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ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyse their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! ChessBase Magazine appears every two months (six issues per year). It's available on DVD + booklet (by post) or for download (including the booklet in pdf format).

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Given White‘s difficulty in proving an advantage in a series of Ruy Lopez systems, the Italian game (also known as Giuoco Piano), has become increasingly popular. In the systems based on an early d2-d3 (Giuoco Pianissimo), White aims at submitting their opponent to the same kind of positional pressure as “The Spanish torture”, a term used by Tartakower for describing the strategic fight in the Ruy Lopez. 

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ChessBase Magazine is the most comprehensive and most sophisticated chess magazine there is. World class players analyse their brilliancies and explain the ideas behind the moves to you, opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and offer exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in the fields of tactics, strategy, and the endgame show you the tricks and techniques a successful tournament player needs! ChessBase Magazine appears every two months (six issues per year). It's available on DVD + booklet (by post) or for download (including the booklet in pdf format).

Train with the most popular ChessBase authors! Benefit from analyses of the world class players, let Grandmasters show you surprising repertoire ideas, improve your tactics, your understanding of chess and your endgame technique! ChessBase Magazine offers you several hours of video training with Grandmasters and experts in each issue. World-class players such as Caruana, Anand, Vidit, So, Giri, Nepomnicachtchi, Vachier-Lagrave, Gelfand, Wojtaszek, Vitiugov, Yu Yangyi and many more analyse their best games and explain the ideas behind their moves. Each issue also includes at least ten new opening articles with exciting ideas for your repertoire, an extensive collection of training exercises on tactics, strategy and endgames, and much more.

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ChessBase Magazine offers you several hours of video training with Grandmasters and experts in each issue. World class players such as Giri, Gukesh, Vidit, So, Keymer, Hou Yifan, Gelfand, Shankland, Vitiugov and many more analyse their best games and explain the ideas behind their moves. Each issue also includes at least ten new opening articles with exciting ideas for your repertoire, an extensive collection of training exercises on tactics, strategy and endgames, and much more.

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