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The ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyze their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! DVD with several hours of video + booklet.

The ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyze their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! DVD with several hours of video + booklet.

The editor’s top ten 1. Masterful ease: enjoy Kramnik's attacking win over Topalov with the analysis of the ex-world champion. 2. Eljanov-Nakamura: the best player in the World Cup shows how to defeat the best players in the world. 3. Practical repertoire against the Dutch: Erwin l'Ami initiates you into the subtleties of the variation 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 d5 4.e3 (video) 4. What can you do against the Wing Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 3.a3)? In his opening article Robert Ris demonstrates new and surprising ways. 5. Chinese elite chess: play through the game Ding Liren-Wei Yi „Move by Move“ with Simon Williams. (Video training) 6. Overwhelming attack, outstanding annotations: enjoy Sutovsky-Shirov with the analyses of the winner (Najdorf Variation with 6.h3). 7. Missed chance in the World Cup final: together with Karsten Müller find a spectacular drawing possibility in an ending with bishops and opposite colours! (Video) 8. Are there strong doubled pawns? Let Mihail Marin show you when doubled pawns signify an advantage and how to exploit it. 9. “Play of the day”: Daniel King documents the dramatic end of the World Cup tiebreaks between Karjakin and Eljanov. (Video analysis) 10. Tactics to open your eyes: enjoy the most amazing tactical point in this issue! (Interactive video by Oliver Reeh)

Biel: The traditional tournament in Biel came down to a battle between three players, Navara, Wojtaszek and Vachier-Lagrave. The Czech began with 3 out of 4, one of which was his own immortal game with a king march to h8. In the second flight of games Wojtaszek took the lead at first, but the best final sprint was that of Vachier-Lagrave. Both the French and the Polish players have each annotated a game for us. Other commentary has been provided by Ftacnik, Illingworth, Krasenkow, Marin, Mokal, Pavlovic, Roiz, Shah, Stohl, Szabo and Wagner. In addition you can also find on the DVD ten “Games of the day” by Daniel King, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and even Maxime Vachier-Lagrave himself. Sinquefield-Cup: The second tournament in the “Grand Chess Tour” was even stronger. Once again Magnus Carlsen had a miserable start, with Veselin Topalov again being the spoilsport. The latter’s early lead did not last. Levon Aronian had started with a magnificent win against Caruana and also continued to play strongly. Undefeated and with three victories he won the tournament with a lead of one point. On the DVD you will find annotations by Illingworth, Krasenkow, Marin, Mokal, Pavlovic, Roiz, Stohl, Szabo and

Biel: The traditional tournament in Biel came down to a battle between three players, Navara, Wojtaszek and Vachier-Lagrave. The Czech began with 3 out of 4, one of which was his own immortal game with a king march to h8. In the second flight of games Wojtaszek took the lead at first, but the best final sprint was that of Vachier-Lagrave. Both the French and the Polish players have each annotated a game for us. Other commentary has been provided by Ftacnik, Illingworth, Krasenkow, Marin, Mokal, Pavlovic, Roiz, Shah, Stohl, Szabo and Wagner. In addition you can also find on the DVD ten “Games of the day” by Daniel King, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and even Maxime Vachier-Lagrave himself. Sinquefield-Cup: The second tournament in the “Grand Chess Tour” was even stronger. Once again Magnus Carlsen had a miserable start, with Veselin Topalov again being the spoilsport. The latter’s early lead did not last. Levon Aronian had started with a magnificent win against Caruana and also continued to play strongly. Undefeated and with three victories he won the tournament with a lead of one point. On the DVD you will find annotations by Illingworth, Krasenkow, Marin, Mokal, Pavlovic, Roiz, Stohl, Szabo and

Shamkir: At the Gashimov Memorial Magnus Carlsen once more underlined his unique class: 7 out of 9 without a defeat confirmed his ranking as the clear No. 1 in the world. Vishy Anand can also be satisfied – with 6 out of 9 he advanced to second place on the ranking list. The Indian has annotated a game for you, just as Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So have provided comments on games. In addition you can find on the DVD all nine daily summaries by Daniel King. Team WCh: China impressively triumphed in its duel with the Ukraine and with its young team it won its second major title in succession. You will find on the DVD annotations by Ftacnik, Illingworth, Krasenkow, Marin, Mokal, Pavlovic, Roiz, Stohl, Sumets and Szabo. European Championship: Evgenij Najer is the surprise European champion. Players who took part, Mateusz Bartel (3rd place), Alexander Ipatov, Viktor Laznicka, David Navara (2nd place), Evgeny Postny and Andrey Volokitin have annotated games of their own. Mihail Marin has once more put together a major opening survey. Daniel King contributes a video with a game by the new European champion. With further annotations by Krasenkow, Meulders, Mikhalchishin, Mokal, Roiz and Szabo. 13 Opening articles with new repertoire ideas: Marin: 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ 3.Nc3 c5 Illingworth: French Tarrasch 5.f4 Souleidis: Philidor Defence 6...Nb6 Schipkov: King's Indian 3.f3 Szabo: King's Indian 6.h3 and more!

Wijk aan Zee: Magnus Carlsen started badly, but 6 wins out of 6 in the middle of the tournament were sufficient for the sole lead. Those in second place Ding Liren, Wesley So and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave have each annotated a game for ChessBase Magazine. Gibraltar: Hikaru Nakamura was the No. 1 seed in the major Open in Gibraltar and impressively confirmed his position: first 6 out of 6, finishing with 8.5 out of 10. The American has annotated for us his game against the young GM Baskaran. Baden-Baden: Arkadij Naiditsch had an excellent tournament: a victory against the world champion and an undefeated 4.5 out of 7. But Carlsen reached the same score at the end and won through in the tiebreak. Zürich: In the overall standings, Hikaru Nakamura finished level first with Anand. Thanks to his victory in the Armageddon game the American took overall first place. Annotations by Krasenkow and Pavlovic. FIDE Grand-Prix Tbilisi: This came as a real surprise. No. 10 seed Evgeny Tomashevsky secured a majestic tournament victory with 8 out of 11 and with it went into the lead in the overall Grand Prix standings. 11 Opening articles with new repertoire ideas: Sagar Shah: English 3.Bg2 h6 Ris: Accelerated Dragon 8...d5 Szabo: Sicilian English Attack Havasi: French Tarrasch 3...Nf6 Marin: French Tarrasch 3...c5 Kuzmin: Slav 4.e3 Bg4 Postny: Ragosin Defence 5.Bg5 h6 Stohl: Semi-Slav/Catalan 5.g3 Krasenkow: Bogo-Indian 4.Nbd2 – Part 2 and more!

Wijk aan Zee: Magnus Carlsen started badly, but 6 wins out of 6 in the middle of the tournament were sufficient for the sole lead. Those in second place Ding Liren, Wesley So and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave have each annotated a game for ChessBase Magazine. Gibraltar: Hikaru Nakamura was the No. 1 seed in the major Open in Gibraltar and impressively confirmed his position: first 6 out of 6, finishing with 8.5 out of 10. The American has annotated for us his game against the young GM Baskaran. Baden-Baden: Arkadij Naiditsch had an excellent tournament: a victory against the world champion and an undefeated 4.5 out of 7. But Carlsen reached the same score at the end and won through in the tiebreak. Zürich: In the overall standings, Hikaru Nakamura finished level first with Anand. Thanks to his victory in the Armageddon game the American took overall first place. Annotations by Krasenkow and Pavlovic. FIDE Grand-Prix Tbilisi: This came as a real surprise. No. 10 seed Evgeny Tomashevsky secured a majestic tournament victory with 8 out of 11 and with it went into the lead in the overall Grand Prix standings. 11 Opening articles with new repertoire ideas: Sagar Shah: English 3.Bg2 h6 Ris: Accelerated Dragon 8...d5 Szabo: Sicilian English Attack Havasi: French Tarrasch 3...Nf6 Marin: French Tarrasch 3...c5 Kuzmin: Slav 4.e3 Bg4 Postny: Ragosin Defence 5.Bg5 h6 Stohl: Semi-Slav/Catalan 5.g3 Krasenkow: Bogo-Indian 4.Nbd2 – Part 2 and more!

Better than the world-champion! Sergei Karjakin for the 2nd time wins "Norway Chess" thanks to three wins in a row in the final rounds. Karjakin comments on his win over Kramnik. Other annotations have been contributed by Ftacnik, Krasenkow, Marin, Negi, Roiz, Stohl, Sumets and Szabo. In addition there are an openings survey by Mihail Marin + „Game of the day“-videos by Daniel King. Capablanca Memorial: The game Almasi-So in the 5th round was a decisive one. His victory with Black brought the Wesley So into the lead and from then on it could not be prised out of his hands. The tournament winner has annotated that theoretically important game. Karpov-Tournament: Tournament victor Morozevich was able to permit himself a draw in the last round because his rival Jakovenko lost his game. Jakovenko, Bologan and Sutovsky, who all took part, have annotated games Interactive training lectures with video feedback to your ideas: Daniel King „Move by Move“, Oliver Reeh “Tactics" and Karsten Müller „Endgames“ - get on a move!

FIDE Candidates: Vishy Anand was the only player to remain undefeated on +3 and thus safely took victory setting up another WCh-match with Carlsen. The tournament winner has annotated his nice win against Topalov for us. Gashimov Memorial: World champion Magnus Carlsen thanks to an outstanding second half won the tournament by a clear point. Carlsen’s conquerors Caruana and Radjabov have annotated their victories. In addition to this, the DVD offers Daniel Kings "game of the day" video for every round. European Championship: Alexander Motylev became the new European champion scoring an outstanding 9 out of 11. Bartel, Eljanov, Motylev, Postny and Roiz have annotated their games for us. NEW! With this issue German federal trainer GM Dorian Rogozenco starts a new series in ChessBase Magazine: in the “Classic” he shows you a master game from the history of chess and at the decisive moments he asks you how you would continue. Here you can learn about the “classic” ways to win a game, strategies and endgame techniques, which are also so very worthwhile knowing for club and amateur chess. Take the test! To start his series Rogonzenco has selected for you the game Lasker-Bauer (Amsterdam 1889).

Magnus Carlsen is the new World Champion! Daniel King analysed all ten games in video format. Many annotated games from the World Team Championship, f.e. by Fridman, Meier And Krasenkow Adams, Andreikin and Radjabov annotate one of their games from the European Team Championship in Warsaw. NEW! Interactive video training: Daniel King „Move by Move“, Oliver Reeh “Tactics", and Karsten Müller „Endgame“ offer feedback to your ideas! 12 new opening articles. Michael Krasenkow shares his knowledge of the Semi-Tarrasch, Lars Schandorff introduces you to a "Carlsen Variation" and many more.

Fabiano Caruana, the "king of Bucharest", analyses his win against Ponormariov. More annotated games by Wang Hao and Nisipeanu. Sinquefield-Cup Saint Louis: Magnus Carlsens last staging post before the wch-match. All important games from this top-class event with in-depth analysis. The two winners of the FIDE Grand-Prix in Paris, Caruana und Gelfand, each comment on one of their best games. Large opening survey by Mihail Marin. European Club Cup: Wojtaszek, Laznicka and Bartel from the vicrorious team Novy Bor have annotated games. NEW! Interactive video training: Daniel King „Move by Move“, Oliver Reeh “Tactics", and Karsten Müller „Endgame“ offer feedback to your ideas! 12 new opening articles - see below!

The long awaited candidates tournament in London exceeded expectations and has already secured itself a special place in the annals of chess. The result is that the challenger to World Champion Anand is Magnus Carlsen, the one the world of chess wanted to see. But some of the heroes of London were active shortly after at the Alekhine Memorial – Aronian and Gelfand came out on top just ahead of Anand. The third tournament on the DVD is the FIDE Grand Prix in Zug with an outstanding display by Topalov. Amongst the start authors in this issue are Kramnik, Aronian, Caruana, Gelfand and Ponomariov. At the same time, the DVD with its 12 openings articles again offers numerous ideas and suggestions for your repertoire, e.g. Najdorf with 6.h3, three articles on the French and a contribution by Zoltan Almasi on his special variation in the Nimzo-Indian.

The surpise winner of the Tal Memorial, Boris Gelfand, provides detailed notes on his decisive game against Nakamura. Fabiano Caruana comment on his victory over world-champion Anand in Moscow. For the first time US-champion Gata Kamsky analyses for ChessBase Magazine. He annotates his victory over Dominguez-Perez, the winner of the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki. Zoltan Almasi played a strategical master game in the Sicilian Rossolimo (3.Bb5) against the new European champion Moiseenko, the Hungarian GM offers in-depth analysis on the DVD. NEW! Daniel Kings presents his column „Move by Move“ in the new interactive video format with training questions and detailed feedback even when you fail to find the best move. In this issue your task is to win against the King's Indian (Eljanov-Baryshpolets, Kiew 2013). Opening video: Opening expert Mihail Marin reveals secrets of the Queen's Gambit in a 30 minutes lecture.

Vladimir Kramnik analyses the decisive game from the FIDE World Cup. All four players from the semi-finals comment on their best games! Biel: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave analyses his final round victory against Ding Liren which oepned the door to a four players' tiebreak. More annotated games by Ding Liren and Moiseenko. "Play of the day": Daniel King explains the best game of the day in video format. Dortmund: Michael Adams shows two of his best games from the tournament of his life. 11 new opening articles including "A simple plan" against the King’s Gambit, "A venomous side-line" – Ruy Lopez with 5.d4, the "Prins Variation" - 7...Na6 in the Grünfeld Defence.

The chess year 2012 ended on a world record. Magnus Carlsen not only won the London Chess Classic with a fantastic result (five wins and three draws), but in doing so surpassed Kasparov’s Elo record of 1999. The Norwegian now heads the world ranking list with the new record rating of 2861. The tournament in London constitutes a major element in this edition, e.g. for the more than four hours of analysis by the players themselves in audio format. The other two top tournaments in Tashkent and in Bucharest were also very close-run affairs. The FIDE Grand Prix even in the Usbek capital was won by the trio of Karjakin, Morozevich and Wang Hao all on the same score, and in the "Kings Tournament" in Romania Ivanchuk did not get the top spot till after his tiebreak with Topalov. The star authors on this DVD include Kramnik, Karjakin, Adams as well as the new women’s world champion Anna Ushenina.

Records, outstanding games, great suspense - the first super-tournament of the year again offered everything chess lovers could wish for. Wijk aan Zee once again, with a brilliant Magnus Carlsen (now 2872!), lead off. The open in Gibraltar with top players like Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Adams and Vachier-Lagrave ended in a tie-break, which was decided in favour of Nikita Vitiugov. In Baden-Baden Naiditsch and Caruana provided the entertainment but, with a fine finish, world champion Anand managed his first tournament victory in five years. In Zurich even Garry Kasparov was active - no, not as a player but as a live commentator. His critical expression will have had little to do with the play by Fabiano Caruana who won the tournament with 4 out of 6. The 20 year old also belongs to the star authors 12 opening articles on the DVD, amongst others, the Sicilian, Semi-Slav and Bogo-Indian with lots of stimulating ideas for your repertoire.

There were two close decisions in the top two mid-summer tournaments. Whereas in Dortmund the number of games with Black gave Fabiano Caruana his first victory in an elite tournament, in Biel Wang Hao made best use of the three-point rule. If the classic scoring had applied, Magnus Carlsen would have repeated his success of the previous year, but the Chinese player came out ahead as a result of his greater number of wins. On the DVD Caruana, Kramnik, Giri, Ponomariov and Meier are some of the protagonists to have analysed one of their best games in classical format. The DVD's special is a selection of video analyses with the participants of the Biel Chess Festival (total running time, 1 hour 40 mins.).

The final issue of the year is once again packed with high-level games and exciting top tournaments. On the DVD you will find over 4,000 from four world class events, in each of which the level of tension remained high right to the very. From the Chess Olympiad, in which Armenia secured another gold medal by an unbelievably close margin, all the way through to the European Cup with the Azeri team SOCAR the new title holders. At the Grand Slam finals in Sao Paulo/Bilbao the victor was not decided till the tiebreak between the two young stars who were equal on points, Caruana and Carlsen, and the decision was in favour of the number one in the world ranking list. And last but not least: the FIDE Grand Prix in London may have ended without a tiebreak, but nevertheless there were three winners all on the same number of points. Many of the principal actors in all this are among the annotators on this DVD, led by Carlsen, Kramnik and Caruana.

The focus of this issue consists of two top tournaments with diametrically opposed formats: the "Zurich Chess Challenge" saw the encounter of Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian in a friendly match consisting of six games and ending, when you consider their closeness in strength, in a 3:3 draw. The European Championship in Plovdiv, on the other hand, was once more a giant tournament with far over 300 participants, including 180 grandmasters. Here there was a sole winner in Dmitry Jakovenko (title picture) with 8.5 out of 11. The new European Champion is, along with Kramnik, Karjakin, Bologan, Shirov, Inarkiev etc. one of our star authors. You will also find on the DVD 13 openings articles, which cover the usual wide spectrum: from the Dutch via the French Winawer to the topical "Westphalia Variation" in the Queen's Gambit. That means something for everyone!