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• Clutch Chess: Nakamura leads after lively first day of action

  Hikaru Nakamura took the early lead at the Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown tournament in Saint Louis, scoring two wins and four draws to finish day one on 4/6 points. Javokhir Sindarov follows half a point behind, while Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu occupy third and fourth place. The opening day featured five decisive games and plenty of exciting battles. Victories will be worth increasingly more points over the next two days. | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Saint Louis Chess Club

• Second GM norm puts 11-year-old Shogdzhiev on course for historic achievement

  Eleven-year-old Roman Shogdzhiev has earned his second grandmaster norm after scoring 6/9 at the Serbian Super League, where he represented Partizan Belgrade. The Russian youngster gained 26 rating points and now needs one more norm to secure the GM title. With eight months remaining to break Abhimanyu Mishra's age record, Shogdzhiev has a realistic chance of becoming the youngest grandmaster in history. | Photo: Eteri Kublashvili

• KazChess Masters Almaty 2026 - Live!

  The KazChess Masters Almaty 2026 takes place from 26 October to 3 November in Kazakhstan. The ten-player invitational tournament brings together five international grandmasters and five players from the host country. Among the best-known participants are Muhammad Muradli, Daniil Dubov and Denis Lazavik, who recently reached the Esports World Cup final. Another player to watch is 14-year-old Kazakh talent Mark Smirnov (pictured). | Live from approximately 6:15 AM ET / 3:45 PM IST / 11:15 AM CET | Photo: Kazakhstan Chess Federation

• Timur Turlov outlines plans to restructure FIDE

  FIDE President Timur Turlov has presented plans for a new organizational structure aimed at clarifying responsibilities, improving governance and strengthening the federation's international activities. The proposed changes include a stronger role for the FIDE Council, a new Advisory Board and several leadership appointments. Turlov also outlined plans to expand support for national federations, chess education and international partnerships.

• Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are 2026 European Club Cup champions

  Bayegan Pendik and Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo won the European Club Cup titles in Budva, both finishing level on match points with their closest rivals and prevailing on tiebreaks. Novy Bor took silver in the open section, while Gambit Bonnevoie finished second in the women's competition. Meanwhile, 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan completed her final international master norm, becoming the youngest female player to fulfil the requirements for the title. | Photo: Gerd Densing

• Review: My favourite FritzTrainer courses

  For Jochen Schwarz, club player from Bremen, FritzTrainer courses have become an essential part of his hobby. Over the past ten years, he has studied numerous courses and now shares some of the favourites that have impressed him most.

• My 70th Memorable Game

  On 17th October 1956, a sensational sacrificial game played in New York City by a 13-year-old chess upstart from Brooklyn shot across the globe. It was a game that literally took the chess world by storm. It contains a stunning sacrificial onslaught and is regarded as one of the most famous games of chess that has ever been played. In the October issue of CHESS magazine John Henderson recalls the game that made 13-year-old Bobby Fischer famous. It was played seventy years ago, today.

• ChessBase´26 – Tips for Beginners, part 32: Training with style

  It’s once again time to think about aesthetics in ChessBase´26 training: Have you ever noticed the “Style” option? If not, in this episode we’ll explain briefly and concisely how you can better adapt your screen display to your own taste.

• 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.

• ChessBase´26 – Tips for Beginners, part 30: Use "Folders"

  ChessBase´26 is amazingly versatile and often surprisingly user-friendly — as the first 29 parts of this tutorial series have already shown! One particularly important feature in this context is the “Folders” window, which lets you quickly locate anything you want to use within your storage directories. In this episode, we’ll show you how to activate the window (in case it’s been disabled) and what you can view and work with there.