9/26/2024 – The Vugar Gashimov Memorial is being held in Azerbaijan for the 10th time in memory of the world-class Azerbaijani player who died at a young age. Eight top players will compete in a combined rapid and blitz tournament from 26-28 September. | Photos: Shahid Ahmed (ChessBase India)

9/26/2024 – In this video lesson, you will learn how to search and find tens of thousands of deeply commented games by all the best players in the world. These include games by Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, and young guns like Gukesh, Erigaisi, Firouzja, and Abdussatorov! Endless entertainment and education as taught by the best chess players and chess teachers ever.

9/25/2024 – This is what winners look like. At the end of the Chess Olympiad, Arne Kaehler brought the gold medallists in front of the ChessBase camera: Gukesh, Arjun, Vidit, Harikrishna and Divya shared their thoughts and answered to Arne's tricky questions!

9/25/2024 – The Chess Federation of Israel is currently organising a chess festival in Jerusalem. The headliner of the event is a rapid chess invitational tournament. An open will also be played. At the end of the three-day event, 1000 chess fans will compete against 50 master players in a simultaneous match. | Follow the action live starting at 13.00 CEST.

9/25/2024 – The stage is set for the Julius Baer Generation Cup, the fourth and final online leg of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour. Starting on 25 September 25, the 7-day event will offer the world's top chess players one last opportunity to secure their place in the CCT Finals. Players can qualify by either winning this event or by finishing among the top performers on the CCT Leaderboard. With 100 CCT points available, every game counts.

9/25/2024 – The Chess Federation of Israel is currently organising a chess festival in Jerusalem. The headliner of the event is a rapid chess invitational tournament. An open will also be played. At the end of the three-day event, 1000 chess fans will compete against 50 master players in a simultaneous match. After five rounds, Peter Svidler and Vasyl Ivanchuk (pictured) are sharing the lead in the Masters. | Photo: Fred Lucas / Tata Steel Masters 2012

9/24/2024 – The members of the Chess History and Literature Society held their annual conference during the Chess Olympiad in Budapest. At the invitation of the Hungarian Chess Federation, around 20 members and guests met in the historical premises of the host, discussed exciting questions of chess history in lectures and also commemorated the great Hungarian chess players. Herbert Bastian and Frank Hoffmeister report. | Photos: Herbert Bastian, Henry Serruys

9/24/2024 – Two rooks on the seventh (or second) rank are usually strong. In the diagram position it is White to move and win. What should he do?

9/24/2024 – On 21-22 September, FIDE conducted its General Assembly meeting in Budapest. The meeting saw votes on new members for the Constitutional Commission, Ethics and Disciplinary Commission, and Verification Commission, alongside decisions on proposals from member federations. | Photos: FIDE

9/23/2024 – The Chess Olympiad has a well-established history for revealing young talents on the rise, and while the focus in Budapest 2024 has deservedly been the astounding domination by India, other nations have shown glimpses of possible rivals for the future. One notable is Türkiye, whose team is bolstered by two teenage grandmasters aged 15 and 13. We are witnessing a golden age unfolding. | Photo: Mark Livshitz/FIDE

9/23/2024 – If you don't know your opening variations inside out, you can be shipwrecked right from the start. If you don't know how to build a fortress, you will end up resigning some of your games without needing to. In the last issue of ChessBase Magazine, Dorian Rogozenco started his series “The fortress”, which will gradually develop into a systematic collection of classical fortresses. In the new issue CBM #221, he presents two related motifs from the endgame bishop+pawn vs. pawn. The former coach of the German national team starts by explaining the motifs in the video. This is followed by no less than five interactive videos in which you can playfully put your building skills to the test. Take a look at the CBM reading sample of the week!

9/23/2024 – Can you mate with two bishops? And how about with bishop and knight? Really, can you do it, if it comes up in a tournament game? Before that happens, it would be well to check. You can do it easily by playing it against our diagrams. And if you have trouble, let Gauri Shankar, chess trainer from Chicago, give you instructions. In addition try and solve our puzzle by finding the long-range strategic solution.