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Visakh NR joint winner at the Alekhine Memorial 2019 in Voronezh

04/07/2019 -

Fighting against some of the strongest Russian players on their home soil, India's 60th GM Visakh NR finished as the joint winner along with GM Boris Savchenko at the 23rd edition of the Alekhine Memorial in Voronezh. Visakh played some enterprising chess and took great risks to play for wins with both white and black pieces. In this report you will find not just pictures from the event, but also detailed game analysis and also four instructive video interviews. In those videos you can see how four GMs analyze their best games over a chess board with plenty of variations, concepts and ideas. A power packed report from Voronezh in Russia by Rupalli Mullick. 

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A unique story of an 11-year-old Nashik boy, who got his Elo of 1713 in his first rating tournament

04/07/2019 -

ChessBase India has over the years published some astonishing stories that have inspired and amazed our readers. By now we have learnt not to get surprised by surprising stories. But every once in while you get to know about someone and their story simply takes your breath away. In this article we acquaint you with a story of an 11-year-old boy from Nashik Kaivalya Nagare. In his first rating tournament Kaivalya scored 7.0/10 and got a rating of 1713 on 1st of July 2019. What was the study material that Kaivalya's coach used to make him reach this level? How did his father take the bold step of pulling him out of school even when his son was just an unrated player? Read on to know more!

Nepo falls for the Magnus bluff!

04/07/2019 -

Magnus Carlsen has emerged as the sole leader of the ongoing Croatia Grand Chess Tour 2019 by beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the seventh round of the event. In what was an unusually closed position, the World Champion found creative ways to test his opponent. Nepo finally gave away and fell for a cheap trap Magnus had set that brought in a lethal onslaught on his king. Elsewhere, Sergey Karjakin blundered away a sure victory against Wesley So by overlooking a winning tactic. Vishy Anand, Levon Aronian, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov drew their respective games relatively quickly against Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura, and Maxime-Vachier Lagrave. Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri played the longest game of the day as they battled out for 54 moves before splitting the points.

The Dvoretsky books are now available in India at special discounted price!

03/07/2019 -

In 2018 we began with the Quality Chess Books and they were greatly loved by people all across the country. Staying true with our aim of bringing in high quality publications to India at affordable prices, we have been able to get six titles of Mark Dvoretsky by Russell Publications to India at a highly discounted price. Mark Dvoretsky, who passed away in 2016, was considered by many as the greatest chess author and trainer who ever lived. His books have the capacity to help you become a stronger player. The six titles which are now available in India and the Indian subcontinent are Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (DEM), Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual (DAM), Recognizing opponent's resources, Tragicomedy in the endgame, Chess Lessons and the Art of Maneuvring. In this article you get to know more about the price of the books and also the contents.

ChessBase 15: The new fast reference search

03/07/2019 -

If you want to work on your openings the reference search is crucial. And in ChessBase 15 the reference search is much faster than before — two to four times faster, depending on your computer. To quote Vishy Anand: "The search booster alone makes life better!" The fast search helps to improve your opening preparation enormously. Our tutorial shows how and why.  Drawing: ChessBase

Mr. Commonwealth beats India's triple national champion

03/07/2019 -

The Commonwealth Championships taking place in Delhi from the 30th of June to 7th of July is an important event in the world chess calendar. The tournament is even more exciting because we have the four-time Commonwealth winner Abhijeet Gupta taking part. And as expected he is the sole leader of the tournament with 4.0/4. He is being closely pursued by Saravana Krishna, Debashis Das and R.R. Laxman. We also have 14 age category events taking place. The morning rounds are of the age category players, while in the evenings we have the rounds of the open section. This allows the players to play in both open and age categories, which many youngsters are taking advantage of! Who knows we might have an under-16 or an under-18 Commonwealth champion, also becoming the open champion! Report after round 4. 

Vidit shows great fighting chess in first three rounds of Danzhou GM 2019

03/07/2019 -

India no.3 Vidit Gujrathi is known for his solidity and his ability to lose very few games in a calendar year. This has served him well in the past and with it he was able to breach the 2700 Elo mark. But it seems like Vidit had stagnated in the 2700-2720 zone in the last couple of years. One of the main reasons was that he was often playing too safely. It's not that Vidit is a bad attacking player. Check out his queen sacrifices from Isle of Man 2018, or his win against Kramnik from Wijk Aan Zee - Vidit knows how to attack! Well, at the Hainan Danzhou Chess 2019, he has decided to attack right from the word go. In three rounds he has played three aggressive games and has 1.5/3. In this article we check out his win against the strong Russian GM Ernesto Inarkiev. 

I want to be a GM as soon as possible: Leon Luke Mendonca

02/07/2019 -

While chess in Goa has picked up a few notches in recent years, it has much scope for improvement. In Category A, Goa’s lone Grandmaster Anurag Mhamal (2497) and IM Leon Mendonca (2405), were the best performers with 6.5 points in the final count. Mhamal finished on 35th position with 6.5 points after his last round win against the very promising Ritviz Parab (2357) when the latter resigned in a lost rook endgame. On the other hand, Goa's IM Leon Mendonca secured a memorable draw in his final round against India's 61st GM P Iniyan (2525) also to tally 6.5 points and end respectably on 42nd in the standings. Photo: Basil Sylvester Pinto

The launch of ChessBase India App

02/07/2019 -

We have launched the ChessBase India App! What are the things that you can do with it? Well, from just one screen, you can now follow all the articles published on the ChessBase India newspage, get access to world's most powerful free calendar, a video section with 2400 videos segregated based on various themes, a powerful search function that helps you search across the articles, tournaments and videos, an ability to stay updated with all the social media (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook) accounts of ChessBase India and last but not the least a position for the day, to keep you in the best possible chess shape. The app is completely free and can be downloaded from the Google Playstore. In this article we give you a detailed breakdown of all the features and how you can extract maximum from this powerful resource.

I play chess to gain experience and improve my game: lone Afghan player at the 2nd Goa GM 2019

01/07/2019 -

He might be one of the lesser rated players representing his country in a high profile Grandmaster Open in Taleigao in Category A, and the only Afghan among 1300 odd players across the three categories, but he is not overawed by the magnitude of the event and takes it as a learning curve. Meet an unassuming 18-year-old Sepehr Sakhawaty (Elo rating 1774) from Herat, Afghanistan who is on the concluding leg of a three-city GM Open tournament maiden visit to India that ends here today. Photo: Basil Sylvester Pinto

The Goa Chronicles - how Carlsen and Anand helped me shoot for the stars!

01/07/2019 -

It was a tough few months on the chess circuit for Tanmay Srinath. His rating was stuck at 1300 for the last few years, and despite improvement he was unable to make a break through. All that began to change with one thing - reporting on top level events for ChessBase India! Tanmay Srinath has been reporting on top level events for ChessBase India since some months and he was able to use this knowledge, to gain 70 Elo points with a K-factor of 20 and finish in the top quarter despite starting in the lower half at the Goa GM 2019 B category! Here is Tanmay's story of how analyzing the games of the current chess elite helped him improve his playing strength, and how he learnt from his mistakes at Goa 2018 to make Goa 2019 all the more memorable! 

Upcoming tournaments in July 2019

01/07/2019 -

The month of July is relatively relaxed with less major tournaments compared to the last few months. The very first day of July pawns off with a tournament in Georgia with over EUR 15K+ prize fund. Then Catalan Circuit continues with tournaments at Benasque and Barbera del Valles from 4th July. Ivanchuk, Maghsoodloo and Nihal will be seen in action at Leon from 4th-8th July. 1st Thailand Chess Festival starts from 7th July with a variety of tournaments. World Junior for Disabled, Paracin, Czech Tour, National Sub-Junior, National Women's Senior, Asian Cities Team, Riga GP, Tal Memorial Blitz, Xtracon Open, Biel Masters, Sant Marti, Sitges, Arad International, Paris Grand Chess Tour, Belt and Hunan Road and many more tournaments are scheduled for the month of July.

Armenians rule 2nd Goa GM Open 2019

30/06/2019 -

Eight days and ten rounds of intensive chess in the standard format at the 2nd Goa International GM Chess Open at Taleigao which concluded on Tuesday saw both the Armenian Grandmasters in the fray take the first two positions. Talking of the great vibe he has with his Armenian GM compatriot, Ter-Sahakyan revealed that he spends a lot of time with Petrosyan on and off tours through chess. “We had a little (training) session together before coming to India. Here, we are always together. We help each other during the preparation. I can say we are good friends,” asserts Samvel. Photo: Basil Sylvester Pinto

Knight endings are not always like pawn endings!

29/06/2019 -

Mikhail Botvinnik once said, "Knight endgames are like pawn endgames." With this statement he meant that if you have reached a knight endgame, take out the knights from the board and if the pawn endgame is winning for one side, then the knight endgame would also be winning for the same side. Vishy Anand, however, begged to differ with Botvinnik's views in the second round of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour 2019. Anand was playing against Carlsen and was a pawn down in the knight endgame. It looked like the game was over and that Vishy should resign. But Anand found one resource after another and miraculously held the position in which he had a pawn against Carlsen's queen and a knight! Complete analysis of this fascinating endgame.

Kidambi on Rathnakaran's Immortal Queen Sacrifice

29/06/2019 -

India's 19th Grandmaster Sundararajan Kidambi writes on Rathnakaran's latest incredible Queen Sacrifice against GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili (2609) of Georgia in round 3 of 2nd Goa GM International Open 2019. This is Kidambi's second post of the month on his blog after more than a yearlong hiatus from blog posts. We all are aware of Kidambi's impeccable knowledge of the game and how meticulous he is with his analysis. In this article, he discusses the game with incredible details. He also shares past instances of sacrifices in Rathnakaran's games. Photo: ChessBase India archive/Niklesh Jain

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