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ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyse their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! ChessBase Magazine appears every two months (six issues per year). It's available as a printed booklet with a download key (by post) or as a direct download (including the booklet in pdf format).

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Order the annual ChessBase Premium Membership and save twice! You only pay for ten months Premium and you get a 13th month for free. Payment only by credit card. The subscription is automatically renewed on the expiration date.

The currency on the chess server playchess.com. Use it to play against grandmasters, to rent strong Engines in the ChessBase Engine Cloud or to pay for private training.  Ducats can only be used with a valid ChessBase Account (=ChessBase Membership) on Playchess. Ducats can also be used to buy ChessBase products.

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ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyse their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! ChessBase Magazine appears every two months (six issues per year). It's available as a printed booklet with a download key (by post) or as a direct download (including the booklet in pdf format).

ChessBase Magazine can also be loaded in the ChessBase Books format right in your web browser, so you can also read it on your iPad, tablet or Mac without running any download at all!

Train with the most popular ChessBase authors! Benefit from analyses of the world class players, let Grandmasters show you surprising repertoire ideas, improve your tactics, your understanding of chess and your endgame technique! ChessBase Magazine offers you several hours of video training with Grandmasters and experts in each issue. World-class players such as Abdusattorov, Gukesh, Vidit, So, Giri, Gelfand, Wojtaszek, Vitiugov, Wei Yi, Yu Yangyi and many more analyse their best games and explain the ideas behind their moves. Each issue also includes at least ten new opening articles with exciting ideas for your repertoire, an extensive collection of training exercises on tactics, strategy and endgames, and much more.

Save twice with ChessBase Magazine: For the annual subscription to ChessBase Magazine you’ll pay only €109.90 per year (compared to €131.40 for the 6 individual issues).

12 months subscription. It will be automatically renewed, if no notice of cancellation is received at least one month prior to renewal.

* Bonus only for new subscribers, i.e. there was no CBM subscription for 12 months! As a new subscriber you will also receive a €20 ChessBase voucher

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ChessBase Magazine can also be loaded in the ChessBase Books format right in your web browser, so you can also read it on your iPad, tablet or Mac without running any download at all!

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Six months subscription. It will be automatically renewed, if no notice of cancellation is received at least one month prior to renewal.

 *Bonus only for new subscribers, i.e. there was no CBM subscription for the last 12 months!