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Candidates 2020 to resume from the 1st of November 2020

08/09/2020 -

The search for Magnus Carlsen's opponent had reached half way in the month of March 2020. FIDE Candidates 2020, which was stopped halfway due to the Corona virus scare, is now resuming from the 1st of November 2020 from round 8 onwards. All the results until round 7 will stay as they are. The tournament will resume in Yekaterinburg, which was the original venue of the tournament. The organizers have also arranged for an alternate venue in Tbilisi Georgia. In this article we bring to you FIDE's press release. Apart from that we also bring to you some special moments from first seven rounds of the Canddidates 2020.

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Gopal explains Exchange Sacrifice

08/09/2020 -

India's 16th and Kerala's first GM Gopal G N launched his website on last week of August 2020. The site has various content - Testimonial, Gallery, his achievements and more. He uploaded a couple of videos explaining Exchange Sacrifices. Gopal is an accomplished player. He became a GM in eight months after becoming an IM. Gopal has a huge list of accolades - Gold in National Junior 2004, National Sub-Junior Rapid 2001; Silver in Asian Team 2008 and 2012, National Premier 2010; Bronze in World Team 2010, Asian Games 2010, Asian Team Blitz 2012 and many more. Did you know that Gopal is one of the very few Indian players to have become a GM without having a personal foreign GM trainer. Photo: Official site

Iniyan 'Invincible' at 48th World Open

07/09/2020 -

India's 61st GM Iniyan P wins 48th World Open by scoring an unbeaten 7.5/9. He joins the long list of previous champions - Bent Larsen, Pal Benko, Gata Kamsky, Hikaru Nakamura, Magesh Panchanathan, Sandipan Chanda, Parimarjan Negi, Le Quang Liem and more. Iniyan played three games per day from 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. IST between 7th and 9th August. He mentions that at one point, he felt like an owl for staying awake for the entire night. His efforts earned him a handsome reward as he won US$3000 + $100 bonus as a winner in the tie-break for the first place. Check out four of Iniyan's games where he analyzed them in great detail and explained his thoughts.

Come, Lend a Hand in the Fight for Chess Coach Durgesh's Life

07/09/2020 -

Bangalore-based well-known chess coach Durgesh K collapsed from a severe brain haemorrhage last month and has been hospital-bound in critical condition since then. Durgesh's family is in desperate need of funds to meet the expenses of his hospitalization and recovery. His close friend Sushrutha Reddy has sponsored a fundraiser event (Prize fund of Rs.50,000, held on 19th of September) along with ChessBase India to make sure that Durgesh recovers and comes back home. We therefore urge the chess community to come forward and Play for Durgesh and lend a helping hand. Read this article to know more about who Durgesh is, what his contributions to the game of chess are, and how you can help him overcome the toughest time of his life.

Top Grandmasters of Indian chess pay homage to their teachers

06/09/2020 -

The Teachers Day is celebrated all across India on 5th of September 2020. In chess, the coach/teacher/trainer plays a very important role in the upbringing of a talent. Indian chess has now reached a stage where we are being called all across the world as a super power in chess. The teachers have played a very crucial role in this entire upheaval. In this article we speak to 22 top players of Indian chess about the teachers who have made the biggest impact on their chess career! Through this article, you will get to know all the hidden gems in Indian chess, who rarely get recognized. Happy Teachers Day to all the wonderful chess trainers out there! 

New: ChessBase Magazine #197

05/09/2020 -

ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyse their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! The downloadable DVD has several hours of video content to learn from, practice and enrich your knowledge.

Last call to register for GoodEarth Online Blitz Open

04/09/2020 -

GoodEarth presents GoodEarth Online Blitz Open in association with Chess Kerala and ChessBase India will be held tomorrow Saturday 5th September on Playchess server. Over 175 players from all across the world including 10 GMs, 20 IMs and 3 WIMs have registered so far. Total prize fund ₹60000 with the prize of ₹12000 is up for grabs. Entry fee is FREE for GMs, IMs, WGMs and WIMs. For everyone else entry fee is ₹150/₹200. Hurry up and register now if you haven't yet as there is less than 12 hours left before the registration closes. Photo: GoodEarth

Watching videos, getting better: 400,000 minutes of ChessBase training and entertainment!

03/09/2020 -

If you are logged on with your ChessBase Premium account and if you have a moment: click on the video button on the right side of your screen! It's worth it: We have filled up the video portal massively, with fresh training videos for openings, middlegames and endgames! You don't know the video portal yet? No matter whatever your strength is, there are plenty of videos, something for everyone. In a short video we explain everything. There are more than 13,000 training videos to discover and learn from! So what are you waiting for? Time to maximize the benefits of having a ChessBase Premium account and make the most out of it. Don't forget to enjoy too

Vidit Gujrathi signs a five-year deal with Black Lotus App

03/09/2020 -

All of us have seen the background of GM Vidit Gujrathi while he streams. He has a banner which says - "Blacklotus.app - Your Mind is our business." What is Blacklotus App? In this article we tell you all about this unique app and what Vidit has to do with it.  After winning the gold at the Online Olympiad 2020 Vidit mentions that he uses this app to keep his mind calm. If the India no.3 benefits from it, and uses it regularly, it could well be useful for every budding chess player who wishes to keep his mind calm. We also try to have a peek into this app and tell you more about it.

Talk of the Universe: Ganguly in conversation with Peter Leko

02/09/2020 -

We all are aware of the fact that Peter Leko is a World Class player and an expert commentator. These days he is mostly seen doing commentary at various super tournaments. Despite his busy schedule, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly has managed to bring him to his series 'In conversation with' where some of the best players in the world has already appeared. We all love Leko's brilliant explanations and wisdom but where did his journey start, which sport does he like besides chess, which book had the maximum impact on his life, get to know about all these and much more. Leko analyzes some his selected games too. Did you know - Leko played a charity football match with legendary f1 driver Michael Schumacher? Photo: Surya's youtube channel.

Mover & shaker: How stand-up comic Samay Raina is redefining chess for a cause

01/09/2020 -

FIDE Online Olympiad Finals was watched by 69K+ concurrent viewers. But how did it all begin? Of course it didn't happen overnight. Samay Raina, the stand-up comedian was the man behind it. But who is Samay Raina? Susan Ninan of ESPN finds out about this 22-year-old boy's journey who took the chess world by storm and even FIDE Director General Emil Sutovsky appreciated his efforts. How did he manage to utilize live streams for noble causes by using chess as a tool? In this interview, we get to find out about that. Samay brought Vidit, Anish, Radjabov, Adhiban and many more to his channel regularly. Photo: Samay Raina

It was not an internet disconnection

01/09/2020 -

In the finals of the Online Olympiad 2020, team India faced Russia. After the first match ending in a 3-3 tie, the second match was balanced with a score of 1.5-1.5. The three games that were going on were Divya against Shuvalova, Nihal against Esipenko and Humpy against Goryachkina. Suddenly Nihal and Divya lost their games and India had lost its match to Russia 3.5-1.5. Subsequently Humpy, who had lost precious seconds in her game due to disconnection, also lost her game and we succumbed to a 4.5-1.5 defeat. What exactly happened here? Was it an internet disconnection or something else? We bring you the entire story.

A Question of Timing

31/08/2020 -

Some wise person had once said, "Timing is everything". The origin of this is unknown. However there are thousands of derivatives of it and everyone attests to the same fact about the words being true in some form or the other. Nothing happens until the time is right, is it dependent on luck or is it predestined? Well a sportsperson does not merit those, instead they wait for the right time to strike. This is what GM Sundararajan Kidambi, the Indian GM who has impeccable knowledge about chess classics and encyclopedic knowledge about the game, talks about with three illustrative examples and beautiful explanations that yes timing is the key to success in many situations. Photo: Shahid Ahmed

The Triumph of the twelve brave Olympians

30/08/2020 -

30th of August 2020 is a day that would not leave the collective memory of Indian chess lovers for quite some time to come, for this is the day the country bagged its maiden chess olympiad gold. Thousands of chess fans - neophytes and experts alike - witnessed the historic journey, even becoming a part of it and sharing its trepidations. A lot happened on the final day India versus Russia match of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad. In this article the author attempts to chronicle the sequence of events and shed light on their true import with regards to the prospects of the ancient sport in the country.

New: Master Class Vol. 13: Tigran Petrosian

30/08/2020 -

The newest Master Class has arrived with Armenian Grandmaster Tigran Petrosian. The former world champion has left a huge legacy with his positional and strategical play. No wonder his nickname was “Iron Tigran” — he could defend positions better than almost anybody else! Dr. Karsten Müller, Mihail Marin, Oliver Reeh and Yannick Pelletier present high quality analysis and tactics training in the 13th installment of the series. A must-have for your collection! Enrich your knowledge of the strategic skills and defensive techniques by studying the classics of the one and only Tigran Petrosian. Photo: ChessBase

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