3/23/2024 – Saving the best for the last is a popular saying. The sixth edition of the Prague International Chess Festival awarded best-game prizes for each round. There was also a prize for the most spectacular game of the tournament named Lubomír Kaválek Prize. Nodirbek Abdusattorov won it for his round-8 victory over Parham Maghsoodloo. In this article, we share with you the games which won the prize each round, with commentary by ChessBase India’s Amruta Mokal and Sagar Shah | Photo: Petr Vrabec
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The seventh edition of the Prague International Chess Festival will take place from 25 February to 7 March 2025 as mentioned on the tournament’s homepage.
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.
One of the best wins in GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen’s career
GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen smilingly receives his prize | Photo: Petr Vrabec
Round 7: Maghsoodloo - Vidit
Parham Maghsoodloo v. Vidit Gujrathi — commentary by IM Sagar Shah
Round 8: Abdusattorov - Maghsoodloo
Nodirbek Abdusattorov v. Parham Maghsoodloo — commentary by IM Sagar Shah
The Lubomír Kaválek Prize for the best game of the tournament was awarded for the first time at the Prague International Chess Festival 2021. The award is named after the late Czech-American Grandmaster Lubomír Kaválek (1943-2021), who has been awarded many times during his career for playing the best, most beautiful or, if you like, the most interesting games.
The eighth-round game between Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) and Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI) won the Most Spectacular Game of the Tournament prize.
Round 9: Korobov - Gurel
15-year-old Ediz Gurel won the Challengers section and became Türkiye’s youngest GM
Ediz Gurel became Türkiye’s youngest Grandmaster, won the Challengers and earned himself a place in the Masters next year | Photo: Anežka Kružíková
In this course, we will learn how to identify passively placed pieces in any given situation and how to improve their health by bringing them into active squares.
The legend of chess compositions — Yochanan Afek | Video: ChessBase India
A visionary billionaire who ran for president in Czechia and regularly practices skydiving — Karel Janecek | Video: ChessBase India
This man is building chess in the Czech Republic in a massive way step by step — Roman Mužík | Video: ChessBase India
This 11-year-old who won the Prague Futures speeds like young Vishy — Aansh Nerurkar | Video: ChessBase India
The life story of Dina Belenkaya — Woman Grandmaster, content creator and interviewer | Video: ChessBase India
9 things that made the Prague International Festival 2024 special | Video: ChessBase India
Shahid AhmedShahid Ahmed is the senior coordinator and editor of ChessBase India. He enjoys covering chess tournaments and also likes to play in chess events from time to time.
London System Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains in all 11 285 games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 282 are annotated.
The London System Powerbook 2026 is based on more than 410 000 games or game fragments from different opening moves and ECO codes; what they all have in common is that White plays d4 and Bf4 but does not play c4.
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
Opening videos: Open Spanish (Sipke Ernst) and Classical Sicilian (Nico Zwirs). Endgame Special by Igor Stohl: ‘Short or long side’ – where should the defending king be placed in rook endgames? ‘Lucky bag’ with 35 master analyses.
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The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation with 5.Bf4 has a great balance between positional play and sharp pawn pushes; and will be a surprise for your opponents while being easy to learn for you, as the key patterns are familiar.
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