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/-.
Full-time player and trainer, Akhilesh Nagare scores his first IM norm
04/10/2024 -It’s very rare to find a chess player who is pursuing his own goals as well as helping others to do the same. Akhilesh Nagare scored his first IM norm at the XII Torneo Internacional Cidade de Pontevedra "Masters" Grupo A Tournament. The tournament was held between 24th July – 30th July in Pontevedra, Spain. He along with Shashank Dhagdhage, started their online chess academy, Phoenix Chess Club in 2023. They have trained more than 150 students so far and continue to share their passion for the game. ChessBase India had an opportunity to speak with Akhilesh after his achievement. Read the article to learn more about Akhilesh’s journey. Photo: Chess.com India
Teach Chess India Syllabus Level 1
08/09/2024 -Teaching chess to new comers of the game requires the trainer to focus on two things - 1. What to teach? 2. How to teach? With regards to point no.1 it is extremely important to have the curriculum prepared beforehand, so that the trainer can use his own experience and judgement to make the material interesting for the students. With this in mind Teach Chess India has come up with Level 1 of the curriculum which would help a trainer to teach a student who knows absolutely nothing about chess.
7th National School Chess Championship 2018 starts
29/01/2018 -7th edition of National School Chess Championship 2018 started in the capital city of Odisha, Bhubaneswar. The tournament was inaugurated in presence of Mr.Achyuta Samanta, founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology. The magnitude of this event is huge as this is the biggest school level national championship in Indian chess. From here, you can spread the awareness of chess all over the country. The tournament is taking place at the exact same place where World Junior Chess Championship took place last year. ChessBase India will bring you unparalleled coverage of this event. Photos and captions by: Niklesh Jain
Tata Steel Chess 13: Vidit wins the Challengers; Magnus makes history winning his sixth Masters title!
29/01/2018 -The final round of Tata Steel Chess was a relatively calm one for the leaders in both categories. With the white pieces, Vidit Gujrathi avoided any mishap in a Queen's Gambit against Jorden van Foreest and agreed to a 24 move draw in the Challengers. This put the onus of winning on Korobov, who was in the run for the title. The Ukrainian GM failed and went down against Dmitry Gordievsky. In the Masters, leaders, Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri both settled for solid draws against Sergey Karjakin and Wei Yi respectively, forcing a playoff which the reigning world champion won quite comfortably. An illustrated report on the final round.
Tata Steel Chess 12: Anand's chances diminish while Vidit shines against Girya
28/01/2018 -The penultimate round of Tata Steel Chess saw some thrilling action. In the Masters, Anish Giri and Magnus Carlsen overtook the third co-leader beating Adhiban Baskaran and Maxim Matlakov, respectively. Mamedyarov, on the other hand, shocked everyone with a mere 12-move draw against Gawain Jones. Another serious contender, Viswanathan Anand also reduced his chances of winning the title prize to a minimum with his draw against Wesley So. But the best result for Indian fans came in the Challengers' group where Vidit Gujrathi scored a crushing win against Olga Girya and is now standing at the brink of winning the title prize having overtaken Anton Korobov on the leaderboard. Round 12 report.
Tata Steel 11: Anand beats Hou Yifan to get back into title contention!
27/01/2018 -Round 11 of the Tata Steel Masters saw all of the leaders draw their games. While Carlsen Giri and Mamedyarov settled splitting the point, the highlight of the round turned out to be Vishy Anand's instructive win against Hou Yifan. With this emphatic win, the Madras Tiger is back into contention for the title, just half a point behind the leaders. Just like in the Masters, leaders in the Challengers also settled for draws. Because of this, the deadlock between Vidit Gujrathi and Anton Korobov still remains. But with this draw, both leaders have slimmed down their lead as local lad Jorden van Foreest crept closer to their score beating Harika Dronavalli. Van Foreest is still a point behind but with just two rounds to go, anything can happen!
Chennai 2018 Round 10: Laxman takes it all in a thriller
27/01/2018 -When the final round began Ivan Rozum had a one-point lead over the field. But he lost his game against Timur Gareyev. This opened up the tournament and five players tied on 8.0/10. They were Rozum, Gareyev, Laxman, Dzhumaev and Erigaisi. The tiebreak favoured the grandmaster from Chennai as Laxman won the championship and took home Rs. 2,00,000. Rozum had to be content with the second spot and Gareyev was third. Nikhil Dixit and Lakshmi. C made their IM and WIM norms respectively. We have a detailed final round report with all the action from the Vijay Park Hotel in Chennai.
Gibraltar 2018 R01-03: Indians have a ball!
26/01/2018 -The Gibraltar Masters is one of the strongest open tournaments in the world. Players from 50 countries with 92 grandmasters are participating in the event. 12 GMs above the rating of 2700 with some big names Aronian, MVL, Nakamura among others are seen in action. India has fielded 28 players with number two Harikrishna leading the campaign. Our young and talented players are getting the unique opportunity of facing world class opposition and they are not disappointing. Debashis Das beat Navara and Shardul Gagare got the better of Vitiugov. Many others held top players to a draw. A pictorial report from the rock!
Live Games of Tata Steel 2018
26/01/2018 -This is the 80th edition of the Wimbledon of Chess - Tata Steel Chess Festival and this is for the first time that India has four participants at the event - Anand and Adhiban in the open and Vidit and Harika in the Challengers. Anand will want to go for his sixth title victory, Adhiban will want to prove that last year was not a fluke, Vidit would want to win the Challengers and qualify to the masters and Harika would want to show that she is one of the best woman players in the world. Live games begin at 6 p.m. IST along with live commentary by Yasser Seirawan.
This 12-year-old is watching your every move!
26/01/2018 -Chess gets space on the front page in The Hindu when Vishy Anand wins a World Championship. Recently, the newspaper carried the story of a 12-year-old that all the readers of ChessBase India know very well - Avathanshu Bhat. Anshu, as the boy is called by his friends, was working with the ChessBase India team at the IIFLW tournament in Mumbai. When Hindu special correspondent Nandakumar Marar visited the tournament he was pleasantly surprised to see such a young boy working so passionately as a journalist! This is his story of Avathanshu that was published in the Hindu:
Tata Steel Chess 10: Mamedyarov and Carlsen reunite with Giri as joint-leaders
25/01/2018 -The tenth round of Tata Steel Chess saw Carlsen and Mamedyarov reunite with Giri in the joint first place. While Mamedyarov demolished Peter Svidler in merely 21 moves, Carlsen won stylishly sacrificing a piece first and then a full rook in a 75 move long battle against Wesley So. Vishy Anand also registered a classy win against Gawain Jones and is currently fifth on the leaderboard. The other Chennaiite, Adhiban Baskaran, got a dominating position against Hou Yifan and tried to find a breakthrough until the 103rd move before conceding a draw. In the Challengers, both Harika and Vidit drew their games as did Vidit's co-leader, Anton Korobov. It seems the deadlock between Vidit and Korobov will only be resolved in their head to head encounter. Round 10 report.
Adham Fawzy wins Fritz 16 Sunway Sitges Online Blitz
25/01/2018 -ChessBase India held an Online Blitz tournament on 19th November 2017 to commemorate the launch of Fritz 16. The tournament was open to the entire world and the first prize was Fritz 16 and worth ₹2799 plus two extra nights for free after the tournament in any Sunway accommodation, hotel or apartments plus, 3 free lunches at the Sunway Sitges hotel for 2 persons. This type of first prize was offered in a ChessBase Online tournament for the very first time. IM Adham Fawzy of Egypt won the tournament and funny thing is, he was not even aware of the tournament until two hours before the tournament started. Read more to find out how he decided to play the tournament.