11/7/2023 – Indian chess celebrated a double victory in the recent FIDE Grand Swiss events on the Isle of Man. Vidit Gujrathi and Vaishali Rameshbabu claimed outright victories in the open and the women’s sections respectively. The ChessBase India team, led by Sagar Shah, travelled to the island in the Irish Sea and, as usual, produced a plethora of content!

11/7/2023 – On the occasion of Robert Huebner's 75th birthday yesterday, Emil Sutovsky, Grandmaster and Managing Director of FIDE, published a personal congratulation on the FIDE website and reviewed some of Robert Huebner's great achievements. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

11/7/2023 – With a last-round-win Czech Grandmaster Jiri Stocek won the 26. Open International Bavarian Championships ahead of GM Maxime Lagarde from France. Both players finished with 7.5/9, but Stocek had the better tiebreak. German International Master Roven Vogel won bronze and made his third and final GM-norm. | Photos: Sandra Schmidt

11/7/2023 – Calculating precisely and keeping an open mind for possible candidate moves is an important skill in chess. In the diagram position it is White to move and win. What should she do?

11/7/2023 – World Chess has announced the release of the first-ever chess map of the world, one that blends the intricate worlds of chess and geography. This unique cartographic creation, where continents and places are crafted from chess openings with geographical names, promises to be a collector's delight.

11/6/2023 – Robert Hübner is the best German chess player since Emanuel Lasker. At the height of his career, the grandmaster from Cologne was ranked third in the world behind Karpov and Korchnoi. With his scientific training, Hübner also took a scientific interest in the game of chess. The multiple World Championship candidate turns 75 today. | Photo: Robert Hübner during a lecture about a game he played in Tilburg 1985 against Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Photo: Hartmut Metz)

11/6/2023 – In the Endgame Magic Show #254 Karsten Müller and endgame aficionado Ted Jewell continue to analyse endgame highlights from the first two rounds of the German Bundesliga. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

11/6/2023 – „Easy to learn and easy to play.“ These are the twin pillars on which the Modern Scandinavian has been built and which club players have trusted and profited from over the past few decades. Which line should Black adopt after 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3? Here we focus on the sharp 3...Qd6 as opposed to 3...Qa5 or 3... Qd8. All the main responses aside from 3 Nc3 are shown in exemplary games and the result is an insightful overview for club players which will stand the test of time and not require too much burning of the midnight oil.

11/6/2023 – In the end, the favourites prevailed at the Senior World Championships, but only just. Michael Adams and John Nunn had to settle for a photo finish in the two open events, the 50+ and the 65+. Monica Calzetta Ruiz and Galina Strutinskaia won the senior women's titles. | Photos: Patricia Claros

11/6/2023 – Kasparov Chess Foundation is launching a subscription-based live, online chess lessons with four different skill levels. Registration is opened now at www.kcfacademy.org, and chess players of all ages are encouraged to sign-up. Classes commence on January 6th and run through June 15th. ChessBase is part of the project.

11/6/2023 – A clutch win — his seventh in ten games — gave Vidit Gujrathi tournament victory in the open section of the FIDE Grand Swiss. The Indian grandmaster thus qualified to the 2024 Candidates Tournament. Joining him in Toronto will be Hikaru Nakamura, who finished in clear second place a half point behind. Meanwhile, another Indian player prevailed in the women’s section, as Vaishali Rameshbabu grabbed clear first place after drawing Batkhuyag Munguntuul on Sunday. Anna Muzychuk, who was already qualified to the Candidates, got second place, allowing third-placed Tan Zhongyi to secure the second Candidates’ spot. | Photo: Anna Shtourman

11/5/2023 – Marking Guy Fawkes Day in the UK, Jon Speelman goes over a number of suitably pyrotechnic games. Three correspondence-chess marvels from the 1980s are followed by recent games from the Qatar Masters and the FIDE Grand Swiss. Fire on board!