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.
4/19/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris shows a game which saw a surprising piece sacrifice that has good chances to become the novelty of the year. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/14/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris analyses a couple of games from the Candidates Tournament, specifically the two encounters in which Ian Nepomniachtchi played his beloved Petroff Defence with 6...Bd6. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/6/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris looks at a game featuring the Double Fianchetto System. In the spirit of the King’s Indian Defence, Magnus Carlsen seizes the initiative on the kingside with black to win an instructive game. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/30/2024 – In his first-ever confrontation against Magnus Carlsen, Faustino Oro from Argentina, aged 10, defeated the former world champion in a 1-minute game. After becoming the youngest player to ever earn an IM norm in 2023, the ‘Messi of chess’ moved from Argentina to Spain, where he intends to continue making progress in chess. | Robert Ris analysed Oro’s memorable victory.
3/29/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris shows how Levon Aronian surprised Wesley So in a classical line of the Nimzo-Indian. Aronian’s 5...c5!? worked out perfectly as he went on to win the game. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/22/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris shows how Levon Aronian surprised Wesley So in a classical line of the Nimzo-Indian. Aronian’s 5...c5!? worked out perfectly as he went on to win the game. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
Anyone who seriously deals with openings cannot avoid the opening encyclopaedia. Whether beginner or grandmaster. The Opening Encyclopaedia is by far the most comprehensive chess theory work: over 1,463(!) theory articles offer a huge fund of ideas!
3/12/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris has fun with a queen sacrifice that occurred in a game Gukesh and Vincent Keymer played at the Chess Festival Prague. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/29/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look how Praggnanandhaa and Vincent Keymer set the board on fire in the first round of the Prague Chess Festival. They started with an Italian and were both willing to enter a complicated and sharp theoretical line. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/26/2024 – The German Bundesliga is a traditional team tournament featuring some of the best players in the world. After 11 rounds in the 2023/24 season, Viernheim have a clear 3-point lead over the perennial favourites from Baden-Baden. In round 9, Viernheim’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov obtained a memorable attacking victory over Gata Kamsky. The game was expertly analysed by IM Robert Ris!
2/19/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at a game from Baadur Jobava, which helped the creative Grandmaster to win the Georgian Championship 2024. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/8/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at the final of the Chessable Masters, in which Magnus Carlsen won against Alireza Firouzja. But it was a close and exciting match, in which Firouzja showed how dangerous he is. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/3/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris once again turns his attention to the Tata Steel Tournament 2024 in Wijk aan Zee and analyses a fine and decisive win by Anish Giri in the final round against Max Warmerdam. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/26/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode Robert Ris takes a close look at the Spanish encounter between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, who continued to discued topics they had discussed in their World Championship Match 2023. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/20/2024 – In a Fast & Furious episode coming from Wijk aan Zee, Robert Ris analyses the enjoyable victory obtained by Alireza Firouzja out of a Berlin Defence with 5.Re1. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/14/2024 – In the second Fast & Furious episode of 2024, Robert Ris once again explores complex lines in the Caro-Kann. To do so, he goes over games played by two Chinese stars: Wei Yi and Ding Liren. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/9/2024 – Almost 30 years ago, at the 1995 edition of the Hoogovens Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Roberto Cifuentes and Vadim Zvjaginsev played an astounding game. Known as the ‘Pearl of Wijk aan Zee’, the encounter features a number of sacrifices, including a successful queen sacrifice. Zvjaginsev went all-in for the attack once Cifuentes made an innocent-looking move. Unmissable!
1/7/2024 – In the first Fast & Furious episode of 2024, Robert Ris presents a dangerous line against a popular variation of the Caro-Kann. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
12/30/2023 – In the last Fast & Furious episode of 2023, Robert Ris analysed a spectacular victory obtained by his 15-year-old student IM Arthur de Winter. Out of a fashionable line in the Sicilian Najdorf, White’s attack turned out to be faster than his opponent’s. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
Anyone who seriously deals with openings cannot avoid the opening encyclopaedia. Whether beginner or grandmaster. The Opening Encyclopaedia is by far the most comprehensive chess theory work: over 1,463(!) theory articles offer a huge fund of ideas!
This video course includes GM Anish Giri's deep insights and IM Sagar Shah's pertinent questions to the super GM. In Vol.1 all the openings after 1.e4 are covered.
This video course includes GM Anish Giri's deep insights and IM Sagar Shah's pertinent questions to the super GM. In Vol.1 all the openings after 1.e4 are covered.
This video course includes GM Anish Giri's deep insights and IM Sagar Shah's pertinent questions to the super GM. While Vol.1 dealt with 1.e4, Vol.2 has all the openings after 1.d4 as well as 1.c4 and sidelines are covered.
Videos: Nico Zwirs on the Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 c6 5.f4) and part 2 of “Mikhalchishins miniatures”. “Lucky bag” with 53 commented games by Romain Edouard, Michal Krasenkow, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Gabriel Sargissian, Nodirbek Yakubboe
Dive into the fascinating world of the Sicilian Kalashnikov variation! We will uncover the secrets of this explosive opening from the very first moves: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5.
Anyone who seriously deals with openings cannot avoid the opening encyclopaedia. Whether beginner or grandmaster. The Opening Encyclopaedia is by far the most comprehensive chess theory work: over 1,463(!) theory articles offer a huge fund of ideas!
This video course includes GM Anish Giri's deep insights and IM Sagar Shah's pertinent questions to the super GM. In Vol.1 all the openings after 1.e4 are covered.
This video course includes GM Anish Giri's deep insights and IM Sagar Shah's pertinent questions to the super GM. In Vol.1 all the openings after 1.e4 are covered.
This video course includes GM Anish Giri's deep insights and IM Sagar Shah's pertinent questions to the super GM. While Vol.1 dealt with 1.e4, Vol.2 has all the openings after 1.d4 as well as 1.c4 and sidelines are covered.
Videos: Nico Zwirs on the Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 c6 5.f4) and part 2 of “Mikhalchishins miniatures”. “Lucky bag” with 53 commented games by Romain Edouard, Michal Krasenkow, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Gabriel Sargissian, Nodirbek Yakubboe
Dive into the fascinating world of the Sicilian Kalashnikov variation! We will uncover the secrets of this explosive opening from the very first moves: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5.
€34.90
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