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Videos by Mihail Marin, Adrian Mikhalchishin and Georgios Souleidis. "Lucky bag" with analyses by Alireza Frouzja, Peter Heine Nielsen and many more. Plus over 35,000 new games for your database!
GM Mihail Marin narrowly missed the podium at last year's World Senior Championships, but at least his game against Milos Pavlovic was awarded with a brilliancy prize. The GM from Romania presents this also theoretically interesting game with the English Symmetry Variation in video.
Analyses by Caruana, Giri, Duda, Wang Hao, So, Vidit, Vitiugov, McShane and many more. Plus videos by Williams, King and Shirov. 11 opening articles with new repertoire ideas and training sessions in strategy, tactics and endgame!
In a second short opening video, Adrian Mikhalchishin uses the game Beljavsky-Predke (2018) to present motifs in the Queen’s Gambit Accepted in the line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 ♞c6 4.♘f3 ♝g4.
Alireza Firouzja and Peter Heine Nielsen are the two star authors of this issue. The Iranian top player accepted his opponent's invitation, Jorge Cori, and broke the black fianchetto position with the thematic advance f4-f5. And Peter Heine Nielsen explains two recent highlights of his protégé, Magnus Carlsen, from the Blitz and Rapid World Championship! Other authors of the "Lucky bag": Romain Edouard, Lubomir Ftacnik, Luis Engel and many more.
The latest in the "lucky bag"
Georgios Souleidis presents the game Carlsen-Giri (Shamkir 2019) and shows how the world champion started his attack with a pawn sacrifice out of nowhere, and how he managed to mobilize all his pieces against the black king within a few moves!
IM Georgios Souleidis brings you a Carlsen brilliancy
Last but not least: The Update service delivers over 35,000 new games for your database, including many games from top players such as Carlsen, Ding, Giri, Nepomniachtchi, Vachier-Lagrave, Mamedyarov, So, Anand, Dominguez Perez, So, Karjakin, Radjabov and many more!