9/3/2024 – In the diagram position, White is a pawn down and his knight seems to be far away from the action. However, White can hold the game. How?

9/3/2024 – The first two matches of the quarterfinals in the Women's Speed Chess Championship took place on Monday. Polina Shuvalova (pictured) and Vaishali Rameshbabu advanced to the semifinals after knocking out two former women's world champions, Hou Yifan and Alexandra Kosteniuk, respectively. Both matches were really hard-fought, with Shuvalova only beating Hou in the bullet tiebreaker. | Photo: FIDE / Lennart Ootes

9/2/2024 – Last week we showed you three positions, miniatures with five or six pieces that looked simple enough. But finding a a clear and forced win was anything but trivial – you needed to work out some unusually subtle strategy to solve them. Today we present the solutions, in the form of videos by Gauri Shankar, chess trainer from Chicago, in his unique explanatory style.

9/2/2024 – Germany's 19-year-old number 1, Vincent Keymer, had a great start at the Rubinstein Memorial in Poland. He scored 4 out of 4, which helped him win the tournament with 6.0/9. In the latest Endgame Magic Show, Karsten Müller takes a closer look at the endgame skills Keymer showed in Poland. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

9/2/2024 – Venceslav Rutar from Slovenia is organising a match between GM Sam Shankland and GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly on 2-3 September. What's so special about this event? As Venceslav says, "Draws are not the problem, the problem is how we score them!" A unique scoring system will be used in this match. The traditional system with 1 point (to the winner), ½ point (to both the players) and 0 points (to the loser) will be replaced by five possibilities: win, favoured draw, equal draw, disfavoured draw and loss. Live transmission of the first game starts at 8.30 pm IST (17.00 CEST, 11.00 EDT). | Photos: Austin Fuller & Lennart Ootes / Saint Louis Chess Club

9/2/2024 – A badly positioned piece can make the difference between victory and defeat! In his series ‘Practical tips for the tournament player’, Jan Markos develops a winning strategy from this in the new CBM #221: Gain a decisive advantage by taking one of your opponent's pieces out of the game. In his video, he demonstrates how to do this using two sample games by Cheparinov and Carlsen. And afterwards you can test your skills with a small collection of exercises. Have fun with the free CBM-sample of this week!

9/2/2024 – The small Polish town of Barlinek, once known as 'Berlinchen', is the birthplace of Emanuel Lasker. For several years now, the memory of the second world chess champion in history has been honoured with a chess tournament. This year, the organisers were delighted with the high number of participants. Hans-Jürgen Hochgräfe, the German Chess Federation's representative for relations with Poland, reports. | Photos: Bernd Wagner

9/2/2024 – With the results of the Sinquefield Cup officially registers, there has been some movement in the top 20 of the world rankings. With his success at the Rubinstein Memorial, Vincent Keymer is now among the top 20 in the world and is also one of the 4 highest-rated juniors. However, Hans Niemann gained even more points with his 3 match victories. Hou Yifan remains the highest-rated woman player in the world. Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Divya Deshmukh top the junior lists.

9/2/2024 – Time trouble is part of the game. In many cases, players in acute time trouble knock down pieces and don't fix them before pressing the clock. Some players are very meticulous to fix any displacement in their own time while others are not. Arbiter's intervention is to be determined in case to case basis. International Arbiter Alon Shulman shares an incident that took place recently in the ECU magazine.

9/1/2024 – One of the most popular ideas for my columns here has been to look at great attacking games. Various names have been mentioned, and I'm starting today with a fine example by the Soviet grandmaster Leonid Stein (pictured), one of the greatest attacking players of the mid-20th century. I've also continued with the theme of exploring the limits of analysis, with a game from the Sinquefield Cup between D. Gukesh and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. | Photo: Dutch National Archive

9/1/2024 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books on chess training and strategy. In the 191st episode of his ChessBase show "Understanding before moving" Herman continues his series "Chess history in a nutshell" and looks at the career of Vladimir Kramnik, the 14th World Champion in the history of chess. | Photo: Pascal Simon

9/1/2024 – Who hasn't experienced this? Many hours of good play are spoilt by a careless move. World-class coach Vishnu Prasanna gives tips on how to reduce the frequency of mistakes. His most famous pupil was the young Dommaraju Gukesh, whom he turned into one of the youngest GMs in chess history and who will be fighting for the World Championship crown in Singapore at the end of the year!