The guest on 12th ChessBase India show was GM Ian Rogers. Rogers is the first Australian to become a chess grandmaster. Rogers attained the Grandmaster title in 1985 after becoming an International Master in 1980. He was Australia's highest rated player for over twenty years, and represented Australia at fourteen Chess Olympiads. Ian Rogers won more than a hundred and twenty chess tournaments including fifteen round-robin grandmaster tournaments. He won the Australian Chess Championship four times - in 1980, 1986, 1998, and 2006, and holds the record for the most number of wins (either outright or on tie-break) at the traditional Doeberl Cup, with 12. Among his career highlights are three consecutive victories from 1988 to 1990 in the grandmaster tournament in Groningen (outright by a clear point in 1988 and 1989, and jointly in 1990). He retired on medical advice in 2007.

On this show IM Sagar Shah talks about chess part of Ian's life as well as journalism and how he excelled at both. With his vast knowledge and impeccable sense of humour, this show is something that you mustn't miss. In the end Ian also analyzes a very lively and unorthodox game that he won against GM Lajos Portisch.