6/18/2024 – This rule by Dr. Tarrasch is a good guideline in rook endings - when supporting your own pawns and when fighting against enemy pawns. In the diagram position, which is from a game Nurgyul Salimova and Vaishali Rameshbhabu played at the Women's Candidates 2024, it is Black to move and win. What should she do?

6/18/2024 – Arjun Erigaisi won the 5th Stepan Avagyan Memorial in Jermuk, Armenia, with one round to spare. After 8 of 9 rounds he leads the field with 6.0/8 and is 1.5 points ahead of Samuel Sevian and Amin Tabatabaei who both have 4.5/8. The ninth and final round starts at 11.00 local time (9.00 CEST, 3.00 ET).

6/18/2024 – The Madrid Chess Festival came to an end on Saturday. Two 10-player closed tournaments and a 48-player Swiss open took place concurrently. The main event was won by Spanish IM Julio Suárez, who beat former sole leader Levy Rozman in their round-8 encounter. The Closed B tournament was won by Venezuelan FM Pedro Martínez. Argentine rising star, 10-year-old Faustino Oro (pictured), needed to score 5½ points to become the youngest IM in the history of the game, but missed the goal by a mere half point after finishing the tournament undefeated in sole third place. | Photo: chess.com / Federico Marín

6/17/2024 – Our beloved WIM from Canada picked up streaming chess games online a couple of months ago, and became a Twitch partner in no time. Thousands of chess friends are watching her, playing blitz and bullet games, or solving puzzles. Svitlana gained nearly 6000 followers, who she even plays against on stream, at times.

6/17/2024 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris looks at a game by Indian Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi, the "man of the moment" and the world's number 4 in live-rankings. At the moment, Erigaisi plays in the Stepan Avagyan Memorial in Yermuk, Armenia, where he defeated German Grandmaster Matthias Bluebaum in a fine game. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/17/2024 – The final rounds of the FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship are currently taking place in New York. The qualifying rounds were played online. Sixteen teams made it to the finals and four teams are now competing in the final rounds, which are played in knock-out format. | Photo: Nona Gaprindashvili makes the symbolic first move. | Photos: Rafał Oleksiewicz/ FIDE

6/17/2024 – Tan Zhongyi, the top seed in Saint Louis, grabbed the sole lead at the Cairns Cup after beating Anna Zatonskih’s French Defence in round 4. Second place is shared between Mariya Muzychuk and Harika Dronavalli, who both drew on Sunday. The second decisive game of the day saw Alice Lee getting the better of Alexandra Kosteniuk. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/17/2024 – The Stepan Avagyan Memorial is taking place in Jermuk, Armenia on June 10-18. A 10-player single round-robin, the tournament includes five Armenian representatives and five international grandmasters. Top seed Arjun Erigaisi is the sole leader with two rounds to go, as he stands a full point ahead of a three-player chasing pack consisting of Amin Tabatabaei, Sam Sevian and Bogdan-Daniel Deac. | Photos: Chess Academy of Armenia

6/16/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 182nd episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and continues to look at the career and games of Anatoly Karpov, World Champion from 1975 to 1985. | Photo: Pascal Simon

6/16/2024 – Starting July 4, 2024 through July 4, 2029, Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, co-founder of the Saint Louis Chess Club, will offer the Cairns Chess Queens Award. The Cairns Chess Queens Award is designed to encourage more US female chess players to become Grandmasters. An award of $100,000 for up to five players who earn the GM title will be on offer. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/15/2024 – Kazybek Nogerbek from Kazakhstan and Divya Deshmuk from India are the new U20 World Champions. Bogerbek won the decisive game in the final round against former leader Mamikon Gharibyan from Armenia, while Divy also won her final round game to end the event with a remarkable 10/11 score. | Photos: Aditya Sur Roy

6/15/2024 – Two decisive results in round 2 left four players tied for first place at the Cairns Cup in Saint Louis, with Harika Dronavalli and Nana Dzagnidze joining Mariya Muzychuk and Tan Zhongyi at the top of the standings. While Harika got the better of Alexandra Kosteniuk, Dzagnidze inflicted a second consecutive loss on defending champion Anna Zatonskih. | Photo: Lennart Ootes