Yearbook 104

Forum
Readers from all over the world join in discussions on previous Surveys. Titled players, correspondence players and club players shed their light on opening developments and search for the truth together. With contributions by Alexander Bangiev, Arthur van de Oudeweetering, Pavel Martynov, Ahmed Odeev and many others.

Columns
In his Opening Takes, Joel Benjamin looks at important tendencies in the latest top tournaments, and Alexey Kuzmin collects the most important novelties from the Tal Memorial in Moscow.

Book Reviews
In this issue’s Reviews Glenn Flear checks three opening books that have in common that, instead of detailed computer analysis where things can easily go wrong, they offer solid solutions: "The Berlin Defence" by Igor Lysyj & Roman Ovetchkin, "Slay the Sicilian" by Tim Taylor, and "The Modern French" by Dejan Antic and Branimir Maksimovic. He also takes a peek at Arkady Naiditsch’s new Chess Evolution series.

Surveys
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Bg5 - SI 9.7 - Vilela
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Be3 - SI 14.8 - Cabrera Pino
Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 9.g4 - SI 17.3 - Olthof
Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 9.Bc4 - SI 18.3 - Rojas Keim
Sicilian Defence - Rossolimo Variation 3...Nd4 - SI 31.1 - Ikonnikov
French Defence - Chatard-Alekhine Attack 6.h4 - FR 6.2 - Eingorn
Caro-Kann Defence - Classical Variation 4...Bf5 - CK 12.3 - Tuncer
Ruy Lopez - Jaenisch Variation 5...Nf6 - RL 6.6 - Tiviakov
Ruy Lopez - Delayed Cozio Variation 4...Nge7 - RL 9.1 - Van de Oudeweetering
Ruy Lopez - The Accelerated Gajewski  9...d5 - RL 17.2 - Kaufman
Various Openings - Sokolsky Opening 1.b4 - VO 10.1-5 - De Dovitiis
Slav Defence - Early Divergences 4.Qc2 - SL 1.4 - Palliser
Slav Defence - Alapin Variation 7.f3 Bb4 - SL 4.3 - Wang Sheng/Tay
Slav Defence - Chebanenko Variation 5.e3 - SL 8.1 - I. Almasi
Slav Defence - Chebanenko Variation 5.e3 - SL 8.1 - I. Almasi
Tarrasch Defence - Rubinstein Variation 6.g3 - TD 4.10-14 - Aagaard/Ntirlis
Catalan Opening - Open Variation 6...dc4 - CA 5.5 - Scherbakov
Nimzo-Indian Defence - Rubinstein Variation 8...Bd7 - NI 5.12 - Lukacs/Hazai
Queen’s Indian Defence - QI 4.Bd2 Bd2 Line - QI 1.2 - Antic
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Bb5 - GI 4.1 - Finkel
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Flohr’s 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qa4 - GI 7.4 - Vegh
King's Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 3.g3 - KI 71.6 - Lemos Sarro
Benoni Defence - Benko Gambit 4.Bg5 - BI 18.4 - Grivas
Benoni Defence - Benko Gambit 5.b6 - BI 23.14 - Fogarasi
Dutch Defence - Early Sidelines 4.h4 - HD 5.14 - Pliester
English Opening - Rubinstein-Botvinnik System 6.Bg5 - EO 8.9+10 - Sulskis/Sakalauskas
English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 3...g6 - EO 34.3 - A. Kuzmin

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