ChessBase Magazine 209 (September/October 2022)

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Click and enjoy! 2022 Candidates Tournament: Review with videos by Dorian Rogozenco and Robert Ris - "Special" on the Ukrainian sisters and Olympic champions Anna and Mariya Muzychuk: 21 annotated games + contributions on strategy and endgame

• Ragosin à la Keymer: Roven Vogel presents 1. d4 d5 2.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bb4 5.Qa4+ Nc6 6.e3 - Prague Chess Festival 2022: Annotated games by Harikrishna, Keymer, Navara, Shankland and Vidit - "Practical Tips for the Tournament Player": Let Jan Markos show you how to master must-win situations!

• In Fischer's footsteps: Yago Santiago attacks Najdorf with 6.Bc4 - "Shocker" in the Jobava London System: Daniel King shows the new gambit idea 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 c5 4.e4!? in the video and much more.

FIDE Candidates Tournament 2022: Dorian Rogozenco shows two games of the clear winner, Ian Nepomniachtchi, in the video. Anish Giri analyses two selected games.

Prague Chess Festival 2022: The winners of the Masters, Pentala Harikrishna, and of the Challenger, Vincent Keymer, comment on one of their games. Plus analyses by David Navara, Vidit Gujrathi and Sam Shankland.

More annotated games: Anish Giri analyses two brilliant games from Norway Chess 2022.

CBM #209 covers a broad spectrum of opening systems with 11 opening articles:

• Evgeny Postny: English Four Knights 4.e4 Bb4 5.d3 d6
• Petra Papp: Trompowsky 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 c5 3.d5 Ne4
• Martin Lorenzini: Scandinavian 3...Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3
• Alexey Kuzmin: Sic. Moscow Variation 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.d4
• Yago Santiago: Sic. Najdorf Variation 6.Bc4 e6 7.0-0
• Krisztian Szabo: Centre Game 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3 Nf6 5.Nc3
• Sergei Grigoriants: Spanish 3...a6 4.Ba4 Nge7 5.0-0 Ng6
• Roven Vogel: QG Ragozin Variation 5.Qa4+ Nc6 6.e3
• Christian Braun: Gruenfeld Fianchetto 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Nc3 d5
• Andrey Sumets: Catalan 8.a4 Nc6 9.Qxc4 Na5 10.Qc2
• Spyridon Kapnisis: King's Indian Petrosian Variation

Jan Markos devotes Part II of his video series to the topic of how to play in a "must-win situation" - a task that arises time and again not only in individual tournaments but also in team matches. To complement the video, our new author provides a small collection of five training exercises that you should go through after the video lecture!

All in One: Renato Quintiliano explores a provocative idea for Black in the Queen's Gambit Accepted, while Yuriy Kuzubov presents "a crazy Alekhine" with 5.Ba3!

Mihail Marin highlights a few typical aspects of the positional play of Maria and Anna Muzychuk. The material is classified in the categories "Positional attacks", "Positional sacrifices", "Static play" and "Dynamic decisions".

Dorian Rogozenco presents Pillsbury-Lasker (St. Petersburg 1896) - "a beautiful game" by the then world champion, Emanuel Lasker, with a number of sacrificial motifs worth seeing.

Oliver Reeh's tactics contribution consists of 39 games with many training questions. Don't miss solving his favourite combinations in interactive format with video feedback!

Hamburg endgame expert Karsten Müller has again found plenty of illustrative and training material. Do you already know the "Troitzky endgame"? In addition, Mueller provides a selection of the most beautiful endgames of Anna and Mariya Muzychuk (incl. video)!