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• Salesforce FIDE World Championship Match 2026

  FIDE is pleased to announce the regulations for the Salesforce FIDE World Championship Match 2026, confirming the venue, format, schedule, and prize distribution for the meeting between reigning World Champion Grandmaster Gukesh D and his challenger, Grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov. The match will be held at the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland, from 22 November to 13 December 2026, bringing a World Championship match back to Switzerland for the first time since Brissago in 2004.

• Samarkand ready for a record-breaking Chess Olympiad

  For centuries, Samarkand stood at the crossroads of civilisations. Merchants, scholars and travellers crossed the ancient Silk Road, carrying ideas and cultures from one part of the world to another. Now, another kind of journey will bring the world to the legendary city: 400 chess teams from across the globe will gather for the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad.

• Ganges Grandmasters win Global Chess League in dramatic final

  The Ganges Grandmasters have won the fourth season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League. In the final in Bengaluru, Ian Nepomniachtchi's team defeated defending champions Alpine APL Pipers 4-2. After the first match ended 3-3, the Grandmasters won the second, with Nepomniachtchi scoring a spectacular victory over Magnus Carlsen and Stavroula Tsolakidou beating Humpy Koneru to seal the title. Viswanathan Anand and his PBG Alaskan Knights had already been eliminated before the final day. | Photos and videos: ChessBase India

• Legends & Prodigies: David Anton wins convincingly, Oro finishes third

  David Anton (pictured) won the second edition of the Legends & Prodigies tournament in Madrid unbeaten, finishing 1½ points clear of the field. Five wins and five draws gave him a world-class performance rating of 2756. Defending champion Faustino Oro faded somewhat in the second half of the tournament and had to settle for third place behind Jose Martinez Alcantara. | Photos: ECU (title photo), ChessBase India / Amruta Mokal

• Clutch Chess: Kasparov and Topalov play Chess960, Day 3 – Live!

  Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov will face each other in “Clutch Chess: The Legends” in Saint Louis from 11 to 13 September. The two former members of the chess elite will play a twelve-game Chess960 match, with wins becoming more valuable on each successive day. The encounter follows Kasparov’s victory over Viswanathan Anand last year and renews a rivalry that was already revived in Saint Louis in 2018 with a Chess960 match. | Photos: St. Louis Chess Club, Austin Fuller | Live with commentary from 18:40 CEST / 17:40 BST / 12:40 ET / 22:10 IST.

• Review: All new releases in August!

  August brings a range of new chess training products covering different areas of the game. The main topics include active opening repertoires, calculation and strategic decision-making. There are also two new courses on positional play, as well as updated databases on the Petroff Defence. The courses by Bahne Fuhrmann, Andrew Martin and Kostya Kavutskiy combine theoretical explanations with annotated games and practical exercises. With material aimed at different playing strengths, the new releases offer both concrete repertoire advice and more in-depth training. | All photos: ChessBase

• Global Chess League, Day 9 Finals - Live!

  Today at 12:00 p.m., the 9th and final day of the Global Chess League begins with the matches for third place between the CheQ Mumba Masters (Vachier-Lagrave, Mamedyarov, Dronavalli) and the FYERS American Gambits (Sindarov, Nihal Sarin, Assaubayeva). The final will follow at 3:00 p.m. between the Ganges Grandmasters Squad (featuring Nepomniachtchi, Aronian, and Shuvalova) and the Alpine APL Pipers (featuring Carlsen, Giri, and Deshmukh, among others). The finals consists of two matches, followed by two blitz matches if necessary, and then another Armageddon match. Live with commentary starting at 12:00 noon (6.00 AM ET, 15.30 IST) | Picture: Global Chess League

• ChessBase´26 – Tips for Beginners, part 31: Endgame expert with the "LiveBook"

  How do you train endgames? To be honest, the question might be better phrased as: Do you even train endgames at all? After all, the magical richness of the final phase of a game is something not everyone appreciates. This makes it all the more important that training is enjoyable and not bogged down by unnecessarily long searches for the right solution. In this regard, the LiveBook feature of ChessBase´26 may not be familiar to everyone. All the more reason, then, to introduce this highly practical tool in this tutorial.

• 25 years ago  –  ChessBase news

  "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.

• Review: Mastering Calculation by Kostya Kavutskiy

  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.