Grandmaster András Adorján died yesterday after a long illness. He was the runner-up at the 1969 World Junior Championship behind Anatoly Karpov, and reached the quarterfinals of the Candidates Matches in the 1979-1981 World Championship cycle. As a coach, he worked with Garry Kasparov and Peter Leko, among others. András Adorján was 73 years old. […]
Monthly Archives: May 2023
ChessBase 17 is the leading software in the world of chess, and a huge number of professional players and club enthusiasts use it. It is our digital notebook, where we can organize all our chess-related work: openings, games databases, analyses, master games, training positions and much more. A review by FM Jorge Ramírez for the […]
Peter Svidler became the outright winner of the TePe Sigeman & Co tournament after collecting 4½/7 points. Svidler entered the final round sharing the lead with Abhimanyu Mishra. The 8-time Russian champion had black against top seed Gukesh, while Abhimanyu had white against an out-of-form Boris Gelfand. Svidler managed to hold a draw, while Gelfand […]
In the World Chess Championship, which still was running while this article was written but will be over when you read it, Ding Liren won the sixth game by threatening a checkmate with rook and knight. Let us see how that kind of checkmate was used in endgame studies. | Photo: Midjourney AI
Delilah Sadvakassova is a 9-year-old girl from Kazakhstan who is not only a strong and talented player, but also a “chess influencer”. Under the guidance of her parents, Delilah regularly posts videos about chess history and chess personalities on Facebook. In the second part of her portrait of Delilah, Diana Mihajlova tells how Delilah met […]
Alireza Firouzja grabbed his second consecutive win at the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest — and what a win it was! The youngster beat Ding Liren with white, thus inflicting the Chinese grandmaster’s first defeat during his reign as world champion. In another remarkable development, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave got the better of Ian Nepomniachtchi after the […]
After Sagar Shah, founder and driving force behind Chessbase India, spoke to former World Champion Vishy Anand about the dramatic World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, Sagar also interviewed former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik on the same subject. As a supporter of “Team Nepo” Kramnik was directly involved in the World Championship […]
This Livestream is mind-blowing because some of the greatest master coaches in the world were interviewed for their best chess advice, what coaching methods they use, and how tactics, blitz games, and engine usage are dealt with. Ivan Sokolov, Ramesh, Karsten Mueller, Jan Markos, Robert Ris, Daniel King, Harald Schneider-Zinner, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, and Dorian Rogozenco […]
Don’t miss it! Today we are offering you a 25% price reduction on everything. That includes software, training DVDs, services, the ChessBase Account. There are some very interesting new products: like the brand new Opening Encyclopaedia 2023, which is a huge fund of ideas and high-quality analysis! And so many other products that will improve […]
When Vishy Anand talks about World Championship matches, he knows what he’s talking about. He was World Champion from 2007 to 2013, played six World Championship matches and one World Championship tournament, and reached the final of the World Knockout Championships twice. In an interview with Sagar Shah, Anand takes a look at the World […]