Yearbook 103

Forum
Readers from all over the world join in discussions on previous Surveys. Titled players, correspondence players and club players shed their light on opening developments and search for the truth together. With contributions by Viktor Moskalenko, Igor Stohl, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Nenad Sulava, Ufuk Tuncer, and many others.

Benjamin’s Opening Takes
In his Opening Takes, Joel Benjamin shows how you can fight against over-prepared opponents, looking at Magnus Carlsen’s practical approach in the London Classic and Tata Steel tournaments.

Kuzmin’s Harvest
In his new series, insider Alexey Kuzmin collects the most important recent novelties for Yearbook readers. This time the novelties are from the European Championship in Plovdiv.

Book Previews and Reviews
In this section we present a sneak preview from The Modern French by Dejan Antic and Branimir Maksimovic.
Our reviewer Glenn Flear notices a growing influence of subtitles in books like Ivan Sokolov’s The Strategic Nimzo-Indian, Larry Kaufman’s The Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White, Alexander Delchev’s The Modern Reti and Ruslan Scherbakov’s the triangle system. Of course the insides of these books are even more important, and Flear is an expert in pointing out the highlights!

Surveys
Sicilian Defence - Prins Variation 5.f3 - SI 3.7 - S. Kasparov
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Bg5 - SI 9.9 - Olthof
Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 6.Be2 - SI 16.2 - Tiviakov
Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 9.0-0-0 - SI 17.6 - Vilela
Sicilian Defence - Rossolimo Variation 3...g6 - SI 31.7 - Andriasian
Sicilian Defence - Taimanov Variation 6...Nge7 - SI 39.14 - Fogarasi
Sicilian Defence - Paulsen Variation 3.g3 - SI 41.1 - Finkel
Sicilian Defence - Paulsen Variation 5.c4 - SI 41.15 - Ninov
Sicilian Defence - Grand Prix Attack 5.Bc4 - SI 49.8 - Tay
French Defence - Winawer Variation 5.Qg4 - FR 10.2 - Raetsky/Chetverik
French Defence - Tarrasch Variation 6...Qd7 - FR 19.2 - Anka
Caro-Kann Defence - Fantasy Variation 3.f3 - CK 2.2 - Adorjan/Vegh
Caro-Kann Defence - Advance Variation 5.Be2 - CK 4.9 - V. Georgiev/Arnaudov
Ruy Lopez - Breyer Variation 9...Nb8 - RL 25.14 - Kidambi
Scotch Opening - Steinitz Variation 4...Qh4 - SO 4.5 - Gutman
King’s Pawn Openings - Two Knights Defence 5...Nd4 - KP 12.6 - Van der Tak
Queen’s Gambit Declined - Blackburne Variation 5.Bf4 - QO 1.5 - A. Kuzmin
Queen’s Gambit Declined - Lasker Variation 7...Ne4 - QO 14.9 - Laine
Queen’s Gambit Declined - Lasker Variation 7...Ne4 - QO 14.14 - Karolyi
Slav Defence - Chebanenko Variation 5.a4 - SL 3.1 - Panczyk/Ilczuk
Slav Defence - Slav Accepted 5...e6 - SL 3.4 - Flear
Nimzo-Indian Defence - Rubinstein Variation 4.e3 - NI 10.1 - Scherbakov
King's Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 4.g3 - KI 71.6 - Tuncer
Benoni Defence - The Snake 5...Bd6 - BI 4.4 - Vegh
Benoni Defence - Benko Gambit 4.Bg5 - BI 18.4 - Grivas
Queen’s Pawn Openings - Trompowsky Opening 2...Ne4 - QP 8.2 - Rusev
Dutch Defence - 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nc3 Line - HD 5.9 - De Dovitiis
English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 5.g3 - EO 46.1 - Bruzon

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