5/6/2026 – Since Leon Mendonca and Aram Hakobyan were both visiting the ChessBase office, we handed them a beta version to puzzle fight each other. The app launched this weekend, it's free, and you can try Puzzle Fight yourself. Fair warning: it's hard to stop, as the video proves.

5/6/2026 – The Super Rapid & Blitz Poland tournament opened in Warsaw, with the three first rounds of rapid chess leaving a five-way tie for first place in the standings. Fabiano Caruana, Javokhir Sindarov, Wesley So (pictured), Vladimir Fedoseev and Hans Niemann all scored 4/6, with Sindarov and Niemann the only unbeaten players among them. Gukesh Dommaraju finished one point behind, ahead of Wednesday's round-five clash with Sindarov, his future World Championship challenger. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

5/5/2026 – So many top chess tournaments taking place, all at the same time. How can you keep abreast? We will tell you how ChessBase provides you with all the live games. Take for example this exciting FIDE event, with former World Championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi, marking a rare appearance in an open. To follow this or many other tournaments, you just need to go to the ChessBase Live Broadcast page. Try it out.

5/5/2026 – Knight forks and knightmares: Usually a rook is much stronger than a knight in an endgame: White to move and win.

5/5/2026 – Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (pictured) became the sole leader of the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament after beating Nils Grandelius on Monday, as the Turkish prodigy is the only player on a plus-two score with three rounds to go in Malmö. Jorden van Foreest scored his first-ever win over Magnus Carlsen in what turned out to be an exciting, 88-move battle, while Zhu Jiner defeated Andy Woodward. Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Arjun Erigaisi drew and are tied for second place with Van Foreest, half a point behind Erdogmus. | Photo: Peter Doggers / Official website

5/5/2026 – It was a rainy night in Sivakasi, and there was a power cut, but it didn't stop 8-year-old Tamizh Amudhan from playing Freestyle Friday on chess.com. The laptop was on, the mobile hotspot was connected, the candle was lit, and the spirit was high as usual. It was 8:30 PM IST on 1 May when Tamizh Amudhan got paired up against elite GM Vincent Keymer, who recently qualified for the Freestyle World Championship 2027 after winning the Grenke Freestyle Chess tournament, and guess what happened? Check out the game in this article.

4/30/2026 – Two weeks ago, the chess auction at Sotheby's concluded, featuring numerous items from the collection of Lothar Schmid. The most valuable pieces fetched well over £100,000. The online auction was accompanied by an exhibition and a lecture. The musician and chess enthusiast Jason Kouchak was in attendance. | Photo: Jason Kouchak in front of the painting "The Chess Players" (or "The Devil's Checkmate") by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch, circa 1831.

4/30/2026 – Aram and Karsten show 2 endgame highlights | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

4/30/2026 – World number one Magnus Carlsen is set to return to classical tournament play at the TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament, scheduled for 1–7 May in Malmö. The Norwegian will face an ambitious field that includes Tata Steel Masters winner Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Arjun Erigaisi and rising star Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (pictured), who recently became the youngest player to ever cross the 2700 rating mark. Played as an eight-player round-robin, the long-running Swedish event once again combines established elite names with emerging contenders. | Photo: ChessBase / Nils Rohde

4/30/2026 – Recent events, including the Candidates and the European Championship, have significantly reshaped the FIDE Circuit standings. Nodirbek Abdusattorov remains in front, but Javokhir Sindarov has closed the gap, while Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana have moved into the top ten. In the women's circuit, Vaishali Rameshbabu now leads after her Candidates victory, with several new contenders rising in the rankings. | Photo: ChessBase / Nils Rohde

4/29/2026 – Changes to the 2026 lineup of the Grand Chess Tour have been confirmed ahead of the opening events in May. Gukesh Dommaraju has withdrawn from the full tour schedule, with Javokhir Sindarov stepping in as his replacement - though the two upcoming World Championship contenders will still meet at the first leg in Poland. Levon Aronian will miss the Bucharest event due to illness, with Jorden van Foreest (pictured) stepping in as tour regular. | Photo: ChessBase / Nils Rohde

4/29/2026 – This time a very spectacular attack for Black in the Sicilian Rossolimo with 3...e6. In the game Ljepic-Anton Guijarro from the European Individual Championships in Katowice the players were following the opening theory for quite some time. White's plan of expanding on the queenside was nicely met by a powerful bishop sacrifice on h2, offering Black two pawns for the piece. Although objectively speaking White's position was still OK, from a practical perspective it seemed pretty difficult for him to navigate these complications, as Black's pawncentre dominated the board and prevented White from activating its forces. A true modelgame how to play against the Rossolimo and an inspiring performance for all of us seeing the uselessness of White's extra rook.