Innhold

• Top players annotate their games
  • Exclusive comments by Carlsen, Kramnik, Caruana, Morozevich, Radjabov, Svidler, McShane, Humpy Koneru and Anna Muzychuk
• NIC's Café
• Your Move
• Passionate play in Pashkov House
  • Little more than a week after the World Championship match, Moscow was once again the scene of a major chess event. With the high number of draws in the match still fresh in mind, and remembering the frustrating deadlock in the vast majority of last year's hard-fought games, many awaited the seventh Tal Memorial with some concern. Those worries were rapidly dispelled.
• Magnus Carlsen, the Brand
  • Espen Agdestein reveals what it takes to turn a chess player into a brand.
• Sasha and Seryozha up to Speed
  • The Rapid and Blitz World Championships in Astana ended in victories for Russian aces Sergey Karjakin and Alexander Grischuk.
• Dawn of a new century
  • Having visited 100 countries, Nigel Short laconically decided to visit number 101.
• Hertan's Forcing Moves
• Master of the Grünfeld
  • Peter Svidler presents a further sample of his expertise in this grand opening.
• Larsen's prophecies
  • You cannot learn much about chess if you only rely on Informant symbols (+-, !?) or computer assessments (+2.31, -1.08), argues Mihail Marin, underpinning his conviction with a fascinating analysis of Fischer-Larsen, Santa Monica 1966.
• Close race in Kazan
  • The fourth leg of the FIDE Women Grand Prix in the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan ended in a shared win for the only two players that remained undefeated, Humpy Koneru from India and Anna Muzychuk from Slovenia.
• Through the Luking Glass
  • Luke McShane gives his views on two very different books.
• Deviate at move 6 in the Tarrasch!
  • Put your opponent to the test with an astonishing Queen retreat, says Jeroen Bosch
• Going his own way
  • Dick van Geet, who died on April 29 at the age of 80, was much more than the man who gave his name to an opening, writes Hans Ree.
• Carlsen's preparation
  • Would Magnus' results improve if he were to build a sharp opening repetroire as White? Asks Jan Timman.
• Just Checking
  • Who is Evgeny Tomashevsky's favourite football player?
• Did they play your opening?
• In this issue games with the following openings were annotated by world class players:
• Sicilian
• McShane-Radjabov, by Radjabov
• Caro-Kann
  • Muzychuk-Stefanova, by Muzychuk
• Ruy Lopez
  • McShane-Kramnik, by Timman
  • McShane-Carlsen, by Carlsen
• Scotch
  • Caruana-Kramnik, by Caruana
  • Radjabov-Carlsen, by Timman
• Slav
  • Aronian-McShane, by McShane
  • Aronian-Morozevich, by Morozevich
• King's Indian
  • Kramnik-Grischuk, by Kramnik
• Grünfeld-Indian
  • Navara-Svidler, by Svidler
• English Opening
  • Lahno-Koneru, by Koneru