New In Chess Yearbook 117

Fire ganger årlig kommer de moderne "årbøkene" med mange nye ideer i kjente og litt mindre kjente sjakkåpninger. Her er 24 fyldige åpningsartikler med mange partieksempler, samt bokomtaler og annet aktuelt stoff.

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Forum

The Forum Section has a highly interesting discussion on the book The Lazy Man’s Sicilian with contributions by Ashot Nadanian and Dvoretsky. Other contributions by, among others, Bogdan Lalic and Viacheslav Zakhartsov.

Columns Joel Benjamin continues his new column Repertoire Building with Benjamin writing about a consistent and non-labour-intensive approach to Sicilians with 2…Nc6. In Kuzmin’s Harvest, Alexey Kuzmin takes a look at important opening developments in the World Cup in Baku.

Preview

This Yearbook has a preview of the new version of A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz and Rapid, written by the well-known grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov and his son Vladimir.

Reviews

Glenn Flear reviews Junior Tay’s The Old Indian: move by move, Simon Williams’ the killer Dutch, The Lazy Man’s Sicilian by Valeri Bronznik and Steve Giddins, and Boris Avrukh’s new Grandmaster Repertoire installment, no. 1A: 1.d4 – The Catalan.

Surveys

1.e4 openings

• Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Bc4 - Almeida
• Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.h3 - Lukacs/Hazai
• Sicilian Defence - Basman-Sale Variation 4...Bc5 - Sale
• Sicilian Defence - Alapin Variation 2.c3 - Adorjan
• French Defence - Steinitz Variation 9.dxc5 - Fogarasi
• Scandinavian Defence - Portuguese Variation 2...Nf6, 3...Bg4 - Smerdon
• Petroff Defence - 3.Ne5 Ne4 Line - Wolochowicz
• Ruy Lopez - Exchange Variation 5...f6 - Kasparov
• Ruy Lopez - Breyer Variation 9...Nb8 - Olthof
• Italian Game - Max Lange Gambit 5.d4 - Karolyi
• King’s Pawn Openings - Two Knights: 4.d4 complex - Flear
• King’s Gambit - Modern Defence 3.Nf3 d5 - Van der Wiel

1.d4 openings

• Queen’s Gambit Declined - Blackburne Variation 5.Bf4 - Ikonnikov
• Slav Defence - Accepted: Other Moves 5...e6 - Almasi
• Slav Defence - Marshall Gambit 4.e4 - Ninov
• Catalan Opening - Accepted 4...dxc4 - Duda
• Queen’s Indian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 4...Ba6 - Illingworth
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - Anti-Grünfeld 3.f3 - Rodi
• King’s Indian Defence - Classical Main Line 9...Nd7 - Szabo
• King’s Indian Defence - Classical Main Line 9.b4 - Kuzmin

Others

• English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 4.g3 - Matamoros/Stella
• English Opening - Flohr-Mikenas Variation 3...d5 - Bosch
• Réti Opening - Variation 1...d5 2.c4 e6 - De Dovitiis
• Various Openings - Nimzowitsch/Larsen 1.b3 - Jobava

Exercises With more than 75 practical opening exercises to test your understanding