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Sunday, August 07, 2011
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For many years, the tournament year has begun with a chess double act. The Corus Tournament in Wijk, perhaps the best that the international tournament scene has to offer, is rapidly followed by the “intercontinental” event Morelia/Linares. The traditional tournament in Linares enjoyed the title of the “Wimbledon of chess”, but a few years ago ran into a period of drought with less exciting tournaments. The double round super tournament which has been played for 10 years soon got over that and moved its first round to Mexico. So all that is now water under the bridge. The journey from Morelia to Linares between the first and second series of rounds is however particularly demanding for the players. Not everyone is able to cope in the same way with that hassle, and perhaps in the second series the play of some has too often been a bit lacklustre. Others, on the other hand really come into bloom only when they reach Spain. This year the tournament produced a remarkably high number of entertaining games at the very highest level. Several of these world class players have felt called to annotate their masterpieces for the readers of ChessBase Magazine. Several other top class tournaments were being played in parallel to the tournament for super grandmasters. In the analyses in this issue of the magazine you will find above all the Aeroflot Open in Moscow – not quite such a strong field as previously - and the German Bundesliga. Amongst the openings surveyed, it is the Alekhine Defence which has attracted the greatest attention from the theoreticians, but see for yourself ...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011
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- 19.998 edited games played between February and May 2008
- biggest tournament: Women European Championship (1. Lahno): 853 games
- Amber tournaments in Nizza: 1. Aronian
- games of players with more than 2700 rating points: Dos Hermanas (rapid)
- category 12 in the Serbian Championship (1. Ivanisevic)
- NEW: CBM Extra with videos in Fritztrainer format
- video with Alexei Shirov (Alekseev-Shirov)
Saturday, August 06, 2011
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Foros and the Dortmund Chess Festival are the outstanding tournaments of this issue of ChessBase Magazine. Whereas in Foros in the Ukraine, the young star Magnus Carlsen progressed smoothly from start to finish with his final victory never in danger, in Dortmund the tension was high for a long period and it looked like a sensation was in the making. However, in the last but one round Peter Leko wrested the lead from Jan Gustafsson and held on to it until the end. In the shape of Carlsen, Karjakin, Eljanov, van Wely and Nisipeanu, we have five of the participants from Foros taking a look back at some selected games and explaining to you the decisive ideas and moments. For the first time, Jan Gustafsson has sat in front of the camera and recorded in Fritztrainer format his convincing victory over Arkadij Naiditsch.
Saturday, August 06, 2011
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The second FIDE Grand Prix in Sochi, the Tal Memorial in Moscow and
the Grand Slam final in Bilbao are the heavyweights of this issue.
The victors of these tournaments were Levon Aronian, who is making his
first contribution for ChessBase magazine on this DVD and annotating
for us in Fritztrainer format, Vassily Ivanchuk, who contested all
three tournaments one after the other, and Vesselin Topalov, who
killed two birds with one stone in Bilbao. Many of the games from
these highlight tournaments are here for you with extensive analysis.
The star authors include Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, and Alexei
Shirov; also Magnus Carlsen and for the first time the top English
player Michael Adams discuss their brilliancies.
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
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Susan produce the best end game series ever produced. All 3
dvds (vol. 8,9,10) are a must for all series players .
It is Essential to know how to play and win your Endgames. In fact the Endgames are more essential to learn than openings
Chapter 1 On this Susan will cover all the most Important endgames for the novice player
Chapter 2
Susan Covers all the Basic Pawn Endgames,Square rule,the Rook Pawn ,Opposition, Geometry,in chess,Two extra Pawns, the Pawn race,one side Queens first, King activity and lots more!!!
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
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DVD 1: Susan shares with you her best and highly instructional games on how a Grandmaster thinks, reasons and approaches each move. This DVD will help you to take these asy to follow ideas and principles and apply them to your own games.
DVD 2: Las Vegas International Chess Festival - The Polgar sisters Susan, Sofia and Judith along with their parents give their first public appearance in over 10 years. The Polgar sisters reunite for a historic 81-board 'Triplex Simul', where each sister will alternate moves at every board. This DVD also contains interviews, a Q and A session with the Polgar family and a bonus lecture by Susan on chess principles, tactics and combinations.
Running time: 3.5 hours
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
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Learn How to Avoid Opening Traps and Pitfalls
It is always nice to win a game quickly. But some opening traps are based only on hopes that the opponent will make a serious mistake. If the opponents play correctly, the trap could backfire. On this DVD Susan will take you through a number of opening traps & short games. By knowing what to do and what to avoid, you can turn the tables on your opponent, giving you the win instead of becoming the falling victim to a ãcheapoä.
109 minutes
Grandmaster Susan Polgar:
- 4-time Women's World Champion
- Worldâs only Triple-Crown Winner (World Blitz, Rapid & Classical World Champion)
- 5-time Olympic Champion (5 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze)
- Currently Ranked #1 in the U.S. and the World
- 2003 Grandmaster of the Year and U.S. Open Blitz Champion
- Award Winning and Best Selling Author
- Founder of the Susan Polgar Foundation, a non-profit organization to promote chess for young people
In collaboration with FM Paul Truong:
- 11-time National Champion and Winner of over 120 tournaments in U.S., Asia and Europe
- Captain of the 2004 Historic U.S. Womenâs Olympiad Silver-Medalist Team
- Award Winning Chess Author and Trainer with 35 years experience
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Monday, August 01, 2011
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Who would have thought it? The WCh match between Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik was such a one-sided affair as has not been known in the title matches of the last decade. Anand’s 3:0 at the half-way point was too sobering for the challenger to even think that he might turn things around. The WCh match in Bonn is of course the big story in this issue. The World Champion in person has annotated for you his 3rd and 5th game victories in Fritztrainer format (audio only, in English). In addition GM Rogozenco provides in-depth analysis on all the important games from the World Championship in video format. Concurrently with the WCh, the top European Team Championship was taking place. Apart from the WCh finalists and Topalov, once more the whole world élite was there in the starting blocks for this top event. Teimour Radjabov, Pavel Eljanov and the young Russian GM Nikita Vitiugov annotate some of their games from the championships on the DVD and in doing so discuss, e.g., a whole range of interesting opening ideas.
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Monday, August 01, 2011
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At the end of the super-tournament in Wijk an Zee two young heroes were in the spotlight: with a little bit of luck Magnus Carlsen won the top tournament, and at the age of only 15, Anish Giri was victorious in the B-tournament and thus qualified for the tournament for the top players for next year. On this DVD there are comments on their best games from, e.g., tournament victor Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Alexei Shirov and Nigel Short. Whereas world champion Anand usually mostly went in controlled fashion with the flow in Wijk, his challenger for the WCh, Veselin Topalov, went about things in his usual combative way in Linares and majestically won the second great tournament highlight of this issue despite a lapse in the last round but one. On the DVD you will find all the games from these world class tournaments, more than 4 hours of video analysis (e.g. by Shirov and Short about Wijk), 13 up-to-date openings articles with suggestions for your repertoire as well as training contributions in tactics, the middlegame and the endgame.
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