Zugzwang mystery
According to Wikipedia, the first known use of the term zugzwang in English was by World Champion Emanuel Lasker in 1905. This is a beautiful one but unfortunately, we don't know the composer. Maybe a reader can help!
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.
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:
“I decided to just make a move”: Wesley So annotates his win against the world champion.
- The problem: Erwin l'Ami shows in his video how you should meet the French Winawer Variation with 6...b6.
- Erosion of the Berlin Wall: Peter Heine Nielsen explains the brilliant strategic performance of his protégé in Carlsen-Aronian.
- Theoretical duel in the Grünfeld Defence: Yannick Pelletier analyses Karjakin's innovation 16.Na3 against Vachier-Lagrave (Video)
- “Short and sweet”: together with Simon Williams and the 11-year old Praggnanandhaa defeat a seasoned GM!
- “With minimal means”: with Oliver Reeh’s help get the pawns in front of your castled king into play and win! (interactive video)
- New Trend in the Caro-Kann: let Igor Stohl show you how Black should set about things in the Exchange Variation!
- This is how to convert an advantage: Dimitrij Jakovenko annotates his opening victory in the “Karpov tournament”: Jakovenko-Artemiev
- A problem knight on a5? Mihail Marin examines typical examples in the King’s Indian and in the Ruy Lopez Chigorin Variation.
- “Unbelievably exciting”: Daniel King presents Caruana's thrilling finish against So in Norway Chess (Video)
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