We use cookies and comparable technologies to provide certain functions, to improve the user experience and to offer interest-oriented content. Depending on their intended use, cookies may be used in addition to technically required cookies, analysis cookies and marketing cookies. You can decide which cookies to use by selecting the appropriate options below. Please note that your selection may affect the functionality of the service. Further information can be found in our privacy policy.
Please enter your email address below. You will receive a password reset email.
New customer? Create your ChessBase shop account with your e-Mail address and password. Advantages for registered users: Fast and easy check out; Easy access to your order history and a backup service for your download products: Purchased download products can be downloaded at any time with dedicated backups on the ChessBase server!
35.855 games played between April and June 2018. Using his own game against Andrei Volokitin (Lvov 2016) Adrian Mikhalchishin explains a few ideas behind the English Variation with 6.a3 Bc5. It is only with best play that Black can equalise.
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, Windows 7 or 8.1, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and internet access for program activation.
The Alapin Variation in the Sicilian is rarely seen in top tournaments. But in Wijk aan Zee it surfaced in the game Jones-Anand. Yannick Pelletier puts under the microscope that game which ended relatively early.
For the 2015/16 Bundesliga season the brilliant victory of the young Polish grandmaster Jan Krysztof Duda against his compatriot Grzegorz Gajewski was chosen as the game of the season. Georgios Souleidis has annotated the game and considers that it was above all the lovely queen sacrifice which was the reason for the readers’ choice.