The new ChessBase Magazine #219 offers complete mobile access again with the ChessBase book format. All analyses, repertoire articles, videos and training exercises can be loaded directly in your web browser! In this and the coming weeks, we will be presenting the new issue to you in a series of free reading samples. We start with Lars Schandorff's opening article on the Caro-Kann Advance Variation. After the moves 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h6!? he recommends White to start the game with a sequence of nine pawn moves! Can that be good? Check the free CBM reading sample of the week!
Prague Masters 2024: analyses by tournament winner Nodirbek Abdusattorov as well as Erwin l'Ami, David Navara, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, Praggnanandhaa and many more. - "Special" on Fabiano Caruana: CBM authors show their favourite games of the world no. 2 - exclusive collection of 26 annotated games from 2007 to 2023 – A fresh English repertoire: Felix Blohberger presents an idea based on the game Gukesh-Navara from the Prague Masters 2024 with 3.e3 and 4.Qb3 (video) – Everything okay for Black: Sergey Grigoriants updates 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5!? – Active defence: Jan Markos shows in his series "Practical tips for the tournament player" which strategy you should pursue in a pressure situation – Endgames with knight versus pawn(s): "Knight check shadow", "Karpov distance" and what else you need to know, part #9 of Dr Karsten Mueller’s video course and much more.
Inspired by a data analysis of the style of play in American basketball, Roger Lorenz has carried out a similar analysis for top-level chess. There have indeed significant changes over the last few decades not necessarily positive ones.
ChessBase Magazine offers a window to the world of professional chess. Our columnist Nagesh Havanur takes a look at our recent issue, CBM 218. 540 games from Tata Steel Chess and Chessable Masters 2024, 12 opening surveys, 3 opening videos, 6 demo lectures and several exercises for training. Annotators include Wei Yi, Anish Giri, Nordibek Abdusattorov, Alireza Firouzja, Vidit Gujrathi and Praggnanandhaa among others. The icing on the cake is a special feature on Richard Rapport, with 28 annotated games. | Pictured: Gukesh D playing white against Ding Liren in Wijk aan Zee | Photo: Jurriaan Hoefsmit / Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024
In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris looks at a game featuring the Double Fianchetto System. In the spirit of the King’s Indian Defence, Magnus Carlsen seizes the initiative on the kingside with black to win an instructive game. | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target=" blank">register a Premium account here</a>.