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Four Anefo photographs from Dutch tournaments
Hort and Balashov at Wijk aan Zee in 1973, the Hoogovens playing hall in 1970, and Quinteros and Miles in Amsterdam in 1977.
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ADDITIONS TO CLASSIC CHESS
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Use a security key for two-factor authentication
Register a YubiKey or another security key, keep your authenticator app, and choose either method when signing in.
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A Lichess-style viewer layout
Choose a centered board with the move panel on its right.
Events
Historical tournaments and game collections
Historical events add preserved games, original tables and clear accounts of the surviving record.
Events
Historical tournaments and their surviving scores
Tournament archives add original standings and explain the limits of their surviving scores.
Annotated
Six more annotated chess books
Explore 1,265 game annotations from four Staunton classics and two books by Steinitz.
Events
New York club champions and Benkö in Iceland
Marshall’s 1956–57 championship and Hafnarfjörður 1957 add surviving scores and sourced final standings.
Events
Historical championships and preserved records
Championship archives add surviving scores, published standings and clear accounts of missing games.
Events
Historical matches, tournaments and game collections
Historical matches and tournaments, with clear notices where game scores are missing.
Players
Two new study players
Ivan Sokolov and Vladimir Malakhov join the Study players.
Players
A new study player
Levon Aronian joins the Study players.
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Three photographs by Douglas Griffin
Mikhail Tal in Glenrothes in 1988, and two views of the 1984/85 Moscow championship table in the Chess Museum.
Annotated
19 more annotated chess books
Explore 918 game annotations and 5,084 move notes from original English editions.
Events
Historical championships and game collections
New events and expanded collections spanning 1841–1977, from nineteenth-century informal games to national championships.
Gallery
Seven historical chess photographs
Six photographs shared with permission from the Chess Federation of Russia, and Fritz Cohen’s view of the 1964 Olympiad headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Events
106 festival collections added to the Event Index
Berliner Sommer, Bad Wörishofen, Biel, Dortmund, Staufer, Andorra, Dresden and Geneva editions from 1985 to 2005.
Events
Recurring events move from Misc into 459 new series
3,071 events left Misc for their own series, so recurring events now sit with their other editions.
Events
223 historical collections added to the Event Index
Early matches, national championships, international team events and historical game collections.
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Three historical chess photographs from Israel and the Netherlands
István Csom at Ramat Aviv in 1989, and two photographs of Theo van Scheltinga at Hoogovens in 1964.
Apps
Android app 2.31: your library, account and alerts on your phone
The Android app now does what the website does with your collections, starred games, imports and account, shows phone alerts, and opens Classic Chess links.
Events
More rapid tournaments and national matches join the archive
Amber rapid editions, Paris Immopar tournaments, national team matches and classical events from 1978 onward.
Events
80 historical events join the archive
Matches, zonal tournaments, national championships and invitationals from 1834 to 1977.
Gallery
Seven chess photographs from the National Library of Georgia
Eduard Gufeld, Tamas Giorgadze, Nana Alexandria and Nana Ioseliani, Viktor Korchnoi, Genrikh Kasparian and Andor Lilienthal, and Akaki Pirtskhalava and Viacheslav Ragozin.
Players
Six new study players
Ilya Rabinovich, Peter Romanovsky, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, Valery Salov, Maia Chiburdanidze and Andrei Sokolov join the Study players.
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Solve puzzles with an AI agent
An AI agent or your own program can now open puzzles from your rotation, save how you did, and read your figures and puzzle history.
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Solve 2,680 puzzles from master games
Find the move a master played in positions from real games between 1620 and 2010, with 1,475 forced checkmates among them.
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Find your way with Site links
Search for help, API documentation, players, account settings and other pages from the header.
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Four photographs from the Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum
Paul Keres in a 1975 portrait, with Boris Spassky in Tallinn, playing Mikhail Tal in 1973, and giving a simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad in 1946.
Events
1,303 more events from 1978 to 2005 join the archive
Tournaments, team championships, matches and man-versus-machine encounters from 1978 through 2005.
Events
1,326 small events from 1848 to 1977 join the archive
Odds games, consultations, radio matches and club contests, from Morphy to Tal and Fischer.
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Build a personal study plan
Save ordered games with your own notes, track studied games, and find lessons by chess theme.
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Books on player biographies
Player biographies now list books the player wrote, co-wrote, edited, or contributed to, with a book count beside their facts and stats.
Players
More stories from My Great Predecessors
New biography material on Fine, Gligorić, Portisch, Timman, Zaitsev, and other players from Kasparov’s five-volume history.
Players
Twenty-five new study players
Twenty-five players join the Study players, from Daniel Harrwitz and Oldřich Duras to Nona Gaprindashvili, John Nunn and Eugenio Torre.
Gallery
211 new photographs in the Gallery
Photographs from Groningen 1946, Sopot 1951, Hoogovens, the Amsterdam IBM tournaments, and Ulf Andersson’s early years.
Events
Two World Cups and the Unzicker Gala
All 187 games from the 2000 and 2002 FIDE World Cups and Mainz’s 2005 Unzicker gala.
Events
Belgrade, Reykjavík and New York opens
1,793 available native scores from Belgrade 1988, Reykjavík 1986 and New York 1989.
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The Russian amateur championship of 1909 joins the archive
All 141 played games from Alekhine’s victory in St Petersburg.
Events
New York 1889 and Munich 1936 join the archive
1,090 playable scores from two historic congresses, including 31 original position fragments.
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Berlin 1897 and Bad Pyrmont 1933 join the archive
233 playable scores from two historic German tournaments.
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Tilburg, World Seniors and the 2005 World Cup
1,483 available games from Tilburg 1994, the 2000 World Senior Championship and the 2005 FIDE World Cup.
Events
Stockholm 1906 joins the Event Archive
62 surviving MasterDB scores from the tournament shared by Bernstein and Schlechter.
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A second Gym bot, the Study Masters Bot
The Gym's new bot was trained on the wins of all 146 masters on the Players page.
Events
The Rice Chess Club tournament of 1913 joins the archive
54 surviving scores from Capablanca’s perfect-score victory in New York.
Events
Three exhibition matches from 2003–2004
Twelve available games from Kasparov–X3D Fritz, Kramnik versus Germany, and Karpov–Susan Polgar.
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Bahrain and Mainz matches join the archive
All 16 games from Kramnik–Deep Fritz in 2002 and Anand–Polgar in 2003.
Events
Three more matches from 2001–2003
All 26 games from two Mainz champion matches and Kasparov–Deep Junior in New York.
Events
Five knockout events from 1993–2002
1,291 games from Tilburg 1993, the 1999 and 2001–2002 FIDE championships, and the Dubai and Moscow Grand Prix events of 2002.
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Two interwar tournaments join the archive
89 available scores from Stockholm 1920 and Rogaška Slatina 1929.
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More chess history on the homepage
On a computer, the homepage card now turns between today's picks and a look back at chess history, with a player of the day and an event of the day, and its portrait strip runs through chess history.
Events
New York 1913 and Le Havre 1977 join the archive
178 surviving scores from tournaments won by Capablanca and Sveshnikov.
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Vilnius 1912 and Bad Homburg 1927 join the archive
70 surviving scores from tournaments won by Rubinstein and Bogoljubov.
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Manchester, Vienna and Scheveningen join the archive
157 surviving scores from Manchester 1890, Vienna 1913 and Scheveningen 1933, won by Tarrasch, Spielmann and Flohr.
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Baden-Baden 1870 joins the archive
68 surviving games from the tournament won by Adolf Anderssen.
Events
43 more events join the archive
1,978 recorded games from tournaments and matches played between 1893 and 1999.
Players
Nine new study players
Louis Paulsen, Jacques Mieses, Gyula Breyer, Friedrich Sämisch, Gösta Stoltz, Herman Pilnik, Wolfgang Unzicker, Robert Byrne and Walter Browne join the Study players.
Events
19 more events join the archive
1,700 recorded games from tournaments and matches played between 1878 and 2004.
Players
Nine new study players
Henry Bird, Vera Menchik, Erich Eliskases, Vlastimil Hort, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Tony Miles, Ulf Andersson and Rafael Vaganian join the Study players.
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Events
49 events join the Event Index
4,325 recorded games from tournaments and matches played between 1909 and 2005.
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Read annotated games in the original book
Annotated game pages now show the game's pages from the original book, next to the board.
Players
Eight new study players
Karel Opočenský, Vladas Mikėnas, Larry Evans, Pal Benko, Karl Robatsch, Eduard Gufeld, Zoltán Ribli and Evgeny Bareev join the Study players.
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Head-to-head records beside the board
Game information now shows the players’ head-to-head record, with links to their stats and games against each other.
Gallery
15 new photographs in the Gallery
New photographs from the Nationaal Archief and Wikimedia Commons, from Groningen 1946 to the IBM tournaments in Amsterdam.
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Explore openings from Masters and Lichess
The desktop Opening Explorer now brings the board, search filters and game results together in one panel, with a new Lichess source.
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Play the Gym's bots
Every account can now play the Gym's trained bots on the web, in the Android app and through the API.
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Download any game as an MP4 video
Every game that can be downloaded as a GIF now has a Download MP4 key beside it, for sites such as Instagram that don't take GIFs.
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What's New on Classic Chess
A new page under About lists the larger additions to the site, newest first, with an Atom feed.
Events
The Event Index reaches 2,165 tournaments and matches
Hundreds of complete historical events were imported in September, from formal matches of the 1860s to round robins of the 2000s.
Gallery
103 new photographs in the Gallery
New photographs from the De Boer film collection, the Nationaal Archief, Fortepan and the Groninger Archieven.
Annotated
207 more annotated games from public-domain books
The Annotated Games collection now has 1,259 games and 10,892 notes from 12 books.