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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.

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.

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!

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.

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).

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!

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!