9/12/2026 – In this episode of ChessBase Tips for Beginners, Anastasia Corotcova explains how to work efficiently with several ChessBase windows at the same time. She shows how multiple board and database windows can help when comparing games, preparing against an opponent or transferring variations from one game to another. Anastasia also demonstrates how to set limits for open windows and how to arrange two games side by side for a clearer and more practical workflow.

9/12/2026 – Going into the final round 10 (start at 17:00 CEST), David Anton Guijarro leads by one point over Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, who has 5.5 points. Faustino Oro is in third place with 5 points but still has a chance to overtake the Mexican. The match between Pepe Cuenca and Diego Flores will determine who finishes fifth and who finishes last. Anton Guijarro can clinch the tournament victory against Ivan Sokolov. From September 7 to 12, the “Legends and Prodigies” tournament will take place in Madrid. The tournament will be played as a double-round-robin with a shortened classical time control. | Watch the games with commentary. | Photo: Mar Melero

9/12/2026 – It is the biggest contract in FIDE's history with a private entity: Salesforce is becoming the title sponsor and technological partner of the International Chess Federation. The partnership brings the Agentforce 360 portfolio, including Slack, to the world’s largest chess events and forums, powering real-time player rankings and AI-driven fan experiences for over 800 million global fans. Press release.

9/12/2026 – In this episode of Svitlana’s Smart Moves, Svitlana Demchenko introduces the Taimanov Sicilian, an opening she played as her main weapon for many years. She explains the flexible setup, and examines White’s most important approaches, including the Maroczy Bind, early Nb5 ideas, f4 setups and quieter development with Be2 or g3. Particular attention is given to the main lines with opposite side castling, where Black combines queenside counterplay with well-timed central breaks such as ...d5 or ...e5. Svitlana shows why the Taimanov offers a rich mixture of positional ideas and tactical possibilities and makes an excellent fighting opening for players who enjoy complex, unbalanced positions.

9/12/2026 – Heading to day 8, the final day of the preliminary round, two teams are comfortably tied for first place in the Global Chess League, each with 18 team points. The Ganges Grandmasters and the Alpine APL Pipers have the best chances of reaching Sunday’s final. Today’s matchups: Triveni Continental Kings vs. Alpine APL Pipers, PBG Alaskan Knights vs. Ganges Grandmasters, and CheQ Mumba Masters vs. Fyers American Gambits. The latter two teams are in 3rd and 4th place and are both expected to compete in the third-place match. | Follow the action live with commentary, starting at 13.30 CEST (7.30 ET, 17.00 IST) | Picture: Global Chess League

9/12/2026 – "Yesterday, in one of the most horrifying terrorist atrocities in history, the World Trade Center in New York was destroyed..." Those were the words with which we launched our brand new database-driven news page, on September 12, 2001. It was the very first report we filed. It had a special meaning for the world – but also for chess. Exactly six years earlier the World Chess Championship had been staged on the Observation Deck on the 107th floor.

9/12/2026 – Kostya Kavutskiy is the latest "Fritz Trainer" to join the ChessBase team of authors. An International Master, renowned FIDE trainer and chess author, he made his ChessBase debut with the video course "Mastering Calculation" and has already followed it up with "The Fundamentals of Positional Play". Jochen Schwarz, a club player from Bremen and a connoisseur of the FritzTrainer series, took a close look at both courses and also examined how they compare with similar courses by established authors such as Robert Ris and Ivan Sokolov.

9/11/2026 – Six teams, 36 world-class players, 20 minutes for the entire game, an increment only from move 40, 4 points for a win with Black, 3 for a win with White, 1 for a draw, 18 to 24 games per day, and a prize fund of $1 million – the Global Chess League is a chess spectacle. And it is heading for an exciting finish: the top two teams in the preliminary stage qualify for the final, and after eight of ten team matches, three teams are tied for the lead. | Photo: In one of the day's many top-level encounters, Magnus Carlsen defeated Vishy Anand | Photo: Global Chess League

9/11/2026 – 'Neutral moves' don't change anything essential in a position - 24...Bd8?? in the diagram definitely doesn't belong in this category. Do you see a new detail that White can exploit afterwards?

9/11/2026 – David Anton Guijarro heads into the final stage of the Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid with a one-point lead. Three rounds remain, and the Spaniard is a full point ahead of Faustino Oro, who lost to his compatriot Diego Flores in round six and drew with Jose Cuenca Jiminez in yesterday’s second round. Anton Guijarro drew both of his games, against Cuenca and Jose Martinez Alcantara. The two leaders will face each other in this morning’s round. Cuenca Jiminez plays Ivan Sokolov, while Flores faces Martinez Alcantara. | Photo: Ivan Sokolov, who scored his first win in round six against Martinez, pictured during a simultaneous exhibition in Salzgitter-Bad a year ago | Photo: Arne Kähler

9/10/2026 – We do not know how successful Magnus Carlsen (pictured) was on the golf course, but in the Global Chess League he delivered. Carlsen beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to help his Alpine APL Pipers defeat the CheQ Mumba Masters. After day five, the Pipers are level with leaders FYERS American Gambits on 12 match points, despite having played only six matches to the Gambits' seven. | Photos: Global Chess League

9/10/2026 – After six draws the previous day, the players at the Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid seemed ready for a fight: rounds four and five produced just one draw in six games. Faustino Oro beat Ivan Sokolov before drawing with Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara, while David Antón scored two wins, defeating Diego Flores and Sokolov. The experienced Spaniard now leads the young Argentine by half a point. | Photo: David Antón winning the 2025 Spanish Championship | Photo: Spanish Chess Federation