Ideas, Openings & Improvement

The database that has powered professional chess preparation since 1986 now belongs to a Kazakhstan-based fintech conglomerate. Here is what that actually changes.

Freedom Holding says AI is central to its ChessBase plans. The announcement itself is light on what that actually means. Here is what we know, and don't yet.

A World Champion mentioned, almost in passing, that a searchable game database would help his preparation. Forty years later, that offhand comment still shapes how every serious player studies.