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
French guru Viktor Moskalenko shows two recent OTB games in the Forum Section, in which he was successful with some great ideas he presented in his latest book The Fully-Fledged French. One is a piece sac that gained him a 13-move win with black! Bogdan Lalic takes a look at another surprising black piece sac, in the King’s Indian this time. The Forum also contains some novelties from the World Cup, presented by Luis Rodi, Peter Boel and Frank Erwich.
From Sadler’s Engine Room
Matthew Sadler is our new columnist! He will alternate with Erwin l’Ami’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ column. The English grandmaster is well-known for the best-seller Game Changer he wrote with Natasha Regan, about computer chess. His new column will be on opening treatment by the top engines, and in his first instalment Matthew shows that these beasts are not at all averse to some offbeat opening play!
Reviews
Four books are reviewed this time – all of them with a quite original angle. The Modernized Italian Game for White by Alexander Kalinin & Nikolai Kalinichenko is more about understanding than learning lines by heart, and we know that it’s the same with Viktor Moskalenko’s books. With The Fully-Fledged French, the Ukrainian grandmaster has produced a new shoot on his favourite French opening, with a lot of brand new ideas. The didactic approach of Thomas Willemze in The Scandinavian for Club Players is really something else, and of course we couldn’t ignore the Iron English by the creative English duo Simon Williams & Richard Palliser.
1.e4 openings
- Sicilian Defence – Najdorf Variation 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.f4 – Van der Wiel
- Sicilian Defence – Najdorf Variation 6.b3 – Bosch
- Sicilian Defence – Rauzer Variation 6.Bg5 – Ntirlis
- Sicilian Defence – Four Knights Variation 6.a3 – Olthof
- Sicilian Defence – Four Knights Variation 6.Nxc6 – Gupta
- Sicilian Defence – Taimanov Variation 7.g4 – Szabo
- Sicilian Defence – Closed Variation 2.Nc3, 3.d4 – Ganguly
- Caro-Kann Defence – Advance Variation 4.Nf3 – Rodi
- Scandinavian Defence – Main Line 4.g3 – Willemze
- Alekhine’s Defence – Modern Variation 4…g6 – Ilczuk & Panczyk
- Ruy Lopez – Classical Defence 3…Bc5 – Caruana
- Italian Game – Giuoco Piano 4.c3 – Flear
- Various Openings – Double Queen’s Gambit 2…c5 – Ponomariov
1.d4 openings
- Queen’s Gambit Declined – Early Divergences 4.Nf3 h6 – Ikonnikov
- Slav Defence – Moscow Variation 6.Bh4 dxc4 – Timman
- Queen’s Gambit Accepted – Central Variation 3.e4 b5 – Ris
- Queen’s Gambit Accepted – Classical Variation 7.Nc3 – Adams
- Catalan Opening – Bogo-Indian Variation …Bb4+ – Doknjas
- Nimzo-Indian Defence – Classical Variation 4…b6 – Flear
- Nimzo-Indian Defence – 4.Nf3-Variation 4…0-0 – Vilela
- King’s Indian Defence – Classical Main Line 9.Ne1 – Sokolov
- Queen’s Pawn Openings – London System 3.Bf4 Bf5 – Kuljasevic
Others
- English Opening – Reversed Sicilian: Other Lines 2.b3 – Fogarasi
- Réti Opening – 2…e6 and 4…Be7 – Jones
- Réti Opening – 2…e6 and 4…dxc4 – Cummings