ChessBase 18 – Tips for beginners, part 17: Choosing your board design

Most parts of this tutorial are, of course, about tips and tricks for your analysis. However, it’s often underestimated how important it is to set up your screen in a ...
Most parts of this tutorial are, of course, about tips and tricks for your analysis. However, it’s often underestimated how important it is to set up your screen in a ...
FIDE recognizes a two-stage system for fair-play assurance and cheating detection, called “screening” and “full test.” The regulations actually do not specify that these ...
Today we start with three wonderful little puzzles for you to solve. You probably know that you can move the pieces on the diagrams below. For the first, we have ...
Day 10 The format has two brackets composed of eight players each. The eight-player field competes against each other in knockout style. The double elimination format ...
Yağz Kaan Erdoğmuş – that is how you write his name in Turkish – was introduced to chess by his kindergarten teacher when he was six years old. He showed great talent ...
A brief historical background In 1993 Nigel Short won the Candidates Tournament, defeating former world champion Anatoly Karpov and then Jan Timman, and thus earning the ...
Our boss - the father of the late Soviet chess school chess, trainers are not exposed personalities like in other sports. Everyone grew up under the leadership of ...
Let’s delve into each one of the options and understand them. At the bottom left of a game replay board you see a small green "hamburger menu" (three bars), which when ...
Chess and life expectancy By Prof. Christian Hesse and Frederic Friedel In our final section (there are links to the first three parts at the bottom of the page) we will ...
In the last part of this tutorial, which dealt with the “Position Setup” menu, we briefly mentioned the window on the right in the menu window: Here, because the ...