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MegaBase 2024 is Chess History in action. Regularly updated every month, the Main Database currently offers 10.6 million games, many of them annotated. In the first part of his review he dealt with the treatment of chess in the 21st Century <a href="https://en.chessbase.com/post/megabase-2024-review-nagesh-havanur">in the MegaBase</a>. Here he offers a rare discovery from a world championship match that fell into oblivion.

Your evening longread: Why it's great to be a beginner - at any age It’s a coronavirus-free zone as we bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news. By Aoife Barry Monday 11 Jan 2021, 8:30 PM Jan 11th 2021, 8:30 PM 12,594 Views 0 Comments Image: Shutterstock/Faces Portrait Image: Shutterstock/Faces Portrait EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday. A...

Last modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 07.00 EST One day a number of years ago, I was deep into a game of draughts on holiday with my daughter, then almost four, in the small library of a beachfront town. Her eye drifted to a nearby table, where a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting figures (many a future chess master has been innocently drawn in by “horses” and “castles”). “What’s that?” she asked. “Chess,” I replied. “Can we play?” she pleaded. I nodded absently. There was just one problem: I didn’t know how. I dimly...