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CBM 197: Magnus and his rivals

10/18/2020 – This issue offers coverage of three major events, Chessable Masters, Legends of Chess and Biel Chess Festival. 733 games, 11 opening surveys, demo lectures and exercises for training. It also includes games annotated by Boris Gelfand, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Peter Heine Nielsen, just to mention a few. Our columnist Nagesh Havanur takes a look. | Photo: Lennart Ootes
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New: CBM Extra 197

9/29/2020 – Over one hour of video training. Plus 27 extensively analysed games by authors such as Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Peter Heine Nielsen, Romain Edouard, Krishnan Sasikiran, Karsten Müller, et al. ChessBase Magazine Extra is the perfect addition to the ChessBase Magazine and can also be obtained by subscription (6 issues per year). Available on DVD or as a download.

What is CBM? Here's the answer!

9/16/2020 – CBM? It is the ChessBase Magazine! A postscript? A company magazine? A catalogue? All wrong! The ChessBase Magazine has come to life in 1987, when the first issue contained an incredible 1000 games on floppy disk. Now, ChessBase Magazine evolved with training material for club players at every level. All this is highly topical with the latest analyses of several titled players. Plus popular and recurring formats, tournament reports, opening innovations and traps, strategy training, endgame training and top coaches covering a highlight. All information is available on the new ChessBase magazine website and here in the article.

ChessBase Magazine 197 arrived!

8/31/2020 – ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyse their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! DVD with several hours of video + booklet. Also available for download including the booklet in pdf!

The Weekly Show: Vasyl Ivanchuk, chess genius

7/28/2020 – In his weekly show IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at a great win by Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk, who defeated Ding Liren in style during the Legends of Chess tournament. Referring to Ivanchuk, Lawrence said: "He's one of the very true universal players in the world of chess, maybe the most universal player of all time — him and Spassky come to mind". | Lawrence' show is available at 17:00 UTC (19:00 CEST, 13:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / World Rapid Championship 2016

Legends of Chess: Anand and Ivanchuk strike

7/28/2020 – With two rounds to go in the preliminary stage of the ‘Legends of Chess’ online tournament, Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have already secured their spots in the four-player knockout phase. Anish Giri climbed to third place with a 2½:½ victory over Ding Liren, while, among the veterans, Vishy Anand and Vasyl Ivanchuk played enterprising chess to defeat Boris Gelfand and Vladimir Kramnik respectively. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Legends of Chess: Carlsen in charge

7/27/2020 – Magnus Carlsen leads the preliminary stage of the ‘Legends of Chess’ tournament after a smooth victory over Ding Liren. Ian Nepomniachtchi is in second place — the Russian defeated Viswanathan Anand in Armageddon on Sunday. Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler also won in the sudden-death decider, while Anish Giri got the better of Peter Leko 2½:1½. | Photo: Justin Kellar

Legends of Chess: Twists and turns

7/26/2020 – Ian Nepomniachtchi caught up with Magnus Carlsen in the standings table of the ‘Legends of Chess’ online event by defeating Peter Svidler 3:1 while Carlsen managed a win in Armageddon over Vasyl Ivanchuk. Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko and Anish Giri also won in round 5. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Legends of Chess: There’s no stopping Carlsen

7/25/2020 – World champion Magnus Carlsen is the sole leader of the Legends of Chess online tournament after four rounds with a perfect score. Ian Nepomniachtchi is trailing by a point, while Peter Svidler and Vladimir Kramnik complete the top 4 in the standings table — let us not forget that the preliminary stage, being played at the moment, serves only to decide which four participants move on to the semifinals. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Legends of Chess: Carlsen beats Anand, Nepomniachtchi wins in style

7/23/2020 – In the second round of the Legends of Chess online tournament, Ian Nepomniachtchi beat an out-of-form Ding Liren 2½:½ after getting a stunning win in game 1; current world champion Magnus Carlsen defeated former world champion Vishy Anand; Boris Gelfand got the better of Vasyl Ivanchuk; Peter Svidler beat Peter Leko in a closely-contested encounter; and Anish Giri took down Vladimir Kramnik. None of the matches went to Armageddon. | Photo: Niki Riga

The Weekly Show: Magnus Carlsen vs Anish Giri

7/14/2020 – In his weekly show IM Lawrence Trent takes a look Magnus Carlsen's convincing win of the Chessable Masters. The focus will be on Carlsen's win with White against Giri in the Semi-Tarrasch, a spectacular game which, to quote Lawrence, "might be the best game ever seen in such a tournament at these time controls". | Lawrence' show is available at 17:00 UTC (19:00 CEST, 13:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Lennart Ootes (Archive)

Carlsen beats Giri, clinches Chessable Masters

7/5/2020 – Magnus Carlsen won the Chessable Masters online tournament by scoring a straight-set victory in the final against Anish Giri. In Saturday’s second set of the deciding match, Carlsen got an impressive win in the first game, while Giri missed chances to tie the score in games 2, 3 and 4. This was the third event of the Magnus Carlsen Tour — and the second one that sees the world champion taking first place! | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Chessable Masters: Giri takes down Nepomniachtchi

7/3/2020 – Anish Giri defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in three sets to reach the final of the Chessable Masters. Giri and Nepomniachtchi traded wins in the rapid phase of the third set, but the Dutchman was stronger in the blitz tiebreakers. The final, in which Giri will face world champion Magnus Carlsen, starts on Friday. | Photo: Lennart Ootes