Robert Ris' Fast and Furious: Nakamura vs Firouzja - who knows the Italian better?

2/27/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious show, Robert Ris takes an in-depth look at a fascinating theoretical battle between Alireza Firouzja and Hikaru Nakamura. Last week they added three more games to their theoretical discussion in the Italian Opening, battling it out in a line that Hikaru used against Alireza at last year's Candidates - and since then a few more games have been played in this variation. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target="_blank">register a Premium account here</a>.

Robert Ris' Fast and Furious: Mamedyarov!

2/14/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris presents a game, in which Shakhriyar Mamedyarov sacrificed his queen and showed how he likes to play against 1.b3. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target="_blank">register a Premium account here</a>.

60m English New ideas in the Najdorf_E

‘New ideas in the Najdorf – a Power Play 18 Update’ aims to complement Daniel King’s popular DVD from last year ‘The Sicilian Najdorf - a repertoire for Black’. Such a dynamic and popular opening as the Najdorf is developing the whole time. On this download, Daniel King updates lines that were included on his DVD but also responds to viewers’ requests, considering lines that he omitted from his original repertoire. The lines examined on this update are: • 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 h3 e5 7 Nde2 • 5….a6 6 Bc4 in combination with the English Attack (Be3, f3 etc) • 5…a6 6 Be3 and the …a5 variation • 5…a6 6 Be2 and 9 Re1 • 5 f3 (instead of 5 Nc3) It isn’t necessary to have seen the original Najdorf DVD to understand the lines examined here – but it would help as they form part of a complete repertoire.