New in Chess Yearbook 101: London Chess Centre

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 Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Andras Adorjan, Jose Vilela, and many others.

Benjamin’s Opening Takes
Joel Benjamin’s helicopter view on openings swoops to the choices of the 21st century’s World Champions, Vladimir Kramnik and Vishy Anand. After Kasparov’s reign we have now entered the years of 1.d4. Benjamin takes an in-depth look at the 4.Qc2 Nimzo-Indian and the Lasker Variation of the Queen’s Gambit Declined on the highest level.

Book Reviews
Glenn Flear reviews Andrey Obodchuk’s labour of love on The Four Knights Game and found it a valuable addition to existing (scarce) theory. He welcomes Nicolai Pedersen’s play the Benko gambit, as this opening is experiencing a revival.

The eternal struggle against the Sicilian has resulted in two new books: Experts on the Anti-Sicilian by various authors, and Gawain Jones’ How to beat the Sicilian defence. According to Flear, the first is a ‘must’, the second has ‘great merit’, so there you are.

Surveys

Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6...Nbd7 - SI 4.1 - Tuncer

Sicilian Defence - Delayed Poisoned Pawn Variation - SI 4.8 - Olthof

Sicilian Defence - Paulsen Variation 6...Qb6 - SI 41.9 - Fogarasi

Sicilian Defence - Paulsen Variation 5.c4 - SI 41.15 - Ninov

French Defence - Advance Variation 4...Qb6 - FR 3.3 - Boersma

French Defence - Steinitz Variation 8...Bc5 - FR 4.4 - Finkel

French Defence - MacCutcheon Variation 6.Bd2 - FR 5.4 - De Dovitiis

Ruy Lopez - Jaenisch Variation 7...Qg5 - RL 6.10 - Steenbekkers

Ruy Lopez - Berlin Defence 9...Ke8 - RL 7.1 - Anka

Scotch Opening - Classical and Mieses Variations - SO 4-5 - Van der Wiel

King’s Pawn Openings - Two Knights Defence 8.Bd3 - KP 12.8 - Mikhalevski

Vienna Game - Fianchetto 2...Nf6 3.g3 - VG 1.11 - Finkel

Various Openings - Van Geet Opening 1.Nc3 - VO 12.2/3 - S. Kasparov

Queen’s Gambit Declined - Blackburne Variation 5.Bf4 - QO 1.7 - V. Georgiev/Arnaudov

Slav Defence - Slow Slav 4.e3 - SL 1.6 - Andriasian

Slav Defence - Chebanenko Variation 5.a4 - SL 3.1 - Gupta

Slav Defence - Marshall Gambit 4.e4 - SL 6.1 - Harika/Karavade

Slav Defence - Botvinnik Variation 6.a4 - SL 6.5 - Ikonnikov

Slav Defence - Moscow Variation 5.Bg5 h6 - SL 6.6 - Karolyi

Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4...0-0 - NI 20.4 - Lukacs/Hazai

Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4...0-0 - NI 21.5 - J. Horvath/Juhasz

Nimzo-Indian Defence - Westphalia Variation 5.Bg5 - NI 27.9 - A. Kuzmin

Queen’s Indian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 5.b3 b5 - QI 15.4 - Adorjan/Vegh

Grünfeld Indian Defence - 4.Bf4 Line - GI 3.11 - Panczyk/Ilczuk

Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Qa4 - GI 4.1 - Flear

Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Nf3 - GI 4.1 - Adorjan/Vegh

King's Indian Defence - Averbakh System 6...Na6 7.f4 - KI 27.9 - A. Kuzmin

Benoni Defence - Benko Gambit 8.g3 - BI 28.6 - Kidambi

Dutch Defence - Stonewall Variation 3.g3 - HD 3.7 - Moskalenko

English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 4.g3 - EO 36.7 - Marin/Stoica

English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 5...Bb4 - EO 44.8 - Antic

English Opening - Anti-Grünfeld Line 5.Qc2 - EO 52.4 - V. Georgiev/Arnaudov

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