The final stages of the Julius Baer Women’s Speed Chess Championship will take place on 2-5 September, with the quarterfinals set to start on Monday. A stellar field is participating, including Hou Yifan, the highest-rated woman player in the world, and Ju Wenjun, the reigning world champion. Alice Lee, aged 14, also made it to […]
Monthly Archives: August 2024
ChessBase Magazine offers a window to the world of professional chess. Our columnist, Nagesh Havanur takes a look at our recent issue, CBM 220. 512 games, 38 annotated from the Candidates’ and 7th Sharjah Masters, 11 opening surveys, 3 opening videos, 6 demo. lectures and several exercises for training. Annotators include Gukesh, Firouzja, Giri and […]
As part of the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, a conference entitled “Chess and Sports Science” will take place on 9 September at the Hungarian University of Sports Science, in which the sporting and decision-making aspects of chess will be examined. ChessBase author Jan Markos will be among the speakers.
Just like a year ago, both the open and the women’s French Chess Championships were held as16-player knockout tournaments. The events took place from August 16-25 in Alpe d’Huez. Jules Moussard and Deimanté Daulyte-Cornette were crowned champions in the open and women’s sections respectively. The final matches saw Moussard beating Laurent Fressinet and Daulyte-Cornette getting […]
Biel 2024 Chess Festival: The winner of the Masters, Le Quang Liem, comments on one of his games. In addition, Jonas Bjerre, Alexander Donchenko, Abhimanyu Mishra and Ihor Samunenkov contribute analyses from Biel – “Special” on Ju Wenjun: CBM authors show their favourite games of the world champion, an exclusive collection of 24 annotated games […]
On the 15th of August 2024, as Indians celebrated Independence Day, another celebration quietly took place in Mumbai. While one group was busy hoisting the National Flag, the other group was busy cutting the ribbon to launch a special place. GM Vidit Gujrathi inaugurated the ‘Temple of Chess’, a new concept by ChessBase India for […]
With an unchallenged draw against Leonardo Costa, Dmitrij Kollars secured the 2024 German Championship title, held as a round-robin tournament for the first time in a long time. Fiona Sieber won the Women’s Masters (which is not the national championship), despite Luisa Bashylina not making it easy for her in the final round. | Photos: […]
The inaugural FIDE World Solving Championships for Youth (Florianópolis, November 4) and Cadets (Montesilvano, November 21) will take place this autumn. For the first time, the FIDE solving events will be organized in cooperation with the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) as a part of the FIDE & WFCC Special Projects 2024, celebrating FIDE […]
A draw against R. Praggnanandhaa was all Alireza Firouzja needed to take first place at the Sinquefield Cup – and he safely kept the balance until getting the required half point after 47 moves. Firouzja had secured overall victory in the Grand Chess Tour with a round to spare. The eventful final round saw Fabiano […]
Karthik Venkataraman won the 61st edition of the Indian National Championship after scoring 9/11 points at the event organised by the Haryana Chess Association. This is the second victory in a national championship for Karthik, who had also won the tournament in 2022. Surya Ganguly and Neelash Saha scored as many points as the champion, […]