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Los 10 preferidos del editor
1. Drama en la ronda 8: Fabiano Caruana explica como y porqué Carlsen se puso por detrás en el campeonato mundial.
2. Oportunidades perdidas y simas ocultas: Karsten Müller descifra el final de la tercera partida del Campeonato del Mundo (vídeo)
3. La decisión en Nueva York: disfrute del resumen de vídeo a cargo de Daniel King de las emocionantes partidas de desempate del mundial
4. Con la suerte de los valientes: Wesley So nos enseña cómo consiguió zafarse en la partida contra Levon Aronian en el Chess Classic de Londres.
5. Una brillante línea de gambito: apúntese a las clases de Simon Williams con la partida Aronian-Rapport, jugada a jugada, y permítanle contagiarles su entusiasmo por la defensa Chigorin.
6. La partida quizá más importante de la Copa de Europa: Dmitry Andreikin analiza su victoria con negras sobre el cubano Leinier Domínguez.
7. Descerrajar el flanco de rey, colar la dama en él y ocasionar daños: Andrew Martin nos presenta sus nuevas ideas ganadoras en la Trompowsky (Vídeo)
8. ¿Qué hay de nuevo en la defensa Pirc? El experto en aperturas Mihail Marin resume las tendencias más importantes de los últimos años.
9. Combinación imperial con el caballo-pulpo: ¡aproveche la oportunidad y lance un ataque brillante sobre el tablero con la ayuda de Oliver Reeh!
10. La apertura de peón de dama a lo Kramnik: Martin Breutigam nos invita a probar 1.d4 d5 2.Cf3 Cf6 3.Ag5.
Recommendations for your repertoire Papp: Caro-Kann B12 (Recommendation for White)
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.Bd3 Bxd3 6.Qxd3 e6 7.Bg5 
| | 4.h4 is there as an alternative to the extremely complicated 4.Nf3. The move 5.Bd3 first became popular when it was combined with 7.Bg5! which led to the diagram. Petra Papp sees nice play for White in most lines. |
Souleidis: Sicilian Defence B47 (Recommendation for White)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Qd3 
| | 6.Qd3 is still quite new. As Georgios Souleidis explains, the white queen is aiming for g3 and in the endgames above all Black faces difficulties, which is reflected in very poor statistics. The so far rarely played 6...Nf6 is worth considering. |
Szabo: Sicilian Defence B90 (Recommendation for White)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Nb3 
| | The move by the white knight looks unsound, but White is wanting to wait and e.g. reply to 6...e6 with 7.g4 and a Keres Attack. According to Krisztian Szabo Black has several good replies to 6.Nb3, but mostly, however, he is still taken out of his preparation. |
Kosintseva: French Defence C15 (Recommendation for White)
1.e4 e5 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qd3 
| | Of course the early queen move cannot be used permanently to combat the Winawer Variation, as Nadezhda Kosintseva points out at the very beginning of her article. But it is astonishing in how many lines White obtains an advantage. |
Ris: Scotch C45 (Recommendation for White)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.c4 Ba6 9.Nd2 
| | In the Mieses Variation with 8...Ba6 at present 9.Nd2 is taking over from the old main continuation 9.b3. According to Robert Ris White cannot obtain an advantage with the knight move either, but the subsequent positions at least offer plenty of options. |
Stohl: Scotch C45 (Recommendation for White)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nb3 
| | For a long time 5.Nb3 has been overshadowed by the alternatives 5.Be3 and 5.Nxc6, but of late the withdrawal of the knight has been seen more and more often. But as Igor Stohl demonstrates in his article, there are several ways for Black to obtain satisfactory play. |
Postny: Ruy Lopez C65 (Recommendation for Black)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.c3 0-0 6.0-0 d5 
| | The move 6...d5 is as aggressive as it is principled. In his article Evgeny Postny examines the capture on d5 as well as various ways of defending the e4-point. As things stand at the moment Black can hold his own. |
Kuzmin: Open Ruy Lopez C83 (Recommendation for Black)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3 Be7 0-0 11.Nbd2 Qd7 
| | Previously in this variation Black tried to support his Ne4 (with ...f5 or ...Bf5), but according to Alexey Kuzmin nowadays players exchange as quickly as possible on d2 and put pressure on e5 or play ...Na5 to exploit a certain lack of harmony in White’s position. |
Breutigam: Queen's Pawn Game D03 (Recommendation for White)
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5 
| | In 2016 Vladimir Kramnik played no fewer than eight games with the somewhat surprising 3.Bg5 – though all were in blitz chess. In his article Martin Breutigam explores predominantly 3...Ne4 and shows that Black still has some problems to solve. |
Karolyi: Queen's Gambit D31 (Recommendation for Black)
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 a6 
| | The old Janowski move 3...a6 is becoming fashionable again. Tibor Karolyi presents extensive investigations into all variations and comes to the judgement that it is a serious opening and that not much can go wrong for Black if he plays it well. |
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