Kavalek in Huffington: The Road to Chess Mastery - Chessbase News
Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the world's finest players from 1890 till World War One, taught chess in his book Three Hundred Chess Games. Vassily Panov ...
Chess history: Nineteen Hours with Bobby Fischer – Part 2 - Chessbase News
In 1981 the Film Board of Canada approached Bobby Fischer, hoping for his participation in a feature-length documentary on the game of chess. Last week we ...
Aronian to FIDE: I cannot play in Azerbaijan - Chessbase News
The first two bids to stage the next Candidates Tournament for the World Championship received by FIDE are from Bulgaria and Azerbaijan. But one of the two ...
A funny thing happened on the way to the tournament hall… - Chessbase News
Vassily Ivanchuk's recent mugging in Sao Paulo shocked the chess world but it's far from being the only mishap to befall a chessplayer on the way to or from ...
Grivas Training: Building a Repertoire - Chessbase News
"In contrast to the middlegame and the endgame, where theory is objective and accepted by everyone, in the opening each chess player makes his choices in ...
Some thoughts on the Bilbao scoring system in London - Chessbase News
Lubomir Kavalek wrote in the Huffington Post that in the annals of chess history the final result of the 2010 Chess Classic would show Magnus Carlsen as the ...
2010 Women's World Chess Championship - Preview - Chessbase News
The 2010 Women's World Chess Championship is about to start in Hatay, Turkey, heralding either a new champion, or confirming the incumbent. In 2008 ...
Maurice Ashley: The Secret to Chess - Chessbase News
This is one you really do not want to miss. Star international trainer and commentator Maurice Ashley reveals a secret he discovered on his way to becoming a ...
Kavalek at Huffington: Henri Rinck's Magical Rooks - Chessbase News
He was one of the most prolific chess composers. His endgame studies were elegant, witty, entertaining, simple and beautiful. Henri Rink's ultimate collection of ...
A volcanic trip – with the Lord of the Rings - Chessbase News
On Thursday Vishy Anand embarked on a trip from his house in Madrid, Spain, to the World Championship match. He got as far as Frankfurt, Germany, and was ...
Bobby Fischer – The Career and Complete Games - Chessbase News
Many books have been written about the American chess genius and world champion Bobby Fischer. But now there is a remarkable new one, by German GM ...
Watch the man behind the new Philidor Defence - Chessbase News
Just a couple of years ago the shocking pawn sacrifice 5.g4 entered the theory of the dignified Philidor Defence. If you check with the ChessBase online ...
Ghaem Maghami beats Karpov in 'Mate of the King' - Chessbase News
The event was staged in Teheran to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Four classical, four rapid and four blitz games between ...
Alexei Shirov: 'Let us ban FIDE!' - Chessbase News
12/2/2008 – "I don't know how many times I have said to myself," says the world class GM and world championship runner-up, "that it makes no sense at all to ...
Olympiad in Dresden: Closing ceremony and prize giving - Chessbase News
1270 players took part in the event, hailing from 141 different countries. 722 men and 548 women played a total of 6050 games. In the end Armenia and Georgia ...
WCC Bonn: Aronian's take and impressions - Chessbase News
Sunday, a free day at the World Championship in Bonn, Germany – and our chess expert, Levon Aronian, was stuck without Internet access at the European ...
Mainz 2008: Anand breaks Mainz simultaneous record - Chessbase News
7/29/2008 – Simultaneous events are chess spectacles. Only a few games make it to the textbooks, and the atmosphere is informal and noisy. But Vishy Anand ...
The modern way to master the Modern Benoni - Chessbase News
The Modern Benoni is one of the sharpest openings against 1 d4. Black is ready for active counterplay, especially with his pawn majority on the queenside.
Solutions to chess problems and astronomical dilemmas - Chessbase News
11/9/2007 – Recently John Nunn, retired world-class grandmaster, won the 31st World Championship for problem solvers. In our report we showed you some ...
Blunders in chess – Kramnik wasn't the first - Chessbase News
Still mystified by Vladimir Kramnik's blunder in game two of his match against Deep Fritz? After our attempts at an explanation of this extraordinary blackout we ...