3/9/2025 – With ChessBase 18, you can not only analyse your own games professionally – as we have already shown in the first four parts of the tutorial – you can also comment on them individually. There are several methods for doing this, and they can be linked together. The comments can be entered as text or using the commonly used chess symbols. In this fifth part of our new tutorial series, we will show you how easily you can integrate all types of comments into your notation.

3/2/2025 – When you work with a programme on a regular basis, you should make that work as pleasant as possible. ChessBase 18 offers endless possibilities - and that goes for the look too. Make your workspace individual and pleasant. In part 4 of our new series of tutorials we will show you how easy it is to design your individual notation so that analysing with it is a maximum pleasure.

2/25/2025 – Did you know how you can change the style and icon colour with ChessBase 18? There is a ‘Style’ tab at the top right. Click on it and you can select the dark mode, for example. Just watch the video to see how it works!

2/23/2025 – If you've only been using ChessBase for a short time and want to benefit from as many of its unique functions as possible, our series offers you valuable, short and easy-to-digest tips for a successful start with ChessBase 18. In the third part of our new tutorial series, we show you how easily and conveniently you can insert variations from the engine analysis and the references into the notation (see the first two tutorial episodes) with ChessBase 18.

2/17/2025 – Did you know how to play freestyle chess with ChessBase 18? By clicking on the board, and after that on "new game", a new tab opens with some options to choose from. One is Chess 960! Have fun playing against Fritz.

2/16/2025 – Did you know how to quickly delete games in ChessBase 18? Like this: Mark games for deletion, but then? There is a delete button in the maintenance bar. In less than 60 seconds, Arne Kähler shows you how to delete games from the database quickly and easily in two steps!

2/15/2025 – ChessBase 18 offers a unique range of professional features. This series gives users of ChessBase tips for the first important steps. In the first part of this series we showed you how to enter and save your own games. In part 2 of our tutorial we will show you how to add new variations to a game in ChessBase 18. These can be your own moves or those of an engine, which you might want to add.

2/9/2025 – Let's go: In part 1 of our new tutorial series, we will show you how to quickly enter and save your own games. Just follow the explanations and screenshots and gradually build up your own database of games.

11/19/2024 – This exceptionally clear and concise video will show you not only all the features of the newly released ChessBase 18, but demonstrates how they can be used by amateurs and pros alike (not to mention some that are just plain fun). Even the new mobile app is on display in full live action with the database, repertoires and opening stats all available.

11/14/2024 – Reading about the latest and greatest new features in ChessBase is exciting, but if you can barely use the basics, then it can also be frustrating. But worry not! You can learn them all in under 20 minutes, and even how to customize the work space, in this crystal clear video tutorial.

10/28/2024 – 'Guess the Move' or 'Solitaire Chess' have long been favorites of players, and ChessBase has amazing tools to play them, with more than simply hiding the next move. It also comes with fantastic tools such as Assisted Calculation to help you train your visualization skills, combining great fun with top training. What more can you want? Don't miss this lightning lesson on video!

10/18/2024 – Training tactics can be fun, but how do you use your own suite of positions and solutions to train in ChessBase? Your questions will be answered in this quick and easy lesson on video demonstrated by using the Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations. However, you can create your own as well and then use the method described. Enjoy this bite-sized tutorial!

10/1/2024 – In this video lesson, you will learn how to take game annotations and translate them into any language of your choice. Have German annotations you want in English? No problem! English annotations you want in Portuguese or French? Consider it done!

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.

9/12/2024 – Technology has been evolving by leaps and bounds most especially in the last couple of years with the advent of image generating AIs and of course ChatGPT and its numerous rivals. We decided to ask the AIs to help produce some images in homage to the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, and as you can see here, some creative and entertaining results ensued. Read on to learn more!

6/7/2024 – There are many interesting repertoire suggestions in the Opening Encyclopaedia. You'll have to try them out for yourself to see if they suit you! The best way to do this is to play against Fritz19 using the “Play against database book” function, i.e. you can load databases, games for opening articles and opening analyses directly as an opening book and play against them. Fritz 19 not only displays the very informative articles of the encyclopaedia, with Fritz you can explore the repertoire suggestions in a playful way, against different types of players! See for yourself how you can test Robert Ris' recommendation for the Max Lange Attack in the Two Knights with just a few mouse clicks using Fritz 19.

7/12/2023 – Since moving to the digital world we live in, a few parts of our lives continue to be a cross between tradition and the new, such as photography, newspapers, and most notably: books. There are many who are deeply reluctant to make the switch for reading, keen to bring up aspects of print that are absent in digital. But is it that simple? Enjoy this article and video!

7/4/2023 – In this series of lightning videos, learn everything from the basics to mastery of ChessBase in bite-sized lessons with crystal clear explanations and demonstrations. In this lesson you will learn the secret to annotating your games with variations, moves, colored arrows and more! It will turn you into a power user – and do wonders for your rating!

6/27/2023 – In this series of lightning videos, learn everything from the basics to mastery of ChessBase in bite-sized lessons with crystal clear explanations and demonstrations. In this lesson you will learn the most essential feature: creating your own base and entering games. It will turn you into a power user – and do wonders for your rating!

2/14/2023 – Today: Mathias Feist implemented the feature to analyse after a played game! This wasn't possible before ChessBase 17. ChessBase 17 offers many new features. We help to use them optimally! In our new video series, our developers personally explain the new features they have developed themselves. From the new data format to the beauty index. In no time at all, you'll learn how it's done.

1/28/2023 – ChessBase 17 offers many new features. We help to use them optimally! In our new video series, our developers personally explain the new features they have developed themselves. From the new data format to the beauty index. In no time at all, you'll learn how it's done. In the third episode, Jeroen van den Belt explains the newly visualized material search function!

1/21/2023 – ChessBase 17 offers many new features. We help to use them optimally! In our new video series, our developers personally explain the new features they have developed themselves. From the new data format to the beauty index. In no time at all, you'll learn how it's done. In the first episode, Jeroen van den Belt explains the new lightning-fast search function!

11/1/2022 – Using an engine to find out how many moves in a game match its top choice, is but one way to measure a move's quality with an engine. Another key way is what analysts such as Ken Regan use: a tool to compare the engine's evaluation of a move with its own choice of best move, and see by how much the evaluations differ. Now you can do this too using the Centipawn Analysis tool in ChessBase 16!

10/18/2022 – The successful series "How does a chess professional analyse with ChessBase" with Regina Pokorna had shown the final episode on Sunday on the German ChessBase YouTube site. On the other hand, "How to prepare for a tournament like a professional chess player" with Lilit Mkrtchian has just started. In the first episode she shows us how she creates an opening repertoire, and has accumulated almost a terrabyte of opening data over the decades. Martin Fischer now shows us the version that ChessBase originally intended, so that amateur players also have an easier time starting their own repertoire.