8/11/2025 – Vincent Keymer kept the sole lead in the main section of the Chennai Grand Masters after drawing with Anish Giri, while Nihal Sarin scored his first win by defeating top seed Arjun Erigaisi. Karthikeyan Murali also won, against Jorden van Foreest. Keymer leads on 3½ points, a full point ahead of Arjun. In the Challengers, Abhimanyu Puranik reached 3½/4 with a win over Vaishali Rameshbabu, moving half a point clear of M Pranesh, Diptayan Ghosh and Leon Luke Mendonca. | Photos: Anmol Bhargav

8/10/2025 – The 111th edition of the British Chess Championship is taking place on 2-10 August at the St George's Hall in Liverpool. The main event is a 9-round Swiss open with a classical time control. Topping the starting rank are Nikita Vitiugov, Michael Adams and Gawain Jones. Also noteworthy is the presence of 16-year-old GM Shreyas Royal and 10-year-old prodigy Bodhana Sivanandan. | Follow the games live starting at 15.30 CEST (9.30 ET, 19.00 IST)

8/10/2025 – The 52nd edition of the Dortmund Chess Festival is taking place on 2-10 August at the Kulturzentrum in the largest city of the Ruhr District. European champion Matthias Bluebaum is the rating favourite in the A Open. On Sunday, the International Women's Tournament begins, featuring four representatives from three countries: Elisabeth Paehtz, Dinara Wagner, 15-year-old Chinese champion Lu Miaoyi and Deimanté Daulyté-Cornette of France. | Follow the action live starting at 15.00 CEST (9.00 ET, 18.30 IST)

8/10/2025 – It’s often the small tricks that make training clearer and more effective. One such feature in ChessBase 18 is the ability to insert null moves. This can be especially helpful in chess training or analysis. In this short and concise tutorial, you'll learn how to use null moves effectively.

8/10/2025 – Round eight of the 2025 British Chess Championship in Liverpool produced a six-way tie for the lead ahead of Sunday’s early-start finale (the last round starts at 11.00 CEST, 4½ hours earlier than usual). Michael Adams drew with defending champion Gawain Jones, while Stuart Conquest defeated Shreyas Royal after the youngster faltered decisively early in the middlegame. Joining Adams and Conquest on 6 points are Nikita Vitiugov, Peter Roberson, Richard Pert and Maciej Czopor. | Photos: Official website

8/10/2025 – Four decisive games in round three of the Masters section at the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters saw Vincent Keymer keep his perfect score by defeating Karthikeyan Murali, while Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujrathi, and Awonder Liang also won with the white pieces. Keymer leads on 3/3, with Arjun half a point behind. In the Challengers, Abhimanyu Puranik and M Pranesh both scored to remain joint leaders on 2½ points, ahead of Leon Luke Mendonca and Diptayan Ghosh. | Photos: Anmol Bhargav

8/7/2025 – Since the other players in the leading group at the British Championship had to settle for draws, Michael Adams took sole lead with a win. Facing Shreyas Royal's Sicilian Defence, Adams chose a seemingly quiet setup that was everything but harmless. | Photos: Yury Krylov/ English Chess Federation

8/7/2025 – The trend is toward speeding things up, chess being no exception. Today in Katowice, Poland, World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and Poland’s number one, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, face off in a six-game blitz match (3+2). If the score is tied after six games, an Armageddon game will decide the winner. ChessBase India will broadcast the short duel live, starting at 11:00 CEST.

8/7/2025 – Round three of the Women Masters and round five of the A-Open took place on Wednesday at the Dortmund Chess Festival. In the Women Masters, Lu Miaoyi kept her perfect score by defeating Elisabeth Paehtz in a sharp, tactical battle, while Dinara Wagner bounced back with a win over Deimantė Daulytė-Cornette. Meanwhile, in the A-Open, draws on the top boards allowed International Masters Nitish Belurkar and Ashot Parvanyan to join the leading group. | Photo: Dariusz Gorzinski

8/6/2025 – German national player Dinara Wagner has won the blitz tournament at the Sparkassen Chess Trophy International Women's Tournament. She prevailed against the competition at the German Football Museum – a strong performance that will have an impact on the ongoing main tournament at the International Dortmund Chess Days. It was not only a closed tournament on the stage of the "N11" in the football museum, but also served as an early tiebreak for the classic tournament format, which will continue until Sunday. | Photo: Dariusz Gorzinski/ Dortmunder Schachtage

8/6/2025 – Seven players share the lead at the halfway mark of the traditional Zeeland University Open in Vlissingen, each with 4.5 points after five rounds. Among them are top seed Pavel Eljanov, as well as two Germans: Daniel Hausrath and Tim Ronge, the U16 champion of Rhineland-Palatinate. A mid-tournament report by Gerd Densing. | Photos: Gerd Densing

8/6/2025 – It was the ever observant Leonard Barden who pointed it out to me: for the first time since FIDE began publishing its rating lists, 1971, there are no Russians in the top ten. The Guardian's weekly chess columnist turns 96 this month, and still keeps providing us with interesting reports.