8/26/2020 – Online chess is most fun when you know your opponents: less anonymity means less cheating! In the virtual club room on PlayChess, clubs can meet and play blitz tournaments among themselves. To improve your playing experience we now present the video function! All players can log in with their webcam and you can hear and see each other! Suddenly you experience a blitz chess evening almost like in the old days: trash-talk, noises from the next board, cheering, frustration — it all feels more real because you see and hear each other. And everything starts with 2 mouse clicks. Just try it out: create a virtual room with one mouse click, activate the video function with another mouse click, and off you go! The only requirement: to have a premium account!

8/21/2020 – Live games are especially interesting, when exciting tactics are on the board, when "my" opening is played, and when innovations are tried out! The new ChessBase Live Ticker shows you these games! From thousands of live games the ChessBase Live Ticker determines which are particularly on point and exciting at the moment! One click and you are in the game! And everything can be combined with the ChessBase Web Apps for your opening training or tactics training. Try it!

8/5/2020 – In the last two decades I have probably played about 100.000 games online, most of them in blitz and bullet. And I have often wondered about my win/loss ratio in certain openings: Is my personal anti-sicilian system 2. c4 really working so well? How often do I win with 1...e5? Did I really win more than 50% of my games with my favourite opening, the Naselwaus Gambit? ChessBase knows the answer to these questions!

7/27/2020 – Some might say chess is at its peak of popularity due to the coronavirus. People who have never played chess before are thinking, “There is no better time than now to learn how to play chess”. And they are right! I myself have been asked by a lot of friends if I could teach them how to play. Thanks to PlayChess.com I can teach more than one student at a time with ease. I quickly explain the steps needed to set up a coaching session in a short video!

7/11/2020 – You probably already know how to create your personal virtual room on PlayChess.com. If not, we have a link included in this article on how to do it. In your virtual room, you can challenge friends, organize tournaments for your chess club, give valuable coaching lessons and play simultaneous games. The last point is what the 5-minute video in this article is all about!

7/8/2020 – ChessBase 15 is the most powerful chess database management software on the planet, but to get the best out of all that potential, the first thing you need is a large, up to date Reference Database. Nick Murphy takes you step by step through setting and updating your reference database.

7/3/2020 – It is possible to create your personal room on Playchess.com in just a couple of seconds. With your Virtual Room you are able to organise your own chess tournaments, have club events, give teaching courses and play simuls. In a short video we show you how easy it is to create the room.

7/1/2020 – ChessBase 15 is a most sophisticated chess software. But today we are gonna take it right back to the original function of ChessBase: the very reason that ChessBase was developed in the first place – Chess Databases. Nick Murphy takes you through this beginner's guide to chess databases.

6/26/2020 – The various ChessBase Fritztrainer DVDs cover all areas of chess - the opening, the middlegame and the endgame - and they help you to improve your chess. In a short video-tutorial Arne Kähler shows how to use the ChessBase program to get the most out of each Fritztrainer.

6/23/2020 – Chess engines like Fritz 17 and Komodo 14 can be easily used within ChessBase 15, thanks to something called UCI. It may sound complicated at first, but is actually incredibly simple. Adding UCI engines to ChessBase 15 is a straightforward process, and Nick Murphy shows you how to do it.

6/18/2020 – Did you know that you can use our Fritztrainers apps on a Mac without ChessBase software? The apps also offer many interesting functions, e.g. repertoire training, positions for training, various engine options, and much more. Take a look at our short video, which introduces all important functions.

6/17/2020 – International Master Sagar Shah decided to make a huge tutorial about our flagships - the ChessBase 15 software and the Mega Database. Both software applications are full of content. Once you know what they are capable of, you can't get enough of them and if you use them thoroughly, your chess skills will improve without a doubt.

6/9/2020 – Historically, the Fritz family of programs were for analysis, and ChessBase was for database management. Nowadays, the distinction is much less pronounced, and ChessBase 15 is an incredibly powerful analysis tool in its own right. Here, Nick Murphy takes you through getting ChessBase ready to analyse, using the local engine of your choice. Allowing you to effortlessly use the power of your chess engines wherever you are!

6/3/2020 – You are raring to get started with some of the amazing functions of ChessBase 15. But there is one last thing we need to consider before we dive into the substance – and that is style! ChessBase 15 is fantastically customisable and here Nick Murphy will show you step by step how to get the look you want. Because it helps to enjoy your chess!

5/29/2020 – The ChessBase replayer helps you to enjoy live transmissions, reports about old tournaments or portraits of famous players even more. You can replay the games, you can analyse them, load them into your Fritz Engine, copy them to a database or add them to your cloud. Here's a short video about the many options of the replayer.

5/27/2020 – Today, Wednesday, the 27th of May 2020, is Discount Day at ChessBase: you get a 25% discount on all ChessBase products. That includes software, training DVDs, services, the ChessBase Account – almost everything. The easiest and best and most efficient way to get your ChessBase products is to download them: you can immediately install and use them and you do not have to wait for the mailman.

5/23/2020 – You've installed Chessbase 15, it's activated and updated. What next? How does a beginner to ChessBase 15 know where to start, or how to access the functions and features of the most sophisticated chess program on the planet. It's actually remarkably simple. Here, Nick Murphy shows you how.

5/13/2020 – "What is the best advice for getting the most out of my ChessBase 15 software?" This is a question that is often asked. And the first two answers are always the same: "Read The Manual" and "Update the Program". Here Nick Murphy shows you step-by-step how to do both.

5/11/2020 – ChessBase is a powerful program that helps you to enjoy your chess more and to play better. Still, for some even installing the ChessBase 15 can appear daunting at first glance, but it's actually an exceptionally simple process. Here Nick Murphy takes you step-by-step through the process. Tested and approved by his 6-year-old niece and 82-year-old father!

3/30/2020 – In our third tutorial, focusing on our playchess.com virtual rooms, we see how to have an online training session with you as a chess coach. In our tutorial series, we already took a look at how to create a virtual room for your chess club. Furthermore, we had another tutorial about online tournaments in your virtual room. These offers are an excellent option to keep up with your chess activities.

3/28/2020 – With playchess.com you can create a virtual room for your chess club. We recently featured how to do so! The logical follow up is to organize an online tournament in your own club room. It is quite simple: All club members receive a special link, with one click the virtual tournament hall is accessed, the tournament director starts the round and the chessboard game windows open automatically for the participants. Just like in real life, this is a bit more demanding for the tournament director. This tutorial explains how it all works.

3/22/2020 – Here's a brief tutorial on how to get the most out of ChessBase's live broadcast game viewer. Learn about all the powerful features and buttons that make ChessBase's live tournament watching experience one of the best around. Did you know it's all embeddable on your own web site too!?

3/19/2020 – Every club, school or trainer can open a virtual playing room on the ChessBase server. Everything is possible: casual games, tournaments, online training, simultaneous events, etc. Everything on "your" chess server! The best alternative to keep the club evening running, and a good (virtual) meeting point to play chess together. Creating a virtual club room is easy. Have a look!

2/22/2020 – Creating a good and reliable opening repertoire is a difficult task. Fritz 17 offers an alternative: premade opening repertoires, on four levels, from "Easy" to "Professional". All of them are solid repertoires that have stood the test of practice and will give you a good (though not necessarily better) position after the opening.