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Nostos Festival 2021 Sneak Peek

7/1/2020 – Did you miss it? The Summer Nostos Festival, an international, multidimensional festival that gives us a week bursting with art, conversation, ideas, music, dance, performances, entertainment, and sports, for visitors of all ages, last Saturday streamed a preview of next year's edition. Watch it all, or just the in-depth discussion with Garry Kasparov and Judit Polgar.
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New: ChessBase Magazine #196

6/29/2020 – 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!

Nostos University 2021 Sneak Peek

6/25/2020 – The Summer Nostos Festival is an international, multidimensional festival that gives us a week bursting with avant-garde art, scintillating conversation, daring ideas, irresistible music, moving dance, delightful performances, participatory entertainment, and lively sports activities for visitors of all ages. And chess: the next edition features chess legends Garry Kasparov and Judit Polgar. Preview.

Bestsellers: The most popular ChessBase DVDs of the '10s

6/18/2020 – The first version of ChessBase (the database) was launched in 1986. Much has happened since then! The company has developed a wide array of products for chess fans and professionals. For those looking to improve their game, training with DVDs has become a useful and comfortable way to learn. In this article, we give you a glimpse of what's available by listing the bestsellers from the past decade — the 2010s.

The best I saw in chess - by Stuart Rachels

6/4/2020 – In the early 1990s, International Master Stuart Rachels was one of the very best US chess players. He played games against Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Nigel Short, Anthony Miles and Boris Spassky, only to name a few. His chess adventures are funny, beautiful, interesting and honest. His book "The Best I Saw In Chess" which just came out, is a blast to read. We conducted an interview with Rachels about the book, the chess greats he met, his decision to quit chess and the ego of chess players. | Photos: Stuart Rachels

Garry Kasparov will be captain in Online Nations Cup

4/23/2020 – In a press release the International Chess Federation FIDE and Chess.com just announced the Online Nations Cup, a team competition held May 5-10, 2020. Six teams are due to take part in this competition: Russia, USA, Europe, China, India, plus a team representing the "Rest of the World." Garry Kasparov will be the captain for the European team, Vishy Anand will defend the first board of the Indian team.

Queen of Chess - a documentary about Judit Polgar and Garry Kasparov

4/22/2020 – "Queen of Chess" is documentary about Judit Polgar and Garry Kasparov that is scheduled for release at the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022. In six episodes the documentary tells the story of the encounters and battles between Judit Polgar, the greatest female chess player of all time, and Garry Kasparov, who many consider the best male player of all time. In an interview with ChessBase Peter Stern, the producer of "Queen of Chess", reveals details about the project and his passion for chess.

Will the world end on Kasparov's 66th birthday?

4/13/2020 – Today's his 57th, and we wish him a very happy birthday. Fifteen years ago it looked like the world might have just over two decades left to continue as we know it. An asteroid was calculated to fly by the earth – or in fact hit it – on Friday the 13th of April 2029. That would be Garry's 66th birthday. In the meantime more precise calculation by NASA revealed that the chances of a Kasparov birthday armageddon were between 2.7% to virtually zero. Warning: the following article has very little chess content. It is also not for the faint-hearted...

Analysing with Garry Kasparov

4/10/2020 – When it was first published, back in 2003, Garry Kasparov's book "My Great Predecessors" caused quite a stir in the chess world. It contained so much analysis that was a pleasure to study and devour. Kasparov himself invited us to join him in his search for ultimate chess truth on our news pages. Will you join the search?

ChessBase April 1st entertainment

4/1/2020 – The April Fool prank has become progressively more difficult over the years. Of course it is easy to fool people with some unverifiable made up report ("Chess banned in North Korea"), but it misses an essential ingredient: the joke should be funny. And if you construct a genuinely funny story, our friends at Google usually make it possible to detect as a hoax within minutes. So we are, once again, restricting ourselves to past pranks – and to some humour to help strengthen our immune systems.

Garry Kasparov: At peace with AI

2/23/2020 – Just under twenty-three years ago Garry Kasparov made history by losing a match against a computer named Deep Blue. Today smartphones are capable of running chess engines as powerful as IBM's giant mainframe in 1997. More significantly, thanks to recent progress in artificial intelligence, machines are learning and exploring the game for themselves. So what does the legendary World Champion think about the progress of AI in chess, and its effect on humanity in general? He told Wired Magazine that he has made his peace with AI.

Record breaking regionals in New York

2/9/2020 – Last weekend saw some record-breaking numbers in both the Greater New York Scholastic and the Greater Chicago Scholastic chess tournaments. Held opposite Super Bowl weekend, the events attracted over 2000 students to duel over the black and white squares. Garry Kasparov was a special guest. | Pictured: Kasparov making the opening move of the top board of the High School Championship for FM Vincent Tsay, Young Stars Program student and former U12 World Champion. In the yellow shirt, TD Andre Harding making sure everything goes smoothly. | Photos: Kasparov Chess Foundation

Karpov on Fischer, Korchnoi, Kasparov and the chess world today

2/5/2020 – In a 20-minute interview with Tania Sachdev in Gibraltar, the twelfth undisputed world champion Anatoly Karpov talked about some of his world championship matches, the effect a 6:0 loss might have had on Garry Kasparov in 1984, the current FIDE administration, the use of rapid and blitz to decide the world champion, and much more. We transcribed the interview and added some of the games mentioned by the Russian star. | Photo: Gibraltar Masters YouTube channel