ChessBase Magazine 162 (October/November 2014)

OL i Tromsø i fokus også i ChessBase Magazine denne gang, med jublende kinesisk lag på omslaget. Videoer, partianalyser og intervjuer. Ellers 11 åpningsartikler og alt det faste treningsstoffet, med mange fremragende bidragsytere.

Høydepunkter i produktet, som beskrevet av utgiveren:

Chess Olympiad Tromsø: China wins gold and does so very convincingly. Participating players have annotated their games: Yu Yangyi, Kramnik, Laznicka, Negi, Sasikiran and many more.

Tromsø Special: Daniel Kings analyses the „Game of the Day“ for each round, Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows two of his games in video format. Several hours of ChessBase TV videos, which were recorded in situ with outstanding players and trainers.

Sinquefield Cup Saint Louis: 7 out of 7 by Fabiano Caruana, to finish on 8.5 out of 10 – that is an Elo performance of 3107. A historic tournament!

Hans Suri Memorial Biel: Masime Vachier-Lagrave continued his good form and won with 6 out of 10. The tournament winner has annotated his game against Motylev, Plus ten daily summaries by Daniel King in video format.

11 topical opening articles:

• Stohl: English Flohr-Mikenas Variation
• Rotstein: Old Indian 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Bf5 4.Nf3 c6
• Antic: Benoni Fianchetto Variation 11.Bf4
• Havasi: Modern Defence 4.f4 a6 5.Nf3
• Krasenkow: Closed Sicilian
• Postny: Sicilian Paulsen 6.Nxc6
• Szabo: Sicilian English Attack
• Müller: King’s Gambit à la Quaade – Part 1
• Breder: Ruy Lopez Four Knights 4...Nd4
• Kuzmin: Queen’s Pawn Game 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4
• Marin: Nimzo-Indian 4.e3

Opening videos:

• Ftacnik: Anti-Grünfeld Defence - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3
• Marin: Bird Opening - 1.b3 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.e3 b6 4.f4 Bb7 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Bd3 c5 7.0-0
• Shirov: Reti Opening - 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 Nd7