ChessBase Magazine Extra 195

In her first video for ChessBase, Anna Muzychuk presents her highlight of the Gibraltar Open 2020. Against Ori Kobo, Muzchuk played a novelty in the opening and then succeeded in a spectacular attack which brought the WGM from Ukraine the beauty prize of the tournament! The video is the first of two parts with recommendations against the Sicilian Taimanov Variation.

In the second opening video, master trainer Adrian Mikhalchishin goes for the variant 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.Nf3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d5 6.Bg2 e5 7.Nf3 d4 8.0-0 Nc6 9.e3 Be7 10.exd4 exd4 and uses the game Ponkratov-Navara from the EM 2018 in Batumi as the starting point of his compact analysis.

What does the new "Lucky bag" have in store for you? Emanuel Berg starts with sharp white wins from Scandinavia. World champion Ju Wenjun looks back on two games of her Wch match against Aleksandra Goryachkina. Romain Edouard takes a close look at five of his own games - critically and entertaining! Spectacular: Pablo Ricardi’s stunner against the nominally much stronger GM Sandro Mareco and and and ...

Last October Alireza Firouzja played a match against GM Jogi Cori in Hoogeveen over six games. The "Firouzja-Express" was unstoppable and overrun his opponent with 4.5: 1.5! Georgios Souleidis shows you the fourth encounter in this match. A brilliant game that ended in the endgame with a matte attack from nowhere!

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