Trapped on the edge
That's the thing with the games of the elite — so many beautiful tactics, but they usually don't appear on the board and remain hidden in the variations. Go search them!
| 1.e4 | 1,162,869 | 54% | 2421 | --- |
| 1.d4 | 944,726 | 55% | 2434 | --- |
| 1.Nf3 | 280,651 | 56% | 2441 | --- |
| 1.c4 | 181,586 | 56% | 2442 | --- |
| 1.g3 | 19,663 | 56% | 2427 | --- |
| 1.b3 | 14,175 | 54% | 2427 | --- |
| 1.f4 | 5,871 | 48% | 2376 | --- |
| 1.Nc3 | 3,767 | 51% | 2384 | --- |
| 1.b4 | 1,737 | 48% | 2378 | --- |
| 1.a3 | 1,193 | 54% | 2403 | --- |
| 1.e3 | 1,064 | 48% | 2408 | --- |
| 1.d3 | 945 | 50% | 2378 | --- |
| 1.g4 | 658 | 46% | 2359 | --- |
| 1.h4 | 444 | 53% | 2373 | --- |
| 1.c3 | 422 | 51% | 2422 | --- |
| 1.h3 | 278 | 56% | 2416 | --- |
| 1.a4 | 108 | 60% | 2468 | --- |
| 1.Nh3 | 88 | 66% | 2510 | --- |
| 1.f3 | 87 | 45% | 2429 | --- |
| 1.Na3 | 40 | 63% | 2477 | --- |
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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c5 4.0-0 g6 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Bg7 7.Nb3 Nc6 8.Nc3 e6 9.e4 d4 10.Na4 0-0 11.c3 dxc3 12.Nxc3 e5 13.Be3 Bg4 14.f3 Be6 15.Nc5 Qe7 16.Nxe6 Qxe6 17.Qd2 Rfd8 18.Qf2 Bf8 19.h3 Bb4 20.Rac1 Rd3 21.Rfd1 Rad8 22.Rxd3 Rxd3 23.Bf1 Rd8 24.a3 Be7 25.g4 Kg7 26.Kh2 h6 27.h4 Nd4 28.g5 hxg5 29.hxg5 Nh7 30.Bh3 Qb3 31.f4 Nc6 32.Nd5 exf4 33.Bxf4 Bxg5 34.Bxg5 Nxg5 35.Qf6+ Kh6 36.Bg2 Nh7 37.Qxf7 Rf8 38.Qc7 Qxb2 39.Rh1 Qf2 40.Kh3 Rf7 41.Qg3 Qb2 42.Ne3 Nf6 43.Bf3 Kh7 43...Rh7?? - Start an analysis engine:
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| Nakamura,H | 2781 | Anand,V | 2782 | ½–½ | 2017 | A08 | 9th London Chess Classic 2017 | 1 |
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ChessBase Magazine 181
Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (World Cup, Isle of Man Open) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 10 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:
- Counter-puncher Carlsen: Peter Heine Nielsen shows how, cool as ice, the world champion seized his chance against Caruana in the IoM.
- Calculate correctly: test your calculation of variations with Oliver Reeh in his interactive tactics video!
- The improved Grand Prix Attack: let Simon Williams enthuse you for 2.Be2 against the Sicilian.
- Tricks in a double rook ending: Karsten Müller shows you the key points in Aronian-Vachier Lagrave from the World Cup (video)
- Drum roll with a long echo: Max Illingworth sums up what Grischuk's 6...Bc5 has set in motion in the theory of the English Opening.
- What's new in the King's Indian Attack? Let Igor Stohl bring you bang up to date.
- Surviving despite -+(4,84): David Navara explains how he saved the draw with a rook against a queen and despite being a pawn down.
- Attack, attack, attack: let Aronian's second Ashot Nadanian show you how the Armenian notched up his first win in the World Cup final.
- Doubled is better: find the diversionary motif in Khalifman-Ehlvest from the FIDE training course of Efstratios Grivas.
- World Cup decider: enjoy one of the most spectacular tiebreaks in Daniel King's video analysis!
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