Correspondence games are usually very good - after all, the players can consult computers and engines during the game and correspondence players often have a deep chess understanding and enrich their games with interesting new ideas. Thus, the games are not decided by tactical blunders but by strategic understanding, long-term preparation, and passionate, patient scientific work. It is no surprise that a lot of grandmasters already use correspondence games to prepare their openings.

The Correspondence Database 2022 gives you a unique opportunity to explore the fascinating world of correspondence chess and to enrich your opening repertoire with ideas from a wealth of unknown top-class games.

New features of the Correspondence Database 2022:
The Correspondence Database enhances usability: a new design and a new menu make access and navigation easier and faster, e.g. see the recent World Championship Cycles, look for specific players and their games or look for your own openings within the Corr DatabaseThe Correspondence Database 2022 offers more than 400,000 new games. The Corr 2020 had 1.6 million games, the new Corr 2022 database offers over 2 million games. Search for your favorite opening positions, e.g. all Correspondence games starting from the Sicilian Najdorf positionThe Correspondence Database comes with 20 high-class videos covering selected games from the 29th-32th Correspondence Chess World Championship cycles presented by popular ChessBase authors such as GMs wie Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Markus Ragger, Vidit Gujrathi, Christian Bauer, Romain Edouard, Yannick Pelletier, Mihail Marin and others9 videos by endgame expert GM Karsten Müller provide fascinating insights into the endgame from selected world-class Correspondence games.