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Duelling mate threats

In effect, 17.♕h5+ (instead of the simple 17.♖xa5) boils down to a piece sacrifice, but White's decision to trust in his initiative soon proved to be right. Kudos!

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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

"I consider 3.Bb5+ a Najdorf!"
Anish Giri annotates his victory as Black over Ian Nepomniachtchi
2:0 with 1.e4!
Wesley So presents his current recipes for success vs. the Berlin and the Petroff
"I had a strong feeling we were in for a big fight!"
Fabiano Caruana shows how he defeated MVL with the Neo-Arkhangelsk Variation
Trendy and tricky
How Adhiban Baskaran came to like Najdorf with 6.h3 e5 7.Nb3
"King's English"
Evgeny Postny checks 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 e5!?
The structure of the champions
Robert Ris examines the very popular Rossolimo Sicilian 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6
Victory with prestige
Vidit Gujrathi analyzes his groundbreaking win against Peter Leko at the Chess Festival in Biel
Similar but different
Trap expert Rainer Knaak shows a trick against the black stencil ...Nc6, ...Qb6 and...Bf5 in the London System
A little new trend in the English
Renato Quintiliano takes control of the centre with 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 5.e4!?
Brilliancy prize
Mariya Muzychuk annotates her victory over Aleksandra Goryachkina from the Women’s Candidates
Mini shift
Manoeuvre the "Rook on the 3rd" to success – interactive video training with Oliver Reeh!
Star analyses
Annotated games by McShane, Gelfand, Wojtaszek, Yu, Heine Nielsen, and many more…

ChessBase Magazine 191

Analyses by Caruana, Giri, So, Vidit, Wojtaszek, Gelfand, McShane, Yu Yangyi, Nielsen, the Muzychuk sisters and many more. Plus videos by King, Sokolov and Williams. 11 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire plus lots of training sessions!

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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.