11/8/2025 – GM Dorian Rogozenco explains how coaches can use ChessBase to analyse and improve both their students’ and their own games. By creating a database of a player’s games and generating a Style Report, one can quickly identify strengths and weaknesses—such as low aggressiveness or strong theoretical play. Using the search mask in the Mega Database, coaches can then find instructive games that target specific themes (like king attacks or positional play) and build customized training material. Rogozenco emphasizes combining personal experience with ChessBase’s tools to create effective, theme-based lessons that develop a player’s strategic understanding and practical skill.

11/5/2025 – GM Dorian Rogozenco demonstrates how to filter and analyse games by rating, year, and tournament to see which openings are currently popular and successful - without needing multiple databases. Rogozenco shows practical shortcuts and explains how to use live updates and tournament selections to instantly study what top grandmasters are playing right now. The episode concludes with insights on how to dig deeper into why certain lines become fashionable, often sparked by world-class players like Magnus Carlsen, experimenting with new ideas.

9/4/2025 – In this new ChessBase show "Master Your Chess with ChessBase Tools", GM Dorian Rogozenco and Arne Kaehler introduce viewers to the practical use of ChessBase tools for chess improvement, starting with the cloud engine and the newly added ChessBase remote-engine feature. They explain how cloud and remote engines differ, how to install and use them, the role of ducats, and why trust and engine choice matter for analysis. The episode also highlights practical tips like running multiple engines, using private engines remotely, and applying engine analysis efficiently in opening, middlegame, and endgame study.

8/3/2025 – Frederic Friedel reveals what the Egyptian pyramids, an internship with Otto Borik and a frog game on the home computer have to do with his career in Germany's leading chess magazine SCHACH-MAGAZIN 64, where he was interviewed by Stefan Liebig. The four-page article is reproduced here in English with the kind permission of Schuenemann-Verlag. | Photos: Archiv Frederic Friedel

10/28/2024 – 'Guess the Move' or 'Solitaire Chess' have long been favorites of players, and ChessBase has amazing tools to play them, with more than simply hiding the next move. It also comes with fantastic tools such as Assisted Calculation to help you train your visualization skills, combining great fun with top training. What more can you want? Don't miss this lightning lesson on video!

10/1/2024 – In this video lesson, you will learn how to take game annotations and translate them into any language of your choice. Have German annotations you want in English? No problem! English annotations you want in Portuguese or French? Consider it done!

9/26/2024 – In this video lesson, you will learn how to search and find tens of thousands of deeply commented games by all the best players in the world. These include games by Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, and young guns like Gukesh, Erigaisi, Firouzja, and Abdussatorov! Endless entertainment and education as taught by the best chess players and chess teachers ever.

2/19/2024 – The experiment of preparing to win a tournament as the lowest rated player in just 30 days is running, and the first week started. ChessBase content manager Arne has to start somewhere. But where? By writing a Masterplan! With this, he can concentrate on tactics, openings, middlegames, and endgames for the upcoming weeks. Furthermore, Arne chooses 40 Fritztrainers, fools around with ChessBase 17, and the Mega Database, to study all of his opponents in the tournament!

2/1/2024 – ChessBase media manager Arne Kaehler comes up with amusing ideas daily. One of these has now been brought to life: The challenge is to study chess using all ChessBase products for at least two hours daily over a month, and to win a tournament as the group's lowest-rated player. Sounds crazy? Perhaps. But what could possibly go wrong when chess is such a delightful activity? In the forthcoming video series, Arne invites you to join his adventure, looking into nearly everything ChessBase offers, learning from chess experts, experiencing ups and downs, and, most importantly, addressing the ultimate question: Will he actually succeed? | Photo: (right) Sandra Schmidt

7/19/2023 – In just five minutes, learn how grandmasters use ChessBase 17 to quickly get similar endgames so they can study deeper and learn from others. Whether an amateur or one of the world elite, these easy but powerful tools can help you raise your game and do wonders for your rating! Don't miss this lightning video lesson!

7/4/2023 – In this series of lightning videos, learn everything from the basics to mastery of ChessBase in bite-sized lessons with crystal clear explanations and demonstrations. In this lesson you will learn the secret to annotating your games with variations, moves, colored arrows and more! It will turn you into a power user – and do wonders for your rating!

6/27/2023 – In this series of lightning videos, learn everything from the basics to mastery of ChessBase in bite-sized lessons with crystal clear explanations and demonstrations. In this lesson you will learn the most essential feature: creating your own base and entering games. It will turn you into a power user – and do wonders for your rating!