ChessBase Magazine 199 January/February 2021

Den suverene trenings- og teori-DVD'en fra ChessBase skuffer ikke. Mange godbiter fra Norway Chess 2020 og annet sist høst, sammen med høydepunkter fra AVRO-turneringen i 1938 med verdens åtte beste spillere.

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Highlights of this issue

Norway Chess 2020: beating the champ, ending his run! Jan-Krzysztof Duda elaborates on his victory over Magnus Carlsen

CBM Special: AVRO tournament 1938 – clash of the generations Alekhine, Capablanca and Euwe vs. Keres, Botvinnik & Co

Ruy Lopez: Marshall forever! Petra Papp frees Black with 8.h3 Bb7 9. d3 d5!?

All in One 1: Semi-Tarrasch Igor Stohl condenses all you need to know about this trendy opening

All in One 2: Najdorf with 6.Rg1 The advance g2-g4 is on - Anish Giri navigates you through the hot lines

Move by move to total domination Replay the game Alekhine vs. Capablanca (AVRO 1938) with Simon Williams

London System – no rest for the Bf4 Alexey Kuzmin hits with the active 5...Nh5!?

Technique at its very best: good knight vs. bad bishop The positional masterpiece Carlsen-Tari from Stavanger, explained in detail by Peter Heine Nielsen

“Capablanca’s drawing clockwork“ The 3rd world champion in sacrificial mode – one of four interactive videos in Oliver Reeh‘s tactics column

Killing the Italian with the Moeller Attack! Christian Braun pulls an ace from his sleeve

Norway Chess 2020:

Magnus Carlsen’s run of 125 classical tournament games without defeat came to an end, but in Stavanger he was victorious, ahead of Firouzja and Aronian. Jan-Krzysztof Duda annotates his win against the world champion, Alireza Firouzja puts three of his games under the microscope.

Moreover, Peter Heine Nielsen, Romain Edouard, Michal Krasenkow and Spyridon Kapnisis comment on the games by Carlsen, Caruana & Co!

Spesial AVRO-turneringen 1938:

This classic tournament from the Netherlands constitutes the focal point for this issue. Our authors, in their various columns, put the games of Alekhine, Capablanca, Euwe, Botvinnik, Fine, Flohr, Keres and Reshevsky under the microscope.

Plus 18 selected games of the tournament victor, Paul Keres, with analyses by Yannick Pelletier, Michal Krasenkow, Karsten Müller, Emanuel Berg, Igor Stohl, Evgeny Postny et al.

The new issue provides 11 opening articles with new ideas:

• Patrick Zelbel: Modern Benoni 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Bg5
• Renato Quintiliano: English 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bb5
• Adrien Demuth: Caro-Kann 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Qe2
• Evgeny Postny: Sicilian Rossolimo 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.0-0 Nge7 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4
• Robert Ris: Classical Sicilian 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Nd5
• Tanmay Srinath: French Winawer 6…Ne7 7.Qg4 Qc7 8.Qxg7 Rg8 9.Qxh7 cxd4 10.Ne2 Nbc6 11.f4 Bd7
• Krisztian Szabo: King's Gambit 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nf6
• Christian Braun: Italian Moeller-Attack 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Nxe4 8.0–0
• Petra Papp: Spanish Anti-Marshall 6.Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d5
• Alexey Kuzmin: London System 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 d5 3.e3 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 Nh5
• Spyridon Kapnisis: Queen’s Gambit Vienna Variation 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e4 b5

Åpningsvideoer:

Erwin l'Ami shows why of late the Philidor endgame has become more attractive for White. Daniel King takes a close look at a new version of the Milner-Barry Gambit with which Carlsen was successful against Harikrishna. And Mihail Marin picks up an idea of Paul Keres in the Leningrad Variation with 7...Nc6.

Erwin l'Ami: The Philidor endgame 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.dxe5 dxe5 5.Qxd8+ Kxd8 6.Bc4

Daniel King: French Advance Variation – Milner-Barry Gambit 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.0-0 Bd7 8.Nbd2

Mihail Marin: Dutch Leningrad Variation 1.c4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nc3 d6 6.d4 0-0 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Na5 9.Qa4

In this issue of CBM, we have two prominent authors dissecting topical opening lines:Anish Giri looks at the Sicilian Najdorf B90:

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Rg1.

And Igor Stohl's object of investigation is the game Carlsen,M - Giri,A 1-0 (Chessable Masters 2020) which features the Semi-Tarrasch Defence D41:

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c