Light summer mate II

6/28/2019 – 26.Rfd1! in the diagram is best if one has a reply ready to 26...Bb6. Can you see how White hunts down Black's king in the centre after that?

ChessBase Magazine 190

Analyses by Caruana, Nepomniachtchi, Anand, Kashlinskaya, Wojtaszek, Navara, Meier, Keymer etc. from recent top-class tournaments. Videos by King, Trent, Pelletier and Marin. 12 opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more!

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Home run

White's rook d1 is the only piece not participating in the attack yet — but once unleashed, it will be unstoppable.

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.

Strike like the world champions

88 times, IM Oliver Reeh leads you step by step through the most brillant game conclusions of the world champions - in interactive Fritztrainer format, enabling you to enter the winning moves yourself.

Highlights of this issue

No passive position!
Fabiano Caruana shows his black victory over Georg Meier

Fighting fire with fire
Yago Santiago’s hot tip against the Leningrad Dutch

No Catalan, por favor!
Igor Stohl stops this popular white opening with an early …b5

Carlsen insider
Peter Heine Nielsen analyses three current games of the World Champion

Meeting world class
Vincent Keymer looks back at his draw against Levon Aronian

“If you are thrown out of your preparation, you should react aggressively!“
Alina Kashlinskaya (cover) looks back at the victory which paved her way to become new European champion.

Ladies to the fore!
Oliver Reeh presents 29 tactical highlights from the European Women’s Ch

Videos:
Rainer Knaak demonstrates a trap in the French Steinitz Variation.
Karsten Müller explains to you an instructive model game from Shamkir.
And: Get to know two of the greatest chess hopes from India, Nihal Sarin and Gukesh!

... and much more!

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Oliver Reeh Oliver Reeh has been working for ChessBase for many years as a translator and presenter of the internet show TV ChessBase, and he also looks after the tactics column in ChessBase Magazine, for which he has also been responsible as editor-in-chief since 2019. The International Master has contributed to the CB "MasterClass" series and is the author of the DVDs "Strike like the World Champions" and "Master Class Tactics - Train your combination skills!" Volumes 1 & 2. Oliver Reeh lives in Hamburg.