Ian Nepomniachtchi is the winner of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial in Shunsa, Azerbaijan. He won the rapid chess tournament and came second in the blitz – enough to take first place overall. The other two places on the podium were taken by Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Richard Rapport, who started the tournament in second […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
The Chess Olympiad 2024 was held in beautiful Budapest, Hungary, 10 to 23 September 2024. It was the 45th edition for the Open Section and the 30th for the Women Section. As it is natural, a lot of interesting games were played, out of a total of nearly 8,000 games! Here are some treats, selected […]
The new 2024/25 Bundesliga season begins this weekend in Kirchweyhe, a week before the official start. Team Düsseldorf, promoted from the 2. Bundesliga, had asked for an earlier start because many of their players are involved in the Global Chess League in London the following weekend. This suggests that the coming season will be one […]
ChessBase Magazine Extra is the perfect complement to ChessBase Magazine. In the new CBM Extra #221: Videos by Ivan Sokolov: Spanish with 4…Nge7 and 5…f6!? and Fabien Libiszewski: Kalashnikov Update. “Lucky bag” with 44 analyses by Anish Giri, Sergey Gritoriants, Michal Krasenkow and many more. Update Service with over 50,000 new games!
From 25 September to 1 October chess.com is hosting the Julius Baer Generation Cup, the fourth and last online tournament of the current Champions Chess Tour before the final tournament. Many top players compete for top places and a place in the final. On day 2 Magnus Carlsen will also join the action. Live video […]
Peter Svidler is the winner of the 2024 Jerusalem Masters. On the second day of the rapid chess tournament, the St Petersburg-born player built on his strong performance from the day before to finish the tournament in first place, one point ahead of Jorden van Foreest and Daniil Dubov. | Photos: Tournament page / Dr. […]
The Vugar Gashimov Memorial is being held in Azerbaijan for the 10th time in memory of the world-class Azerbaijani player who died at a young age. Eight top players will compete in a combined rapid and blitz tournament from 26-28 September. The rapid tournament starts Thursday, 26 September, at 15.30 local time (13.30 CEST, 5.30 […]
The Vugar Gashimov Memorial is being held in Azerbaijan for the 10th time in memory of the world-class Azerbaijani player who died at a young age. Eight top players will compete in a combined rapid and blitz tournament from 26-28 September. | Photos: Shahid Ahmed (ChessBase India)
In this video lesson, you will learn how to search and find tens of thousands of deeply commented games by all the best players in the world. These include games by Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, and young guns like Gukesh, Erigaisi, Firouzja, and Abdussatarov! Endless entertainment and education as […]
This is what winners look like. At the end of the Chess Olympiad, Arne Kaehler brought the gold medallists in front of the ChessBase camera: Gukesh, Arjun, Vidit, Harikrishna and Divya shared their thoughts and answered to Arne’s tricky questions!