“There were few moments in the course of a conversation that leave one speechless – if our profession did not require us to ask questions,” writes Björn Jensen, reporter of Hamburg’s major daily newspaper. He visited Tykhon Cherniaiev, the 12-year-old chess supertalent from Ukraine, who fled his country and is now staying in Hamburg, Germany, […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
The Superbet Chess Classic Romania will be held in Bucharest, Romania at the Sheraton Hotel from May 5 to May 14. It will include all nine full tour players and one wildcard player, Romanian Grandmaster Bogdan-Daniel Deac. A star-studded field has Alireza Firouzja, Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruana as the top seeds. | Photo: Lennart […]
Opening theory has come a long way, from the ECO codes to the current digital, multimedia publications. The ChessBase Opening Encyclopaedia is more than a compilation of writings on opening variations. It also has opening videos, tutorials, databases and games, annotated and unannotated. For who is it intended? For everyone who wants to learn.
What is the most important phase of the game? Surprisingly, many club players get the answer wrong. Usually, they put a lot of effort into positions that are approximately equal. However, once they get a much better or much worse position, they tend to relax a bit. In an almost winning position, a voice in […]
Can you imagine a chess book, written by a master, which contains exactly one chess diagram, and the notation of a single 17-move game? And that you would not be able to put it down? That is what happens with this unique work, written by chess master Asa Hoffmann, with his wife Ginny. Asa has […]
Our columnist Jon Speelman found an old book by Alexey Suetin on his shelves. “Scribed in the ancient English descriptive tongue, I hadn’t touched it for years, but when opened, it proved to be a treasure trove of ‘old chestnuts’, some of which I’m going to share”. | Photo: The Spruce Crafts
ChessBase Magazine #207 provides, among many other things, all the games from the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 series, which was played in Berlin and Belgrade from February to April. Andrey Esipenko, Anish Giri, Grigoriy Oparin, Alexandr Predke, Sam Shankland, Wesley So, Vidit Gujrathi and Nikita Vitiugov are some of the Grand Prix participants who commented […]