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The final issue of the year is once again packed with high-level games and exciting top tournaments. On the DVD you will find over 4,000 from four world class events, in each of which the level of tension remained high right to the very. From the Chess Olympiad, in which Armenia secured another gold medal by an unbelievably close margin, all the way through to the European Cup with the Azeri team SOCAR the new title holders. At the Grand Slam finals in Sao Paulo/Bilbao the victor was not decided till the tiebreak between the two young stars who were equal on points, Caruana and Carlsen, and the decision was in favour of the number one in the world ranking list. And last but not least: the FIDE Grand Prix in London may have ended without a tiebreak, but nevertheless there were three winners all on the same number of points. Many of the principal actors in all this are among the annotators on this DVD, led by Carlsen, Kramnik and Caruana.