New In Chess Yearbook 119

Nummer 119 av kvartals-årboka for åpningsnyheter dekker som vanlig mange varianter som spilles blant de største, men også enkelte "hotte" saker mer for alminnelige klubbspillere. Her er 27 åpningsartikler og mange andre gode bidrag.

Jan Timman har nå overtatt som sjefredaktør etter Gennadi Sosonko (72) som har vært Nederlands store åpningsteoretiker siden han kom fra Sovjet tidlig på 70-tallet. Sosonko og godbiter fra han i åpningsspillet får en egen hyllest i denne utgaven.

Vi gir rabatt til dem som i praksis, men uforpliktende kjøper alle NIC årbøkene fast gjennom oss.

Forlagets egen omtale:

Forum The Forum Section features new theoretical contributions by, among others, Bogdan Lalic and Vishnu Prasanna.

Columns In his column Repertoire Building with Benjamin, the American GM continues his treatment of the highly important position type with an isolated queen’s pawn. In Kuzmin’s Harvest, Alexey Kuzmin highlights the most important opening novelties in the Candidates’ Tournament in Moscow.

Reviews Glenn Flear reviews three repertoire books: The Open Games with Black by Martin Lokander (Everyman), Playing 1.e4 e5 – A Classical Repertoire (Nikolaos Ntirlis, Quality), and A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz and Rapid by Evgeny Sveshnikov and his son Vladimir (New In Chess). Also, two new books on the Scandinavian Defence: Sergey Kasparov’s Understanding the Scandinavian (Gambit) and Vassilios Kotronias’ The Safest Scandinavian (Chess Stars).

Surveys

• Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Bg5
• Sicilian Defence - Four Knights Variation 6.Nxc6
• Sicilian Defence - Paulsen Variation 6.g3
• Sicilian Defence - Alapin Variation 2.c3
• French Defence - Steinitz Variation 5.f4
• French Defence - Tarrasch Variation 3.Nd2
• Ruy Lopez - Neo-Steinitz Variation 4...d6
• Ruy Lopez - Chigorin Variation 9...Na5
• Ruy Lopez - Chigorin Variation 9...a5
• King’s Pawn Openings - Philidor Defence 6.g3
• Various Openings - English Defence 2...b6

• Various Openings - Nimzowitsch/Larsen 1.b3

• Slav Defence - Krause Variation 6.Ne5

• Slav Defence - Slow Slav 4.e3
• Queen’s Gambit Accepted - The 3.e3 Line
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Rubinstein Variation 4.e3
• Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4.Qc2
• Queen’s Indian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 5.b3
• Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Qa4+
• King’s Indian Defence - Panno Variation 6...Nc6
• Queen’s Pawn Openings - 3.g3 Line

• Queen’s Pawn Opening - Jobava-Prié Attack 2.Nc3, 3.Bf4

• English Opening - Four Knights Variation 4...Bb4

• English Opening - Reversed Dragon 6.d3
• English Opening - Reversed Dragon 6.e3
• English Opening - Anti-Grünfeld 1...g6 2.e4 e5 3.d4
• Réti Opening - Double Fianchetto 1.b3

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