From Our Own Correspondent
This special column on correspondence chess by GM Erwin l’Ami features hot-off-the-press material on the Queen’s Indian with 4...Ba6, the London System with the sharp lines that arise after Black’s crucial reply 3...c5 and 4...Qb6, and some audacious black play in the Moscow Slav. Moreover, l’Ami analyses two games that seem to suggest that Tiviakov’s Scandinavian with 3...Qd6 and the French McCutcheon are in heavy weather. 

Reviews
This time Glenn Flear reviews exclusively books on 1.d4 openings. The first one, Attacking with g2-g4 by Dmitry Kryakvin (New In Chess), is quite special, covering quite a lot of ground and is quite inspiring according to Flear. Other reviewed works are M. Chetverik’s interesting book The Complete Bogo-Indian Defence, the high-level Cheparinov’s 1.d4 Volume 1, written by another top-theoretician from Bulgaria, Efstratios Grivas’s Grivas Opening Laboratory Volume 1, which may be the first part of the Greek GM’s ‘magnum opus’, and Ivan Ivanisevic’s Modernized Delayed Benoni, which is full of sharp ideas as you might expect.

1.e4 openings
Sicilian Defence - Moscow Variation 3.Bb5+ Bd7 - Gutman
Sicilian Defence - Early Divergences 5.Bc4 - Olthof
Sicilian Defence - Rossolimo Variation 3.Bb5 g6 - Krykun
Sicilian Defence - Alapin Variation 2...Nf6 - Adams
Caro-Kann Defence - Two Knights Variation 3...Bg4 - Karolyi
Scandinavian Defence - Gubnitsky/Pytel Variation 3...Qd6 - Lukacs and Hazai
Petroff Defence - Marshall Variation 6.Bd3 Bd6 - K.Szabo
Ruy Lopez - Neo-Arkhangelsk Variation 6...Bc5 - Gupta
Italian Game - Two Knights Defence 4.d3 h6 - Bosch
King’s Pawn Openings - Philidor Defence 3...Nf6 & 4...Nbd7 - Fogarasi
King’s Pawn Openings - Two Knights Defence 5...Na5 - Van der Tak 

1.d4 openings
Queen’s Gambit Declined... Alatortsev Variation 3...Be7 - Sokolov
Slav Defence - Slow Slav 4.e3 Bf5 - Predke
Tarrasch Defence - Early Divergences 6.dxc5 - Stella
Catalan Opening - Open Variation 6...dxc4 - Ponomariov
Nimzo-Indian Defence - Kmoch Variation 4.f3 d5 - Ilczuk and Panczyk
Queen’s Indian Defence - Bogo-Indian 4.Nbd2 - Ikonnikov
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Bc4 & 10.h4 - Panczyk and Ilczuk
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Bc4 & 11.h4 - Abeln
King’s Indian Defence - Classical Variation 9.Ne1 - Jankovic
King’s Indian Defence - Old Main Line 7...exd4 & 9...Nc6 - Ntirlis
King’s Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 6...c5 7.d5 - Adorjan and Vegh
King’s Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 6...Nc6 - Jones
Benoni Defence - Benko/Volga Gambit 7.e4 0-0 - Karolyi

Others
English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 6.g3 Qb6 - Timman

256 Seiten, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2020

Forum

A big Forum Section this time with, of course, first the results of the Novelty of the Year contest. Who played the greatest novelty published in the 2019 Yearbooks? There is also a contribution by Robert Ris on his upset defeat of top player David Navara in the Four Knights Sicilian, Jeroen Bosch analyses his vintage Velimirovic Attack win over Jan Werle, and new contributor GM Francesco Rambaldi writes about more offbeat Najdorfs from the Tata Steel tournament. And much more!

Correspondence chess

Erwin l’Ami column again features a game by OTB GM Krishnan Sasikiran, who found a spectacular novelty in the Scotch Gambit. The Dutch GM also presents new material on the 7.d5 pawn sac in the Queen’s Indian, the Yugoslav Dragon, the Exchange Grünfeld with 7.Bc4, and the Slav with 4...Bf5.

Reviews

Glenn Flear starts his column with a review of Fabiano Caruana’s 3-volume DVD on the Ruy Lopez for ChessBase. A slightly different medium from what he is used to, but he ‘found it fascinating listening to the World No. 2 explaining his way of thinking about the various options in the Spanish.’ Three repertoire books are compared this time: Kaufman’s New Repertoire for Black and White and Christoph Sielecki’s Keep It Simple 1.d4 from New In Chess, as well as the new edition of A Startling Chess Opening Repertoire by and Chris Baker and Graham Burgess. Finally, Priyadharshan Kannappan’s surprising new book The Modernized Berlin Wall Defense is held up against the light.

256 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2020

Forum

A big Forum Section this time with, of course, first the results of the Novelty of the Year contest. Who played the greatest novelty published in the 2019 Yearbooks? There is also a contribution by Robert Ris on his upset defeat of top player David Navara in the Four Knights Sicilian, Jeroen Bosch analyses his vintage Velimirovic Attack win over Jan Werle, and new contributor GM Francesco Rambaldi writes about more offbeat Najdorfs from the Tata Steel tournament. And much more!

Correspondence chess

Erwin l’Ami column again features a game by OTB GM Krishnan Sasikiran, who found a spectacular novelty in the Scotch Gambit. The Dutch GM also presents new material on the 7.d5 pawn sac in the Queen’s Indian, the Yugoslav Dragon, the Exchange Grünfeld with 7.Bc4, and the Slav with 4...Bf5.

Reviews

Glenn Flear starts his column with a review of Fabiano Caruana’s 3-volume DVD on the Ruy Lopez for ChessBase. A slightly different medium from what he is used to, but he ‘found it fascinating listening to the World No. 2 explaining his way of thinking about the various options in the Spanish.’ Three repertoire books are compared this time: Kaufman’s New Repertoire for Black and White and Christoph Sielecki’s Keep It Simple 1.d4 from New In Chess, as well as the new edition of A Startling Chess Opening Repertoire by and Chris Baker and Graham Burgess. Finally, Priyadharshan Kannappan’s surprising new book The Modernized Berlin Wall Defense is held up against the light.

256 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2020

Chess Opening News

New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess opening theory. Have a look at what this issue has to offer.

256 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2019

Chess Opening News

New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess opening theory. Have a look at what this issue has to offer.

256 Seiten, englisch, gebunden, 1. Auflage 2019

Correspondence chess
In his column, Erwin l?Ami presents interesting correspondence games by OTB GMs Krishnan Sasikiran and... himself! Also, a big theoretical find in Fischer?s 2.Nc3 Caro-Kann by Kristo Miettinen, a highly disputed line of the Austrian Attack vs the Pirc, and this issue?s sideline is 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 in the Sicilian with 2...d6 from a game Milen Petrov-Walter Steiger.

Reviews
Glenn Flear?s Reviews column focuses on the question whether there will ever be an ?Ultimate Main Line?. Will it start with 1.d4 ? Several books reviewed in this Yearbook are about this first move: Boris Avrukh?s Grandmaster Repertoire 2B: 1.d4 Dynamic Systems, Cyrus Lakdawala?s book on his latest repertoire change 1 d4 with 2 c4, and Viktor Moskalenko?s An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4. And then there is also Tibor Karolyi?s 2-part book Play the Dutch!. The fifth reviewed book, on the treacherous Hippopotamus Defence by Alessio De Santis, is especially special.

1.e4 openings
- Sicilian Defence - Moscow Variation 3...?d7 - Pijpers
- Sicilian Defence - Dragon Yugoslav Attack 9.?c4 - Olthof
- Sicilian Defence - Rossolimo Variation 3...g6 - Ponomariov
- Sicilian Defence - 4...?b6 Lines - Szabo
- Sicilian Defence - Anti-Sveshnikov 3.?c3- Ikonnikov
- Sicilian Defence - Sveshnikov Variation 7.?d5 - Stohl
- French Defence - Closed Variation 2.d3 - Giddins/Welling
- French Defence - 3.?c3 Other Lines - Fogarasi
- Scandinavian Defence - Main Line 3...?a5 - Olthof
- Petroff Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 5.?c3 - Karolyi
- Ruy Lopez - Berlin Defence 4.d3 - Van der Wiel
- Italian Game - Giuoco Piano 4.c3, 5.d3 - Saric
- Scotch Opening - 4...?f6 Line - Ris
- Two Knights Defence - Early Divergences 5...?xd5 - Lopez Senra
- Various Openings - English Defence 3.e4 - Stella
- Various Openings - Sokolsky Opening 1.b4 - Maris       

1.d4 openings
- Queen?s Gambit Declined - Early Divergences 4.?g5 -Rodi
- Slav Defence - Krause Variation 6.?e5 - Vigorito
- Catalan Opening - Open Variation 6.?c3 dxc4 - Lukacs/Hazai
- Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4.?c2 - Vilela
- Queen?s Indian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 4...?a6 - Timman
- Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.?f3 - Mchedlishvili
- King?s Indian Defence - Makogonov Variation 5.h3 - Kuljasevic
- Queen?s Pawn Openings - Malinoise Defence 1...c6 - Panczyk/Ilczuk
- Dutch Defence - Early sidelines 4.?g5 - Moskalenko        

Others
- English Opening - Four Knights Variation 4.e3 - Hungaski

256 Seiten, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2019

Correspondence chess
In his column, Erwin l?Ami presents interesting correspondence games by OTB GMs Krishnan Sasikiran and... himself! Also, a big theoretical find in Fischer?s 2.Nc3 Caro-Kann by Kristo Miettinen, a highly disputed line of the Austrian Attack vs the Pirc, and this issue?s sideline is 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 in the Sicilian with 2...d6 from a game Milen Petrov-Walter Steiger.

Reviews
Glenn Flear?s Reviews column focuses on the question whether there will ever be an ?Ultimate Main Line?. Will it start with 1.d4 ? Several books reviewed in this Yearbook are about this first move: Boris Avrukh?s Grandmaster Repertoire 2B: 1.d4 Dynamic Systems, Cyrus Lakdawala?s book on his latest repertoire change 1 d4 with 2 c4, and Viktor Moskalenko?s An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4. And then there is also Tibor Karolyi?s 2-part book Play the Dutch!. The fifth reviewed book, on the treacherous Hippopotamus Defence by Alessio De Santis, is especially special.

1.e4 openings
- Sicilian Defence - Moscow Variation 3...?d7 - Pijpers
- Sicilian Defence - Dragon Yugoslav Attack 9.?c4 - Olthof
- Sicilian Defence - Rossolimo Variation 3...g6 - Ponomariov
- Sicilian Defence - 4...?b6 Lines - Szabo
- Sicilian Defence - Anti-Sveshnikov 3.?c3- Ikonnikov
- Sicilian Defence - Sveshnikov Variation 7.?d5 - Stohl
- French Defence - Closed Variation 2.d3 - Giddins/Welling
- French Defence - 3.?c3 Other Lines - Fogarasi
- Scandinavian Defence - Main Line 3...?a5 - Olthof
- Petroff Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 5.?c3 - Karolyi
- Ruy Lopez - Berlin Defence 4.d3 - Van der Wiel
- Italian Game - Giuoco Piano 4.c3, 5.d3 - Saric
- Scotch Opening - 4...?f6 Line - Ris
- Two Knights Defence - Early Divergences 5...?xd5 - Lopez Senra
- Various Openings - English Defence 3.e4 - Stella
- Various Openings - Sokolsky Opening 1.b4 - Maris       

1.d4 openings
- Queen?s Gambit Declined - Early Divergences 4.?g5 -Rodi
- Slav Defence - Krause Variation 6.?e5 - Vigorito
- Catalan Opening - Open Variation 6.?c3 dxc4 - Lukacs/Hazai
- Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4.?c2 - Vilela
- Queen?s Indian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 4...?a6 - Timman
- Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.?f3 - Mchedlishvili
- King?s Indian Defence - Makogonov Variation 5.h3 - Kuljasevic
- Queen?s Pawn Openings - Malinoise Defence 1...c6 - Panczyk/Ilczuk
- Dutch Defence - Early sidelines 4.?g5 - Moskalenko        

Others
- English Opening - Four Knights Variation 4.e3 - Hungaski

256 Seiten, gebunden, 1. Auflage 2019