The Kasparov Chess Foundation, in association with the European Chess Academy and the Trainers Commission of the European Chess Union, present the first European conference for chess trainers. The event will take place during the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz tournament in Zagreb, the third stage of this year’s Grand Chess Tour.
GM Romain Edouard is an expert on the Sicilian Dragon Variation. In his four-part series in ChessBase Magazine Extra he gives deep insights into the variations after 9.0-0-0 d5 and reveals a multitude of tactical motifs he came across in the course of his analyses. The second part deals with the main line 10.exd5. You can watch an excerpt from Edouard's 20-minute analysis here!
The advance of the h-pawn on move three is certainly not in line with the basic rules of how to play the opening. But in recent years a number of world-class players have been successful with it, including Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. And just a weeks ago at the Superbet Chess Classic in Bucharest, Fabiano Caruana managed an impressive winning game with it on his way to winning the tournament against MVL. Sipke Ernst recorded a FritzTrainer on 3.h4 against the Grünfeld and King's Indian half a year ago. In the new CBM Extra #213 he provides an update with current material - you can see an excerpt of his analysis here!
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For the first time the CBM Extra comes with three opening videos: Nico Zwirs (Najdorf Variation with 6.Bg5), Sipke Ernst (3.h4 against the Gruenfeld), Romain Edouard ("Critical Lines in the Dragon" Part II) - total playing time over an hour. Plus the "Lucky bag" with analyses by Anish Giri, Spyridon Kapnisis, Adrian Mikhalchishin and many others!