The top duels in the fifth round of the Women’s European Championship ended in draws. This allowed year old Ukrainian WCM Bozhena Piddubna pictured to catch the leaders with a win. Piddubna is now sharing the lead with Ulviyya Fataliyeva Azerbaijan and Marta Garcia Spain . Piddubna will...

   Cheating in chess took centre stage when Magnus Carlsen lost to Hans Niemann in September , and then tweeted about it. Now, top grandmasters Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana are sharing numbers about how many cheaters there are. What is being debated, what is known, and what is only a...

   During the endgame, stalemate is a resource that can enable the player with the inferior position to draw the game rather than lose. In more complex positions, stalemate is much rarer, usually taking the form of a swindle that succeeds only if the superior side is inattentive. Chess Trainer GM...

   He was born on June in Bursa, Turkey. On April st no April Fool’s joke the twelve year old, playing in the very strong GRENKE Chess Open, Yagiz Kaan Erdpgmus scored . points with a performance. With that he had fulfilled his final GM norm and become the youngest grandmaster in...

   Svitlana dug deep to find some outstanding, beautiful tactics, by all the men’s and women’s candidates, who will compete in Toronto soon. Arne is trying hard to solve all the puzzles, and get out of in both videos. Will he succeed And how will you do, dear viewer These two videos are the...

   The American Cup, one of the United States’ premier chess tournaments, returns to Saint Louis. Now in its third year, the event runs from March , , at the iconic World Chess Hall of Fame, featuring sixteen of America’s top chess talents. With , in prize money up for grabs, the...

   Chess is a really fun game to play, but equally enjoyable is solving artificial positions problems and studies many that defy the imagination. In this ChessBase Challenge instalment, we have a set of puzzles that can challenge your brain. Can you solve the position Can you find the mind...

   Have you ever finished last in a tournament Well, it happened to Vidit Gujrathi at the Prague Masters . As Vidit himself pointed out, this might be the first time ever that he finished last in his entire chess career. And it happened days before the most important event of his life the...

   As arbiters, we must first and foremost have full knowledge of the Laws of Chess. The Laws of Chess are like the Bible, everything starts there. In this article IA Alon Shulman shares his thought process in dealing with cases, on implementing the Laws of Chess. Arbiters must first and foremost...

   Chess players have certainly heard of Daniel Fernandez, who has already published a couple of Fritztrainers for ChessBase. But recently, non chess players also got to know him because of a YouTube video with the title We Used An Adult Toy To Beat A Chess Grandmaster . How did this video happen ...

   Magnus Carlsen has been the World , since Apart from his tremendous chess talent, he also has a relatively higher HRV: his heart rate is typically between bpm bpm, which enables him to balance alertness for tactical danger and opportunities and calmness to optimize logical...

   Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the sixth champion of the prestigious chess festival. In the process the the year old Usbek grandmaster rose to the fourth position in the world live ranking, ahead of the reigning world champion Ding Liren. All games of the final round were drawn, and can be replayed,...

   Tata Steel : Analyses of the tournament winner Wei Yi as well as Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Alexander Donchenko, Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri, Erwin l’Ami, Praggnanandhaa, Eline Roebers and Vidit Gujrathi Mihail Marin looks back at Linares : Kasparov vs. the young generation French à la...

   In the recent Freestyle event, heart rates of the players were measured in classical chess, with slow time controls. In bullet and blitz formats, where intuition prevails, heart rates remain relatively low compared to slower time controls like Rapid or Classical, which allow more contemplation...

   Chess is often considered a calm and quiet game, where the only sound is the clicking of the pieces. But what if we could hear the heartbeat of the players, and see how their body reacts to the tension and excitement of the game That is exactly what was done in the Freestyle Chess event in...

   The Kasparov Chess Foundation Academy invites you to watch an interview with grandmaster Elisabeth Paehtz, one of the strongest German female chess players since her youth. On February , : CET, Elisabeth will give a live interview at KCF Academy. Add it to your calendar

   In the concluding article for the Christmas Composition Contest, we see the final prize winning compositions, which were a touch ahead of the others Like always, all compositions were evaluated on the basis of economy, harmony and aesthetics We also included a special prize for the best story...

   Chess or Freestyle chess will soon be the centre of attention. The st German Chess Championship will take place in Berlin, Germany, on February and in the German spa Weissenhaus at the Baltic see the world’s best chess players will compete in the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge. But who...

   With new money and new sponsors pouring in, and never before seen numbers of spectators following the games, the tendency is towards faster time controls. Classical games are played with reduced times, rapid and blitz tournamenst are gaining popularity. That provides more action and excitement for...

   Today we provide you with a master level lesson. Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel, born in in St. Petersburg, Russia, was one of the greatest composers in chess history. One of the greatest composers of our time was GM Pal Benkö, born in , died in . The latter shows us how he improved on one of...