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• Puzzle Fight: Leon Mendonca and Aram Hakobyan try out the new ChessBase app

  Since Leon Mendonca and Aram Hakobyan were both visiting the ChessBase office, we handed them a beta version to puzzle fight each other. The app launched this weekend, it's free, and you can try Puzzle Fight yourself. Fair warning: it's hard to stop, as the video proves.

• Super Rapid & Blitz Poland: Five players share the lead on 4/6

  The Super Rapid & Blitz Poland tournament opened in Warsaw, with the three first rounds of rapid chess leaving a five-way tie for first place in the standings. Fabiano Caruana, Javokhir Sindarov, Wesley So (pictured), Vladimir Fedoseev and Hans Niemann all scored 4/6, with Sindarov and Niemann the only unbeaten players among them. Gukesh Dommaraju finished one point behind, ahead of Wednesday's round-five clash with Sindarov, his future World Championship challenger. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

• TePe Sigeman - Live!

  The TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament is taking place on 1–7 May in Malmö, Sweden. World number one Magnus Carlsen heads the field, as he faces ambitious opposition that includes Tata Steel Masters winner Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Arjun Erigaisi and rising star Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, who recently became the youngest player to ever cross the 2700 rating mark. The event is an eight-player single round-robin. Follow the games live starting at 15.00 CEST (9.00 ET, 18.30 IST) | Photo: Peter Doggers / Official website

• Watch the World Chess Festival

  So many top chess tournaments taking place, all at the same time. How can you keep abreast? We will tell you how ChessBase provides you with all the live games. Take for example this exciting FIDE event, with former World Championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi, marking a rare appearance in an open. To follow this or many other tournaments, you just need to go to the ChessBase Live Broadcast page. Try it out.

• TePe Sigeman: Erdogmus becomes sole leader, Van Foreest beats Carlsen

  Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (pictured) became the sole leader of the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament after beating Nils Grandelius on Monday, as the Turkish prodigy is the only player on a plus-two score with three rounds to go in Malmö. Jorden van Foreest scored his first-ever win over Magnus Carlsen in what turned out to be an exciting, 88-move battle, while Zhu Jiner defeated Andy Woodward. Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Arjun Erigaisi drew and are tied for second place with Van Foreest, half a point behind Erdogmus. | Photo: Peter Doggers / Official website

• 8-year-old Tamizh Amudhan defeats Vincent Keymer: Against all odds

  It was a rainy night in Sivakasi, and there was a power cut, but it didn't stop 8-year-old Tamizh Amudhan from playing Freestyle Friday on chess.com. The laptop was on, the mobile hotspot was connected, the candle was lit, and the spirit was high as usual. It was 8:30 PM IST on 1 May when Tamizh Amudhan got paired up against elite GM Vincent Keymer, who recently qualified for the Freestyle World Championship 2027 after winning the Grenke Freestyle Chess tournament, and guess what happened? Check out the game in this article.

• Problem Challenge April

  Were you able to handle the four rook endgame studies we showed you recently? They were a little bit harder to solve than they looked. We now bring you all the intricacies and subtleties in short videos by IM Gauri Shankar, who works as a chess trainer in Chicago. And of course we give you full analysis in a ChessBase replayer, where you can switch on an engine to help resolve any residual questions.

• Regulations for FIDE Rapid and Blitz

  Preparations are fully underway for the FIDE World Team Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2026 in Hong Kong from 16 to 22 June. In previous editions, the tournament has featured numerous top players competing alongside amateurs and rising talents, producing a dynamic atmosphere rarely seen in traditional elite events. Magnus Carlsen is expected to participate in Hong Kong, adding further star power to the competition.

• Candidates Round 14 - Live!

  The Candidates Tournaments form the final qualifying stage of the FIDE World Championship cycle. Each tournament features eight of the world's strongest players competing in a double round-robin format over fourteen rounds of classical chess. No fewer than six players (out of eight) enter the final round with mathematical chances of winning the Women's Candidates Tournament. | Follow the games live with expert commentary starting at 14.30 CEST (8.30 ET, 18.00 IST) | Photo: Michal Walusza

• A Game That Outlasted the Day (4)

  It should be clearly emphasized that the longest chess game of all time can only arise by chance. Any prior agreement between the opponents before the game—such as, "Let’s play the longest game in history today!" – or any such understanding reached during the game, automatically turns them into cheaters, with all the ensuing consequences. Estonian chess expert and trainer, Valery Golubenko, tells us about the struggle to regulate very long theoretical endings.