The 2026 European Women’s Chess Championship kicked off in Batumi with 165 players from 32 federations competing for the continental title and ten places in the next FIDE Women’s World Cup. The opening round saw several higher-rated players defeated, including Klaudia Kulon and Irina Bulmaga, while four games on the top ten boards were drawn […]
The 14th edition of the Norway Chess super-tournament is taking place from 25 May to 5 June at Deichman Bjorvika in Oslo. An open event and a women’s event are being played concurrently with an identical number of players, the same format and an equivalent prize fund. Both world champions – Ju Wenjun and Gukesh […]
The 25th edition of the European Women’s Chess Championship is taking place from 25 May to 5 June in the Georgian city of Batumi. The tournament is played over 11 rounds using the Swiss system. More than 150 players from 32 European federations have registered to participate. Ten players have an Elo rating above 2400. […]
This year’s Eurochess tournament took place at the Deutsche Bundesbank’s conference centre in Eltville am Rhein. The Bundesbank chess group had last hosted the tournament at the same venue in 2007. This time around, the event was jointly organised with the chess group of the European Central Bank. | Photos: Gerd Densing
Demanding weeks for a number of elite grandmasters: Vincent Keymer, Alireza Firouzja, Wesley So and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu get just one day off between their appearance at the GCT event in Bucharest and the start of the super-tournament in Norway. They will once again face a lineup of world-class players, led by world number-one Magnus Carlsen […]
There is a famous photograph of Mikhail Tal hunched over the board during a tournament game, eyes burning into the pieces. Somewhere behind that stare, an entire mating attack is unfolding. Every chess generation, from Morphy to Magnus, has been defined by one skill: extraordinary calculation. The pieces move on the board – but the […]
We’ve compiled some additional tips for our latest tutorial. These allow you, for example, to quickly open endgame positions from Karsten Müller’s articles in ChessBase, and compare structures you’re interested in with positions from the Mega Database. Check out the example and use these practical features for your training!
Vincent Keymer secured outright victory at the Super Chess Classic in Bucharest with a final-round win over Jorden van Foreest. Fabiano Caruana, who had started the day level with Keymer, missed a winning chance against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and had to settle for second place. Keymer finished on 6/9, gained 7.8 rating points and called it […]
The 25th edition of the European Women’s Chess Championship begins on 25 May in the Georgian city of Batumi. The tournament will take place at the Euphoria Convention & Casino Hotel. More than 150 players from more than 30 European federations have registered to participate. Ten players have an Elo rating above 2400. The defending […]
Javokhir Sindarov scored his second win in a row in the penultimate round of the Super Chess Classic Romania, defeating Jorden van Foreest with the black pieces. Meanwhile, Bogdan-Daniel Deac collected his first win of the event, as he got the better of Anish Giri. Fabiano Caruana and Vincent Keymer drew their direct clash and […]