6/25/2024 – MegaBase 2024 is Chess History in action. Regularly updated every month, the Main Database currently offers 10.6 million games, many of them annotated. In the first part of his series our columnist dealt with the treatment of chess in the 21st Century in the MegaBase. In the second part of the series he took us down the memory lane with a world championship that deserves to be better known. In the third and concluding part of the series he shows how we can learn from the games of the past in the MegaBase.
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.
6/26/2024 – The 37th edition of the “Magistral Ciudad de León” will take place on June 27-29 at the city’s Auditorium. Jaime Satnos will attempt to defend his title against two living legends and a rising star: Vishy Anand, Veselin Topalov and Arjun Erigaisi. In 2023, Santos became the second Spaniard to win the event after beating Boris Gelfand in the final.
6/25/2024 – The famous Biel International Chess Festival will take place again, from the 12.07. – 26.07.2024. It is still enough time to spontaneously plan to participate, book travel tickets + hotel, and invest a little time to brush up your openings. Whatever you enjoy the most in chess, the Biel festival has you covered: from Blitz, to Rapid, to several Classical events, up to a Simultaneous match against Abhimanyu Mishra, a 960 event, and even more formats for younger players, and Physicians only! | Photo: Pixabay
6/25/2024 – Although the selection of three Indian players in this year’s FIDE Candidates Tournament was a significant event in itself, there was a certain sadness in everyone's hearts as Arjun Erigaisi, despite coming close to qualifying multiple times, could not secure a spot. In an exclusive interview with ChessBase India Hindi’s Niklesh Jain, Arjun discussed missing out on the FIDE Candidates, his future goals, recent performances, and upcoming tournaments.
6/24/2024 – It is incredible to see how many drawish or marginally better endgames is Magnus Carlsen able to win. The computer claims the advantage of the Norwegian is minimal, let us say +0,2 or +0,4, and yet he wins. Again, and again. What is his secret? Jan Markos tries an answer. | Photo: Magnus Carlsen at the World Blitz Championship 2022 | Photo: Lennart Ootes
6/24/2024 – To conduct a successful attack on any part of the board, you need pieces. You need to gather as much power force as possible and force your opponent to kneel down under the unbearable pressure. In more simple words, if the ratio of your attacking pieces surpass the ratio of your enemy’s defensive pieces, then you are in the right track! Even if you cannot see directly a decisive blow, you must be assured that sooner or later the opportunity will come in sight… Let international chess trainer Efstratios Grivas explain the concept with a game he played thirty years ago.
6/24/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris shows how Chinese Grandmaster Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament demolished a French Defense, in which Black was a bit too daring and reckless. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
6/24/2024 – He is considered by many to be the most talented of all world champions– Fischer called him one of the top ten players of all time. In our Master Class trainer you can learn all about his style and his strategy from leading experts, and in this week get this latest Fritztrainer for €34.90. And in our Summer Special you can have all 17 Fritztrainers for just €199.90 (instead of €389.90). Don't miss the chance.
6/24/2024 – The Superbet Chess Classic, the second event in this year’s Grand Chess Tour, is set to take place from June 26 to July 5 at the Grand Hotel Bucharest in Romania’s capital. All nine GCT regulars will participate, and will be joined by local rising star Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Defending champion Fabiano Caruana is the rating favourite, with Ian Nepomniachtchi (pictured, center) and Nodirbek Abdusattorov the second and third seeds respectively. | Photo: Grand Chess Tour 2023 / Lennart Ootes
6/23/2024 – The English Championships came to an end on Sunday in Kenilworth. Both the open and the women’s sections were decided in rapid tiebreakers, with Gawain Jones beating Michael Adams in the open and Elmira Mirzoeva beating Katarzyna Toma in the women’s. Coincidentally, both champions entered the final round of the event standing a half point behind the players they would later beat in the playoffs. | Photo: London Chess Classic
6/23/2024 – Tan Zhongyi signed a quick draw with Alexandra Kosteniuk to become the outright winner of the Cairns Cup in Saint Louis. The Chinese star finished the event with an undefeated 6/9 score. In the one decisive game of the final round, Anna Muzychuk defeated Alice Lee to secure sole second place. This was Muzychuk’s second win in a row, after having collected seven draws in the first seven rounds of the event. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
6/23/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 183rd episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and looks at the life and games of Garry Kasparov who many consider to be the best player of all time. | Photo: Pascal Simon
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
We boldly confront the Caro-Kann Defense with the upcoming move 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d3!? With this highly strategic choice, we disrupt Black’s typical patterns and comfort zones and enter an early endgame full of chances for you.
On this all-new ChessBase video course, IM Andrew Martin introduces you to this exciting world, so that you can begin playing the Sicilian in your own games. The main themes and ideas of the Open Sicilian are discussed.
Videos by Felix Blohberger: A new sacrifice idea against the French and “Mikhalchishin’s Miniatures” (Part 3). “Lucky bag” with 44 analyses by Emanuel Berg, Romain Edouard, Alexandr Fier, Michal Krasenkow, Yago Santiago, Vaibhav Suri and many others.
In 23 video lessons you will learn everything you need to know about the King's Gambit, the Vienna Game, the Italian, the Evans Gambit, the two-knight game, the Scottish, the Steinitz and Berlin defences, the Open Spanish or the exchange variation, Marsha
In this video course we will explore in depth some familiar concepts regarding the bishops. For example, everyone knows that a bishop-pair should grant him a positional edge.
6/23/2024 – In celebration of International Chess Day and the FIDE’s 100th anniversary, FIDE invites all chess players in the world to participate in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record on July 20. All chess players are invited to support the attempt by participating in OTB tournaments or playing online, thus demonstrating the unity and passion of the chess community.
6/22/2024 – The Cairns Cup is taking place on June 13-24 at the World Chess Hall of Fame. Tan Zhongyi, Mariya Muzychuk and Nana Dzagnidze are the top seeds in the 10-player single round robin with a classical time control. The event features one of the strongest female fields, as they compete for a total prize fund of $200,000. | Follow the action live starting at 20.00 CEST (14.00 ET, 23.30 IST)
6/22/2024 – GQ magazine is conducting a series of video portraits of celebrities in which they are asked to name their ten “essentials”. For the English striker Harry Kane, chess is one of them. The Queen’s Gambit series has inspired him, and he regularly plays online, with his family and the other Bayern professionals. Kane also revealed who the best Bayern professional in chess is — not him. | Photo: Video GQ
6/22/2024 – Nowadays, White's play from the diagram position is part of the standard repertoire of every attacker - though White has two promising options in the current position. Can you pick the right one?
6/22/2024 – Tan Zhongyi has a 1-point lead going into the final round of the Cairns Cup in Saint Louis. Alexandra Kosteniuk, who stood in sole second place before Friday’s eighth round, was defeated by Anna Muzychuk. This crucial result left five players tied for second place a full point behind the leader: Anna and Mariya Muzychuk, Kosteniuk, Nana Dzagnidze and Harika Dronavalli. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
6/22/2024 – The English Championships are taking place on June 20-23 at the Holiday Inn Kenilworth-Warwick in Kenilworth. Each event is a 7-round Swiss open. After 4 rounds, the open section has 5 players sharing the lead, including top seeds Michael Adams (pictured) and Gawain Jones. In the women’s tournament, defending champion Katarzyna Toma is the sole leader with a perfect 4/4 score. | Photo: English Chess Federation
In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Boris Spassky. Let them show you which openings Spassky chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were and much more.
We boldly confront the Caro-Kann Defense with the upcoming move 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d3!? With this highly strategic choice, we disrupt Black’s typical patterns and comfort zones and enter an early endgame full of chances for you.
On this all-new ChessBase video course, IM Andrew Martin introduces you to this exciting world, so that you can begin playing the Sicilian in your own games. The main themes and ideas of the Open Sicilian are discussed.
Videos by Felix Blohberger: A new sacrifice idea against the French and “Mikhalchishin’s Miniatures” (Part 3). “Lucky bag” with 44 analyses by Emanuel Berg, Romain Edouard, Alexandr Fier, Michal Krasenkow, Yago Santiago, Vaibhav Suri and many others.
In 23 video lessons you will learn everything you need to know about the King's Gambit, the Vienna Game, the Italian, the Evans Gambit, the two-knight game, the Scottish, the Steinitz and Berlin defences, the Open Spanish or the exchange variation, Marsha
In this video course we will explore in depth some familiar concepts regarding the bishops. For example, everyone knows that a bishop-pair should grant him a positional edge.
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