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Today we offer readers a glimpse of what had been happening behind the scenes of “The Match of The Century”, especially in the Russian camp, exactly fifty years ago. A tense Boris Spassky, cajoled by seconds Efim Geller and Nikolai Krogius, nevertheless failed to perform, to the dismay of his friends and admirers. It’s also the story of a gamble that could have hurtled Bobby down the precipice in that fateful Game 6 of the match. A cautionary tale and object lesson for aspiring players.

The PlusCity Rapid Open took place in the Austrian municipality of Pasching with a prize fund of 15,000 euros. Czech grandmaster Vojtech Plat won with a 7½/9 score. Plat had the same score as his grandmaster colleagues Anton Demchenko, Milos Jirovsky, Daniel Fridman and Andreas Heimann, but took home the first prize thanks to his tiebreak score. | Photos: Peter Kranzl

Bent Larsen is the "hero" of the new issue of ChessBase Magazine. In CBM #207 our authors — among others Emanuel Berg, Jan Markos and Yannick Pelletier — comment on their favourite game of the great Dane. CBM readers can expect a collection of 19 special encounters from the period 1956 to 1998. In addition, Mihail Marin presents Larsen as a "universal player" in his strategy column and Karsten Mueller analyses a selection of Larsen's best endgames. You can watch the L...

Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 75th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman shows how to put pressure on your opponent. | Photo: Pascal Simon

Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 71st instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman talks about open and half-open files. | Photo: Pascal Simon

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In the opening rounds of the Belgrade Grand Prix there were two splendid instances of defensive queen sacrifices. These remarkable efforts set Jon Speelman thinking about defence in general. He thus turned to one of his favourite books, The Middlegame by Max Euwe and Hans Kramer, and cherry-picked a couple of games from the chapters on Steinitz and Lasker. | Pictured: Emanuel Lasker / Collection of the <a href="https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/emanuel-lasker">World Chess Ha...

The most exciting and talked-about game of the 2021 World Championship was game 6. Statistically, the sixth game of a World Championship match has yielded more decisive results than any other game. This one proved to be no exception, as records kept tumbling. The game had various layers of action and consequences. GM Sundararajan Kidambi explains the game arising out of Catalan opening. | Photo: Shahid Ahmed