Publisher: New in Chess
ISBN: 9789056915858
Number Of Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Publication Year: 2015
Language: English

Forum

 In the Forum we have high-class contributions by, among others, Alexey Kuzmin, Viktor Moskalenko, Dejan Antic, Bogdan Lalic and Viacheslav Zakhartsov.

Columns

 Great stuff from Tata Steel can be found in Joel Benjamin’s Opening Takes and Alexey Kuzmin’s Harvest.

Preview

 We have a preview of Sergey Kasparov’s latest New In Chess book, called A Cunning Chess Opening for Black – Lure Your Opponent into the Philidor Swamp!

Reviews

 Glenn Flear reviews five books:

1. The Liberated Bishop Defence by Alexey Bezgodov,
2. Hannes Langrock’s The French Defense: Rubinstein Variation,
3. Parimarjan Negi’s Grandmaster Repertoire 1.e4 vs. the French, Caro-Kann & Philidor,
4. Evgeny Sveshnikov's Sveshnikov vs. the Anti-Sicilians,
5. and The Modern Tiger by Tiger Hillarp Persson.

Surveys

1. Sicilian Defence Perenyi Attack 7.g4 SI 19.14 Adorjan
2. Sicilian Defence Taimanov Variation 9..xc6 SI 40.16 Duda
3. Sicilian Defence Paulsen/Kan 2…e6 and 4…a6 SI 41.15 Van der Wiel
4. Sicilian Defence Early Divergences 2.b3 SI 48.11 Fogarasi
5. French Defence Steinitz Variation 7....b6 FR 4.4 Tuncer
6. French Defence MacCutcheon Variation 6..c1 FR 5.3 Smerdon
7. French Defence Winawer Variation 4....e7 FR 9.1 Gonda
8. Caro-Kann Defence Advance Variation 6....b6 CK 4.11 A.Kuzmin
9. Caro-Kann Defence Advance Variation 4.h4 CK 4.14 Finkel
10. Scandinavian Defence 3..f3 Line SD 8.2 Tzermiadianos
11. Ruy Lopez Closed Lines with 9.d4 RL 20.8 Olthof
12. Scotch Opening Four Knights Opening 4..e2 SO 1.3 Frolyanov/Skatchkov
13. King’s Gambit KG Declined 2....c6 KG 5.1 Wolochowicz
14. Various Openings Bogo-Indian Defence 2....b4+ VO 22.9 Antic
15. Queen’s Gambit Declined Blackburne Variation 5..f4 QO 1.5 Ikonnikov
16. Queen’s Gambit Declined Blackburne Variation 5..f4 QO 2.10 Stohl
17. Slav Defence Krause Variation 6....bd7 SL 4.5 Karolyi
18. Queen’s Gambit Accepted Central Variation 3.e4 QG 3.7 Raetsky/Chetverik
19. Nimzo-Indian Defence Ragozin Variation 5..g5 NI 27.5 Prasanna
20. King’s Indian Defence Classical Variation 8..e3 KI 8.8 K.Szabo
21. King’s Indian Defence Sämisch Variation 5...0-0 KI 36.8 Van der Tak
22. King’s Indian Defence Fianchetto Variation 3.g3 KI 71.7 Adhiban
23. King’s Indian Defence Fianchetto Variation 7....f5 KI 72.2 Illingworth
24. Benoni Defence Benko Gambit 6....g7 BI 25.3 S.Kasparov
25. English Opening Symmetrical Variation 6....f5 EO 28.9 Mchedlishvili/Janjgava
26. English Opening Symmetrical Variation 5...d5 EO 46.9 I.Almasi
27. Réti Opening King’s Indian Attack 9.a4 RE 24.13 De Dovitiis

Exercises

 With more than 75 practical opening exercises to test your understanding