ChessBase Magazine 125 Foros, Dortmund, analysis by Carlsen, Karjakin and much more by The ChessBase team
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Publisher: ChessBase, 2008
Edition: DVD Language: English
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.
The grandmaster from Hamburg Karsten Müller gives you a survey of the contents of the DVD in his introductory video. Click on the highlighted text or on the picture on the right to get a feel for our latest issue. This will give you an easy view of the highlights, the various training articles and the incentive to take a look at one or more of the total of 13 openings articles contained on the DVD.
Friends of the French, pay attention! Daniel King presents an interesting new idea in a highly topical variation (from 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?".
As in the previous issue, IM Andrew Martin presents a repertoire suggestion entitled "Structural Damage". This time it is an idea for White and in fact a special plan 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 3 lectures with a total running time of over an hour! In the first video, which Martin dedicates to the response 3...g6, he illustrates, e.g. with the game King - Hegarty (2008), various attractive ideas for White. Martin’s conclusion is that the so natural looking move 3...g6 is already a grave inaccuracy and creates very good prospects for White.
Similarly 3...e6 – the subject of the second video. White can play flexibly after the exchange on c6 and either toy with the idea of a late Grand Prix Attack or try to set in concrete Black’s pawn weaknesses on the c-file.
According to Martin, Black’s only correct reply is, on the other hand, 3...Nd4, allowing Black to completely avoid the exchange of the knight. In his third video the English IM presents the relevant variations and explains the motifs to watch out for here. His conclusion: with accurate play on both sides things should remain on a level keel.
In the various sections, there even more training for you, some in video format, e.g. in Dr Karsten Müller’s Endgame column, in the Trap by Rainer Knaak or the Tactics column by Oliver Reeh (see the browser list at the start of this page). The column New DVDs brings you, by means of video clips in Chess Media format, a preview of forthcoming Fritztrainer DVDs from ChessBase.
