3/22/2017 – He gained fame a few years ago, by playing in GM tournaments and crushing players many categories above him with flawless tactical play. Then Borislav Ivanov, who has been the subject of at least a dozen articles here, was disqualified and suspended – for not allowing the organisers to check his shoes for electronic signaling devices. That finally ended his chess career. Now Ivanov is in the news again, this time for selling counterfeit drivers licenses. He faces eight years in prison.

3/21/2017 – If there is one player in chess, whose mystique and fascination know no bounds, it is the legendary Bobby Fischer. Ask GM Daniel King, chess author and video maker extraordinaire, who asked the patrons of his channel what they most wanted to see him look at. The result is a series analyzing games by the former World Champion, Bobby Fischer and starts with a positional masterpiece he played when he was 16.

3/21/2017 – Being a pawn down in the endgame is rarely a pleasure. However, you can sometimes save the game by eliminating all enemy pawns. Or at least the most dangerous. Karsten Müller shows how to do this.

3/21/2017 – There has been considerable discussion surrounding the Penrose puzzle we recently presented, where computers "falsely evaluate" a drawn position as a win. We explained in our article that while they display a massive advantage the opponent, computers will play flawlessly to a draw for the defending side. That reminded us of a similar situation in the very early days of computer chess. In 1978 the most powerful computer in the world thought it was completely lost against a strong IM, but easily held the theoretical draw using nothing but brute force. You may enjoy the historic game.

3/20/2017 – By now you will already be aware of the Web-based replayer to follow live events with moves, times, and even on-the-fly comments. Not to mention an engine to use and the freedom to annotate. Still, once the event is over it disappears from the list forever, right? Wrong! Introducing the Live Game Archive where you can find months of recent events, with thousands of commented games, all for free!

3/20/2017 – The Association of Chess Professionals continues its tradition of appreciating and awarding the best chess organizers from around the world. To determine the best event, you are invited to pick your most-liked events from each of the following categories – Round Robin, Open, Official and Rapid/Blitz. See the list and voice your opinion.

3/19/2017 – Playing as the superstar in front of one’s home crowd is often as much a disadvantage as an advantage. This is true even of World Champions. When it came to playing in the strongest event held in his native Vietnam, the HDBank Cup, elite GM Le Quang Liem, a student in the US, did not wilt, and for a third time took the top honors. Here is the report with a great miniature by Wei Yi.

3/19/2017 – 'It's hard to name something that Maurice Ashley hasn't done in the world of chess. He's played, coached, taught, created tournaments, done play-by-play for tournaments and traveled the world, preaching the gospel of his beloved game.' Thus opens the article and video profile on Maurice Ashley by Budd Mishkin on One on 1.

3/18/2017 – Though a grandmaster of chess, Sam Shankland is a novice at surviving in the jungle. As such, he was one of ten novice contestants paired with survival experts. Shankland’s team was the third team eliminated. Although out of contention for the $500,000 prize for the winning team, Shankland says the experience was valuable and that he gained lifelong friends. Enjoy this report with comments and impressions by Sam Shankland.

3/18/2017 – As you probably know we installed some very interesting new functionality on our news page. On the right you see a list of "Live Tournaments" – events that are currently or were recently broadcast on Playchess. A single click takes you to a luxury broadcast page where you can follow the most important games, or replay all of them from the event, analysing them with engine assistance. But best of all: you can load deep realtime analysis and find out instantly what happened. All without leaving the news page!

3/17/2017 – Among the several new features introduced in ChessBase 14, possibly the most unexpected was the automated full-game annotation function called ‘Tactical Analysis’. This sort of feature had remained exclusive to the Fritz family of programs until now. Not only do users get to enjoy this, but it is now a service offered for free in the live event coverage. Learn all about it in this How-To guide.

3/17/2017 – In the diagram position White has strong pressure for his piece and does not seem to be in any danger. But Black's excellent continuation changes this picture dramatically. Why is his idea only almost brilliant? ...