3/10/2023 – World Women's day was on 8th of March, and Svitlana took the opportunity to show us three incredible games by the Polgar sisters. Sofia, Susan, and Judit are the greatest influencers of Svitlana's love for chess, and The Canadian WIM was lucky enough to meet Susan Polgar in 2018, as we can see in the pictures of this article.

3/10/2023 – This time ChessBase Magazine's "Special" is dedicated to the first Englishman who succeeded in winning the title of International Grandmaster: Anthony Miles (1955-2001). Our authors (David Navara, Yannick Pelletier, Spyridon Kapnisis, Julio Sadorra and many others) comment on their favourite games of the creative Englishman - thus an exclusive collection of 21 duels from the period 1978 to 2001 has come together. You can watch Robert Ris' analysis of the game Miles - Spassky (1978) here. Enjoy! | Photo: Dutch National Archive

3/10/2023 – In his new Power Play Show, GM Daniel King examines a King’s Indian game played by Ruslan Ponomariov with black, and then goes back and analyses the opening carefully by looking at past games. Strategy is delicate! | Power Play is on air most Fridays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account. All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

3/10/2023 – Anton Korobov regained clear first place in the standings of the European Championship by beating Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis in Thursday’s seventh round. Meanwhile, Benjamin Gledura (pictured) climbed to sole second place with a win over Giga Quparadze. Thirteen players stand a half point behind Gledura with four rounds to go in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. | Photos: European Chess Union

3/9/2023 – Today Bobby Fischer, who was born in Chicago on 9 March 1943 and died in Reykjavik on 17 January 2008, would have turned 80 years old. Fischer, world champion from 1972 to 1975, was a man full of contradictions and made headlines time and again — through his brilliant play, but also through his eccentric behaviour. Fischer’s long-time rival Bent Larsen once said: “You can’t understand Robert James Fischer. But why should you want to? Why not just feast your eyes on his games?” To celebrate his 80th birthday, we present a typical victory by the American genius.

3/9/2023 – In his Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris looks at the topical line with 4.h4 h5 in the Advance Variation of the Caro-Kann. The famed trainer analyses a game in which Black tried to cover the g5-square with f7-f6, in vain... | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/9/2023 – Chess and football might have more in common than first meets the eye, but in fact, there are parallel ideas of visual spatial intelligence in both chess and football. Which is one reason why Jason Kouchak, composer, pianist and avid chess fan supports "The Rooks", a women's football team in Lewes, Sussex, England. | Photo: Magnus Carlsen shows his football skills. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

3/9/2023 – Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis, the 101st seed at the European Championship, is sharing the lead with Anton Korobov after beating Eltaj Safarli with the black pieces. The 25-year-old IM from Greece will again get the black pieces in his seventh-round encounter against Korobov. Eight players, all on 5/6 points, make up the chasing pack. | Photos: European Chess Union

3/9/2023 – Chess was among the topics discussed at the 17th edition of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which took place on March 3-4 at the Hynes Convention Centre in Boston. The panel brought together some of the biggest names in the game, including Danny Rensch, Jennifer Shahade, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Daryl Morey.

3/8/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #558, Merijn van Delft analyses Anton Korobov’s victory over Ruslan Ponomariov in round 5 of the European Championship. In the game, Korobov came up with a truly remarkable concept! | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/8/2023 – Those who love spectacle and drama got their money's worth on Day 2 of the Armageddon Championship Series in Berlin. Especially in the match between Andrew Tang (pictured) and Leinier Dominguez, which Tang won in Armageddon. At the end of the game he had one second left on the clock, while Dominguez had spent all his time. In the second match of the day Jose Martinez prevailed against Ray Robson. | Foto: World Chess

3/8/2023 – Anton Korobov won the all-Ukrainian matchup against Ruslan Ponomariov to take the lead at the European Championship in Serbia. Korobov is the only player to have won his five first games at the extremely competitive event. Four players, including two underdogs, stand a half point behind. | Photos: European Chess Union