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!

6/2/2023 – In his Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes a look at a modern line of the Taimanov Sicilian, which Anish Giri and Gukesh recently discussed at the Norway Chess Blitz tournament in Stavanger. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/1/2023 – From her weekly video series "Svitlana's Smart Moves" we already know what a good teacher Svitlana Demchenko is. She is well prepared, can give clear and understandable instructions, which makes it easier for her students to understand and learn from her, and she is excellent at explaining complex chess concepts in an understandable way, which makes the learning process more enjoyable! Her latest Fritztrainer consists of a whopping 10 hours of great instructional advice on how to play the Leningrad Dutch Defence!

6/1/2023 – FIDE has published its new world ranking list. In June 2023, Magnus Carlsen is the only player with an Elo rating above 2800 and leads the world rankings by almost 70 points. The best young players, Firouzja, Gukesh, Abdusattorov and Erigaisi, are steadily improving.

6/1/2023 – From the 1st to the 6th of June 2023, as a part of the Maharashtra Chess Festival, two matches between world class players will take place in Nagpur, India. The first is between India's no.3 GM Vidit Gujrathi, who will take on the eight-time Russian Champion Peter Svidler. The second is between the top rated junior from the state Raunak Sadhwani and former World Championship Challenger Nigel Short. We have done extensive video interviews with the players.

6/1/2023 – Michael Adams and Katarzyna Toma were the favourites to win the Open and Women's Championships of the English Chess Federation. However, both winners needed a bit of luck in some of their games. The ECF Championship is a very young tournament and many of the participants were youngsters. | Photos: English Chess Federation

6/1/2023 – The second round of the Norway Chess Tournament saw some very competitive games, which didn't always have a deserving winner. Nakamura was lucky to beat Gukesh, Firouzja scored against Mamedyarov and Abdusattorov had the better end against Aryan Tari. Carlsen and Caruana won in Armageddon against So and Giri. | Photos: Lennart Ootes/ Norway Chess