LIVE: The Biel Chess Festival with Praggnanandhaa, Keymer & Co

The headliners of the tournament are the two grandmaster tournaments, the Masters and, this year, the new Challengers with six participants each, who play in a triathlon with rapid, classical and blitz.  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  Display problems? [To the web view]( [Header] July 2024 Dear Chess Friends,     Biel Chess Festival is one of the strongest and most time-honoured tournaments of the chess year. With a good mix of top players and up-and-coming talents, the festival manages to attract an exciting field of participants year after year. This year, as usual, some of the ChessBase authors will be playing. You can follow the games [live]( on our website. Arne Kähler, who supplies the ChessBase news page with [videos]( will also be there..   [Read more](   [Live games](   Impressions from Biel [Play Icon](   Our star authors play in Biel!   Surya Ganguly [ Surya Ganguly]( Surya Shekhar Ganguly is one of the most decorated Grandmasters that India has produced. His best achievements include winning the National Championship a record six consecutive times from 2003 to 2008, the Asian Continental Championship in 2009, and such monumental open events as the Fujairah International Open in 2012 and the Belt and Road Open in 2019. He has also represented India in as many as six Olympiads and clinched individual golds at the World Teams Championship twice, in 2010 and 2019. Moreover, he has worked in the team of seconds that assisted Vishy Anand to victory in three World Championship Matches, against Kramnik, Topalov, and Gelfand, in 2008, 2010, and 2012, respectively. [Ganguly's Fritztrainer](   Leon Mendonca [ Leon Mendonca]( Luke Leon Mendonca is a young (born 2006) Grandmaster from India who attained the Grandmaster title when he was 14 years old. He’s a very active player and has a lot of opening ideas which he now presents in video courses for ChessBase. [Mendonca's Fritztrainer](   Svitlana Demchenko [ Svitlana Demchenko]( WIM Svitlana Demchenko, born 2003, is a Ukrainian-born Canadian chess player. She was a multiple-time Canadian Girls Champion and a two-time North American Girls Champion in different age categories. Svitlana has been a member of the Canadian Women’s Olympiad Team since 2018, and has represented Canada at the Women’s World Cup. [Demchenko's Fritztrainer](   [Endgame essentials you need to know Vol.1 & Vol 2]( Endgame essentials you need to know Vol.1 & Vol 2 [Order now for 69.90 €]( [The Keymer Variation - 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3]( The Keymer Variation - 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 [Order now for 34.90 €]( [Rock Solid with the Queen's Indian Defence]( Rock Solid with the Queen's Indian Defence [Order now for 36.90 €]( [The Leningrad Dutch Defence - A repertoire against 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3]( The Leningrad Dutch Defence - A repertoire against 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3 [Order now for 32.90 €]( You're a subscriber to the Chessbase newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the Chessbase newsletter, [click here](. ChessBase GmbH Osterbekstr. 90a, 22083 Hamburg, Germany Telephone: +49 40-63 90 60 0 Directors: Matthias Wüllenweber and Rainer Woisin Registered: Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 40336 VAT: DE 118644875 support@chessbase.com © ChessBase GmbH, Hamburg 2024 [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Youtube Icon]( [Tiktok Icon]( [Instagram Icon](