6/10/2025 – The ChessBase Premium Account is a powerful all-in-one chess improvement tool that provides extensive online resources, training, playing opportunities, and cloud services to help players of all levels enhance their game effectively. And the service runs on anything: Windows, Macs, notebooks, tablets, your mobile phone. Watch this video by Sagar Shah explaining the services you get and how to best use it. And best of all: it will only cost you €4.99 per month!
Winning starts with what you know
The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.
Winning starts with what you know The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.
Tata Steel 2025 with game analyses by Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov, Giri and many others. Opening videos by Ganguly, Blohberger and King. 10 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire. Special on Korttschnoj and much more!
€21.90
The easiest way to get acquainted with the ChessBase Account is to watch the following video by Sagar Shah of ChessBase India. He tells you how to subscribe and what you get.
We advise you to maximize the YouTube video, sit back and watch. Let Sagar show you all the wonderful tools and features you can get – for just €49.90 per year!
And here is a summary of all the functions:
The ChessBase Premium Account is a subscription service designed for advanced club players and serious chess enthusiasts, offering comprehensive access to a wide range of online chess resources and training tools. Key features of the Premium Account include:
PlayChess.com Access: Play online against more than 20,000 players worldwide, watch live games, and participate in live tournaments.
Live Database: Access to a vast, regularly updated database of over 13 million games for study and analysis.
ChessBase Mobile: Full access to the cloud database on your tablet or mobile phone.
Video Library: Hundreds of training videos and complete courses by renowned grandmasters covering openings, middlegame, and endgame.
Tactics Training: Over 50,000 tactical positions to practice and improve your skills.
Openings Trainer: An interactive tool to learn and memorize your opening repertoire.
My Games Cloud: Store and access your games and analyses online from anywhere.
Fritz Online: Play, analyze, and train against the powerful Fritz chess engine.
Engine Cloud & Let’s Check: Rent strong chess engines and access the world's largest analysis database with 200 million analyzed positions.
CB News: Daily reports on current tournaments with pictures and expert analysis.
And this is what you also get!
The above video gives you a short overview of all the things you can do in ChessBase Mobile. It opens a new era in chess enjoyment and study. This article tells you how in detail. Best of all: the full version of ChessBase Mobile is included in the ChessBase Premium Account.
The ChessBase Account enables users to improve their chess skills comprehensively by combining playing, training, studying, and analyzing in one integrated platform accessible via web browsers on various devices (PC, tablet, mobile) without the need for software installation.
Pricing options include a monthly subscription for €4.99, and an annual membership for €49.90. The membership activates immediately after purchase. There is no automatic renewal.
Frederic FriedelEditor-in-Chief emeritus of the ChessBase News page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986 he co-founded ChessBase.
5/22/2025 – Vincent Keymer began the German Championships in style, scoring 6.5 points from his first seven games. His game in round 1 already indicated that he was in great shape. In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a closer look. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target="_blank">register a Premium account here</a>.
5/19/2025 – In the Endgame Magic Show #298, Karsten Müller continues to analyse endgames from the Women's World Championship match between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi. Defending champion Ju Wenjun won the match 6.5-2.5 and impressed with her endgame skills. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a <a href="https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/chessbase_account_premium_year_abo">ChessBase Premium account</a>.
The Elephant Gambit (1.e4.e5 2.Nf3 d5!?) has never really been given the attention it deserves. It is a very useful surprise weapon. Let us list the advantages of playing this particular opening: 1) Shock value 2) It is very aggressive. Black can take over the initiative early. 3) Many tricky lines 4) Unorthodox. Black is basically taking the game to the opponent as early as move two. Not many openings do that! It's a perfect opening for young players and club players to adopt. Let Andrew Martin select a repertoire for you on this 60 mins, which, if used with discretion, will rack up the points. I am sure that you will enjoy this unusual tour of the Elephant Gambit.
In this insightful video course, Grandmaster David Navara shares practical advice on when to calculate deeply in a position — and just as importantly, when not to.
The Trompowsky is especially suited for faster time controls as you don‘t have to memorise endless lines of theory, and you push your opponent out of their comfort zone after your second move.
Trompowsky Powerbook 2025 is based on 53,000 computer games from the engine room of playchess.com as well as 49,000 games from Mega and correspondence chess.
Trompowsky Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 8727 games from Mega 2025 and the Correspondence Database 2024, of which 316 are annotated.
2025 European Championship with a German double victory and analyses by Bluebaum, Svane, Rodshtein, Yuffa, Navara and many more. Opening videos by Engel, King and Marin. Training sections “The Fortress”, “The Trap” and “Fundamental Endgame Knowledge" etc.
In this dynamic and practical video course, IM Andrew Martin arms you with powerful antidotes to White’s most annoying sidelines.
€34.90
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