ChessVibes Openings #5 is out! Our latest issue of ChessVibes Openings focuses on the most important opening developments from the Corus Chess Tournament, Gibraltar and the Bundesliga, covering the Ruy Lopez Archangelsk Variation, the Sicilian Najdorf (6.Be3 Ng4), the Ruy Lopez Anti Marshall (8.d4), the Ruy Lopez Berlin Wall and the Nimzo-Indian (4.Qc2). Paying with iDEAL is now possible too!

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Latest issue: #5, February 4, 2009

Our editors have had a busy weekend browsing through the games of the Corus Chess Tournament, Gibraltar and the Bundesliga. They wrap up the latest opening developments from the end of January and early February 2009, in issue #5 of ChessVibes Openings.

Learn all about the Ruy Lopez Archangelsk, which was played in our Game of the week: Svidler-Stefanova, Gibraltar 2009, played just two days ago!

Other lines that are covered this week:

• Sicilian Najdorf (6.Be3 Ng4)
• Ruy Lopez Anti Marshall (8.d4)
• Ruy Lopez Berlin Wall
• Nimzo-Indian (4.Qc2)

This week's opening is expert is Slovak GM Sergei Movsesian.

For our Dutch visitors we have good news: for subscribing it's now also possible to pay with iDEAL!

What is ChessVibes Openings?

Every issue consists of a ZIP archive file, including both the PDF Magazine and the accompanying PGN file. The PDF consists of three pages (A4 size) with the following contents:

• What's hot? A round-up of this week's important opening developments, with statistics about the frequence and score of the week's most important opening novelty (page 1)
• What's not? Which openings are not recommended at the moment, according to the top players? And why not? (page 1)
• Game of the week Each week you'll find the theoretically most important game analysed by our two IMs, with a detailed survey of the opening phase. (page 2)
• This week's harvest Four more new important opening ideas from this week (page 3) revealed and described. (page 3)
• Opening expert Every week an opening expert is covered. Examples from the first two issues: Teimour Radjabov (King's Indian with Black), Alexey Dreev (White: Nimzo-Indian; Black: Caro-Kann and Slav). (page 3)

Ehm... can I have a look?

Yes you can! Below are the first two issues which you can download for free!

ChessVibes Openings #0 - click to download!

• What's hot? A round-up of the most important opening developments in 2008, with statistics about the frequence and score of Topalov's amazing novelty 12.Nxf7 against Vladimir Kramnik, at Corus 2008
• What's not? What changed in the Sveshnikov Sicilian? Why were the Nimzo- and Queen's Indian less played in 2008?



• Game of the week As arguably the most spectacular game of 2008, our two IMs cover the game Topalov-Kramnik, Wijk aan Zee 2008, with extensive annotations.
• This week's harvest What were the four most important opening ideas from 2008? The 0 issue answer this question!
• Opening expert Teimour Radjabov and the King's Indian.

ChessVibes Openings #1 - click to download!

• What's hot? A round-up of the first week of January 2009, describing the most important opening developments, statistics about the frequence and score of Almasi's 13.Nxb5!? against Ni Hua, in Reggio Emilia.
• What's not? This week many Maroczy's were played, but did they change the theoretical verdict?
• Game of the week Our two IMs cover the game Almasi-Ni Hua, which turned out to be decisive for this year's Reggio Emilia tournament.
• This week's harvest Coverage of the four most important opening ideas from the first week of 2009, including the Najdorf with 6.Be3/8...h5 and the Symmetrical English.
• Opening expert Alexey Dreev (White: Nimzo-Indian; Black: Caro-Kann and Slav)

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