9/14/2026 – The Ganges Grandmasters have won the fourth season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. In the final in Bengaluru, Ian Nepomniachtchi's team defeated defending champions Alpine APL Pipers 4-2. After the first match ended 3-3, the Grandmasters won the second, with Nepomniachtchi scoring a spectacular victory over Magnus Carlsen and Stavroula Tsolakidou beating Humpy Koneru to seal the title. Viswanathan Anand and his PBG Alaskan Knights had already been eliminated before the final day. | Photos and videos: ChessBase India

9/14/2026 – David Anton (pictured) won the second edition of the Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid unbeaten, finishing 1½ points clear of the field. Five wins and five draws gave him a world-class performance rating of 2756. Defending champion Faustino Oro faded somewhat in the second half of the tournament and had to settle for third place behind Jose Martinez Alcantara. | Photos: ECU (title photo), ChessBase India / Amruta Mokal

9/13/2026 – August brings a range of new chess training products covering different areas of the game. The main topics include active opening repertoires, calculation and strategic decision-making. There are also two new courses on positional play, as well as updated databases on the Petroff Defence. The courses by Bahne Fuhrmann, Andrew Martin and Kostya Kavutskiy combine theoretical explanations with annotated games and practical exercises. With material aimed at different playing strengths, the new releases offer both concrete repertoire advice and more in-depth training. | All photos: ChessBase

9/11/2026 – David Anton Guijarro heads into the final stage of the Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid with a one-point lead. Three rounds remain, and the Spaniard is a full point ahead of Faustino Oro, who lost to his compatriot Diego Flores in round six and drew with Jose Cuenca Jiminez in yesterday’s second round. Anton Guijarro drew both of his games, against Cuenca and Jose Martinez Alcantara. The two leaders will face each other in this morning’s round. Cuenca Jiminez plays Ivan Sokolov, while Flores faces Martinez Alcantara. | Photo: Ivan Sokolov, who scored his first win in round six against Martinez, pictured during a simultaneous exhibition in Salzgitter-Bad a year ago | Photo: Arne Kähler

9/10/2026 – We do not know how successful Magnus Carlsen (pictured) was on the golf course, but in the Global Chess League he delivered. Carlsen beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to help his Alpine APL Pipers defeat the CheQ Mumba Masters. After day five, the Pipers are level with leaders FYERS American Gambits on 12 match points, despite having played only six matches to the Gambits' seven. | Photos: Global Chess League

9/10/2026 – After six draws the previous day, the players at the Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid seemed ready for a fight: rounds four and five produced just one draw in six games. Faustino Oro beat Ivan Sokolov before drawing with Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, while David Antón scored two wins, defeating Diego Flores and Sokolov. The experienced Spaniard now leads the young Argentine by half a point. | Photo: David Antón winning the 2025 Spanish Championship | Photo: Spanish Chess Federation

9/20/2026 – It’s once again time to think about aesthetics in ChessBase´26 training: Have you ever noticed the “Style” option? If not, in this episode we’ll explain briefly and concisely how you can better adapt your screen display to your own taste.

9/13/2026 – How do you train endgames? To be honest, the question might be better phrased as: Do you even train endgames at all? After all, the magical richness of the final phase of a game is something not everyone appreciates. This makes it all the more important that training is enjoyable and not bogged down by unnecessarily long searches for the right solution. In this regard, the LiveBook feature of ChessBase´26 may not be familiar to everyone. All the more reason, then, to introduce this highly practical tool in this tutorial.

9/9/2026 – There were no winners on the second day of the Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid. All six games from rounds two and three ended in draws, including the third-round encounter between Faustino Oro and David Antón Guijarro, the two players who had won their opening games. | Photo: Faustino Oro at the 2026 Wijk aan Zee tournament | Photo: Nils Rohde

9/8/2026 – The second edition of Legends & Prodigies is underway, and Faustino Oro (pictured) has picked up where he left off last year: in a flawless attacking game, he defeated Diego Flores. David Anton Guijarro also got off to a successful start, beating Jose Fernando Cuenca Jiminez with Black. | Photo: FMB / Damas y Reyes

9/6/2026 – ChessBase´26 is amazingly versatile and often surprisingly user-friendly — as the first 29 parts of this tutorial series have already shown! One particularly important feature in this context is the “Folders” window, which lets you quickly locate anything you want to use within your storage directories. In this episode, we’ll show you how to activate the window (in case it’s been disabled) and what you can view and work with there.

9/2/2026 – The Tirol Open 2026 featured eight days of high-level chess in Innsbruck. In the A Open, GM Harshit Raja successfully defended his title from the previous year, albeit only on tiebreaks ahead of FM Tobias Kolb, who finished level on points with the two-time champion. Philipp Schlosser, Timur Kocharin and Cedric Chassard ensured that three more German players finished in the top ten of the 57-player field.

8/31/2026 – GM Pranesh Munirethinam won Group A (2200+) of the 2026 Kanizsa Open with 7 points from 9 games. In the final round, Pranesh obtained a full point in his game against IM Vadym Petrovskiy. IM Or Bronstein, GM Andrei Volokitin and GM Karthik Venkataraman finished on the same score and took second to fourth places respectively on tiebreaks. Top seed Matthias Bluebaum could only manage 21st place. The 16-year-old German junior Mykola Korchynskyi finished ten places ahead of the Candidates Tournament participant. | | Photo: Tushar Damor / Chennai Grand Masters

8/30/2026 – How to use ChessBase´26 effectively in training — that is the subject of this three-part series in our tutorial line. Using it effectively also means being able to send your files to your training group, since the material you created in the earlier parts should, after all, be made available to your students in a useful way. ChessBase 18 offers several practical methods for doing this, which we explain in this part.

8/27/2026 – Bibisara Assaubayeva reached both finals at the WR Women's Chess Tour stop in Saint-Tropez, winning the rapid event before finishing runner-up to Anna Muzychuk in the blitz. Assaubayeva and Anna Muzychuk ultimately secured the last two places in November's Grand Final in Stuttgart. Elisabeth Paehtz again came close to advancing, but lost to Assaubayeva in an Armageddon decider in the blitz semifinals. | Photo: WR Chess

8/26/2026 – Bibisara Assaubayeva won the rapid tournament at the European qualifier for the WR Women's Chess Tour Finals in St Tropez. In the first round, she knocked out Elisabeth Paehtz in an Armageddon game. In the final, she defeated Mariya Muzychuk. Today, eight of Europe's strongest women players will compete in the blitz tournament. | Photo: WR Chess

8/24/2026 – GM Dominik Horvath successfully defended his title at the 2026 Austrian National Championship. With 6½ points, he edged out IM Laurenz Borrmann on tiebreaks, who also scored 6½ points and achieved a grandmaster norm. In the Oberbank Challenger Open, young German IM Ruben Gideon Köllner triumphed with 7½ points. Olga Badelka was the top performer in the Open and thus claimed the women's national title. | Pictured (from left): Laurenz Borrmann, Dominik Horvath and Valentin Baidetskyi | Photo: Peter Kranzl

8/24/2026 – Drama in the second game of the semifinals at the Grand Chess Tour Finals: Vincent Keymer had black against Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, and after a relatively quiet opening the position became increasingly complicated as both players ran short of time. Keymer reached a winning position, but in an almost hopeless situation Praggnanandhaa managed to capture the German star's rook with a king move and went on to secure the point. There was plenty of tension in the other semifinal as well. Wesley So found himself under severe pressure after a novelty by Fabiano Caruana, but Caruana allowed his opponent to escape with a draw. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour