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Tata Steel: A er his successful defence of the OPENINGS (see booklet from page 10) DVD COLUMNS Editorial 3 world title at the end of last year, in January Postny: Symmetrical Englishn with 8.Qb3 Williams: Move by Move Magnus Carlsen notched up his seventh tour- Contents 4-5 Marin: 's Indian turbo 2.c4 b6 (Part I) “One of the best games, if not the best game from nament victory in Wijk aan Zee. Right on his Top tournament 6-7 2018” – that is the promise Simon Williams makes heels was local hero Anish Giri. "e Dutch Tata Steel player is, along with Vishy Anand, Vidit, Peter to you at the start of his interactive training article Svidler, and Robert Hübner, one of the star on the DVD. Join the English on the annotators in this issue. In addition, Yannick search for amazing attacking moves in the game Pelletier, Erwin l'Ami and Mihail Marin present Openings expert Mi- Hillarp-Persson against Laurusas (Batumi 2018). hail Marin: “The most Tip: do not shrink away from unusual moves! some games of the “Masters” and the “Challen- important thing is to gers” tournaments in video format. keep play going with Rogozenco: #e classic London Chess Classic 2018: this was not de- Black” In the Classic video federal German trainer Do- cided until the blitz tiebreak went in favour of rian Rogozenco shows us the game Nimzowitsch- Edouard: Dutch 1.d4 f5 2.Bg5 Hikaru Nakamura. Mihail Krasenkow has com- Capablanca, St. Petersburg 1914. Let him explain piled for you the chess high points. Schandor!: Freestyle 1.e4 Nc6 (Part II) to you how in short order the Cuban brought down his opponent’s position by pressure on the With a +5 score Magnus Carlsen showed the form of a Krasenkow: Sveshnikov with 7.Nd5 world champion with his seventh victory at Wijk aan Zee semi-open %les on the queenside supported by his on g7. Analysis 8-9 Marin: “Kingside expansion with g4-g5” Openings 10-21 Under what conditions is a storm on the Presentation of the DVD articles opponent’s position promising when both mo- On the up since the WCh: Sveshnikov with narchs have castled kingside? Mihail Marin ex- Impressum 18 7.Nd5 – but just how plains the strategies based principally on classical good is the new trend? games (including introductory video). Tactics 22 Nine combinations to solve OPENING VIDEOS Reeh: Tactics – “Time to be brilliant!” Hungaski: Accelerated Dragon with 7.f3 "ere are three classic openings which await Oliver Reeh’s contribution consists of 28 games New: Master ClassVol. 11 - Kramnik 23 Szabo: French Steinitz Variation with 9.h4 you in this issue. Against the King’s with numerous training questions and an intro- Daniel King recommends to you, e.g., the early Kuzmin: Bishop's Opening with 5.Bb3 ductory text with links to all the games. In additi- on there are three videos in interactive format. advance d7-d5. A er 4.exd5 Nf6 White can Papp: Petro* à la Caruana (Part II) choose between various continuations. In half Müller: “Recent endings” an hour’s video running time King shows you Knaak: with 5...Bc5 Once more Karsten Müller’s article is wide-ran- all you need to know in order to be able to meet Gupta: Accepted Queen's Gambit with 9.Nxd4 the King’s Gambit with con%dence! ging. His analysis of recent rook endings contains Former world champion an introductory text as well as an introductory Vladimir Kramnik an- Daniel King: King's Gambit video. In addition the endgame expert from Ham- nounced in Wijk aan Zee 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d5 burg has recorded two videos on Magnus Carlsen’s that he will end his career endgames with bishop+ against rook from as a professional chess Yannick Pelletier: King's Indian player. Let our experts 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d6 5.e4 0-0 Wijk aan Zee and looks into readers’ letters as well reveal the secrets and 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Bg5 New author Abhijeet as much more. subtleties of his play Gupta investigates Knaak: Recent opening traps Lawrence Trent: Najdorf Variation an interesting central Endgames 24 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 structure In his article Rainer Knaak has put under the Nine endgame exercises to solve a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nf3 Be7 8.Bg5 Nbd7 9.a4 0–0 microscope eight traps from recent tournament 10.Nd2 h6 11.Be3 Qc7 Ris: Catalan with 4...dxc4 5.Bg2 c5 practice (including three Fritztrainer videos). Opening videos presented 25

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