Chessbase Magazine 125
Furioso in Foros: Magnus Carlsen
Foros and the Dortmund Chess Festival are the outstanding tournaments of ChessBase Magazine #125. In Foros, the young star Magnus Carlsen progressed smoothly from start to finish with his final victory never in danger, whereas in Dortmund
From Foros, we have five of the participants, Carlsen, Karjakin, Eljanov, van Wely and Nisipeanu, taking a look at some selected games and explaining the decisive ideas and moments. Eight games from the super-tournament in Foros are annotated on this DVD by the participants themselves, starting with Carlsen’s first round victory over Ivanchuk.
The Dortmund Hamburg
Opening Training
Friends of the French, pay attention! Daniel King presents an interesting new idea in a highly topical variation (C11). In conversation with ChessBase colleague Pascal Simon, he looks into Gurevich’s innovation 10...Qe7 in conjunction with the lever f7-f6 – a move which is rather atypical for this line. King goes into detail about the advantages and disadvantages of this idea. In his Fritztrainer video, however, he also considers fundamental questions such as “Should White exchange on f6?” or “Who benefits from the exchange of the black knight on c6?.”
Also, IM Andrew Martin presents an idea for White in the Closed Sicilian: 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bb5. The central idea behind 3.Bb5 is to exchange the black knight on c6 and thus not inconsiderably damage Black’s pawn structure. Martin’s contribution stretches over three lectures with a total running time of over an hour!
There is even more training material in various sections, some in video format; e.g., in Dr. Karsten Müller’s Endgame column, or in the Trap by Rainer Knaak, or in the Tactics column by Oliver Reeh. The column New DVDs brings you video clips in Chess Media format of forthcoming Fritztrainer DVDs from ChessBase.
Opening Surveys
Stohl: Anti-Grünfeld A16, 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Qa4+ Bd7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 a6
Kogan: Benoni A43, 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 d6 4.Nc3 Bf5
Moskalenko: London
Breutigam: Benoni A61, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Bg5
Marin: Benoni A70, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Bd3 Bg7 8.h3 0-0 9.Nf3 a6 10.a4 Nbd7 11.0-0 Re8 12.Bf4 Qe7
Kuzmin: Semi-Slav/Dutch Defence A84, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.e3 Bd6 5.Bd3 f5
Karolyi: Dutch Defence A85, 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f3
Postny: Ruy Lopez C63, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5 4.d3 fxe4 5.dxe4 Nf6 6.0-0 Bc5
Marin: Ruy Lopez C83, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Be7 10.Re1 0-0 11.Nd4 Nxe5 12.f3 Bd6
Kritz: Slav Defence D11, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Bd3 Bg4 6.Nbd2 e6
Schandorff: Semi-Slav D45, 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 h6
Grivas: Queen’s Gambit D60, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 0-0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Bd3
Krasenkow: Grünfeld Defence D93, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bf4 0-0
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