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A new thought: Mother's name is equally important!

17/10/2016 -

In recent advertisements on Star Plus, top Indian cricketers are shown wearing jerseys with the name of their mothers imprinted on the back. Dhoni, Kohli and Rahane tell why their mother are so special and dear to them. In this article ChessBase author Niklesh Jain compiled pictures of some of the top Indian chess players with their mothers. We invite you to post a picture with your mother in the comments section, or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with the #ChessMom and win special prizes! Read on to know more.

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National Juniors: Champion is traveling back with an unreserved ticket

16/10/2016 -

He is the National Junior Champion and he is traveling back home, with his two siblings, with an unreserved ticket in a train. Bihar's Kumar Gaurav began the event as the 42nd seed. To make matters worse, he lost one of the early rounds to a talented young boy. That was all he needed to awaken the fighter within him. He delivered a regal performance to become the champion. There was no breaking news in the girls' section as Vaishali R. made mincemeat of her opponents to win with ease. An illustrated report...

Millionaire Chess: Adhiban suffers heartbreak; Prudhvi Kumar wins U1800

15/10/2016 -

The third and probably the final edition of Millionaire Chess came to close at the Atlantic City. The top seed B. Adhiban was in the race to confirm his place in the Millionaire Monday showdown, where he could fight for big money. What ended up happening was heartbreaking. Prudhvi Reddy of Nellore had a fantastic event, where a crucial victory in Millionaire Monday meant that he laughed his way to the bank with $12,000! That is close to Rs. 8 lakhs! Pictures, tactics, report, and more. Read on to know what happened...

New products in the ChessBase India shop - Part I

15/10/2016 -

The ChessBase India online shop is increasing the number of products in its repertoire. We started with just a handful of DVDs pertaining to Indian players (Anand, Negi, Sachdev, Shah), but the collection has now grown to 95. Recently, we introduced 15 new products in the shop. In this article we will acquaint you with the ones that deal with 1.e4 with white and against 1.e4 with black. We have made sure to handpick the best possible DVDs authored by renowned players and coaches.

National Juniors 2016: Top seeds suffer as a 1900-player leads!

14/10/2016 -

The National Junior Championship is in progress in Andhra Pradesh with many of India's strong junior players in attendance. The top four seeds — Md. Nubairshah Shaikh, Praneeth Surya, Ojas Kulkarni, Sayantan Das, all in the 2400 range — are having a terrible tournament, languishing behind their lower rated peers. Vaishali lost early to a much lower rated peer, but then she played in her usual standard. Tactics and more in our illustrated report.

World's smartest chess board is here!

13/10/2016 -

How about sitting in the comforts of your living room and challenging a player anywhere in the world to play a game with you on a "real chess set"? Sound's impossible right! With the world's smartest chess board - Square Off, it no longer is! This article deals with the journey of how this revolutionizing chess technology was created. After years of hard work and innumerable prototypes, the final product is now ready. And you can be the proud owner of the Square Off chess set by supporting their campaign on Kickstarter!

Quick Q&A with Viswanathan Anand

13/10/2016 -

Just as the five-time world champion Vishy Anand returned to India from his positive campaign at the Tal Memorial 2016, we caught up with him for an informal Q&A, where Anand commented about the 2016 World Championship, Karjakin's chances against Carlsen, and retirement plans. Know more...

Isle of Man: Vidit misses his chance; Aravindh holds Naka

12/10/2016 -

Pavel Eljanov concluded his brilliant campaign with a final draw against Wesley So, securing first place. Fabiano Caruana managed to level with him after beating Michael Adams in a big game but came second on tiebreak. For India, things were bitter-sweet. Vidit played a beautiful game but allowed a repetition due to the shortage of time. Harika entered world top-5 once again. Analyses, tactics and more. We have an illustrated report.

Happy Dussehra to all our readers!

12/10/2016 -

Vijayadashami is a popular Indian religious festival among the masses with many parts of the country witnessing grand celebrations. Kolkata is popular for its Durga Puja. But another city that leads the festivities is Mysore, the cleanest city in India. R.Anantharam, a regular contributor to ChessBase, was the chief arbiter at the Viktor Korchnoi Memorial Tournament that finished some days back. He sends us a report on the tournament, plus a brief tour of the famous Mysore Dasara!

#AskYifan: Q&A with Hou Yifan on ChessBase!

12/10/2016 -

At 14, she was already a grandmaster. At 16, the women's world champion. Hou Yifan is 22 now and is showing no signs of stopping. The Isle of Man wasn't a great event for her. However, it is but a minor setback. Don’t miss this chance to #AskYifan whatever chess question you ever wanted answered by a strong player, a world champion at that! Her views on Hijabgate? Women in chess? Her games where she beat the living daylights out of her opponents? Everything! Find out how...

Olympiad Caption Contest: And the winner is.....!

10/10/2016 -

On the rest day of the Olympiad 2016 in Baku, we gave you a picture of Harikrishna eating Roti and a paneer vegetable, and asked you to suggest a funny caption for the picture! The best one was to receive a Master Class Vol.07: Garry Kasparov DVD. The response was overwhelming! There were more than 70 captions in the comments section. In this article we not only announce the winner, but have three extra prizes. We thank each and everyone who commented for their involvement and enthusiasm.

Queen of Katwe and Daniel King for Mumbai

10/10/2016 -

On 11th of October, the day of Dusshera, chess players from Mumbai will be treated to a double feast! ChessBase India has planned Queen of Katwe + Powerplay 23 and a meet with Daniel King! In the morning, all the players will meet at the R-city mall at 9 a.m. to watch the movie, this will be followed by learning Queen's Gambit Declined from the Power Play 23 and the cherry on top of the cake is the unique chance of having a chat with Daniel King through Skype at 2 p.m. IST. Don't miss out on this fun filled day! All are invited!

How to mate a 2645 opponent in one hour!

09/10/2016 -

In the last round of the Isle of Man International 2016 World's youngest IM R. Praggnanandhaa was up against Axel Bachmann. The Paraguayan grandmaster started off with an offbeat opening that soon turned into an opposite side castling. The 11-year-old was on top of his game as he started playing with great energy and imagination. The value of each move started to become very high in this sharp battle. That's when Bachmann went wrong and Praggnandhaa was all over the white king, scoring a win with the black pieces in 18 moves against a 2645 opponent!

Tal Memorial 09: Anand finishes with a draw, ties for the third place

09/10/2016 -

Aronian is well-known to set up deep traps in his games, often swindling bad positions with sheer resourcefulness. "Luckily, I have learnt not to trust this guy," said Anand as he jokingly explained one of the traps Aronian had set with the black pieces. Find out what happened in the game in our report with master analysis and video-interview of Anand and Aronian!

Isle of Man R08: Learn how to mate with a bishop and knight!

09/10/2016 -

Harika lost her game and so did S.L. Narayanan. Vidit drew his game. 26 Indians went to Isle of Man but the performances haven't been highly impressive. Yet, round eight had plenty of things for us to learn. In this report you will learn how grandmasters above 2700 Elo are able to make short draws which somehow we, normal players, are never able to! You will also see Shirov's attacking flair, Naiditisch's tactical acumen and last but not the least you will learn the technique of how to mate with a bishop and knight. Hou Yifan got that position and the reigning World Champion didn't face any problems!

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