2/25/2023 – The WR Chess Masters took place in Düsseldorf on February 15-25. A 10-players single round-robin, the event featured a mix of established, elite players and young, ambitious talents. Levon Aronian won the tournament after prevailing in a three-player rapid tiebreaker over Ian Nepomniachtchi and Dommaraju Gukesh. | Replay all the games with computer-assisted analysis.
Your personal chess trainer. Your toughest opponent. Your strongest ally. FRITZ 20 is more than just a chess engine – it is a training revolution for ambitious players and professionals. Whether you are taking your first steps into the world of serious chess training, or already playing at tournament level, FRITZ 20 will help you train more efficiently, intelligently and individually than ever before.
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.
Mastering piece setups in various pawn structures and transitioning to a dominant middlegame, this course equips you with the insight and flexibility to outmanoeuvre your opponents in the Closed Catalan.
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WR Chess Masters 2023
Sponsor of the tournament is the Düsseldorf-based company WR Events GmbH. “Our goal is to promote and spread the sport of chess”, explained CEO Wadim Rosenstein. “We want to give young and professional chess players the opportunity to develop their skills”.
The time control for each game is 120 minutes per side for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves, and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move starting with move 61.
In case of a tie for first place: 2 games with 10 min + 2 sec a move; then, if needed, 2 games with 5 min + 2 sec a move; finally a game with 5 min for White and 4 min for Black with an increment of 2 seconds per move starting from move 61 (in case of a draw, Black wins).
If more than two players share first place, there will be a double round-robin with the following tiebreaks:
In a total of 6 chapters, we look at the following aspects: the right decision based on tactical factors, decisions in exchanges and moves, complex and psychological decisions in longer games and in defence.
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.
The Queen's Gambit Accepted Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 11827 games from Mega 2025 and the Correspondence Database 2024, of which 240 are annotated.
Rossolimo-Moscow Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 10950 games from Mega 2025 and the Correspondence Database 2024, of which 612 are annotated.
The greater part of the material on which the Rossolimo/Moscow Powerbook 2025 is based comes from the engine room of playchess.com: 263.000 games. This imposing amount is supplemented by some 50 000 games from Mega and from Correspondence Chess.
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