ChessBase Magazine Extra 170

37.565 games played between September 2015 and February 2016

Video training:

• Adrian Mikhalchishin shows a game by Ivan Bukavshin who died at a very young age. The young Russian had a simple opening repertoire, but as the successful trainer explains in the video he developed a lot of original ideas in almost all variations.
• Our author Nicholas Pert defeated David Howell in the 2015 British Championship, when the opening up for discussion was the Double Fianchetto for Black. In the video we learn a lot that is worth knowing about this opening which has recently become very popular.
• When in 1976 Anatoly Karpov won all the four tournaments in which he took part, he lost only one single game, but it has become very famous: Geller-Karpov, USSR-ch Moscow 1976. Robert Ris demonstrates in his analyses why that is the case.