YOUR EASY ACCESS TO OPENING THEORY
Anyone who is seriously concerned with openings cannot be without the Opening Encyclopae-dia. The new 2024 edition is by far the most comprehensive theoretical chess work: 1,463 theo-ry articles offer a huge treasure-trove of ideas and high-quality analyses! There are 66 new ma-jor articles and 300 new or updated opening surveys that have been added in this edition. In addition: 75 top-class videos for 27 hours of playing time in total! For beginners there is a tutori-al for each opening area, in which the most important ideas and strategies are presented. The icing on the cake: Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco presents current trends in world-class chess. Secure yourself the decisive advantage with this unique opening library!

Intuitive menu structure
All 1,463 opening articles are not just specified by the opening name, but also by the line nota-tion - a big plus for a faster search and a better overview! Under the main categories “Open openings”, “Semi-open openings”, “Closed Openings”, and “Flank openings” you will find all articles classified by opening name. Each of them can be called up with a mouse click, and you can just as easily switch from one article to the text. So you can find your favourite openings easily and quickly!

Current trends in world-class chess
Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco presents current opening trends in world-class chess in video format. In nine videos with a total playing time of over 2 hours, he places particular emphasis in the current issue on the Sicilian Najdorf Variation and the Ragosin Variation of the Queen’s Gambit, among others.

75 videos - 27 hours of playing time
In addition, the new edition offers an updated collection of 75 selected videos by wellknown ChessBase authors such as Daniel King, Dorian Rogozenco, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Luis Engel, Markus Ragger, Mihail Marin, Erwin l’Ami and many more. Over 27 hours of the best chess en-tertainment await you! The opening tutorials provide a general overview for all known systems. From here you can go directly by mouse click to the in-depth opening articles. Have you already found the right openings for you? Let yourself be inspired and see which opening suits you best!

Modern opening training!
To be able to use this lexicon, you need a database program: ChessBase! With ChessBase you can manage this huge material of games, analyses, recommendations and always have profes-sional access!
You can also read the encyclopaedia with Fritz19, but above all you can try out all the repertoire recommendations immediately in a match against Fritz19 and learn the variations in a practical way! This is better than boring memorising and is great fun!