‘Finals’ will take place from November 2020 until September 2021.

11/13/2020 – In his podcast "Let's talk abour Chess" Eric van Reem chats with various chess players and chess fans, and his latest guest was WGM Sabina Foisor. In a frank and open interview Foisor talks about her life as a chess professional in the US, her new book "Sherlock's Method", the "Queen's Gambit", women's chess, and the untimely death of her mother. | Photo: Saint Louis Chess Center

11/13/2020 – In a lengthy interview with Jon Tisdall for the US Chess Federation website, world champion Magnus Carlsen touches on a number of topical issues in the world of chess — his role as promoter and organizer, playing online and the future of classical chess. Carlsen also talks about his deal with Unibet and how this sparked problems between him and the Norwegian federation. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Altibox Norway Chess

11/12/2020 – Today, Hikaru Nakamura and Haik Martirosyan will meet in the sixth match of the round of the last 16. They will play 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz, and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet chess. Follow the games live, with commentary. Start: 18:00 CET, 9 a.m. Pacific.

11/11/2020 – One hundred years ago, in 1920, one year before he became the third World Champion in the history of chess, José Raúl Capablanca, published his famous book "My Chess Career", which is considered as one of the classics of chess literature. In this book Capablanca talks about his career and reveals how his style and play developed. Uvencio Blanco Hernández explains why the book became a classic and is still worth reading.

11/11/2020 – What do Fabiano Caruana and the winner of the next tournament in the Playchess Autumn Series have in common? The trainer! On Wednesday, November 11, you have the chance to win a training session with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, trainer and second of Fabiano Caruana. The Playchess Blitz tournament on last Wednesday, November 4, was won by the young German Felix Meißner, who decided that it was a good idea to follow Fischer's example - Meißner won all his games and finished the tournament with 9.0/9!

11/10/2020 – Inspired by the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit" IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at a fine game with this opening: A. Karpov vs A. Yusupov, USSR Championship 1988. | Lawrence’s show is available at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 14:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.