2/9/2023 – Hikaru Nakamura will face Magnus Carlsen in the Airthings Masters’ Grand Final on Friday. The famed streamer drew Wesley So with black in Armageddon to win the losers’ bracket and set up a rematch against the world champion. So had gained the right to face Nakamura by scoring a 1½-½ victory over Arjun Erigaisi in the semifinal of the lower bracket.

2/9/2023 – One of the most common things that chess players obsessed with Elo ratings (which is almost all of them) do when selecting tournaments to play is to look at the nationality of the players already entered, to see if they come from countries that are considered to have "deflated" ratings or "inflated" ratings, which might add to the attraction of playing. Javier Perea analyses the phenomenon.

2/9/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #554, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fantastic attacking game that was played in the German Bundesliga last weekend, and in which Daniel Yuffa defeated Frederik Svane with a number of surprising sacrifices. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

2/9/2023 – The WR Chess Masters is a classical chess tournament which boasts the participation of 10 World-class Grandmasters. With a mix of youth and experience, this dynamic field will battle each other from February 15th-26th in a 9-game Round Robin event. The most special thing about the event is its time control. It has the same time control as the World Championship Match. How difficult is it to organize a super tournament from scratch? In this article, we talk to the man behind the WR Chess Masters - Wadim Rosenstein and get some insights.

2/9/2023 – Following the rest day, players returned well-prepared to the playing hall in Munich and drew all their games in round 6 of the Women’s Grand Prix. Alexandra Kosteniuk thus kept her 1½-point lead in the standings. Importantly, Kosteniuk’s closest chasers, Humpy Koneru and Nana Dzagnidze, have yet to face the former women’s world champion. | Photo: FIDE / Mark Livshitz

2/9/2023 – Magnus Carlsen advanced to the Grand Final of the Airthings Masters by beating Hikaru Nakamura in the winners’ bracket final. All four 15-minute games were drawn in the all-star showdown, leading to a sudden-death decider. Carlsen, who presented a bid merely one second shorter than Nakamura’s, drew with black in Armageddon to win the match. Nakamura will face either Wesley So or Arjun Erigaisi in the final of the losers’ bracket.

2/8/2023 – For many years, Luc Winants was Belgium's best chess player and at times the country's only grandmaster. He represented his country in many Chess Olympiads and remained undefeated in two Olympiads. Luc Winants died yesterday, 7 February, at the age of 60. | Photo: https://www.chess-and-strategy.com/

2/8/2023 – UAE Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence, the International Chess Federation, and the Asian Chess Federation jointly held the Tolerance Games - Asian Chess Women's Contest that took place from February 06-07, 2023, in Abu-Dhabi, UAE. The event was a part of the Global Tolerance and Human Fraternity Summit in Etihad Towers. | Photo: FIDE

2/8/2023 – “In order to understand an opening, you need to know the historical background and have a good feeling for the dynamics”, says the GM Dorian Rogozenco in the introduction to this video course. Based on 30 years of personal experience at high level, Rogozenco provides a complete guide for Black in the modern theory of the Sveshnikov Sicilian.

2/8/2023 – The two strongest and most consistent online-chess players in the world reached the final (in the winners’ bracket) of the Airthings Masters. Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura both drew their rapid encounters against Arjun Erigaisi and Wesley So, respectively, and went on to draw with black in Armageddon deciders to set up a much-anticipated showdown. Meanwhile, Alexey Sarana and Dommaraju Gukesh remain in contention in the losers’ bracket.

2/7/2023 – In the German magazine "Rochade Europa" / "Europa-Rochade", Gerd Wilhelm Hörning and Gerhard Josten had a column in which they presented their findings on incorrect endgame studies, offering also corrections to them. A small retrospective. | Photo: Motionarray - By SeventyFour

2/7/2023 – Attacking is what is most fun in chess. Ideally, you mate! But how do you make your attack successful? On his latest Fritztrainer, Grandmaster Karsten Müller has put together some rules of thumb for a successful attack. Christian Höthe has taken a look at the course.