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A talk with Judit Polgar - Knowing the Human Side of the Woman behind Global Chess Festival

10/10/2020 -

Today is the 10th of October and the Global Chess Festival has just begun! The woman behind this vibrant annual gala hardly needs any introduction. Dubbed as the strongest female chess master of all time, she is the only woman to have ever challenged male hegemony in the sport. Though everyone is familiar with Judit the chess player, we thought the world would also do good by knowing Judit the mother and the wife. On the 27th of last month, ChessBase India's Amruta Mokal conducted an exclusive interview with the former world no.1. In this article we bring you the full transcript of this candid tête-à-tête. With Judit's festival in full swing, time now is especially ripe to look back at this revealing conversation! | Photo credit: globalchessfestival.com

ChessBase 18 and Mega 2025 are here

ChessBase 18 is an all-new program that helps you manage all your databases as an ambitious player. Mega Database 2025 has 11 million games with over 113,000 games annotated by masters. The cost of ChessBase 18 is Rs.4499/- and the cost of Mega Database 2025 is Rs.6499/- However, if you go for the combo the total amount comes to Rs.8999 (instead of 10,998/-) helping you save Rs. 1999/-.

ChessBase 18 + Mega 2025 Combo

Tani, the 10-year-old who loves miracles | Chess Book Review

10/10/2020 -

10-year-old Tanitoluwa 'Tani' Adewumi is the boy who believes in miracles. The boy who was forced to move to a new country, and the boy who first saw chess at the age of six and knew what he had to do. This is a book about his inspiring story of finding his passion, pursuing it, and never letting go no matter how difficult things are. Despite the troubles of a power-hungry terrorist group looming over his family, and the struggles of being a refugee in America, with the help of his family and mentors Tani stayed strong and won the New York Championships in his age group after playing for a single year. This article is a review on his autobiography, read on for more!

Team India is the favorite at the Asian Online Nations Cup 2020

09/10/2020 -

Fresh off the heels of winning Gold in FIDE Online Olympiad a little over a month ago, Team India will begin their campaign at Asian Online Nations Cup 2020 tomorrow, Saturday 10th October as the top seed in both Men's and Women's division. Nihal Sarin, Bhakti Kulkarni and Vaishali R are the only three players from the Gold medal winning team of Online Olympiad, will be taking part in this event. Surya Sekhar Ganguly will lead the men's team comprising of Adhiban, Nihal, Sethuraman and Sasikiran. The women's team of Vaishali, Bhakti, Padmini and Nandhidhaa will be led by Mary Ann Gomes. Preliminary stage will consist of 9 rounds in total with three rounds per day in the preliminary stage starting from tomorrow, Saturday at 11:30 a.m. IST. Photo: Various sources

The true path to chess improvement - GM Jesse Kraai

09/10/2020 -

Top GMs more often than not advise amateurs to analyze their own games. But what does analyzing your own games actually mean? We acquaint you with one of the firm adherents of the concept of improving your chess by means of analyzing your chess games - GM Jesse Kraai. The American GM believes that analyzing his own games helped him reach where he is today and in this article we bring forth to you his method of analysis. It's mind boggling, it's jaw dropping but it is obvious that if you are ready to work as hard as Jesse does on his games, you will be moving along the path of chess improvement.

Altibox Norway Chess R4: Carlsen takes sole lead

09/10/2020 -

World Champion Carlsen has taken the lead with 9.0/12 for the first time in Altibox Norway Chess 2020 when he beat World no.2 Caruana in Round 4. Caruana went into Carlsen's favorite territory of endgame by exchanging queens early in the game and then he was unable to defend properly which allowed the Norwegian to take the lead. Firouzja beat Aronian in the Armageddon after making a draw in their Classical encounter. This was the second consecutive Armageddon victory for the youngster. Aronian had his chances but he missed them. Meanwhile Tari beat Duda after his ambitious play almost cost him the Armageddon. Today is a rest day. Catch all the action of Round 5 tomorrow 10th October from 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes / Altibox Norway Chess

Play against Judit Polgar in a Simul at 6th Global Chess Festival 2020

08/10/2020 -

6th Global Chess Festival is just two days away. Just like each year this edition will also have a multitude of programs. On 10th October Judit Polgar will play a Simultaneous exhibition match against selected 20 players. ChessBase India in association with Global Chess Festival will host a selection blitz tournament where the winner will get a chance to play against the greatest female chess player of all time - Judit Polgar in a Simul. The eligibility is simple, you need to have a valid FIDE ID and FIDE Standard Rating should be below 1600 as on 1st October 2020. Entry is FREE. Registration is Open and it will close at 10 a.m. IST tomorrow 9th October. The selection tournament will take place on Playchess tomorrow Friday 9th October at 3 p.m. IST. Photo: Global Chess Festival

Altibox Norway Chess R3: Firouzja beats Caruana in the Armageddon

08/10/2020 -

Carlsen scored his first Classical victory of the tournament against his compatriot Aryan Tari. Although Carlsen presented a few opportunities to the young Norwegian but he was unable to seize it. Duda is still having a tough time as he lost once again, this time against Aronian. Despite the majority of the game being equal and heading towards a draw, the Pole no.1 erred in the endgame which cost him the point. Meanwhile, Firouzja beat Caruana in the Armageddon after making a draw in their Classical encounter. Caruana had a decent chance in the Classical game, however Firouzja was determined the must-win Armageddon and he definitely showed that he can hang with the best of the best so far. Catch all the action of Round 4 tonight from 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes / Altibox Norway Chess

Make Your Move and get a chance to play against Vishy Anand

07/10/2020 -

Round Table India and Ladies Circle India in association with 41 India, Tangent India and Area 11 presents Make Your Move Online Blitz Open (Below 2100). There will be five qualifiers from 26th - 30th October 2020. Top 5 players in Open, Under-19 and Under-14 from each Qualifiers will play the Final on 31st October. Total prize fund is ₹100000 in the Finals. That's not all, the winner of each category in the Final will get to play a Simul with Vishy Anand and the first runner-up of each category will play against Vidit on 1st November. Money raised through this event will be donated and utilized to serve the under privileged kinds through Round Table India's 'Freedom through Education' program. Entry is CLOSED. Photo: RTI and Amruta Mokal

Altibox Norway Chess R2: Carlsen survives a massive scare

07/10/2020 -

Altibox Norway Chess already started heating up as Carlsen steers clear from the jaws of defeat. Although he had a good chance to win the Classical game, it ended up in a draw which turned things in Firouzja's favor as he just needed a draw in the Armageddon to win the round. Firouzja got a winning position but he was unable to seize the brilliant opportunity and Carlsen swerved with a victory. Caruana scored second consecutive victory to take the sole lead with 6.0/6 and birthday boy Aronian won against Tari without breaking a sweat to jump to the shared second spot 4.0/6 with Firouzja. Catch all the action of Round 3 tonight from 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes / Altibox Norway Chess

New: Sergei Tiviakov - How to play the Ruy Lopez with Qe2

06/10/2020 -

There are few other Grandmasters who can go into such detail, and explain complicated variations like Sergei Tiviakov. This is why our ChessBase community enjoys his content so much, and why he already has made 17 Fritztrainers with us so far. For this volume, Tiviakov concentrates on his favourite variation in the Ruy Lopez, with the White move - queen to e2. The Russian-Dutch Grandmaster analyses several variations, explains their purposes, tactics and strategies, and lets you establish a very solid continuation in this popular chess opening. Furthermore, 30 exercises round up this great download.

Altibox Norway Chess R1: Carlsen starts with an Armageddon victory

06/10/2020 -

Carlsen started his Altibox Norway Chess campaign with a victory over Aronian in the Armageddon after making a draw in their first Classical encounter since December 2019. Thus Carlsen has 1.5 points after the conclusion of Round 1. Aronian being in a must-win situation in the Armageddon, pushed too hard in a seemingly equal position and blundered his rook. Both Caruana and Firouzja scored fine wins against Tari and Duda respectively, allowing themselves to share the lead with 3.0 points each at the end of the opening round. Catch all the action of Round 2 tonight from 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes / Altibox Norway Chess

Carlsen returns to OTB at Altibox Norway Chess 2020

05/10/2020 -

The entire chess universe is craving for some over-the-board action. For the first time since July, an over-the-board super tournament, eighth edition of Altibox Norway Chess will start from 5th October. The most interesting thing about this tournament is every game will have a winner. All draws will be decided in Armageddon. Defending champion of the event, World Champion Carlsen will be seen in action along with Aronian, Caruana, Duda, Firouzja and Aryan Tari. Carlsen has only won this tournament two times out of all seven editions. The other winners are Karjakin (twice), Topalov, Aronian and Caruana. Will Carlsen win this tournament for the second year in-a-row and also for the third time? Catch all the action of Round 1 tonight from 8:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Lennart Ootes / Norway Chess

Just Starting out in Chess? Pick Chess Pathshala as your Pathfinder!

04/10/2020 -

The four online courses - Tactical, Positional, Endgame, and Opening - launched by Chess Pathshala six months ago has since then been very well received by students and improvers from all around the world. Encouraged by the success and cheerful response, the head coach of the Academy, Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade, has now decided to take a step further and introduce a course aimed exclusively at beginners. In this article we bring you the details of the course and tell you why we think it can prove a gamechanger for young minds who are just starting to make their moves on the sixty-four squares. Swapnil has already been an inspiring instructor to the who's who of Indian chess, but his latest endeavour to work with absolute newcomers is unlike anything he has done before and can potentially help bring plenty of fresh faces into the fold.

Steinitz's positional play that expanded our understanding of chess | Classics Ep.03

04/10/2020 -

Born in 1836, Steinitz became the first official World Champion at the age of 50 years in 1886. Starting out as a brutal attacker, Steinitz made a lot of changes in his playing style that led him to discover certain ideas related to positional play that have been very obvious these days! But back in 1885, they weren't so obvious. This game between Steinitz and Sellman, that you are about to see in Chess Classics you must know Episode 3 is something that will help you deepen your understanding about weaknesses, manoeuvring and other positional concepts. The ten questions, game analysis by Kasparov, and the video explanations by Sagar Shah is not to be missed. 

Niladri explains a Study-like Endgame

03/10/2020 -

In the online era, we play several matches in such a short period of time compared to what we would have played when over-the-board events were on. It is true that blitz games are not worth analyzing as experts say but often we come across position which is definitely worth a second look and sometimes a deep analysis too. Few days ago we shared a position by trainer Niladri Bhattacharyya on our facebook page. This position occurred in his online blitz game over a year ago where his opponent blundered and lost the game soon. However, there was a defence. Try to find out and check it with his analysis whether it's correct or not. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

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