6/10/2014 – Reports on the Candidates, the Gashimov Memorial, the European Championship, and more. Caruana and Radjabov analyse their wins against Carlsen, while Anand, Motylev and other top players also annotate important games. GM Dorian Rogozenco starts his new series "Classic". CBM 160 includes 13 opening articles. One ("Don't fear the Hedgehog") is now available for free!
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Besides covering all the critical lines after 1.d4 & 2.c4, popular systems such as the Trompovsky, London/Jobava System, Torre Attack, Colle System and Veresov are dealt with as well.
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ChessBase Magazine 160 – Highlights
FIDE Candidates: Vishy Anand was the only player to remain undefeated
on +3 and thus safely took victory, setting up another WCh match
with Carlsen. The tournament winner has annotated his nice win
against Topalov for us.
Gashimov Memorial: World champion Magnus Carlsen thanks to an
outstanding second half won the tournament by a clear point. Carlsen’s
conquerors Caruana and Radjabov have annotated their victories.
In addition to this, the DVD offers Daniel King's "Game of
the Day" video for every round.
European Championship: Alexander Motylev became the new European
champion scoring an outstanding 9 out of 11. Bartel, Eljanov,
Motylev, Postny and Roiz have annotated their games for us.
NEW! With this issue German federal trainer GM Dorian Rogozenco starts
a new series in ChessBase Magazine: in the “Classic” he
shows you a master game from the history of chess and at the decisive
moments he asks you how you would continue. Here you can learn about
the “classic” ways to win a game, strategies and endgame
techniques, which are also so very worthwhile knowing for club and amateur
chess. Take the test! To start his series Rogonzenco has selected for
you the game Lasker-Bauer (Amsterdam 1889).
Interactive training lectures with video feedback to your ideas: Daniel
King „Move by Move“, Oliver Reeh “Tactics" and
Karsten Müller „Endgames“ - get on a move!
13 new opening articles with lots of new ideas for your repertoire:
Viktor Moskalenko reveals secrets of a "secondary opening"
(Budapest Gambit: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Bf4 g5), Tibor Karolyi
provides a white repertpire against the Alekhine, Evgeny Postny examines
an original queen move in the Grünfeld 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 c6
4.Bg2 d5 5.Qa4 and many more!
Language: English + German
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ChessBase Magazin 160 - Video Intro by GM Karsten Müller
Free opening survey - download a sample! Krisztian Szabo:
"Don't fear the hedgehog " (Sicilian Paulsen with 4...Nc6 5.Nb5
d6 6.c4)
The author starts his analysis with move number 13 - quite advanced
but the position arises from the most frequently played moves in the
Sicilian Paulsen after White's 5.Sb5: 1.e4 c5 2.Sf3 e6 3.d4
cxd4 4.Sxd4 Sc6 5.Sb5 d6 6.c4 Sf6 7.S1c3 a6 8.Sa3 Le7 9.Le2 0-0 10.0-0
b6 11.Le3 Lb7 12.Db3 Sd7 13.Tfd1
The most popular is a move which is not typical of the Hedgehog 13...Nc5,
with which Black takes into account the specific position on the board.
After 14.Qc2 less attention is paid to 14...Qc7 in
the article on the DVD; 14...Qf6 is more interesting
and is usually met with 15.Rac1 or 15.Rab1
which was successfully played by young Indian GM Parimarjan Negi only
recently.
Rainer Knaak draws the following conclusion from Szabos article:
"5.Nb5 is not very popular with top players, but that could change
since the positions which arise are full of possibilities."
White usually responds to Black’s double fianchetto with a
setup in which the most salient characteristic is the transfer of
the queen to h4. Igor Stohl takes some recent games by Sergey Karjakin
as a starting point so as to inform you about the latest state of
play.
4.Bf4 actually deserves to be preferred to 4.Nf3, but many players
probably feared 4...g5. Baadur Jobava’s victory with Black over
Radoslaw Wojtaszek may serve as confirmation of that. Viktor Moskalenko
acquaints you with the advantages and disadvantages of the pawn move.
When on the lookout for variations which avoid the Leningrad System,
one could turn to the setup with Bf4, in any case that is what Levon
Aronian has also played. But, as Boris Schipkov demonstrates in his
article, Black can obtain a good game.
Recently Black has been doing very well in the Leningrad Variation
with 7...c6. Mihail Marin now undertakes the more ambitious attempt
to achieve something of an advantage for White. To do so he has chosen
the “natural” 8.b3.
With this article Tibor Karolyi would like to bring you a repertoire
against the old main variation (4...Bg4) of the Alekhine Defence.
In Part 1 the setup with 5...c6 is dealt with, but it is not at all
difficult for White to obtain a safe advantage.
A Hedgehog position is reached soon after 5.Nb5 and the position
in the diagram then comes about almost “automatically”.
In his investigations Krisztian Szabo comes to the conclusion that
the variation is very playable for both sides.
This would be a simple variation for Black if he could play d6 and
Nc6 (or vice versa), and as a matter of fact many top players had
the variation in their repertoire. But as Dejan Bojkov and Konstantinos
Markidis prove, White can obtain an advantage.
This (5.Nc3) is a very comfortable variation against the Petroff;
White often gets the bishop pair and a pleasant game. But as Lars
Schandorff shows, Black nevertheless equalises. So are the days of
this variation numbered or is it sufficient nowadays to have a pleasant
game without any advantage?
This setup is still quite new, but is becoming more and more popular:
White wants to bring his Nc3 rapidly to d5 and only then play c3.
Gergö Havasi has examined the variation and recommends 9...Be6
for Black so as to fight for the d5-square.
The variation with 6.Nb1 has been known for quite some time, but
a new development is being introduced with the pawn sacrifice 7.Qc2.
According to Alexey Kuzmin’s analyses Black has not looked too
comfortable in practice so far.
On the next move White wants to take on c5. If Black now plays 6...cxd4
7.exd4 to transpose to an IQP position, it will be hard for him to
equalise according to the analyses by Michal Krasenkow. But in the
other lines in Part 1 with 6...a6 7.dxc5 White also obtains an advantage.
The intention of the surprising 5.Qa4 is obvious: White wants to
take on d5 without the c6-pawn being able to recapture. But Evgeny
Postny shows that Black has several good replies, including also 5...Bg7
6.cxd5 Nxd5.
According to the analyses of Andrey Sumets the somewhat surprising
retreat of the bishop allows White to obtain a clear advantage. Black
usually concedes the bishop pair and the centre too, that is too much.
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After 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 e4 Black is giving up a pawn. By sacrificing the e-pawn, Black gains a lot of time harassing the white knight and seizes the initiative in the centre.
In this two-part course the emphasis will be on typical pawn-structures. “Open and half-open files” and “the pawn chain” will be covered extensively on this video course. New: now also available as stream!
The topic on this video course is the so-called “hedgehog system” which is characterised by at least four black pawns on the sixth rank which we call the “spikes” of the hedgehog.
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