7/20/2018 – Get set for one of the summer's biggest events and one with a long tradition. The Biel Chess Festival is LIVE with World Champion Magnus Carlsen leading the GM tournament. ChessBase brings you live commentary from Biel with GM Daniel King and IM Anna Rudolf.
Your personal chess trainer. Your toughest opponent. Your strongest ally. FRITZ 20 is more than just a chess engine – it is a training revolution for ambitious players and professionals. Whether you are taking your first steps into the world of serious chess training, or already playing at tournament level, FRITZ 20 will help you train more efficiently, intelligently and individually than ever before.
Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasn't been systematically trained within the structures of a major chess-playing nation such as Russia, the Ukraine or China.
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ACCENTUS Biel GM Tournament 2018
World Champion Magnus Carlsen makes his return to Biel, Switzerland for the first time as Champion. Carlsen's last Biel victory was in 2011, and his last visit was in 2012 when Wang Hao was the surprise winner.
Carlsen finished second to Wang Hao in 2012, with Hikaru Nakamura and Anish Giri joint third | Photo: Biel Chess Festival
Checkmate. That's the aim of the game. There are numerous ways to checkmate the enemy king, but there are common patterns that recur over and over again, and having these at our mental fingertips is essential for when we want to finish the game.
Format and Schedule
The format is a six-player double-round robin, so ten rounds in all played everyday beginning Sunday, July 22nd (except a free day on July 28th) at 14:00 CEST (8:00 AM EDT).
Round 1 - July 22, 14:00 CEST Round 2 - July 23, 14:00 Round 3 - July 24, 14:00 Round 4 - July 25, 14:00 Round 5 - July 26, 14:00 Round 6 - July 27, 14:00 Round 7 - July 29, 14:00 Round 8 - July 30, 14:00 Round 9 - July 31, 14:00 Round 10 - August 1, 12:00
Note: The last round (Round 10) starts on August 1st, two hours earlier at Noon CEST (6:00 AM EDT).
Players receive 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.
Macauley PetersonMacauley served as the Editor in Chief of ChessBase News from July 2017 to March 2020. He is the producer of The Full English Breakfast chess podcast, and was an Associate Producer of the 2016 feature documentary, Magnus.
How do you play the Queen's Gambit Accepted? Does White have promising variations or can Black construct a water-tight repertoire? The Powerbook provides the answers based on 300 000 games, most of them played by engines.
The Queen's Gambit Accepted Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 11827 games from Mega 2025 and the Correspondence Database 2024, of which 240 are annotated.
Rossolimo-Moscow Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 10950 games from Mega 2025 and the Correspondence Database 2024, of which 612 are annotated.
The greater part of the material on which the Rossolimo/Moscow Powerbook 2025 is based comes from the engine room of playchess.com: 263.000 games. This imposing amount is supplemented by some 50 000 games from Mega and from Correspondence Chess.
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