6/7/2023 – It involves six franchises for the inaugural edition, set to reach 600 million viewers in 160 countries. The Global Chess League represents a paradigm shift in chess spectatorship with the inclusion of world-class players and visionary franchise owners. Check out the world class players who will be playing in the League. It's going to be a hot summer!

6/6/2023 – Monday was Armageddon day in Stavanger. Caruana won his classical game against Abdusattorov, and Nakamura, Carlsen, Gukesh and So improved their scores with Armageddon wins after draws. Fabiano Caruana remains in the lead. | Photos: Lennart Ootes/ Norway Chess

6/6/2023 – The cut-off is an important technique in rook endings. In the diagram position Black could have used it to win the game. How?

6/6/2023 – Following two rounds with 4 out of 5 games ending decisively, only Irina Krush and Bella Khotenashvili managed to score full points in round 3 of the Cairns Cup. Krush is now sharing the lead with Alexandra Kosteniuk on 2½ points. Anna Zatonskih stands in sole third place a half point behind the co-leaders. Zatonskih will face Kosteniuk with black in Tuesday’s fourth round. | Photo: Austin Fuller

6/6/2023 – Jon Speelman has an eye for unusual constellations and interesting chess games, and in his column he presents a game that was played recently, but brought back memories of times gone by: "Over the last few weeks, the game which has made much the greatest impression on me is the splendid rapidplay battle between Richard Rapport and Jan-Krzysztof Duda at the Superbet tournament in Warsaw. This magnificent slugfest quickly entered some sort of time portal and resurfaced in the mid-nineteenth century with White a huge amount of material down but the Black king under intense fire." | Photo: Jan-Krzysztof Duda at the Superbet Tournament in Warsaw 2023 | Photo: Lennart Ootes

6/5/2023 – In this week's show, Karsten Müller looks at endgame highlights from the Dubai Open. Two queen endings were especially interesting. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

6/5/2023 – GM Romain Edouard is an expert on the Sicilian Dragon Variation. In his four-part series in ChessBase Magazine Extra he gives deep insights into the variations after 9.0-0-0 d5 and reveals a multitude of tactical motifs he came across in the course of his analyses. The second part deals with the main line 10.exd5. You can watch an excerpt from Edouard's 20-minute analysis here!

6/5/2023 – As a part of the Maharashtra Chess Festival, two chess legends, Peter Svidler and Nigel Short are facing young super-talents Vidit Gujrathi and Raunak Sadhwani. The latter got off to a great start, winning both games. But then the seniors struck back with emphatic victories. In round three the Young Talent won both games. This was followed by two draws. Report by ChessBase India.

6/5/2023 – He drew the Classical game against Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) in Round 5 of 11th Norway Chess 2023, and then was completely winning the Armageddon against the former World Rapid champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2731). However, Gukesh decided to repeat moves as draw with Black, which won him the match. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) and Hikaru Nakamura (USA) scored the only two Classical wins of the round against the tournament leader Fabiano Caruana (USA) and birthday boy Aryan Tari (NOR). The 'Speed King' Nakamura is now World no.2 again. Magnus Carlsen defeated Anish Giri in the Armageddon to win the match.

6/4/2023 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 128th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and talks about tactics and the attacking and defending skills of Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official World Champion. | Photo: Pascal Simon

6/4/2023 – Earlier this year, he drew against the world no.1 at 85th Tata Steel Masters 2023. Yesterday D Gukesh drew his second Classical rated game ever against Magnus Carlsen, but lost the Armageddon. Fabiano Caruana scored the sole Classical victory of the round, with black against Alireza Firouzja. All photos in this article are by Lennart Ootes/Norway Chess unless stated otherwise.

6/3/2023 – Genrikh Kasparyan is widely regarded as one of the most prolific endgame study composers and shared his knowledge with a younger generation. So his son Sergey also composed endgame studies - 56 are in the database, including versions and corrections. But also other friends from Genrikh's endgame studies teaching circle created interesting ones themselves or together. | Photo: Midjourney AI