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Magnus Carlsen starts 2026 with a bang - scoring his 21st World Championship title! Magnus has defeated Fabiano Caruana in the finals to become the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Champion 2026.
After two tense draws in the first two games, Magnus pulled off a win from a completely lost position in Game 3 - clutch like he always is! The GOAT of Chess as people call him, Magnus went on to win the 4th game as well to win the finals with a score of 3-1!
The Freestyle World Champion title was one of the only World titles which had eluded Magnus so far. And now he becomes the World Champion in Freestyle Chess as well! What an amazing achievement not only in the history of chess but sports as a whole - 21 World titles!
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Guys, we have launched our first course on ChessRanga - it is called "Caro Kann from Scratch"! It is 6 hours 36 minutes long. It gives you all the insights into the world of Caro Kann and it is made with a very unique interactive technology!
And guess, what is the price of the course - just Rs.36! (US$0.43!) As it was launched on Sagar's 36th birthday we have decided to keep it just Rs.36.
Sagar has worked extremely hard on this course so that beginners and intermediate players (Elo 500 to 2000) can find something of value in this! It focuses on the Classical Variation (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3), the Advance Variation (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5) and the Exchange Variation (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5).
We would love if you can purchase the course, try it out and give us feedback. The idea is to build a website that can bring forth affordable chess courses to the people.
A big shoutout to two of the amazing ChessBase India programmers - Adarsh and Harsh, who have worked extremely hard on this project. Their picture is after they ran the Mumbai Marathon recently!
Here's the link of the course. It's available for people all across the globe: chessranga.com/courses/understanding-caro-kann-fro…
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Hi everyone,
The ChessBase India team will be travelling to the FIDE Freestyle World Championships that will be held in Weissenhaus from 13th to 15th of February 2026.
12th of February is a media day. Hence we will get 10-15 minutes with each of these players:
1. Magnus Carlsen
2. Arjun Erigaisi
3. Fabiano Caruana
4. Vincent Keymer
5. Javokhir Sindarov
6. Hans Niemann
7. Levon Aronian
8. Nodirbek Abdusattorov
What should we do with each of these players on the media day? Do you have some ideas that you would like to share?
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8th of February 2026 - the crowd in London and all across the world were treated to some amazing chess at the Speed Chess Championships 2026. Magnus Carlsen edged out Alireza Firouzja in the finals with a score of 15-12. The match was incredibly close, but Magnus always kept his calm, kept his lead and once again won the title.
The battle for the 3rd spot between Hikaru Nakamura and Denis Lazavik had a very interesting moment. The score was 13-12 in the favour of Denis and Hikaru was winning the final game. It meant that the score would be 13-13 and the match would go into tiebreaks.
But Hikaru blundered and allowed a perpetual. While the game was about to be drawn, and Hikaru was about to lose the match, he started to say, "But anyway it doesn't count." He meant that because the match timer had anyway turned 0, he had already lost the match. But it wasn't the case. In case Hikaru would have won the match even after the time had elapsed, he would have equalized the score. In the end it was Denis who took home the 3rd place.
On the previous day, Alireza Firouzja had edged out Hikaru Nakamura in the semi-finals, while Magnus Carlsen had got the better of Denis Lazavik. The Speed Chess Championships Finals 25-26 were held in London in front of a live audience. This made the entire show very exciting, not just for the fans but also the players. A big shout out to Chess.com for conducting this event in such a beautiful manner. Top 3 players qualify to the esports world cup that will be held later this year - Carlsen, Firouzja and Lazavik.
Photos: chess.com livestream
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BREAKING - Arshiya Das from Tripura becomes the first WIM from North East India
The 2010 born youngster achieved her final WIM norm at the 42nd Rudar IM norm Round Robin tournament in Serbia. She also won the tournament scoring 6.5/9 and beating some strong players in the process - FM Mihailo Djokic (2253), FM Prishita Gupta (2287), Aanjaneya Phatak (2154), GM Branko Damljanovic (2355) and GM VLadimir Raicevic (2331).
With this tournament performance she crossed the LIVE rating of 2300 and also made her first WGM norm. Arshiya's LIVE rating is around 2377 right now. However, she is going to play more tournaments this month and this will lead to more rating fluctuations and adjustments to her K-factor.
Speaking to ChessBase India, Arshiya's father Purnendu Das mentions, "We, the parents of Arshiya, want to thank IM Kaustuv Kundu, GM Swayams Mishra for personal coaching given to her. We also would like to thank the Chola Chess Academy and Killer Chess Training. Our sincere gratitude to the Government of Tripura. HelpChess Foundation has helped us with the S.Krishnan scholarship and now the Quantbox Research Scholarship. A big thanks to ChessBase India's YouTube members for enabling her to work with a new laptop."
Arshiya's feat is absolutely amazing! She will become an inspiration for more players, especially girls to pursue chess seriously from North East India. In spite of all the limitations with regards to resources, her determination, hard work and will to succeed has led her to where she is! A big congratulations to her and the entire team! Now onwards to WGM title, then IM and GM titles! All the best Arshiya Das - we are all rooting for your success!
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MASTERS
Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 is the Champion of Tata Steel Chess Masters 2026! Playing brilliantly throughout the whole tournament, Nodirbek finished it off with two clutch wins in the last two rounds - beating Matthias Blübaum in Round 12, and taking down Arjun Erigaisi with the Black pieces in the final round today!
Nodirbek scored an amazing 9/13 points. The Uzbekistan no.1 player and Former World Rapid Champion lost just one game in the entire tournament, drew 6 games and won 6 games!
A huge congratulations to Nodirbek Abdusattorov for this incredible performance. He is World no.5 right now with a live rating of 2770.5 - gaining a massive 19.5 rating points at Wijk Aan Zee!
CHALLENGERS
16-year-old US Grandmaster Andy Woodward is the Champion of Tata Steel Chess Challengers 2026! Andy dominated the better part of the event, and scored a critical win against GM Erwin L'Ami in the final round today to clinch the tournament with 10/13 points.
Andy gained 23 rating points thanks to his amazing performance in Wijk Aan Zee - and most importantly, he has qualified to play the Tata Steel Chess Masters 2027, a pivotal moment in the career of any young top player! Andy started with a tough loss against Bibisara Assaubayeva, but didn't let that deter him - he went on to win the next 5 games in a row.
Andy Woodward is a student at the Kasparov Chess Foundation, and was greeted with a nice congratulatory message from none other than Garry Kasparov on X today. Maybe this is the rise of another top youngster in the chess world!
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Happy Republic Day! 😍 On this day in 1950, the constitution of India was adopted and our country became a republic which came into effect on 26th of January 1950!
Indian chess is on the rise. We have 92 GMs, the World Champion, Olympiad Gold medal winners in both open and women and we hope that this year 2026 will be another awesome one!
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18th of January 2026 is the 10th year anniversary of ChessBase India. We began 10 years ago in 2016. A big thank you to everyone who has been a part of this journey.
We are writing an article on this occasion and if you have
1. Any experience or an anecdote that you would like to share, please do so.
2. Any feedback for improvement if you have
We will incorporate the best ones in the article on our ChessBase India newspage (www.chessbase.in)
What we have built would be nothing without the community that exists! Hence, we would like to take this opportunity to thank each one of you who has contributed in some form or the other to help us continue our mission of "Powering Chess in India and the world!"
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It was a beautiful start to the year 2026 for Nihal Sarin. The youngster from Kerala won the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 2026 with a clear half point ahead of the field scoring 6.5/9. Nihal performed at an Elo of 2839 and won games against Aravindh, Niemann, Murzin, Vidit and Wesley So.
Nihal after winning the tournament, dedicated his win to his maternal grandfather AA Ummar, who passed away yesterday. It was extremely tough for Nihal, as his grandfather was the one who had taught him chess. He played today's games thinking about him.
Vishy Anand, the legend of Indian chess, finished sole second with 6.0/9. The third place went to 3 players Arjun Erigaisi, Wesley So, Hans Niemann - all of whom finished with 5.0/9.
Nihal's victory is very special because just a week before the event, he was not even in the list of participants. It was only when the World Champion D. Gukesh pulled out from the event, that Nihal got a chance to play here. And he made the chance count by winning with an amazing performance. Whenever Nihal wins, we are reminded that "Kind and good people do not always finish last! In fact they can even finish ahead of everyone else!"
Kudos to the Champ! It seems that the year 2026 will belong to Nihal Sarin! 😍
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