6/29/2023 – After his defeat in a spectacular game in the second round, Vladimir Kramnik bounced back on Wednesday with a brilliant positional performance. After the Mayor of Dortmund, Norbert Schilff, made the symbolic first move for him, Kramnik opted for a rather quiet approach with white and gained a small advantage against Fabiano Caruana. Slowly but surely, Kramnik increased his advantage and ended up scoring an important full point. | Photo: Michelle Lassak
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.
In this video course experts examine the games of Bent Larsen. Let them show you which openings Larsen chose, where his strength in middlegames were, how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame & you’ll get a glimpse of his tactical abilities!
€39.90
Mr Dortmund bounces back
After his defeat in a spectacular game in the second round, Vladimir Kramnik bounced back on Wednesday with a brilliant positional performance.
After the Mayor of Dortmund, Norbert Schilff, made the symbolic first move for him, Kramnik opted for a quieter approach with white and gained a small advantage in the No-Castling Chess format against current world number 3 Fabiano Caruana. Slowly but surely, he extended the advantage and won the endgame.
This DVD allows you to learn from the example of one of the best players in the history of chess and from the explanations of the authors (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) how to successfully organise your games strategically, consequently how to keep y
Afterwards, Kramnik was a guest of Artur Yusupov and Fiona Steil-Antoni in the commentators’ booth and analysed his victory in depth:
The big winner of the previous round, Dmitry Kollars, again got a promising position. But again the piece play was chaotic on the board and this time it was his opponent who grabbed the initiative. In the end, Pavel Eljanov won the game.
In total, there has only been one draw in the NC World Masters during the first three rounds, a very unusual occurrence in classical chess at the world-class level.
Standings - Round 3
All games
A-Open: Mendonca joins the lead
In the A-Open, Alexander Donchenko was able to surprise his opponent Aryan Chopra in the opening with Black: “I didn’t expect ...Bd7, then I switched the variations in my mind. I shouldn’t have exchanged on d7 so early”, the Indian grandmaster said afterwards. The game was thus quickly equalised and ended in a draw, with which Donchenko seemed very satisfied.
Another young Indian grandmaster, Leon Luke Mendonca, joined the leading group by beating his compatriot Pranav Anand.
Matthias Blübaum and Michael Adams fought for a long time for the full point, but both had to be content with splitting points. Young Ihor Samunenkov in particular thrilled the spectators with a wild game against Adams.
Let us learn together how to find the best spot for the queen in the early middlegame, how to navigate this piece around the board, how to time the queen attack, how to decide whether to exchange it or not, and much more!
Ruben Gideon Köllner continues to impress in the Sportland NRW Cup. Köllner defeated International Master and YouTuber Georgios Souleidis, which means he has accumulated 4 wins from 5 games, with one draw to his name.
Both players agreed that Black had good chances in the middlegame. However, Souleidis should not have captured the weak pawn on h6, and instead should have gone more consistently for the white king.
Köllner, aged 19, is thus one point ahead of the rest of the field and is on course to achieve a valuable grandmaster norm. To achieve it, 7 points from 9 games are necessary.
Dinara Wagner ultimately had to settle for half a point against GM Karthik Venkataraman from a position in which the German had a strategic advantage in the middlegame.
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.
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 Italian Four Knights is the ideal choice. It combines the solid foundation of classical openings like the Ruy Lopez or the Italian Game with an active, initiative-driven style of play.
IM Andrew Martin shows why this 19th-century opening weapon still is a fantastic choice for club players. The Evans produces exciting chess and teaches the art of attack.
The major part of the material on which the Petroff Defence Powerbook 2026 is based comes from the engine room of playchess.com: 357 000 games. This imposing number is supplemented by another 17 000 from Mega and from correspondence chess.
Petroff Defence Powerbase 2026 is a database which contains 6475 high class games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 682 annotated.
Videos: Felix Blohberger presents the surprise weapon 4…a6 in the Four Knights Game. Mihail Marin analyses the English Opening with 1.c4 e5 2.g3 g6 3.d4 exd4 4.Qxd4 Nf6 5.Bg2 Nc6. Plus the ‘Lucky bag’ featuring 37 analyses by Berg, Radjabov and others.
€14.90
We use cookies and comparable technologies to provide certain functions, to improve the user experience and to offer interest-oriented content. Depending on their intended use, analysis cookies and marketing cookies may be used in addition to technically required cookies. Here you can make detailed settings or revoke your consent (if necessary partially) with effect for the future. Further information can be found in our data protection declaration.
Pop-up for detailed settings
We use cookies and comparable technologies to provide certain functions, to improve the user experience and to offer interest-oriented content. Depending on their intended use, cookies may be used in addition to technically required cookies, analysis cookies and marketing cookies. You can decide which cookies to use by selecting the appropriate options below. Please note that your selection may affect the functionality of the service. Further information can be found in our privacy policy.
Technically required cookies
Technically required cookies: so that you can navigate and use the basic functions and store preferences.
Analysis Cookies
To help us determine how visitors interact with our website to improve the user experience.
Marketing-Cookies
To help us offer and evaluate relevant content and interesting and appropriate advertisement.
.jpeg)
