9/6/2025 – 95 years ago, on September 6, 1930, the Anderssen Jubilee Tournament of the Frankfurt Chess Club began in Frankfurt am Main. The Master Tournament was convincingly won by Nimzowitsch with 9½ out of 11, but the perhaps most famous game of the event was played in the Main Tournament. It was Hugo Hussong’s brilliant win against Fritz Herrmann.

9/6/2025 – In the diagram position Black set the board on fire with 34...Rgxd6. How would you assess the situation after that?

9/6/2025 – After two rounds of the FIDE Grand Swiss, only five players remain on perfect scores out of 172 participants, underlining the strength of both tournaments. In the open, Alireza Firouzja, Parham Maghsoodloo and Anton Demchenko (pictured) lead with 2/2, while Vaishali Rameshbabu and Olga Badelka top the women's standings. Thirty players chase the leaders in the open, while fifteen trail in the women's event. | Photo: FIDE / Michal Walusza

9/6/2025 – Michael Kotyk is a young chess trainer from Hamburg. He still remembers clearly when he first took serious notice of the Trompowsky system: during the World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. That was reason enough for him to take a closer look at Robert Ris’s video course on this opening and to explain why he now finds the Trompowsky system interesting, despite having long considered it not particularly dangerous... | Photos: ChessBase

9/5/2025 – Grandmaster Lubomir Ftacnik presents a personal chess course that draws on his decades of playing at the top level and later experience as a coach, aiming to teach what he now understands more deeply than during his competitive career. Instead of overwhelming students with the endless information available in databases, he focuses on highlighting the most important principles—how to evaluate positions, avoid common mistakes, and understand underlying features of the game. The course covers key aspects of openings, middlegames, and endgames, always stressing practical understanding to help players make better decisions at the board.

9/5/2025 – In his latest Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft looks back at the Sinquefield Cup and presents Wesley So’s crucial win over Nodirbek Abdusattorov. So began the tournament with a string of draws, but in this game he displayed both creativity and a fine sense for positional nuance. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

9/2/2025 – Knights on the rim are said to be dim, but what about kings? In the diagram position, can White’s king head for the h-file to convert his extra pawn, or must he find another path to victory?

9/2/2025 – The inaugural Fujairah Global Chess Championship concluded with 18-year-old Pranav Venkatesh winning the Superstars tournament outright on 7/9. The reigning world junior champion, seeded only 23rd at the start, sealed victory with a final-round win over Alan Pichot, finishing a full point ahead of Brandon Jacobson, Amin Tabatabaei and José Martínez. Zhu Jiner also impressed, ending on 5½ points and rising to second place in the women's live ratings. | Photo: Anna Shtourman

9/1/2025 – Under the heading "FIDE Grand Swiss 2025: Updated dress code offers more flexibility", FIDE has introduced a new, more liberal dress code for the upcoming Grand Swiss tournament in Samarkand, which starts on 3 September. Now, 'classic jeans' (not ripped ones) are also permitted. Plain trainers may also be worn. Elastane has always been permitted.

9/1/2025 – The best news in the new FIDE world rankings from a German perspective is Vincent Keymer's leap into the world's top ten. For the first time since Robert Hübner, a German chess professional belongs to the absolute world elite. Never before has a German player achieved an Elo rating of 2751.

9/1/2025 – In the Endgame Magic Show #309, Karsten Müller and Arne Kähler talk about the British Championships in Liverpool, where Michael Adams won his ninth national title. Karsten and Arne present endgame highlights and share stories from the tournament. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

9/1/2025 – Kirill Shevchenko's bid to overturn sanctions for alleged cheating at the 2024 Spanish Team Championship has failed. The FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission’s Appeal Chamber has unanimously confirmed his guilt and strengthened the penalties originally imposed. The decision follows earlier controversy in Melilla, where the 22-year-old grandmaster was excluded after suspicions arose over repeated absences to the same toilet cubicle, with mobile phones later discovered and linked to him.