On both wings
No check, no capture, and yet forcing — find a continuation for Black which starts to play on both wings!
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.
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- Whether it is more than an opening for a single game is something you must decide for yourself, but Alexey Kuzmin’s setup 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.e3 Bg7 5.h4 is not only venomous, but it can also be learned quickly.
- Decision in Wijk aan Zee: Enjoy Daniel King’s video summary of the tiebreak between Carlsen and Giri.
- In a Sicilian Stunner from Oliver Reeh White makes the going at first, but you get the opportunity to distinguish yourself in the defence of the black position.
- As safe as Fort Knox, that is not true for Jonas Lampert – the German player shows you a convincing path for White against the popular variation of the French!
- Move by Move with Simon Williams: attack along with Abhijeet Gupta and hunt down Ivanchuk’s king.
- If you are looking for a safe repertoire against 1.b3 Renato Quintiliano can guarantee you the correct one.
- Friends of the French pay heed: in his strategy column Mihail Marin investigates the pawn formation which arises when Black has played ...f6 it comes to the exchange of the e5- for the f6-pawn.
- In the interactiv endgame our expert Dr Karsten Müller asks you some tricky questions: can you do better than the two players?
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