New In Chess Yearbook 108

Årbok 108 gir igjen den anerkjente kombinasjonen av nytt i viktige åpningsvarianter og oppmerksomhet om sjeldnere og nesten nye varianter, fordelt på teoriartikler (Surveys) og de andre faste spaltene.

Surveys

The legendary London Candidates’ keeps producing new Surveys, also several in this issue. New authors are Rustam Khusnutdinov, who presents an original way to play the Closed Sicilian, and Piotr Wolochowicz on a bizarre King’s Gambit line

• Sicilian Defence - Moscow Variation 3.Bb5 - SI 1.3-4 - Tiviakov
• Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Be3 - SI 19.14 - Van der Tak
• Sicilian Defence - Rossolimo Variation 3...e5 - SI 31.1 - Illingworth
• Sicilian Defence - La Bourdonnais Variation 4...e5 - SI 32.2 - A. Kuzmin
• Sicilian Defence - Closed Variation 3.f4 - SI 44.6 - Khusnutdinov
• Pirc Defence - Austrian Attack 7.Bc4 - PU 12.9 - Rodi
• French Defence - Tarrasch Defence - FR 17.10 - S. Kasparov
• Scandinavian Defence - Gubnitsky-Pytel Variation 3...Qd6 - SD 8.11 - S. Kasparov
• Ruy Lopez - Early Divergences after 3...a6 4.Ba4 - RL 13.5 - Van der Wiel
• King’s Pawn Openings - Philidor Defence 4.Nc3 Nbd7 - KP 4.9+13 - Cabrera Pino
• King’s Gambit - Declined 2...Nc6 - KG 5.1 - Wolochowicz
• Slav Defence - Chebanenko Variation 6.c5 - SL 3.1 - Lukacs/Hazai
• Slav Defence - Tolush/Geller Gambit 6.a4 - SL 3.3 - Okhotnik/Appleberry
• Slav Defence - Schlechter Variation 4...g6 - SL 10.3+8 - Kidambi
• Queen’s Gambit Accepted - Alekhine Variation 4...b5 - QG 5.9 - Antic/Dorfanis
• Queen’s Indian Defence - Central Variation 4.e3 - QI 3.9 - I. Almasi
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation: Other Lines - GI 3.3 - Karolyi
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Nf3 - GI 4.4 - Gledura/Csonka
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - 5.h4 Line - GI 7.1 - Olthof
• King’s Indian Defence - Sämisch Variation 6...c5 - KI 48.12 - Ikonnikov
• King’s Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 6...Nbd7 - KI 65.3 - De Dovitiis
• Benoni Defence - Volga Gambit 5.cb5 - BI 19.9 - Tay
• English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 3.d4 - EO 32.4 - Finkel
• English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 4...g6 - EO 34.3 - Vilela
• English Opening - Anti-Grünfeld Line 5.Qb3 - EO 52.9 - Fogarasi
• Rëti Opening - 1...d5 2.c4 dc4 - RE 10.1 - Skatchkov/Frolyanov