CHESSBASE MAGAZINE FEBRUARY / MARCH CONTENTS OF THE DVD BOOKLET TOP TOURNAMENTS OPENINGS (see also booklet from p. 10) DVD COLUMNS Editorial 3 Qatar Masters: Magnus Carlsen was the rst world Karolyi: Reversed Pirc Defence Williams: Move by Move Contents 4-5 champion for a long time to take part in an open is time Simon Williams has chosen for your tournament. Despite a starting hiccough, the Nor - Marin: English Double Fianchetto training the recent game Carlsen-Nakamura (Lon- Top tournaments 6-8 wegian put in a convincing performance with 7 out Bulmaga: Modern Defence 3.Bd3 don 2015). With the interactive video format you Qatar, London, EU-ch (teams) of 9, although at the end he “only” defeated previous have the chance to nd the correct moves. Souleidis: Sicilian 2.Be2 year’s winner Yu Yangyi in a tiebreak. Carlsen’s sec - Rogozenco: !e classic ond Heine Nielsen has annotated in detail the world In his Classic video German federal trainer Do- champion’s beautiful game against Li Chao. e co- rian Rogozenco presents the game Englisch-Stein- victor Yu Yangyi has also provided his most impor - Solving problems with itz, London 1883. e winner, William Steinitz, tant game (against Wesley So) with notes. ere are demonstrates in impressive fashion how to employ other games annotated by Adhiban, Ganguly, Roiz, the Sicilan by 2.Be2 Gawain Jones (picture) the bishop pair in the endgame. Sagar Shah and Swiercz. Daniel King contributes 9 has tried it; Georgios daily summaries in video format. Marin: Strategy – Pawn breakthroughs Souleidis provides the In his column Mihail Marin deals with break- analyses London: Despite the high proportion of draws the throughs by pawns. He goes into the mobility of London Chess Classic provided excitement and en - Magnus Carlsen won in London and Qatar, making Szabo: Sicilian Najdorf 6.g3 pawns, the clearing of squares and the pawn sacri- him once again the player of the year tertainment, the extra reason for this being that it ces linked to this. It includes numerous examples was the nal event in the Grand Chess Tour. With a Postny: Sicilian Najdorf 6.Bg5 and classical training questions. last-minute win followed by success in the tiebreak ChessBase Ranking 2015 9 Langrock: French Tarrasch 5.f4 Reeh: Tactics – !e weak point on g3 it was the world champion who came out on top Openings here too. At the same time his victory also brought Oliver Reeh’s article contains 28 games studded Gormally: French Tarrasch Universal Variation Introduction to the DVD articles 10-21 him success in the overall rankings. Carlsen’s sec - with numerous training questions and an intro- ductory text with links to all the games. In addi- ond Heine Nielsen has analysed the former’s win Berg: Scotch 6.Qe2!? Masthead 11 against Nakamura. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave only tion there are three videos in interactive format. just missed out on a great triumph; the French Müller: Endgames – Recent knight endings Tactics 22 player has annotated for us his victory with Black Karsten Müller’s column contains two introduc- Nine combinations to solve over Anand. Michael Adams was only an outsider Kramnik knew 6.Qe2 tory texts, 19 annotated endgames, numerous in this strong tournament, so it can be counted a and yet was eliminated training questions and seven classical videos. In Masterclass Vol. 6: Karpov 23 success that he managed to draw all his games. e from the World Cup by addition the endgames expert from Hamburg has English player has analysed his game with Naka - Andreikin. Emanuel recorded an endgame in the interactive format. mura. You will also nd on the DVD annotations Berg gets to the bot- tom of the new move Knaak: Opening trap by Adhiban, Bronznik, Krasenkow, Mokal, Pav - Rainer Knaak’s opening trap (including a Fritz- lovic, Roiz, Sagar Shah, Stohl, Sumets and Szabo. Ris: Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation 5...Bd6 trainer video) contains six topical traps. In addition 9 daily summaries by Daniel King have been included in the report on the DVD. Kuzmin: Open Ruy Lopez 9.Qe2 Openings videos (see also p. 25) Karpov outplayed his Nicholas Pert: Queen’s Gambit with 5.Bf4 opponents with ease; European Team Championships Reykjavik: Robert Ris: Ragozin Defence 6.Bf4 how did he manage Russia has at last won another title with its team Sagar Shah : King’s Indian Fianchetto that? Four renowned which always starts as favourites. Evgeny Toma- Michael Adams‘ inno- Service authors cast light on shevsky of the victorious team has analysed his vation in the Open Ruy important aspects of game against Ipatov. Other annotators: Adhiban, New products with videos of the DVDs by Karpov’s playing style Lopez was not missed Bologan, Martin, Sagar Shah and Williams. Almasi, Berg, Bologan, Edouard, Fridman, by Alexey Kuzmin; he Ftacnik, Gormally, Havasi, Ipatov, Ivanisevic, believes there is an Complete booklet in PDF format Endgames 24 Krasenkow, Marin, Meulders, Pavlovic, Perunovic, advantage for White Overview of previous openings articles Nine endgame exercises to solve Sagar Shah, Stohl, Szabo, Tiviakov. With eight video summaries by Daniel King. Pavlovic: Nimzo-Indian Classical Variation Overview of previous video openings articles Openings videos introduced 25 4 | ChessBase Magazine #170 ChessBase Magazine #170 | 5.