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The 88th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament is taking place from 17 January to 1 February and once again features the traditional structure of parallel Masters and Challengers tournaments, each consisting of 14 players competing in a single round-…

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Take a look at this relatively simple position.

In August 2019 I spent a week in France, at the training camp I had organized (together with ChessBase India) for young Indian super talents.

In rotary problems the board is rotated by 180° for a second position with a different solution.

These days it is not easy to challenge anyone with problems or studies.

There are chess puzzles which only consist of a line of text, asking you to construct a position or a game that it describes.

Take a look at this position, in which White should mate in two.

Christmas day is usually celebrated with a Christmas tree – in problem chess circles occasionally with a puzzle shaped like a Christmas tree.

The Tech Mahindra Global Chess League returns for its third season from 14 to 23 December, continuing its franchise-based format that combines elite male and female players.

The XTX Markets London Chess Classic is a 10-player all-play-all tournament taking place from 26 November to 5 December at the Emirates Stadium, home to Arsenal Football Club.

Ed Schröder, pioneer of chess engine programming, has in his retirement turned his attention to a new and very exciting project: to extract games from a database collection that are especially aggressive – that are short and have daring sacrifices and king

Ed Schröder is a pioneer in chess programming.

As chess players occasionally do, Alex Fishbein, the U.S. grandmaster, was recently looking at a classic game from the past: Viktor Kortschnoj's victory over Anatoly Karpov in the 21st game of their 1978 match.

Today marks the final day of the World Cup in Goa, which began on October 31.

Ivan Sokolov’s new course examines colour-reversed King’s Indian and Pirc structures, showing how extra tempi influence typical plans and why these positions feel uncomfortable for humans but not for engines.

The World Women's Team Championship took place in Linares, Spain, from 18 to 23 November.

ChessBase’s October releases cover everything from chess history to opening repertoire and calculation training.

Svitlana dedicates the episode to the memory of Daniel “Danya” Naroditsky, whose impact as a player, coach, and communicator reached far beyond the chessboard.

The concept behind Chessbase's "60-minute" courses is simple: a one-hour video course for just under 10 Euros.

Friday’s opening games of the FIDE World Cup semifinals offered balanced results but no shortage of depth.

The World Cup began on 30 October in Goa, India.

The preliminary stage of the Women's World Team Championship concluded on Thursday in Linares, with Russia and Georgia topping their respective groups and eight teams advancing to the knockout phase.

The 2025 US Chess Championships are taking place on 12-24 October at the Saint Louis Chess Club.

Take a look at this position.

The ninth and final round of the European Team Championships will determine the medal winners.

Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) was a French mathematician who made pioneering contributions to analytic geometry, calculus, optics, and probability.

Already in the second round of the famous Hastings tournament of 1895, two of the favourites faced each other in a tough and complex battle.

You may have seen it before.

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 Sinquefield Cup, the only event to feature in every Grand Chess Tour since 2015, returns to Saint Louis from 18 to 27 August.

Over the past 20 years Larry List has curated exhibitions, and written primarily about the interrelationships between chess and visual art.

Last week Problem expert Werner Keym gave us some remarkable chess problems to solve.

They are absolutely vital.

To mark the launch of a new community chess club, pupils from The Pointer School played a game of chess 52 metres above London atop the O2 Arena.

In our previous article on historical chess statistics we showed you the number of rated players there were in 1993, their ages, ratings, and where they came from.

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The Arbiters’ Council of the European Chess Union asked Prof.

The 13th edition of the Norway Chess super-tournament is taking place from 26 May to 6 June in Stavanger.

Last year FIDE celebrated its 100th anniversary.

World Chess and the Algorand Foundation propose levelling the playing field with a "chess passport".

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.

Recently, on the last day of the Paris Freestyle chess even, Sagar Shah of ChessBase India was served dinner by a master chef, someone who takes traditional French dishes to a new dimension.

In the fourth world championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, played in Seville in 1987, the score was 12–11 in Karpov’s favor, putting Kasparov in a must-win situation to retain his title.

Last year FIDE celebrated its 100th anniversary.

The fifth leg of the 2024/25 Women's Grand Prix series is taking place in Pune, India, on 14–23 April.

I have told the story often: in an interview in 2020 I said that in five years I expected at least two of the top ten players in the world would be Indian.

In this insightful discussion, Dr.

Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov played five matches for the world championship.

After the 2022 Olympiad in Chennai, FIDE set up a Fair Play Commission aimed at preventing cheating in chess.