ChessVibes Openings 11-13 - so many opening novelties!
What was covered in ChessVibes Openings #11, #12 and #13?
Time flies. Since the last time mentioned we ChessVibes Openings, we have published three more issues, covering all important opening developments from the Amber tournament as well as the Austrian, Dutch and German leagues and the European Championship. Our three Games of the Week cover the topical 5.Qc2 Gambit of the Queen's Indian, the Caro-Kann Advance and the Anti-Moscow Gambit.
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Latest issues: #11-13, March 18 & 25 and April 1, 2009
Issues #11-13 discuss all important theoretical opening novelties from the the last three weeks, or in other words: all you need to know about the latest opening developments from the Amber tournament, the Austrian, Dutch and German leagues and the European Championship!ChessVibes Openings #11
The latest opening developments of the third week of March 2009. All about the Queen's Indian 5.Qc2 Gambit. Game of the week is Aronian-Leko, Amber 2009 in which White came up with a highly effective blindfold novelty. Other lines that are covered:
- Ruy Lopez, Marshall Gambit
- Najdorf, English Attack
- Slav, main line
- Englisch, Gr?ºnfeld style
- Petroff Defence, 3.d4
- Ruy Lopez, Anti-Marshall
- Caro-Kann, main line
- Queen's Gambit, 5.Bf4
- Open Ruy Lopez, 9.Nbd2
- Caro-Kann Advance
- Philidor, rare lines
- Queen's Gambit Accepted, 7.Bb3
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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.
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 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)
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 does it cost?
Singles issues cost € 1.00. After paying in our online shop (click the button below), you'll receive a secure download link of the ZIP file.You can subscribe too! This way you'll receive the PDF Magazine and accompanying PGN files in your mailbox every week.Six-month subscription: € 18 (that’s less than € 0.70 per issue!) - for price in $ click here One-year subscription: € 25 (that’s less than € 0.50 per issue!) - for price in $ click here |
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Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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