4/7/2022 – This week Robert Ris takes a look at the game Saric-Abasov played in the 10th round of the European Individual Championships - a model game that illustrates how to attack the Sicilian. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/7/2022 – In the last weeks, we added a lot of chess interactivity to the ChessBase news pages. Replaying games is now optimized for mobile devices. There is a pleasing new layout for annotated games. Social sharing has been radically improved. Diagrams have grown a dirty little secret. Live broadcasts with multiple boards can be configured easily.

4/7/2022 – The German Grandmaster Matthias Blübaum is the new European Champion. In the final round of the European Championships he played against GM Ivan Saric from Croatia, who needed to win this crucial game to become European Champion, but a draw secured Blübaum the title. After eleven rounds he and GM Gabriel Sargissian from Armenia both had 8.5/11 but Blübaum had the better tiebreak and won the tournament. | Photos: ŠZS/Luka Rifelj

4/6/2022 – In his "Game of the Week" show #510, Merijn van Delft takes a look at the European Championships and analyses a "streetfighting" win of Julian Kramer, a young German player, who scored his first GM norm at the European Championships. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/6/2022 – Today, the eleventh and last round of the European Individual Championship ("EICC") in Terme Čatež, Slovenia, will be played. Matthias Bluebaum and Gabriel Sargissian share the lead with 8.0/10, three players follow with 7.5/10 each. The 20 best players in the European Championship qualify for the World Cup. | Round 11 starts at 15:00 local time (9:00 am ET, 13:00 UTC). Follow the games live.

4/6/2022 – In his "Weekly Show" Lawrence Trent talks about the European Individual Championships with a special mention to the young Azeri star Abdulla Gadimbayli who, prior to round ten, was on a magnificent 7.0/9, gaining 40 rating points and undoubtedly a GM norm in the process. Lawrence also talks about the MPL Indian Chess Tour and finals of the Berlin Grand Prix. | Lawrence’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here

4/6/2022 – Tykhon Cherniaiev is a Ukrainian Candidate Master, a double world U10 chess champion in Rapid and Blitz. The young talent (Elo 2209) turned 12 on first of March, during the war in Ukraine. The family fled the country and is safe in Hamburg, Germany. Would you like to meet the lad, play against him? Well, then join our stream this evening at 4:30 p.m. European time. There will also be a number of young super-talents present.

4/6/2022 – In an interview for the Norwegian newspaper VG, Magnus Carlsen talked about the recent developments involving Sergey Karjakin. The world champion clearly stated that he disagrees with his colleague’s stance, but also noted that he is not sure whether banning him from official tournaments was the right decision. | Photo: Albert Silver

4/5/2022 – Since it is likely that Sergey Karjakin will not play in the upcoming Candidates Tournament — his six-month ban is still pending a potential appeal — the spot left behind by the Russian will be filled by the highest-rated, eligible player in FIDE’s ranking list published on May 1. Ding Liren is the clear frontrunner in this race, but he only played 4 games since June 2021, with the regulations stipulating that a minimum of 30 games are needed to be eligible. Ding is quickly making up for lost ground, as three events have been organized in China to get him to play the 26 games needed by the end of the month. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

4/5/2022 – With a 1½-½ victory in Monday’s rapid tiebreakers, Wesley So became the winner of the FIDE Grand Prix’s third leg in Berlin. So beat Hikaru Nakamura with the white pieces in game 2 of the playoff to take home €24,000 in prize money and finish the series in third place overall. | Photos: World Chess

4/5/2022 – In his Endgame Magic Show #189 Karsten Müller talks with Elisabeth Pähtz about the endgame. Elisabeth, World Junior Girls Champion in 2005, European Women's Rapid Champion in 2018, and currently number 13 on the women's ranking list, has an active style, and this also shows in her endgames, e.g. in an entertaining game against Zhansaya Abdumalik at the Online-FIDE-Steinitz-Memorial 2020. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

4/5/2022 – In his "Game of the Week" show #509, Merijn van Delft shows how Hikaru Nakamura won against Andrey Esipenko in the final round of the preliminaries at the FIDE Grand Prix in Berlin - it was an interesting, tense fighting game and winning it guaranteed Nakamura a place in the Candidates. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.