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When you come home after a hard day at work and want to relax a bit with chess, replaying heavy-handed maneuvering battles in which one side finally gains a tiny advantage after what feels like 60 moves isn't exactly the answer. Short games, on the other hand, are very popular with chess fans: Black or White makes a clearly identifiable mistake in the opening, their opponent immediately exploits it, things get tactical, and after 20 moves at most, it's all over, often crowned by a beautiful final combination. It's entertaining, instructive – and at times quite challenging, because short games can also occur at the very highest level.
Candidate classic: In Korchnoi,V - Karpov,A 1-0 (notes by Igor Stohl), Korchnoi reportedly stood up after 17...Bxd5 and asked the arbiter: "May I castle if my rook is under attack?" And even great players can be caught off guard early.
Underdog victory: After 14.Nh3!, White's attack in Maus,S - Huebner,R 1-0 (notes by Martin Breutigam) ran like clockwork: The young IM from Hambur won the game only a few moves later: 14...Ne7 15.Ng5 Bf5 16.g4 Be4 17.Rhe1 Qb6 18.e6 Bg6 19.Rd3 1-0
For this issue of ChessBase Magazine, we invited our authors (Berg, Breutigam, Grigoriants, Hera, Krasenkow, Lorenzini, Markos, Mueller, Papp, Quntiliano, Reeh, Ris, Stohl, Szabo and others) to comment on miniatures that evoke special memories. The result is a colorful mix of their own successes and failures, underdog victories, Olympic highlights, candidate classics, and modern top-class games. A total of 27 blockbusters from the period from 1962 (Robert Fischer!) to 2023 awaits you – we wish you the very best of chess fun!
Highlights of ChessBase Magazine #225
From the Prague 2025 Chess Festival to Jan Werle's opening video on the London System and the ‘Special’ with 27 highly entertaining miniatures and Mihail Marin's strategy article ‘Outposts on open files” to Dr Karsten Mueller's video series “Fundamental Endgame Knowledge”.
Over 7 hours of video playing time with Daniel King, Jan Markos, Mihail Marin, Dr. Karsten Mueller, Michael Prusikin, Oliver Reeh, Robert Ris, Dorian Rogozenco and Jan Werle await you!
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