Robert Ris (born 1988) is an International Master (FIDE 2450+) who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On video portal The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous video courses and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He's started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.
8/1/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris shows how 14-year old Turkish GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus surprised Peter Svidler, one of the greatest Grunfeld experts, with a sideline in Svidler's pet opening. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
7/28/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes a look at the first game of the Women's World Cup final. Divya Deshmukh, the eventual winner of the World Cup, surprised her opponent Humpy Koneru with a new move in a well-known line. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
7/22/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris looks at the spectacular game Kazakouski-Volokitin from the Portuguese Team Championship. In a sharp and theoretically interesting line of the Ragozin, Black won in style and surprisingly quickly. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
7/11/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris analyses a spectacular victory obtained by Wei Yi over Levon Aronian out of a sharp variation in the Italian opening. One inaccurate move by Black was all the Chinese grandmaster needed to demonstrate his impressive attacking skills. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
7/6/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris goes over an impressive victory by reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, who punished Nodirbek Abdusattorov's risky pawn grabbing out of a Nimzo-Indian Defence. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
6/29/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes a look at a candidate for the "Game of the Year" 2025: Richard Rapport's creative attacking win against Praggnanandhaa at the UzChess Cup in Tashkent. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
6/21/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes a look at the game Nodirbek Yakubboev vs Arjun Erigaisi from the UzChess Cup Masters in Tashkent. In the first round of the tournament Erigaisi decided to try the Pirc Defence against Yakubboev and was rewarded with a surprisingly quick and easy win. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
6/16/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris has a look at an interesting line of the English that helped Andrew Hong to win against Boris Gelfand in just 22 moves at the World Rapid Teams in London. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
6/7/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris has fun analysing a game in which White tried an old line of the Flohr-Mikenas System (1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 c5), which led to wild and entertaining play! | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
5/26/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris analyses a crucial encounter of the Superbet Chess Classic. In round eight, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, who would go on to win the event, defeated Wesley So after surprising him in the opening - by playing the Benko Gambit! | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
5/18/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris looks at the encounter between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and World Champion Gukesh at the Superbet Classic in Bucharest. Gukesh tried a popular line in the Scotch, but things soon went wrong for the World Champion. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
5/8/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris looks at the encounter between World Champion Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa in the first round of the Superbet Classic in Bucharest. An interesting opening quickly turned into a complicated and highly entertaining tactical slugfest. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/25/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris looks at an interesting, surprisingly tricky line in the Reti. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/18/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris analyses a game between Indian stars Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali Rameshbabu, one that featured a sharp theoretical line from the Open Variation in the Ruy Lopez. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/11/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris shows a tricky line against the Philidor - and a game in which Black collapsed surprisingly quickly. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/3/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes another look at the Sicilian Taimanov and shows a fine game by Nihal Sarin with this line. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/28/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris presents a theoretically interesting sharp attacking game, in which both sides made instructive mistakes. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/24/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris presents a theoretically interesting and tactically fascinating game. You are invited to test your skills! | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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ChessBase is re-releasing this timeless classic in the modern ChessBase Media format – complete with brand-new training features. Get ready to rediscover a masterpiece of chess instruction!
How do you play the Queen's Gambit Accepted? Does White have promising variations or can Black construct a water-tight repertoire? The Powerbook provides the answers based on 300 000 games, most of them played by engines.
The Queen's Gambit Accepted Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 11827 games from Mega 2025 and the Correspondence Database 2024, of which 240 are annotated.
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