10/18/2025 – We take a unique behind-the-scenes look at how top chess masters organize their digital workspace. Grandmasters and trainers like Svitlana Demchenko, Robert Ris, Michael Prusikin, Harald Schneider-Zinner, Frederik Svane, Felix Blohberger, and Dorian Rogozenco share their screens to reveal their personal ChessBase 18 setups — from meticulously clean desktops to chaotic databases full of ideas. They show us their board designs, current projects, and discuss their favourite or most-used ChessBase functions, offering fascinating insights into how great minds prepare, study, and work with chess every day.
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My ChessBase 18 Desktop! - Chess Masters invite us in
with Dorian Rogozenco, Robert Ris, Svitlana Demchenko, Frederik Svane, Felix Blohberger, Harald Schneider-Zinner, and Michael Prusikin
Dorian Rogozenco
Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco reveals his clean and highly organized ChessBase setup, where only the essential databases for his current projects are visible.
He explains that he’s currently working on a Rubinstein Masterclass, gathering and analysing all of Rubinstein’s games while using specialized opening databases.
Rogozenco demonstrates how he connects live tournament games with the Opening Encyclopedia to instantly identify novelties and explore related positions — a workflow that keeps his study dynamic and up-to-date.
Although his desktop looks minimal, it hides a deep structure of personal repertoires, analytical files, and multilingual resources that reflect his decades of disciplined work with ChessBase.
Dorian Rogozenco
0:00 – Clean ChessBase 18 Setup: Dorian shows his minimalist desktop and explains why he keeps only essential databases open.
1:24 – Rubinstein Project: He mentions his new Rubinstein Masterclass and how he organizes all of Akiba Rubinstein’s games.
2:14 – Opening Encyclopedia 2025: Dorian highlights how much he relies on the Opening Encyclopedia for research and preparation.
2:51 – Live Database Demo: He demonstrates how he tracks current tournaments and links live games directly to the encyclopedia.
7:01 – Personal Repertoire: Dorian opens his own repertoire files for White and Black, showing his clean and efficient working system.
Top trainers strongly recommend regular study of well-explained classical games to improve your understanding of chess in the long term. 33 modern classics are explained in details on this video course.
10/15/2025 – The Colle and Zukertort Systems offer White a simple yet powerful setup with d4–Nf3–e3–Bd3, aiming for rapid development and a strong kingside attack. The Colle-Koltanowski focuses on c3 and e4, while the Zukertort System employs b3 and a fianchettoed bishop for added strategic depth. Easy to learn and highly effective for club players, this course teaches key sacrifices, maneuvers, and attacking ideas through classical and modern grandmaster games.
9/21/2025 – It’s once again time to think about aesthetics in ChessBase 18 training: Have you ever noticed the “Style” option? If not, in this episode we’ll explain briefly and concisely how you can better adapt your screen display to your own taste.
King’s Indian fans who choose the Mar del Plata attack (7...Nc6) against White’s classical system (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0) usually aim for a complex position with mutual attacks on open wings, requiring long-term strategic planning and tactical sharpness in critical moments. Computers often do not know how to handle the arising complex strategic positions, which suits players who like to think on their own instead of memorizing long variations. However, the fashionable Bayonet Attack (9.b4) interferes with Black’s ideas. After Black’s main move 9...Nh5 the positions opens, the lines get forced and computer analysis is important again. But this DVD offers an antidote against White’s Bayonet Attack, namely 9...a5! This move leads to sound positions with very few concrete lines, in which the focus is on strategy not on tactics. Objectively chances are equal but if Black knows what to do things might quickly become dangerous for White.
Opening videos: Sipke Ernst brings the Ulvestad Variation up to date + Part II of ‘Mikhalchishin's Miniatures’. Special: Jan Werle shows highlights from the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 in the video. ‘Lucky bag’ with 40 analyses by Ganguly, Illingworth et al.
In this video course, Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov explores the fascinating world of King’s Indian and Pirc structures with colours reversed, often arising from the French or Sicilian.
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