9/22/2024 – The 45th edition of the Chess Olympiad is taking place on 11-22 September in Budapest, Hungary. A record 193 teams in the open and 181 teams in the women's category are fighting for collective and individual medals. | Pictured: Lu Miaoyi from China (FIDE / Michal Waluszha) | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting (four hours earlier than usual) at 11.00 CEST (5.00 ET, 12.30 IST)
Fritz has fascinated the chess world for 30 years. And the success story continues. In Vienna, the most popular chess program ever was once again able to underline its premier position: the newly developed neural engine with NNUE technology won the official Chess Software World Championship!
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.
The Modern Steinitz (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 d6!?) is an uncompromising weapon that lets Black put White under pressure from the very start.
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Round 11
Teams consist of 5 players, with 4-board matches taking place in each of the 11 rounds. Match points will decide the final standings in both events (2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw).
The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes until the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move 1.
In this Fritztrainer: “Attack like a Super GM” with Gukesh we touch upon all aspects of his play, with special emphasis on how you can become a better attacking player.
Commentary by Peter Svidler, Cristian Chirila and Anastasiya Karlovich
Commentary by Sagar Shah and the ChessBase India team
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Judit Polgar. Let them show you which openings Polgar chose to play, where her strength in middlegames were, or how she outplayed her opponents in the endgame.
This interactive video course of over 8 hours, provides an in-depth exploration of the Pirc Defence, a favoured opening for people looking to play for the win with the black pieces.
Pirc Defence Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 10027 games from Mega 2025 or the Correspondence Database 2024; of these 874 are annotated.
The Pirc Defence Powerbook 2025 consists for a greater part of engine games (168 000), to which has been added high value material from Mega and the Correspondence Database (115 000).
The free app from ChessBase! ChessBase Mobile has everything you need as a chess player on the go:
access your chess data in cloud databases - and 13 million games.
Whether it’s a weak pawn, a vulnerable king, or poor piece coordination, this course will teach you how to pinpoint the critical targets, prioritise your attack, and execute a clear, effective plan.
The Cozio Variation (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7!?) is an underrated weapon that takes White out of well-known theory.
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