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Forum The Forum Section has interesting contributions by well-known players like Bogdan Lalic and Daniel Fridman, who examines his experience in the Queen's Indian 6.d5 exd5 7.0-0 gambit line. Peter Boel made a tribute to Jobava's fun factor in the recent Russian Team Championships.

Columns

The Opening Takes have been taken over for one issue by Anish Giri, who explains why and how top players switched between 1.e4 and 1.d4 in the Candidates Tournament. In Kuzmin’s Harvest, Alexey Kuzmin has collected the 10 best opening novelties from the same event.

Preview

We offer a preview of the book The Modern Bogo by Dejan Antic and Branimir Maksimovic. This book, together with their earlier tome The Modern French, forms a watertight repertoire for black players.

Reviews

Glenn Flear reviews Sabotage the Grünfeld (Kaufman), The Modern Anti-Sicilian by Sergey Soloviov, Boris Avrukh’s The Classical Slav (no. 17 in the Grandmaster Repertoire series), and Lorin D’Costa’s The Panov-Botvinnik Attack move by move.

Surveys

• Sicilian Defence - Moscow Variation 3.Bb5 - SI 1.10 - Finkel
• Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Be3 e5 - SI 14.8 - Gutman
• Sicilian Defence - Scheveningen Variation 6.Be2 - SI 23.7 - Mchedlishvili/Janjgava
• Sicilian Defence - Taimanov Variation 5...Qc7 - SI 40.2 - Gledura/Csonka
• Sicilian Defence - Taimanov Variation 5...Qc7 - SI 40.2 - Tuncer
• Sicilian Defence - Paulsen/Kan Variation 2...e6, 4...a6 - SI 42.15 - Fogarasi
• Sicilian Defence - Early Divergences 2.a3 - SI 48.1 - Van Duijn
• French Defence - Advance Variation 9.Nbd2 - FR 3.5 - Smerdon
• Ruy Lopez - Anti-Marshall 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d5 - RL 17.2 - Lukacs/Hazai
• King’s Pawn Openings - Four Knights Opening 4.Bb5 Bc5 - KP 10.2 - Van der Tak
• King’s Gambit - Cunningham Defence 3...Be7 - KG 2.3 - Braga
• Slav Defence - Krause Variation 6.Ne5 - SL 4.4 - Wolochowicz
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Rubinstein Variation 4.e3 - NI 7.1 - Lalic
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Sämisch Variation 4.f3 d5 - NI 19.9 - Ikonnikov
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4...0-0 - NI 20.3 - Vilela
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Vienna Variation 4...dc4 - NI 27.16 - Karolyi
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Kmoch Variation 4.f3 - NI 30.1 - Rodi
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Kmoch Variation 4.f3 - NI 30.2 - Peralta
• Queen’s Indian Defence - Bogo-Indian 4.Nbd2 Line - QI 1.11 - Antic
• Queen’s Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4...Bb7 - QI 6.1 - A. Kuzmin
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Qa4 - GI 4.1 - Prasanna
• King’s Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 3.g3 - KI 65.1 - Adorjan
• King’s Indian Defence - Anti-Grünfeld 3.f3 - KI 81.2 - Okhotnik/Appleberry
• Benoni Defence - Modern Main Line 7.Bf4 - BI 12.7 - Mchedlishvili/Janjgava
• Dutch Defence - Leningrad Variation 7...c6 - HD 6.3 - Van de Oudeweetering
• English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 7.d4 - EO 26.2 - Panczyk/Ilczuk
• Réti Opening - 1...d5 2.c4 e6 Line - RE 8.12 - Olthof