9/27/2022 – This book contains a revealing self-portrait of Abhimanyu Mishra. The youngest grandmaster in the history of chess tells the story of a highly ambitious family project. Supported by his father, mother and sister, Abhi sets out to beat a nineteen-year-old world record. In June 202, at the height of the Covid pandemic, he succeeded against all odds: ‘I should have been jumping with excitement, but my heart was so full that I ended up teary-eyed in my father's arms.’ Book review.

9/27/2022 – In the diagrammed position it is Black to move. Endgames with bishops of opposite colours have large drawish tendencies but here Black's passed b-pawn and the active black king are more important. How should Black proceed?

9/27/2022 – An exciting eighth round at the Women’s Grand Prix in Astana, with five out of six games ending decisively, left Aleksandra Goryachkina and Kateryna Lagno (pictured) sharing the lead on 6/8 points. Notably, Goryachkina defeated former co-leader Zhu Jiner with the white pieces. Zhu now stands in sole third place, a full point behind the leaders. | Photo: FIDE / Anna Shtourman

9/26/2022 – A day after getting a convincing victory at the Generation Cup, as he anticipated, Magnus Carlsen has shared a public statement regarding the polemic surrounding his withdrawal from the Sinquefield Cup and his quick resignation against Hans Niemann. The world champion wrote: “I believe that Niemann has cheated more — and more recently — than he has publicly admitted”. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

9/26/2022 – Today, Svitlana takes her "smart moves" very literal, and presents to us an opening, which you might not have heard of yet. The two knights tango is not a Gambit, but a quite solid offbeat opening, focusing on the power of very early knight development, and asking the opponent to push the pawns forward too hasty. If the opponent commits to pawn moves, the tango knights can dance around the board, and cause some havoc. A fine opening for Black. Other names for this opening are: Black Knights' Tango, Mexican Defence or Kevitz–Trajkovic Defence

9/26/2022 – The Cantabrians from C.A. Solvay were crowned champions of the Spanish League’s ‘División de Honor’ after securing a decisive victory over Magic Extremadura in the final round. The team led by Pentala Harikrishna and Gukesh Dommaraju was the only one of four co-leaders to get a win in Saturday’s seventh round. DuoBeniaján Costa Cálida from Murcia and Magic from Extremadura got second and third place, respectively. | Photos: Spanish Chess Federation

9/23/2022 – The International Chess Federation has shared a statement regarding the scandal that has taken over the chess over. FIDE wrote: “As the world’s chess governing body, it is our duty to protect the integrity of the game and its image, and in view that the incident keeps escalating, we find it necessary to take a step forward”. | Photo: Amruta Mokal

9/23/2022 – On 29 September Anna and Mariya Muzychuk will give a simultaneous event against 30 opponents in the European Parliament in Brussels. On this occasion, the two Ukrainians will also receive an award from the Emanuel Lasker Society.

9/23/2022 – FIDE has announced a new world championship: an Open World Team Championship in which club teams can participate. The partner of the World Championship, which will offer a prize fund of 250,000 euros, is the logistics company WR Group based in Düsseldorf, Germany, where the tournament is "tentatively" scheduled to be played in May 2023.

9/23/2022 – Magnus Carlsen, Vincent Keymer (pictured), Arjun Erigaisi and Le Quang Liem advanced to the semifinals of the Generation Cup. All four quarterfinal matchups offered a dose of excitement, as every single semifinalist lost at least one game on Thursday. While Le is set to play Arjun in semis, Keymer will have the tough task of facing Carlsen in a 4-game confrontation. | Photo: Lars OA Hedlund

9/22/2022 – This week Robert Ris will have a look at the Modern Defence with 4...a6, which World Champion Magnus Carlsen tried with Black in two interesting games against Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa in the Julius Bär Generation Cup. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

9/22/2022 – Rapid events are exciting to watch especially with the World Champion in play, controversy aside, and one of the reasons for the excitement is also the larger number of mistakes leading to more decisive games. But another way of looking at it is that there are more opportunities for a good lesson as Karsten Mueller shows. Don't miss Keymer's knight underpromotion to beat Saric!