4/25/2019 – After winning in Shamkir, Carlsen’s live rating was up to 2861, his best since June 2015. After five rounds in Grenke, that's exactly where he remains today (well 2861.6 to be precise!). IM SAGAR SHAH recently took a look at how he's climbing back towards his all-time peak. | Photo: Georgios Souleidis (author of The Open Games - A detailed overview)
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Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasn't been systematically trained within the structures of a major chess-playing nation such as Russia, the Ukraine or China.
In almost every chess game there comes a moment when you just can’t go on without tactics. You must strike to not giving away the advantage you have worked for the whole game.
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+2 is not enough
Magnus Carlsen won his first two games in Karlsruhe over Vincent Keymer and Francisco Vallejo Pons, but three draws in succession against Viswanathan Anand, Fabiano Caruana and Arkadij Naiditsch have leaked points from the World Champion's stratospheric Elo rating, and he is now back where he was a week ago.
Immediately following Shamkir, ChessBase India's IM Sagar Shah, paid some extra attention to Carlsen's last round effort, when beat Alexander Grischuk despite already having the tournament in the bag. (This game also impressed "Game of the Week" host IM Merijn van Delft.)
Sagar Shah shows you on this DVD how you can use typical patterns used by the Master of the past in your own games. From opening play to middlegame themes.
Have you ever faced a situation when you have won the tournament with a round to spare. The last round result is not going to change things. So now you have a decision to make. Either you can agree to a draw and not use your energy. Or you decide that it is important for me to fight hard in each and every game that I play and give your all.
This is what Magnus Carlsen did in the last round of the Shamkir Chess 2019. In spite of having won the tournament with a round to spare, Magnus fought hard and won his last game against Alexander Grischuk. It just goes to show what a fighter the world champion is. For him playing his best chess is the most important!
YOUR PERSONAL CHESS COACH - Whether you’re taking your first steps into the world of club chess, or already playing at a tournament level: with FRITZ, you can train more efficiently, intelligently and with a more personalised approach than ever before.
“Mate is great!” – Tactical training with Oliver Reeh, “The 8th rank” – Andy Woodward analyses his game against Magnus Carlsen from TePe Sigeman 2026, “A modern Nimzo-Indian” – Andrei Volokitin introduces readers to "his" system and much more!
Chess is a concrete game. There is no way around training your calculation skills. Improve your visualization, pattern recognition and learn calculation techniques such as reciprocal thinking with this course.
This compact course is designed specifically for practical play. Instead of overwhelming you with endless theory, it focuses on the critical lines, typical plans, and recurring tactical ideas.
Slav and Semi-Slav Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains a total of 11 766 games from Mega 2026 or the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 1136 are annotated.
For the Slav and Semi-Slav Powerbook 2026 the ratings average was set again at 2400. 2.24 million games from the engine room of playchess.com met this threshold, to which were added over 130 000 games played by humans.
In this volume, we dive into core aspects of chess technique. Smyslov taught the principle of tactical hierarchy, “checks, double attacks, and unprotected pieces”, and Mikhalchishin demonstrates how this method of calculation is vital.
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