ChessBase Magazine 203 September/October 2021

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CBM authors comment on their favorite game played by the 31-year-old Russian star. Look forward to an exclusive collection of 21 high-quality games played in the period 2002-2021!

Top games and master analyses

FIDE World Cup 2021: Jan-Krzysztof Duda was the only player to remain undefeated. In the semifinals he knocked out the world champion in the tie-break, and in the final he made short work of Karjakin in the second game. In this issue, Adhiban, Krasenkow, Navara, Praggnanandhaa, Vitiugov and Wojtaszek comment on their best games from the World Cup.

In his first "All in one" Tanmay Srinath works out a complete repertoire after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3!? Bc5 5.c3 d5!? 6.d4! cxd4 7.e5 Ne4 8.cxd4 Bb6 9.Nc3 leads to a topical position which oddly enough can also arise via the Italian!

Igor Stohl provides a double feature on the Nimzo-Indian using two recent White games by Wesley So. His first theme is 4.f3 Nc6!?, and now 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 b6 7.e4 Ba6 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 Qc8. - Stohl’s other choice is the Classical System 4.Qc2 0–0 5.Nf3 d5 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bh4 dxc4 8.e4 g5 9.Bg3 b5 10.e5 Nh5 11.Qe4 Qd5 12.Qg4 Ng7 13.Be2.

Opening videos:

Daniel King takes up a current provocation of the world champion in the Nimzo-Larsen Attack! Mihail Marin explains subtleties of the Richter-Rauzer Variation by means of two current games from the Superbet Tournament. And Jan Werle reveals to you why White is well advised to aim for the endgame from the Catalan Opening.

Daniel King: Nimzo-Larsen Attack 1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nf3 e4 5.Nd4 Bc5 6.Nf5

Mihail Marin: Sicilian Richter-Rauzer Variation 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.0-0-0 Bd7 9.f4 b5 10.Bxf6 gxf6

Jan Werle: Catalan – "An Opening’s Endgame" 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 0–0 6.0–0 dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Qxc4 Bc6 10.Bg5...

10 opening articles with lots of exciting ideas for your next games are waiting for you!

Spyridon Kapnisis: English 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Bb4 3.Nd5

Sergey Grigoriants: Scandinavien (3...Qa5) with 8.Nd5

Petra Papp: Philidor Defence 3...Nbd7 4.f4

Evgeny Postny: Caro-Kann Fantasy-Variation 3.f3

Andrey Sumets: Sicilian Paulsen-Variation 6...Qb6 (II)

Robert Ris: Vienna Game 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.d4

Alexey Kuzmin: Ruy Lopez with 4...Bc5/5...Nge7

Martin Lorenzini: Queen’s Gambit Exchange Variation 10...g6

Lars Schanndorff: Gruenfeld with 4.Bg5 Bg7

Krisztian Szabo: Kind’s Indian with 6...Bg4 7.Be3 Nc6 (II)

"In the style of Adhiban" is the motto of the interactive training session with Robert Ris. The game Adhiban-Delgado from the World Cup is an instructive miniature in which everything revolves around the topics initiative and lead in development.

"Nepomniachtchi's strategic and positional thinking"

Mihail Marin works out the playing style of the world champion challenger on the basis of various aspects and comes to surprising insights. Including a detailed video introduction!

Oliver Reeh's tactics article contains 33 games which include lots of training tasks. Don’t miss the opportunity to solve his three favorite combinations in video format with the IM from Hamburg! "Nepomniachtchi's Endgames" and much more

The endgame expert Karsten Müller provides one article about the world champion challenger and another one about the highlights from the online tournament Crypto Cup 2021. Plus videos, training exercises and "Readers write".

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