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!
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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.
In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
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.
YOUR EASY ACCESS TO OPENING THEORY: Whether you want to build up a reliable and powerful opening repertoire or find new opening ideas for your existing repertoire, the Opening Encyclopaedia covers the entire opening theory on one product.
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.
€9.90
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