The perennial favourite Fabiano Caruana (29) is a perennial favourite when it comes to the Candidat...
The ‘unlikely’ Hikaru Nakamura The unlikely winner of the Grand Prix series is also an unlikely win...
6/20/2022 – In the Endgame Magic Show #199 Karsten takes a look at interesting endgames from the Chess Festival in Prague. Pentala Harikrishna won the Masters, Vincent Keymer won the Challengers and both scored crucial points in the endgame. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account .
Long thinks Going into the first rest day of the 2022 Candidates Tournament, Ian Nepomniachtchi and...
A rematch in the cards Out of the six decisive games played at the Candidates Tournament...
Sharp chess Fabiano Caruana and Richard Rapport drew their round-5 game at the Candidates Tournament after...
6/20/2022 – The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) and Saint Louis Chess Club have been running the very successful Young Stars – Team USA program for the past six years. The club proved to be perfect training grounds for three of the Young Stars. Garry Kasparov lead the session and was assisted by FIDE Senior Trainer Michael Khodarkovsky.
6/20/2022 – On May 7, 2022 the world received sad news when it was announced from Moscow that Yuri Averbakh passed away. Averbakh excelled in many fields and at this peak he was one of the world's best ten players but he is best known for his contributions to endgame theory. To pay tribute to the endgame expert, Zoran Petronijevic had a look at endgames that were close to Averbakh's heart. | Photo: Eric Koch / Anefo
It wasn't always so, I'll be the first one to agree. The ChessBase news page...
6/23/2022 – In his “Game of the Week” show #521, Merijn van Delft takes a look at the game Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Alireza Firouzja, played in round 4 of the Candidates Tournament in Madrid, which also was a clash of generations. This time, experience prevailed. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here .
6/23/2022 – On Friday 24th June at 18.00 CEST (12.00 ET, 16:00 UTC) Daniel King will be hosting a special live broadcast on his YouTube channel to publicise a new book: 'From Ukraine With Love For Chess' published by 'New In Chess'. Daniel will be joined by Ruslan Ponomariov (former FIDE World Champion) and Remmelt Otten (Publishing Director of New In Chess) to discuss the book. Join the broadcast to learn more about the book, Ukrainian chess, and to put your questions directly to Rusl...
6/23/2022 – London 1899 and Paris 1900 are two celebrated events that helped shape the legend of an all-time great and influenced the battles for the chess crown in the 20th century’s first decade. Eugene Manlapao revisits these tournaments on the occasion of their 123rd and 122nd anniversaries respectively.
6/24/2022 – Last week we shared the announcement of the revival of chess in the New York Times. With no clarification in the NYT article itself, it was assumed this was a weekly contribution. But as we were vigorously disabused, the chess puzzle is a daily fixture in the NYT Games section, but allow us to share more of this quasi-cult section of the venerable newspaper.
The present article presents a fashionable variation of the Gruenfeld Defence, which helped German GM...
6/19/2022 – After six and a half hours of play, Teimour Radjabov resigned against Hikaru Nakamura in the one decisive game of round 2 at the Candidates Tournament. Fighting draws were seen on all three remaining boards, with Richard Rapport missing winning chances against Alireza Firouzja and Fabiano Caruana surprising Ian Nepomniachtchi in the confrontation between co-leaders. | Photo: FIDE / Stev Bonhage