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€29.90 €22.43 The Sicilian Rossolimo is perhaps not known for its aggressive nature, it does certainly lead to interesting positions with chances of building an attack against the enemy king. In our key game Matlakov-Truskavetsky from the Russian Team Championships, White went for a sort of hybrid Rossolimo/Open Sicilian with 3.Bb5 e6 4.0-0 Nge7 5.d4!?. In this week's Fast & Furious we'll go through the critical lines and ideas for both sides, which the Black player was obviously not familiar with. His pieces were totally stuck on the queenside which allowed by White to ...

€29.90 Relieved Magnus Carlsen revolutionized the chess world last year, as his conglomerate of companies, the Play Magnus Group, announced the first online tour for elite players. Carlsen was the deserved winner of the tour, and once it was clear the complications relating to the Covid-19 pandemic would continue in 2021 a second tour was announced. Meanwhile, 1.b3 has also found its way into the practice of today's world elite, and now finally a modern top ten player has taken on the subject for ChessBase: none other than Grandmaster Wesley So! After winning the prelimin...

by Robert Ris 4/29/2021 – In this week’s show, well-known Dutch trainer Robert Ris takes a look at an aggressive setup against the Queen's Gambit Declined, which Le Quang Liem used in the New in Chess Classic tournament to bring Hikaru Nakamura to the verge of defeat. | “Fast and Furious” is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. new: ChessBase Magazine 198 Special: Kasparov as a challenger. New: “All in One” – Anish Giri dissects two topical opening lines...

€29.90 Najdorf Poisoned Pawn: Caruana vs MVL After a break of more than one year, the Candidates finally resumed again and the players certainly used this time to prepare new opening ideas. In round 8, the first round after the resumption of the tournament, Fabiano Caruana sacrificed three pawns and a piece in the opening and came up with an amazing novelty (18.Bc4!) in the Poisoned Pawn Variation of the Sicilian Najdorf in his game with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. This thriller of a game is good candidate for the game of the year, and others have called it the most amazing piec...

€29.90 The Anti-Sicilian line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 dxe5 5.Nxe5 is trickier than most people would think. In this weeks show we have a look at White's ideas to fight for an advantage. Black has various ways of meeting this setup, but one critical line goes 5...a6 6.g3 Qc7 7.d4 cxd4 8.Qxd4 Nc6 9.Nxc6 Qxc6 and now rather than moving the rook to g1, White ignores the threat and continues his development with 10.Bg5! Dutch IM Henk Vedder has frequently played this line and since then many people, including strong GMs, have employed the same idea with great successes...