It's a trap!
Sometimes you can see a trap brewing and plot evasive actions.
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ChessBase Magazine 180
Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (Sinquefield Cup, FIDE Grand Prix Geneva, Biel) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 12 new suggestions for your opening repertoire.
Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by tactic expert Oliver Reeh in ChessBase Magazine, where you will also find openings articles and surveys, endgames, and of course annotations by the world's top grandmasters.
The editor’s top ten:
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- Hou Yifan’s temptation: the ex-women’s world champion shows how, cool as ice, she countered Bacrot in the traditional tournament in Biel.
- Perfect start: Teimour Radjabov annotates his win with Black against the almost unbeatable Anish Giri at the Grand Prix in Geneva.
- “Simple is good!” Together with GM Simon Williams find the simple but strong winning moves in the game Radjabov-Eljanov. (Video)
- Are you as fast as Vishy Anand? With Oliver Reeh solve one of the deepest winning combinations in this issue. (Video)
- No simple play in the “Double English“: let GM Mihail Marin bring you up to date on the opening after 1.c4 c5.
- Vishy Anand and the Steckner proof: Karsten Müller presents high class technique in a classical rook ending. (Video)
- Brakes applied to the Accelerated Dragon: let Renato Quintiliano show you a tricky positional plan for White.
- Unprejudiced world champion: Peter Heine Nielsen annotates Carlsen’s successful premiere with the Bird Opening (1.f4) on the Grand Chess Tour.
- Fight against the Rubinstein French with the Catalan bishop: Jonas Lampert shows you why you may hope for an advantage with 5.g3! (Video)
- "King in the box": enjoy the unforgettable mating patterns in Efstratrios Grivas’ FIDE training course.
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1000 Opening Traps
If you do not know opening theory in its most intimate details, then you must rely on a sound understanding of chess. But sometimes, that is not enough, because opening traps lurk everywhere, relying on the unwary making “normal” moves — developing a piece, making a capture, setting or parrying a threat.
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Tricks & Traps Vol. 2 - 1.d4 Openings
On this DVD Davies presents a variety of tricks and traps that can arise after 1.d4 by White, breaking them down into a number of different categories. The examples are designed to appeal to players of every level and feature a wide variety of systems. Besides coverage of some of the classics, Davies reveals some little known ploys and explains how likely these traps are to succeed. Accordingly the viewer should gain some psychological insights into the art of trapping and this should help his game as a whole. Video runnig time: 4 hours.
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