7/16/2026 – Dear chess friends, from July 13–19, you can get the Champion’s Bundle: ChessBase’26 & FRITZ 21 – Summer Special: Instead of €269.80, get both for just €209.90! This is our summer special, and it runs for seven days. Two flagships, one price, built to work together.
new: ChessBase Magazine 225
Chess Festival Prague 2025 with analyses by Aravindh, Giri, Gurel, Navara and others. ‘Special’: 27 highly entertaining miniatures. Opening videos by Werle, King and Ris. 10 opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more. ChessBase Magazine offers first-class training material for club players and professionals! World-class players analyse their brilliant games and explain the ideas behind the moves. Opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in tactics, strategy and endgames show you the tricks and techniques you need to be a successful tournament player! Available as a direct download (incl. booklet as pdf file) or booklet with download key by post. Included in delivery: ChessBase Magazine #225 as “ChessBase Book” for iPad, tablet, Mac etc.!
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before. FRITZ is more than just a chess engine – it’s a training revolution! Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before.
ChessBase´26 is where serious players do their homework. Build and search your own database, prepare your openings in depth, and analyze your games with the precision that separates a good player from a dangerous one.
• Manage millions of games and find the exact position you need in seconds • Build targeted opening files against any opponent or repertoire • Analyze deeply and turn every loss into your next win • Profile playing styles with built-in style analysis
EXPAND YOUR CHESS HORIZONS
It doesn't get any better than this: the premium equipment perfect for tournament players and professionals: with ChessBase program '26, Mega Database, CORR-Database and much more. Data, plans, practice – the new Opening Report In ChessBase there are always attempts to show the typical plans of an opening variation. In the age of engines, chess is much more concrete than previously thought. But amateurs in particular love openings with clear plans, see the London System. In ChessBase ’26, three functions deal with the display of plans. The new opening report examines which piece moves or pawn advances are significant for each important variation. In the reference search you can now see on the board where the pieces usually go. If you start the new Monte Carlo analysis, the board also shows the most common figure paths.
Fritz 21: your training partner and sparring legend
Fritz 21 is where preparation meets practice. A multiple computer chess world champion rated 3,620 ELO, Fritz plays at exactly the level you set and pushes you on every move. 2
• Face the legends: challenge Lasker, Tal, Fischer, and Karpov, now brought to life as animated characters who watch and comment on your moves • Choose the fight: set Fritz to play aggressively, positionally, exchange-oriented, or risk-taking, and train against realistic human styles • Sharpen your calculation: the new Bullet Training mode teaches you to keep a clear head under time pressure
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before. FRITZ is more than just a chess engine – it’s a training revolution! Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before.
Better together
Here is where the bundle earns its place. The style analysis in ChessBase 26 feeds directly into Fritz 21's style simulation, so the two programs are built to work as one. Analyze your latest game in ChessBase 26, pinpoint the weakness that cost you the point, then load Fritz 21 and drill that position against an opponent tuned to exploit it. Prepare a line in the morning, battle-test it in the afternoon. Study, play, repeat. That feedback loop is the fastest route to a higher rating, and no single program gives you both halves of it.
Everything in the bundle
• ChessBase 26, the professional standard for preparation, database work, and analysis • Fritz 21, multiple world champion engine with style simulation and calculation training • ChessBase Premium Account access: live database of 12 million games, over 50,000 tactics puzzles, remote engines, the Opening Training app, hundreds of training videos, and online play on playchess.com
One week only
This is our summer special, and it runs for seven days. Two flagships, one price, built to work together. When the week is over, so is the offer. Secure the bundle now and make this the summer your rating finally moves.
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before.
The Nimzo-Indian has stood the test of time for over a century: Still a top choice for elite players today, from Magnus Carlsen to Praggnanandhaa, it remains one of Black's most reliable ways to fight for real chances against 1.d4 2.c4 3.Nc3.
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Bb4!? is an opening idea well worth considering. Black immediately threatens to double the pawns on c3 in the style of the Trompowski or Sicilian Grand Prix attack.
Italian Game Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains 8571 top class games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 479 are annotated.
Videos: Nico Zwirs discusses the Sicilian with 2…e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qe3 Nf6 6.Nc3. Mihail Marin examines Sindarov’s 6.Ne5 in the Queen’s Pawn Defence. Plus the ‘Lucky bag’ featuring 41 analyses by Berg, Ftacnik, Gupta and many others.
If you're looking for a dynamic alternative to the Slav, Queen's Gambit Declined, or other mainstream systems, the Chigorin Defence offers exactly what modern tournament players need.
€34.90
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