7/25/2021 – Many of the ChessBase products have been around for more than 30 years, and we now have ChessBase 16, Fritz 17, over 200 ChessBase magazines, as well as more than 500 training programmes from chess masters. With so much choice, it is easy to lose the overview, and sometimes you ask yourself: what is which software good for, what can I do with it, and what are the main functions? With the newly made shopping assistant, we have created a guide for you in a short description + videos.
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.
The Benko Gambit is back at the very highest level - and it's easy to see why. Black sacrifices a pawn to seize the initiative on the queenside, obtaining long-lasting pressure, active pieces and open files that make life difficult for White.
ChessBase is the chess database program that has become the standard worldwide. 35 years ago ChessBase invented the storage of chess games on the PC. Back then, people were amazed at 1,000 games on a floppy disk; today, databases with millions of chess games are handled by the program! Only with ChessBase can you, as a chess player, extract the essential information from these enormous collections of games.
What does a chess player need? A playing partner, a trainer, a chess library and online chess! FRITZ, the "most popular German chess program" (Der Spiegel), offers exactly that for beginners and tournament players: an opponent of the highest level, practice and training functions for all game phases, database functions for managing and analysing your own games, training WebApps with the online chess platform playchess.com. FRITZ is the entry into the ChessBase world. FRITZ trains you for the serious case at the board and is a lot of fun!
Mega-Database is the largest and most renowned game collection in the world, in ChessBase quality standard. ChessBase published its first chess games database in 1986. In the meantime, "Mega" has grown to 8.4 million games and has become the reference for every ambitious chess player. With over 85,000 annotated games, Mega 2021 also contains the world's largest collection of high-class analysed games, master analyses, all completely classified.
12 training web apps for playing, training and analysing. Whether at the airport, in the hotel or at home on your sofa: with your ChessBase Account you have access to the whole ChessBase world at any time: the new ChessBase media centre, tactics training, the Openings app, Live Database, LIVE-Chess, Online-Fritz, studies and web access to playchess.com – it’s a full ChessBase portal directly from your web browser. All you need is Internet and a modern browser, whether on an iPad, tablet, with Mac, Windows, Android or Linux system!
ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and sophisticated chess magazine ever: world-class players analyse their most brilliant games, and explain the ideas behind their moves. Opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and exciting ideas for your repertoire.
Fritz & Chesster has been around for almost 20 years: thousands of children all over the world have learned to play chess with this smart, funny and internationally award-winning program. In an exciting adventure story, children learn all the rules of chess and many tactical motifs, step by step together with Prince Fritz and his cousin Bianca: Where are the pieces? What is stalemate and draw? What does opposition mean? And how does the back-rank mate work? All exercises are integrated into fun games and interactive training modules.
Learning from masters means learning masterfully. Those who learn directly from the chess grandmasters learn most effectively. Train with absolute world-class players: Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So or the former world champions Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand and Garry Kasparov! Or with the master trainer Adrian Mikhlachishin and the strongest German women chess player, Elisabeth Pähtz. Our Fritztrainers bring stars, top grandmasters and top trainers to your home. This is not only a lot of fun, but also much more effective than the tedious study of books or the solitary replaying of games on the PC.
What strengths distinguished Bobby Fischer from all other players of his time? Which strategic concept of Mihail Tal still has an effect on modern chess today? The ChessBase grandmaster team shows you, in a practical way, what is important for your own games. In the "Masterclass" series, all the different facets of great player personalities of chess history and current world-class players are presented: opening repertoire, playing style or endgame understanding.
Smyslov cultivated a clear positional style and even in sharp tactical positions often relied more on his intuition than on concrete calculation of variations. Let our authors introduce you into the world of Vasily Smyslov.
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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