12/11/2016 – From December 1 to December 24 we invite our readers every day to open a door in our advent calendar. Click and enjoy a little chess treat. Advent calendar, door 11.
Winning starts with what you know
The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.
Winning starts with what you know The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.
Vishy Anand was born December 11, 1969 in Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, but grew up in Madras, today's Chennai, where he lives with his family.
Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988 and from 2000 to 2002 he was Fide World Champion. In 2007 he became undisputed World Champion and successfully defended the title against Vladimir Kramnik (2008), Veselin Topalov (2010), and Boris Gelfand (2012) until he lost it in 2013 to Magnus Carlsen.
Anand is the only World Champion who won the World Champion title in three different formats: in a knock-out tournament when he became Fide World Champion 2000, in a round-robin when he won the undisputed World Champion 2007 and in the World Championship match against Vladimir Kramnik 2008.
With a rating of 2779 Anand is currently number 8 on the Fide World Ranking List, on the live-rating list his good 1.5/2 start at the London Chess Classic brought him a virtual rating of 2785 and made him number 7 in the world, ahead of Sergey Karjakin who currently is number 8 on the live-list and Hikaru Nakamura, who is number 9.
Anand is also a ChessBase author. After winning the title in 2007 Anand visited the ChessBase studio in Hamburg to record two DVDs on which he talks about his career and shows a few of his many brilliant wins, e.g. the following:
My Career vol. 1+2
by Viswanathan Anand
born in 1969, acclaimed as the fastest brain in the world, is the fifteenth World Champion. Experts rate him as one of the biggest natural talents in the history of the game. In March 2007 he reached the number one spot on the world ranking lists. In September 2007 Anand won the World Championship for the second time in his career when in Mexico he became the undisputed World Chess Champion, ending a schism in the chess world which had lasted for many years. He defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008 and also against Veselin Topalov in 2010. If his talent as a rapid chess player is legendary, his records in classical chess have been superlative. In January 2006 he became the only player in the tournament's 70-year history to win the Corus Chess event five times (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004 and 2006). He has won the Linares Super Tournament twice (1998 and 2007), the Dortmund GM three times (1996, 2000 and 2004), and countless other important events like, Madrid Masters, Biel, etc.
Johannes FischerJohannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".
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.
Focus on the Sicilian: Opening videos on the Najdorf Variation with 6.h3 e5 7.Nb3 (Luis Engel) and the Taimanov Variation with 7.Qf3 (Nico Zwirs). ‘Lucky bag’ with 38 analyses by Anish Giri, Surya Ganguly, Abhijeet Gupta, Yannick Pelletier and many more.
Throughout the video course, Sasikran shows various examples from his career to explain sacrifices for initiative, an attack, a better pawn structure and much more.
In this insightful video course, Grandmaster David Navara shares practical advice on when to calculate deeply in a position — and just as importantly, when not to.
The Trompowsky is especially suited for faster time controls as you don‘t have to memorise endless lines of theory, and you push your opponent out of their comfort zone after your second move.
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