MegaBase 2025 is Chess History in action. Regularly updated every month, the Main Database currently offers 11 million games, many of them annotated. Here our columnist offers a review with focus on chess in the 21st Century.
Monthly Archives: May 2025
The 2025 Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest marks the second stage of this year’s Grand Chess Tour and the first of two classical tournaments in the series. Held on 6–16 May, the event brings together ten top grandmasters in a single round-robin format. Reigning tournament champion Fabiano Caruana and world champion Gukesh Dommaraju are part […]
The Online Marketing Rockstars Festival is Europe’s largest digital trade fair. On Tuesday, streamers Levy Rozman (Gotham Chess), Daniel Rensch and Anna Cramling were guests at a panel discussion. Between football and Formula One, they presented the digital world of chess on the big stage – and did so very well! | Photos: André Schulz
The European edition of the political news magazine Politico published an article on its website about Russia’s influence on the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and how Russia is exploiting chess and the World Chess Federation for its own political ends. | Graphics: POLITICO
Despite trying our best, time trouble is sometimes unavoidable. We all have experienced the stress that comes with being under time pressure. Our hearts race, our palms sweat, and our minds become confused. However, it is useful to understand how being in time trouble affects the decisions we make. Of course, we don’t play our […]
The sixth and final leg of the 2024/25 Women’s Grand Prix series is taking place in Grosslobming, Austria, on 6-15 May. A 10-player single round-robin, the event will decide who wins the series and who gets the two spots in the next edition of the Women’s Candidates Tournament. Among the participants, Zhu Jiner, Anna Muzychuk […]
Legendary American Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, “Yermo”, remains hospitalized in Tekirdag, Turkey after undergoing a four-way heart bypass. Yermolinsky is a two-time United States Champion, member of four U.S. Chess Olympiad teams, four American World Senior teams and an inductee to the Chess Hall of Fame. He is now is being crushed by medical bills. You […]
He is one of our oldest friends, a valuable assistant and advisor when ChessBase was first launched. The Oxford mathematician has had a long and very illustrious career in chess, sometimes counted amongst the top ten in the world. So how does he celebrate his 70th birthday? Let John Nunn show us how – and […]
The final stage of the 2024/2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix opened in Grosslobming, Austria, with a festive ceremony featuring local music, traditional dress and regional wine. Set in a 19th-century manor near the Red Bull Ring, the tournament marks the conclusion of the series and will determine both the overall Grand Prix winner and two […]
“The BBC has posted a 1972 interview with Fischer by James Burke on YouTube,” our friend Yasser Seirawan told us. BBC Two had was broadcast this video, which is 35 minutes long, on 2 July, 1972, nine days before the epic match began. “Personally, I thought that it is fantastic, vintage stuff. You see the […]