95 years ago, on September 6, 1930, the Anderssen Jubilee Tournament of the Frankfurt Chess Club began in Frankfurt am Main. The Master Tournament was convincingly won by Nimzowitsch with 9½ out of 11, but the perhaps most famous game of the event was played in the Main Tournament. It was Hugo Hussong’s brilliant win […]
Monthly Archives: September 2025
Michael Kotyk is a young chess trainer from Hamburg. He still remembers clearly when he first took serious notice of the Trompowsky system: during the World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. That was reason enough for him to take a closer look at Robert Ris’s video course on this opening and to […]
Grandmaster Lubomir Ftacnik presents a personal chess course that draws on his decades of playing at the top level and later experience as a coach, aiming to teach what he now understands more deeply than during his competitive career. Instead of overwhelming students with the endless information available in databases, he focuses on highlighting the […]
On Tuesday 22-year-old Ukrainian GM Kirill Shevchenko was stripped of his title and banned from competitive chess for three years. He was caught cheating during the Spanish Team Championship last year – and admitted to his wrongdoing. The case renewed our interest in the subject, and we take a look back at the evolution of […]
The FIDE Grand Swiss opened with contrasting fortunes across the two sections. In the open, several of the world’s top players, including Gukesh Dommaraju, Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Anish Giri, made assured starts, while upsets from David Antón and Aydin Suleymanli showed the depth of the field. The women’s tournament, however, saw chaos from […]
In this new ChessBase show “Master Your Chess with ChessBase Tools”, GM Dorian Rogozenco and Arne Kaehler introduce viewers to the practical use of ChessBase tools for chess improvement, starting with the cloud engine and the newly added ChessBase remote-engine feature. They explain how cloud and remote engines differ, how to install and use them, […]
On September 28, Czech Inn Chess is organizing a rapid chess tournament in honor of Vlastimil Hort. The venue is the Hotel Giovanni, where Vlastimil Hort always stayed whenever he visited Prague. The tournament is intended to be held annually from now on. Those who take part will feel the spirit of the great Czech […]
The FIDE Grand Swiss is taking place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on 4-15 September. An open event and a women’s event are being played concurrently. Both tournaments are 11-round Swiss opens with classical time controls. Each tournament grants two spots in the next edition of the Candidates. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting […]
…for the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss. The historic city of Samarkand welcomed the chess world with a spectacular ceremony blending history, art and chess, setting the stage for one of the strongest tournaments ever. The ceremony started with a short video that took the audience on a journey in time, from the archaeological discoveries of […]
Some time ago, we invited our readers to help us unravel a long-standing mystery in the famous game Botvinnik–Boleslavsky, played in 1943 (during World War II!). The response was overwhelming, and in a relatively short time, we reached a conclusion: Boleslavsky could have held the balance – a draw was within reach – despite Botvinnik’s […]