ChessBase for Mac

11/10/2026 – Our database program – used by everyone, from the World Champion to lowly club players – is now available for Mac users. The new version has been developed from the ground up: modern, built for fast access to what matters. The cost: just €9.95 per month, or €99.95 per year. Make sure you don’t miss the launch of a new era in chess study on the Mac.
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Total Chess Budapest - Live!

11/10/2026 – The Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot takes place in Budapest from 10 to 20 November, with Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer and Wesley So among the 24 participants. The event combines fast classical, rapid and blitz chess in a new format, beginning with a nine-round blitz tournament before the group and knockout stages. | Follow the action live, starting at 18.00 CET (12.00 ET, 22.30 IST)
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India's 100th Grandmaster

11/10/2026 – On Sunday 22-year-old Anuj Shrivatri won the ASEAN Plus Open in the Philippines, with a 2586 performance. That set him up to receive the grandmaster title. 39 years ago India had no grandmasters. In 1988 Anand became the first to earn the title – and now there are 100. | Photo: ChessBase India
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Knight on the rim brings the win

11/10/2026 – Knight on the rim brings the win: This is a bit tongue in cheek of course. But sometimes the knight must go to the edge of the board: White to move and win.
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Total Chess – totally complicated

11/10/2026 – The 2025 Chess Calendar established that there are 151 official World Chess Championships. Another will be added in 2027 – the Total Chess Championship. The pilot tournament takes place in Budapest from 10 to 20 November. The field is strong, the format is complicated, and ChessBase has gone through the Total Chess webpage in an attempt to understand it. However, it is unclear whether all the rules have been correctly understood and reproduced. The following information is therefore provided without guarantee of accuracy.
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FIDE President Timur Turlov visits World Senior Chess Championship

11/10/2026 – FIDE President Timur Turlov visited the World Senior Chess Championship in Vrnjačka Banja, where nearly 400 players from 65 countries are competing across four sections. During his visit, Turlov met Serbian officials to discuss future chess cooperation and international events, before addressing the players ahead of round six. Galina Strutinskaya leads the Women 65+ section with a perfect score, while Kiril Georgiev and Pavel Kotsur share the Open 50+ lead. | Photos: FIDE
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Remembering Mikhail Tal

11/9/2026 – Today marks the 90th anniversary of Mikhail Tal's birth. Tal was one of the great figures in chess history, playing particularly exciting chess in his youth and becoming the youngest world champion in history in 1960. Unfortunately, he suffered from health problems throughout his life and died at a relatively young age. | Tal giving a simultaneous exhibition in 1977 (Photo: Miass City Museum Archive)
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Pranesh wins Chola Chess Open as young talents make their mark

11/9/2026 – Pranesh M won the inaugural Chola Chess Open in Chennai, scoring 7/9 points after finishing with two consecutive victories. The Indian grandmaster ended half a point ahead of five players, including runner-up S. L. Narayanan. The tournament also saw 16-year-old Viresh Sharnarthi earn his second GM norm in ten days, while 11-year-old Sarbartho Mani secured his first IM norm. Nine title norms were achieved in total. | Photo: Devansh Singh
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5th President Cup Tashkent

11/9/2026 – The Uzbekistan Chess Federation invites you to take part in the 5th International Chess Tournament for the Prize of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It will be held in Tashkent from November 27 to December 7, 2026. It brings together an invited Masters round robin and two open Swiss competitions under a single programme. The prize fund: US $100,000, the registration deadline is November 13, 2026.
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Bavarian Championship: Four players finish tied for first, Sasikiran claims title on tiebreaks

11/9/2026 – Indian grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran won the Bavarian Chess Championship in Gmund am Tegernsee, finishing on 7½/9 points and taking first place on tiebreaks. German GMs Frederik Svane and Roven Vogel finished second and third, while Indian FM Arun Daakshin also reached 7½ points. All four won their final-round games with the black pieces, bringing an event that attracted 548 participants to a close. | Photo: Sandra Schmidt
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Bodhana Sivanandan joins strong field in Salamanca

11/8/2026 – The Salamanca Chess Festival will take place from 10 to 14 November, bringing together six players for a rapid round-robin tournament. The field includes 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan (pictured), former world top-ten player Loek van Wely and Spanish grandmaster Paco Vallejo, who returns to top-level competition after a lengthy absence. Elisabeth Paehtz, José Martínez Alcántara and Anastasiia Hnatyshyn complete the lineup. Several side events are also scheduled. | Photo: Nils Rohde / ChessBase
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Yu Yangyi retains Chinese Rapid Championship title after Armageddon decider

11/8/2026 – Yu Yangyi successfully defended his Chinese Rapid Championship title in Shaoxing, defeating 18-year-old Xiao Tong in an Armageddon decider after six games had failed to separate the finalists. Xiao had previously eliminated Ding Liren and Lu Shanglei in blitz tiebreaks to reach the final. Meanwhile, Lu secured third place by defeating Xu Xiangyu. | Photo: Chinese Chess Association
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Aaron Nimzowitsch: 140 years since the birth of a chess pioneer

11/7/2026 – Born in Latvia, Aaron Nimzowitsch was one of the most important players and theorists of the first third of the 20th century, influencing generations of chess players with his strategic ideas. His life, however, was far from easy and sadly cut short. Today marks the 140th anniversary of his birth. | Photo: J. Graudenz
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The young king faces his toughest challenge

11/7/2026 – Gukesh Dommaraju will defend his world title against Javokhir Sindarov in Geneva after a remarkable rise that made him the youngest undisputed champion in history. Since his 2024 triumph, however, the Indian grandmaster has endured a more difficult period and slipped down the world rankings. The match therefore presents a different challenge: rediscovering his best form while facing a younger rival who arrives with strong recent results and considerable momentum. | Image: FIDE
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Bavarian Championship: Sasikiran joins Gopal in the lead

11/7/2026 – With 6 points from 7 rounds, Indian grandmasters Krishnan Sasikiran and G.N. Gopal share the lead at the Bavarian Chess Championship in Tegernsee. Their opponents' average ratings of 2413 (Sasikiran) and 2411 (Gopal) also leave them closely matched on tiebreaks, with both having faced stronger opposition on average than any other participant. Gopal drew with Elham Amar on the top board. While the games on the neighbouring boards also ended in draws, including Frederik Svane (5½/7) against Adrian Gschnitzer, Sasikiran secured a win over Rithvik Raja. | Photo: Sandra Schmidt
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Review: The Petroff Defence - Fight for More Than Equality by GM Fabien Libiszewski

11/7/2026 – For a long time, the Petroff Defence had a reputation for being a purely drawish opening – reliable but dry. Those days are over, however. In a ChessBase video course, Grandmaster Fabien Libiszewski demonstrates how modern players can turn this old reputation to their psychological advantage. Christian Höthe took a close look at the course. | Photos: ChessBase
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Who will become the FIDE World Combined Champion?

11/6/2026 – The Total Chess World Championship series is a new tournament format combining three different time controls: fast classic, rapid and blitz. The winner of the series will be crowned the FIDE World Combined Champion. Both the winner and the runner-up will then qualify for the Candidates Tournament for the classical World Championship. How did this format come about? | Photo: Michal Walusza / Norway Chess
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Difficulty level 2640

11/6/2026 – In the diagram position, 19.f5! leads to a decisive attack. However, White still has a very tough nut to crack – are you up for it?

Loek van Wely: 10 Chess Principles That Actually Matter

11/6/2026 – In his new course, GM Loek van Wely shares ten practical principles from a career spanning 14 Olympiads, eight Dutch championship titles and decades of games against Karpov, Kasparov, Anand and Carlsen. Instead of opening lines, he focuses on how decisions are really made at the board: managing your clock around the critical moments, knowing when to simplify, staying objective about mistakes and recognising the right moment to take a risk. He also covers the psychological side of chess, from not being intimidated by stronger opponents to trusting your own calculation under pressure. A course about the part of chess that opening theory can’t teach you.
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