New In Chess Yearbook 110

Enda en gang presenterer Yearbook de ettertraktede åpningsartiklene med både hovedvarianter og mer sjeldne valg. Som alltid mye godt stoff om sjakkåpninger også i de andre spaltene i boka.

I "Forum" analyseres blant annet kjente Carlsens nyhet i tredje(!) trekk mot Anand i lynsjakken i Zürich: 1 Sf3 d5 2 b3 c5 3 e4!?, en Budapestgambit i forhånd!

Prisen er for boka i paperback. Vi har den også i hardcover til kr 320.

Forum The Forum Section has interesting contributions by well-known players like Jan Werle, Jose Vilela, Luis Rodi and many more. Also, the winner of the Novelty of the Year 2013 contest is made known.

Columns In Kuzmin’s Harvest, Alexey Kuzmin explores the battlefields of Tata Steel 2014. Joel Benjamin looks at the special repertoires of top players in rapid tournaments in Benjamin’s Opening Takes.

Preview We offer a preview of the book A Cutting-Edge Gambit against the Queen’s Indian by Imre Hera and Ufuk Tuncer. It contains some deep and sparkling analysis of this topical weapon for White.

Reviews Glenn Flear reviews Playing the French (Aagaard/Ntirlis), The French Defence 1 by Emmanuel Berg, Sam Collins’ The Tarrasch Defence move by move, Viktor Moskalenko’s The Diamond Dutch, and Alexei Bezgodov’s The Extreme Caro-Kann.

Surveys

• Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Be3 - SI 14.8 - Illingworth
• Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Be3 - SI 14.8 - Rodi
• Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 6.g3 - SI 15.3 - Szajbely
• Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 6.Be3 - SI 17.1 - Fogarasi
• Sicilian Defence - Four Knights Variation 5...e6 - SI 34.6 - Adorjan
• Sicilian Defence - Alapin Variation 5...Bf5 - SI 46.4 - A. Kuzmin
• French Defence - Tarrasch Variation 3...Nf6 - FR 16.4-8 - Adhiban
• Caro-Kann Defence - Advance Variation 4.h4 - CK 4.14 - Karolyi
• Caro-Kann Defence - Advance Variation 4.h4 - CK 4.15 - S. Kasparov
• Caro-Kann Defence - Classical Variation 6.h4 - CK 11.5 - Panczyk/Ilczuk
• Alekhine Defence - The Bishop Attack 4.Bc4 - AL 6.9 - Raetsky/Chetverik
• Vienna Game - Classical Main Line 5.Nf3 - VG 3.10 - Finkel
• King’s Gambit - Nimzowitsch Variation 2...d5 3.ed5 c6 - KG 4.2 - Alonso
• Various Openings - Nimzowitsch Defence 2...d6 - VO 5.9 - De Dovitiis
• Various Openings - Keres Defence 2...Bb4 - VO 22.9 - Marin/Stoica
• Slav Defence - Marshall Gambit 9.Bf8 - SL 6.1 - Olthof
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Rubinstein Variation 4.e3 - NI 16.1 - Lalic
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Sämisch Variation 4.f3 d5 - NI 19.9 - Ikonnikov
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4...0-0 - NI 21.6 - Van der Wiel
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Vienna Variation 6...h6 - NI 27.13 - Ninov
• Queen’s Indian Defence - Bogo-Indian 4.Nbd2 Line - QI 1.11 - Antic
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 3.g3 - GI 1.10 - Zakhartsov
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 3.g3 - GI 2.4 - Lemos Sarro
• King’s Indian Defence - Gligoric Variation 7.Be3 - KI 18.3 - Lukacs/Hazai
• Dutch Defence - Leningrad Variation 4.Nh3 - HD 9.14 - Bosch
• Réti Opening - Double Fianchetto 3.b3 - RE 20.12 - Tuncer