6/1/2018 – Ding Liren is at a career best 2798 on the Elo ratings and number four in the world. But Thursday night it emerged that he's suffered a hip fracture while bicycling in Norway and will miss today's fourth round. The scheduled game with Caruana has been postponed (for now) until the next rest day, June 4th. Before the incident, the players took part in a "cook-off" where they were paired up and got to play the roll of professional chefs for a while. Here Ding enjoys the fruits (or rather veggies) of his labour. Behind him (L-to-R): Vachier-Lagrave, Aronian, Caruana and Karjakin | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Altibox Norway Chess
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.!
The "Mega" is the database every serious chessplayer needs. The database contains 7.1 million games from 1500 to 2017, in highest quality standard, full of top level analyses and completely classified.
This video course provides a comprehensive and practical White repertoire in the Ruy Lopez! Through instructive model games and in-depth theoretical explanations, you will learn how to confidently handle both main lines and sidelines.
Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasn't been systematically trained within the structures of a major chess-playing nation such as Russia, the Ukraine or China.
On this DVD Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy to World Champion in 2006. With humour and charm he describes his first successes, what it meant to be part of the Russian Gold Medal team at the Olympiad, and how he undertook the Herculean task of beating his former mentor and teacher Garry Kasparov.
Although only gaining 7 Elo points and climbing one spot, Ding Liren's move to number four ahead of Vladimir Kramnik marks both a career peak for the Chinese grandmaster and also the first time the highest rated player from China is above the top player from Russia. Is this a harbinger of burgeoning Sino-dominance? It's a bit early to say, but you can't rule it out.
Among those on a downswing, Radoslaw Wojtaszek shed 20 points which, combined with Jan-Krzysztof Duda's win at the Polish Championship, puts the youngster out in front by a hair in that country.
Falling out of the top 100 for the first time in decades is Russian GM Sergei Rublevsky, whose focus has shifted to training and who is now at his lowest point on the rating scale since October 2005.
Duda takes a bow as new Polish champ | Photo: Piotr Jedrzejewski, mp2018.pzszach.pl
FIDE Top 100 Women
Notable on the women's list is that the World Championship match between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhonqyi seems not to have been rated yet! The entire ten game match took place in May, but they each show has having just three games from the Chinese League. The difference is not huge, but 2700chess.com puts Ju at 2567.8 and Tan at 2523.9 currently.
Update June 2: The Tan vs Ju match games were included in an update later in the day. List updated below.
There were no major changes in the list, up or down.
On this DVD, well-known Indian WGM Tania Sachdev shows you how to evaluate certain positions and then find the right concepts and plans on the basis of her own games.
Virtually all the top juniors gained Elo points (as Juniors do) but without a great deal of relative movement. Duda is still in the number two spot but has narrowed the gap with Wei Yi to three points.
Aryan Tari and Benjamin Gledura traded places following their Sigeman tournament performances.
Sam Sevian was the most active last month with a whopping 21 games played, for a net gain of 11 points.
Goryachkina and Abdumalik remain unchallenged for the top spots on the Girls list. The biggest pickup at the top was from Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova (trying saying that five times fast!) who is now the top rated women from Uzbekistan, and now among the top ten girls.
Here's an interview with her from January, 2017:
WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova speaks to Jitendra Choudhary | ChessBase India on YouTube
Wesley So published two new opening DVDs: 1.b3, the so called Nimzo-Larsen-Attack, for White and his black secrets in the modern Italian. Get them in a package and save money!
Macauley PetersonMacauley served as the Editor in Chief of ChessBase News from July 2017 to March 2020. He is the producer of The Full English Breakfast chess podcast, and was an Associate Producer of the 2016 feature documentary, Magnus.
How do you play the Queen's Gambit Accepted? Does White have promising variations or can Black construct a water-tight repertoire? The Powerbook provides the answers based on 300 000 games, most of them played by engines.
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