11/8/2021 – The FIDE Grand Swiss in Riga just ended, Alireza Firouzja finished sole first with 8.0/11, half a point ahead of Fabiano Caruana. Both qualified for the Candidates. The tournament in Riga brought many interesting games and many interesting endgames. In the Endgame Magic Show #169 Karsten Müller and Thomas Stark look at some of the endgame highlights. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

11/1/2021 – Pawn races are often fun because every tempo counts and such pawn races can often turn into a mating attack when the pawn queens. In the Endgame Magic Show #168 Karsten and Arne look at some recent examples of entertaining pawn races. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

10/25/2021 – In the Endgame Magic Show #167 Karsten Müller Arne and Karsten discuss endgame highlights from the Bundesliga, one of the world's strongest national team championships. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

10/18/2021 – In the Endgame Magic Show #166 Karsten Müller Arne and Karsten discuss endgame highlights from the finals of the Champions Chess Tour, which ended in October and was won by Magnus Carlsen. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

10/11/2021 – In the Endgame Magic Show #165 Karsten Müller has a guest: Romain Edouard, Grandmaster, publisher, and former second of Veselin Topalov. Romain and Karsten discuss Romain's forthcoming ChessBase projects and look at endgame highlights from Romain's games. | Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

10/4/2021 – From 18 to 21 September, 17 of the world's best juniors played a round robin rapid online tournament, the Hou Yifan Challenge, which is part of the Julius Baer Challengers Tour. In the "Endgame Magic Show #163" Arne Kaehler and Karsten Mueller look at endgame highlights from this tournament that was won by Vincent Keymer, who finished two points ahead of Christopher Yoo and Praggnanandhaa.| Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

9/27/2021 – Karsten Müller's guest in this week's "Endgame Magic Show" is the French GM Christian Bauer who just produced an interesting DVD - which, of course, will also available per download - about the charms and attractions of the Alekhine Defense. Karsten and Christian talk about this DVD but they also look at some fine endgames Christian played. | Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

9/20/2021 – One of the most fascinating recent endgames was Magnus Carlsen's win against Alireza Firouzja in round 6 of the Norway Chess Tournament: in a slightly better position that seemed to be impossible to win Carlsen worked his magic and created an endgame masterpiece. In the "Endgame Magic Show #161" Karsten Müller and Arne Kähler take a look at this astonishing endgame and show why it is good to know the classics. | Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

9/13/2021 – The World Cup in Sochi 2021 saw a huge number of fascinating endgames, and for his "Endgame Magic Show #160" Karsten selected mostly rook endgames. Interesting, instructive, and practically relevant. | Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

9/6/2021 – Karsten is joined by Arne Kaehler to discuss the best endgames of 2020. Our in-house specialist decided to kick off the show with a fascinating ending played by two amazingly strong engines, Stockfish and Komodo. | Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

8/30/2021 – Herman and Karsten discuss endgames and Herman’s forthcoming ChessBase products. Herman tells many surprising stories connected to endgames. He talks, for example, about how Loek van Wely began his serious work on rook endgames. | Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

8/23/2021 – Two years after visiting Hamburg to film his middlegame FritzTrainers, Ivan Sokolov visits the ChessBase office once again. The experienced grandmaster discusses instructive endgames with Dr. Karsten Müller in the latest instalment of the Endgame Magic show. | Endgame Magic is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

8/16/2021 – Svitlana and Karsten discuss endgames and Svitlana's forthcoming ChessBase products. Svitlana also presents endgames from her own games and solves a study by Karsten. | "Endgame Magic" is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

8/9/2021 – In the "Endgame Magic Show #155" Karsten Mueller talks with Abhimanyu Mishra about the endgame. In the old days people said that one should just go into the endgame against a young player which then would win itself. But Abhimanyu Mishra, the world's youngest Grandmaster ever, proves this to be wrong. He knows a lot about endgames, has watched all 154 previous "Endgame Magic" shows, and stuns Karsten again and again with insights and questions. In the current show the young Grandmaster proves his defensive skills in rook endings, but in some examples Abhimanyu is also attacking, when he is no less resourceful. | "Endgame Magic" is on air most Mondays. Watch it on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

6/23/2021 – We have renovated: the ChessBase video portal presents itself in a new look. But the most important thing: you will now find what you are looking for much faster! Over 5,000 training videos are ready for you! All of them are fully indexed, so that you can use the search board to search all the videos for positions. Content has also been cleaned up: while we now offer "chess entertainment" on our YouTube channels, the focus on the video portal is now on chess training. High-quality training material on openings, middlegames, endgames. We regularly publish new training lessons from top trainers such as Daniel King, Karsten Müller, Herman Grooten, Robert Ris or Lawrence Trent. Real premium content for premium users! Come in!