New In Chess Magazine 2013 8

Et "Chennai Special" med mye annet godstoff i tillegg avrunder 2013 for suverene New In Chess Magazine. Bare å kose seg for alle sjakkvenner!

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Your Move

NIC’s Café

A Person of Indian Origin

Your Move

NIC's Café

Perfect Ten

Eight days before his 23rd birthday, Magnus Carlsen won 'the last big title' that was still lacking. In Chennai, Vishy Anand's home-town, the Norwegian only needed ten games to prove that he is not only the world's number one, but that he also deserves to be the World Champion.

Interview: Vishy Anand

Dejected and self-critical, the dethroned champion draws his ­conclusions and acknowledges that he lost to a superior challenger.

Résumé

Following his brilliant preview in our previous issue, Sergey Shipov now presents his take on the match in Chennai.

Beware: Brilliancy!

Svidler and Gunina

The Russian championships were held in Nizhny Novgorod. In a museum, of course. Peter Svidler won for the seventh(!) time, Valentina Gunina repeated her success of 2011.

Indonesia

If you didn't know already, our columnist Nigel Short loves to travel.

Maximatism

Eight months in prison made Maxim Dlugy rethink his priorities. One of the results was the development of an art movement.

Colossal Success

David Navara relates how fifth seed Novy Bor snatched the European Club Cup that seemed an easy prey for juggernaut SOCAR.

The Bright Side of 2800

Jan Timman on the wins of Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in Bucharest and Bilbao.

Sadler on Books

Matthew Sadler discovered what a huge struggle the 1963 Botvinnik-Petrosian World Championship match was.

Just Checking

What was the best piece of advice Tania Sachdev ever got?

Did they play your opening?

Sicilian

• Topalov-Wojtaszek, by Wojtaszek
• Short-Moiseenko, by Short

Caro-Kann

• Kosteniuk-Charochkina, by Kosteniuk

Ruy Lopez

• Anand-Carlsen, by Giri
• Svidler-Andreikin, by Svidler
• Anand-Carlsen, by Giri
• Navara-Caruana, by Navara

Slav

• Carlsen-Anand, by Giri

Nimzo-Indian

• Anand-Carlsen, by Giri
• Vitiugov-Andreikin, by Vitiugov
• Gunina-Kovanova, by Gunina

Grünfeld Indian

Nisipeanu-Caruana, by Timman

English Opening

• Vachier-Lagrave-Caruana, by Timman
• Morozevich-Laznicka, by Laznicka