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Editorial Preface
Table of Contents
Editorial Preface
Two best games of the past week
Young & Talented
Puzzle section
Endgame section
Chess and the City. Christmas Chess Puzzle
Clash of the Titans
Surprise section / study
Solutions
With the last issue on the year
(which also happens to be
number
!), we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and
all the best in
! Thanks a lot for staying with us and we
hope that you enjoy our weekly chess magazine!
In the past week, we could see a lot of great games in the Qatar
Masters
, the strongest open tournament in chess history.
Surprisingly, Carlsen started the event with a disappointing
draw with the white pieces in round , but with straight wins
he finds himself in the sole lead with . / . He is followed
by a big group with points in which we can find names like
Kramnik, Giri, Mamedyarov and many more top class players.
The last rounds are going to be very exciting!
In the "Nutcracker" Match in Moscow, the ’old guys’ are in the
lead for now, with Gelfand showing the best performance with
a great score of / .
The other two big open events which are under way are
the rd Groningen Chess Festival and the th Al Ain Chess
Classics.
Many other smaller opens are going to be played from the
th- st of December.
Once again, Merry Christmas to all!
Arkadij Naiditsch & Csaba Balogh
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Two best games of the past week
.Bd
According to current theory this is the most critical line.
...Nxd .Qxd cxd .Nxd
Qb
[It would be great to
put the knight immediately on ...Ne but White has the very
good .Nf ! and the c pawn cannot be taken because of
Qd .]
.e
( ) Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (
)
- Lenderman, Aleksandr (
)
[E ]
Qatar Masters Open
. .
( . ),
GM Arkadij Naiditsch
Best rating:
Shakhriyar is famous for his aggressive attacking chess with
many beautiful wins, even though from time to time the
games are not very "clean". But for practical chess it is
working very well. In the current game Black’s position
seemed to be fine a er the opening, but with .Bxc White
is launching very sharp play with beautiful sacrifices, which
ends in a spectacular mate of the black king.
.d
Nf
.c e .Nf
One of the main lines of Shakh, who
likes to go for the Nimzo or for .Nf , which he plays with both
colors.
...Bb +
Black picks the Bogoljubov variantion; not a very
active choice but a solid one.
.Nc
and we are back in the Nimzo.
...c
One of the most principled lines against the current
variation, any other main line arises a er ...b .
.g
Nc
[ ...O-O .Bg cxd
.Nxd d is the very main line.]
.Bg
Ne
A tricky choice by Black, which I also used in my
game from October
against Melkumyan. Black is quickly
getting the bishop pair, but White is going to dominate in the
center.
...Ne
White really needs to defend the c pawn now.
.b
Qa
It is important to immediately play ...Qa
because in case of ... - White would be in time with castling
and Rfc , with the idea of playing a in the future.
.Rc O-O .O-O a
Let us take a fresh look at the position.
Black has the bishop pair, which is clearly good, but the
bishop on c is out of play and White’s play with f could be an
idea at some moment, just like the domination on the d-file.
.Rfd
Ba
I am not sure if this move was really needed.
Usually it is Black’s main idea to play Be followed by d -Rd
and hope to develop the bishop from c as soon as possible.
.Rc
Rb
Could Lenderman be preparing b ?!
.Qe
A nice solid move. Now b is not possible anymore
and White has a nice idea in mind.
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