Chess Opening News
New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess opening theory. Have a look at what this issue has to offer.
Forum
This issue’s Forum Section features an article by René Olthof on the stunning piece sacrifice with which Fabiano Caruana took Maxime Vachier-Lagrave by surprise in the second leg of the Candidates Tournament. This is followed by some unique analysis material by Ganguly on a game he lost against Pavel Eljanov! Two other grandmasters, Mikheil Mchedlishvili and Max Warmerdam, also made a contribution, and you should certainly check out IJntze Hoekstra’s short but intriguing note to the book Side-Stepping Mainline Theory by Gerard Welling and Steve Giddins!
From Our Own Correspondent
Our GM correspondent Erwin l’Ami starts his column with a good equalizing method for Black in the Tarrasch and then presents a thorough analysis of a correspondence game with the Delayed Poisoned Pawn in the Najdorf. L’Ami has played the Black side of Kramnik’s QGD endgame and demonstrates that Black is OK here – which cannot be said of his two final subjects, the Poisoned Pawn line in the London System and the Winawer French with 7…0-0.
Reviews
Part of Glenn Flear’s Reviews column is dedicated to modern media again. The 2-volume ebook The Modern French by Kryakvin is reviewed and compared to two other recent works on the French: Anish Giri’s awesome Lifetime repertoire course; The French Defense (for Chessable) and Pentala Harikrishna’s book Beat the French Defence with 3.Nc3. The Englishman also pays attention to Ilya Smirin’s book Sicilian Warfare – arguably more than just an opening book – and of course the latest masterpiece by Parimarjan Negi: Grandmaster repertoire: 1.e4 vs Minor Defences.
1.e4 openings
- Sicilian Defence – Najdorf Variation 6.Be3 – Ganguly
- Sicilian Defence – Scheveningen Variation 6.g3 – Mchedlishvili
- Sicilian Defence – Rauzer Variation 7.Bb5 – Ganguly
- Sicilian Defence – Four Knights Variation 6.Ndb5 – Vilela
- Sicilian Defence – Four Knights Variation 6.Nxc6 – Stella
- Sicilian Defence – Closed Variation 3.d4 – Bosch
- French Defence – Exchange Variation 4.Nf3 – Lalic
- French Defence – Tarrasch Variation 3…Nf6 – Moskalenko
- Ruy Lopez – Berlin Defence 4.0 – 0 – Ponomariov
- Ruy Lopez – Early Divergences after 3…a6 4.Ba4 – Ris
- Ruy Lopez – Open Variation 9.Nbd2 – Talsma
- Italian Game – Giuoco Piano 4.c3 – Flear
- Italian Game – Early Divergences 3.Bc4 d6 – Sokolov
- Scotch Opening – Four Knights Game 4.a4 – Bosch
- Scotch Opening – Mieses Variation 4.Nf6 5.Nxc6 – K.Szabo
- Various Openings – Nimzowitsch Defence 1…Nc6 2.d4 – Tzermiadianos
1.d4 opening
- Slav Defence – Slow Slav – Panczyk and Ilczuk
- Slav Defence – Semi – Slav: Meran 6.Qc2 – Olthof
- Tarrasch Defence – Semi – Tarrasch 4.Nf3 d5 – Adams
- Nimzo – Indian Defence – 4.Nf3 Line – Ikonnikov
- Queen’s Indian Defence – Bogo – Indian 3.Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 – Timman
- Grünfeld Indian Defence – 4.Bf4 Line – Lukacs and Hazai
- King’s Indian Defence – Classical Main Line 7…Bg4 – Fogarasi
- Queen’s Pawn Openings – Double Fianchetto 6.b3 – K.Szabo
Others
- English Opening – Symmetrical Variation 3.b3 – Cummings