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EDITORIAL
The best female chessplayer in the
world is Chinese
At the Chess Olympiad 2014 Judit Polgar an-
nounced her retirement from professional
chess. Born in 1976, the youngest of the three
Polgar sisters, she was the first woman to sur-
pass the 2600 Elo barrier as a 17 year-old. In
2003 she was already rated over 2700 Elo and
was the only woman playing alongside the male
elite of super grandmasters. For a long time
there was no-one anywhere near Judit Polgar
in the women’s world ranking list. The best fe-
male player, seemingly forever, was playing in
her own world – in the male world. It did not
look like any woman would again reach such
heights. However, Yifan Hou seems to be tread-
ing in Polgar’s footsteps. Naturally, after having
against the top players. Now Yifan Hou has
gained the decisive Elo points in Gibraltar (see
also p. 10) to overtake Judit Polgar’s place as the
best woman player in the world (2686 compared
Yifan Hou: best female player in the world
to 2675). Gibraltar 2012 also witnessed the only
encounter between these two exceptional wom-
en players. In the diagram the Chinese player
first collected material with 24.¤xe6! and won
the game in convincing fashion.
Yifan Hou’s success has not come by chance,
but as the result of long-term planning and
work in China. The Chinese women now oc-
cupy first place in the FIDE ranking list for
countries, which is based on the average of
the best ten players; and the men have also
reached second place behind Russia. And yet
the Chinese have hardly any active tournament
players. Number 100 in the Chinese ranking
list has only just 2200 Elo (as a comparison: in
Germany it is 2440). But China has six players
above 2700, Germany only one.
At the Chess Olympiad 2014 the Chinese wom-
en were only just beaten by the Russians. But in
the men’s event the Chinese team surprisingly
won the gold medal – for the first time in the
history of this tournament, but certainly not for
the last time.
Your André Schulz
two children Judit Polgar was not as active or
as successful as at her peak and so the Chinese
player, born in 1994, was able to come ever
nearer to her on the world ranking list.
Unlike Polgar, Yifan Hou also plays in women’s
tournaments, which is not necessarily con-
ducive to a rapid gain in Elo points. But as
women’s world champion, she also receives
invitations to top level men’s tournaments and
there she has proved that she can hold her own
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CHEssbAsE MAgAzInE
COnTEnTs Of THE DVD
TOP TOURnAMEnTs
Wijk an Zee:
Magnus Carlsen started badly, but
6 wins out of 6 in the middle of the tournament
were sufficient for the sole lead. Those in second
place Ding Liren, Wesley So and Maxime Vachier-
Lagrave have each annotated a game for Chess-
Base Magazine. Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Mi-
hail Marin have analysed games in video format.
In addition you will find on the DVD all 13 daily
summaries by Daniel King. Other annotations
have been contributed by Ftacnik, Gormally, Ha-
vasi, Krasenkow, Mokal, Pavlovic, Postny Sumets,
Shah and Szabo.
Gibraltar:
Hikaru Nakamura was the No. 1 seed
in the major Open in Gibraltar and impressively
confirmed his position: first 6 out of 6, finishing
with 8.5 out of 10. The American has annotated
for us his game against the young GM Adhiban
Baskaran. For his part the Indian has provided
comments on his two best games. On the DVD
you will find other annotated games by Romain
Edouard, Hou Yifan, Michael Roiz, Nikita Vi-
tiugov and Dennis Wagner.
Baden-Baden:
Arkadij Naiditsch had an excel-
lent tournament: a victory against the world
champion and an undefeated 4.5 out of 7. But
Carlsen reached the same score at the end and
won through in the tiebreak. With annotations by
Krasenkow, Mokal, Roiz, Shah and Szabo.
Zürich:
Even without the world champion there
was a select field of participants. Hikaru Nakamura
came in second in the classical tournament, nor
did he win in rapid chess. But in the overall classi-
fication he finished level first with Anand. Thanks
to his victory in the Armageddon game the Ameri-
can took overall first place. With annotations by
Krasenkow and Pavlovic.
GP Tbilisi:
This came as a real surprise. No. 10
seed Evgeny Tomashevsky secured a majestic
tournament victory with 8 out of 11 and with it
went into the lead in the overall classification for
the FIDE Grand Prix. On the DVD there are 23
annotated games (Krasenkow, Meulders, Mikhal-
chishin, Mokal, Pavlovic and Szabo).
OPEnIngs
(See also booklet from p. 11)
Sagar Shah:
English 3.Bg2 h6
Really 3...h6? but
sagar shah gives good
reasons and in doing
so can even point to
a game Kramnik-Carl-
sen, Moscow 2011
Souleidis:
Double Fianchetto
Sumets:
Old Indian 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3
Ris:
Accelerated Dragon 8...d5
Szabo:
Sicilian English Attack
Havasi:
French Tarrasch 3...Nf6
Marin:
French Tarrasch 3...c5
In his article on the
Tarrasch Variation
Mihail Marin goes into
what Korchnoi played
against Karpov in 1981
and what he didn’t
Kuzmin:
Slav 4.e3 Bg4
Postny:
Ragosin Defence 5.Bg5 h6
Stohl:
Semi-Slav/Catalan 5.g3
Anish giri was defeated
in the semi-slav with
5.g3 and thereupon
changed sides; Igor
stohl has investigated
the system in depth
Krasenkow:
Bogo-Indian 4.Nbd2 – Part 2
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APRIL/MAY
bOOKLET
DVD COLUMns
Williams: Move by Move
In English grandmaster Simon Williams we have
found a worthy successor for the column. You can
attempt once more to guess the correct moves in
the tried and trusted manner.
Rogozenco: The Classic
In the Classic video Dorian Rogozenco shows us
the game Nimzowitsch-Salwe, Karlsbad 1911.
Reeh: Tactics – “Mating attacks with and with-
out queens”
Oliver Reeh’s article contains 27 games studded with
numerous training questions including an introduc-
tory text and two videos in interactive format.
Müller: Endgames – “King’s Indian Endgames”
Karsten Müller’s column contains two introduc-
tory texts, 24 annotated endgames, numerous
training questions and five classic video clips. In
addition our endgames expert has recorded two
endgames in the interactive format.
Rogozenco: Strategy – “Converting a positional
advantage”
Dorian Rogozenco deals this time with how to
convert a positional advantage. The grandmaster
explains the basics in a video. In addition: 15
games with training questions.
Knaak: The Opening Trap
Rainer Knaak’s opening trap (including its Fritz-
trainer video) contains five recent traps.
Openings Videos
(see also p.25)
Mikhalchishin: Anti-Dutch
Pert: Semi-Slav with Nbd2
Trent: Sicilian 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3
Editorial
Contents
Top Tournaments
Zürich, GP Tbilisi, Wijk aan Zee
Baden-Baden, Gibraltar
3
4-5
6-10
Evgeny Tomashevsky decides the grand Prix in Tiflis clear-
ly in his favour and now leads the overall classification
Openings
Presentation of the DVD articles
Masthead
Tactics
Nine combinations to solve
Master Class Vol. 4: Capablanca
11-21
14
22
23
service
New products
with videos of the DVDs by Marin,
Schweitzer, Kasimdzhanov, D’Costa/Murphy, Ris
and Krasenkow
Telechess:
10 000 new games
Complete booklet
in PDF format
Overview
of previous openings articles
Overview
of previous video openings articles
Was Capablanca perhaps
the greatest chess talent
of all time? four renow-
ned authors cast light
on important aspects of
Capablanca’s play
Endgames
Nine endgame exercises to solve
Openings videos presented
24
25
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TOP TOURnAMEnTs
zÜRICH: nAKAMURA AgAIn!
The “Zürich Chess Challenge” first came into
being in 2012 as a match between Vladimir
Kramnik and Levon Aronian. The event has
since been extended to become a proper round
robin with some of the best players in the
world. The organisers are the Zürich Chess
Society, the oldest chess club in the world still
in existence and the sponsor is Oleg Skvortsov,
the owner of the IGC International Gemolo-
gical Laboratories, a firm which specialises in
the valuation of diamonds. Last year Magnus
Carlsen took part in the tournament. The world
champion may not have been present this time,
but with Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura,
Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon
Aronian and Sergey Karjakin there was never-
theless a first class field gathered together in the
An elegant playing hall in zürich’s “savoy Hotel
baur en Ville”
counted in the final calculations. The next tour-
nament to be played was with classical thinking
time. In it Hikaru Nakamura carried on as in
his outstanding performance in Gibraltar and
forced himself into the lead with victories over
Caruana and Karjakin. But Viswanathan Anand
too was in good form and defeated the Ameri-
can in their direct encounter, which in the long
run brought him victory in the classical section
with 3.5 points. Hikaru Nakamura came in se-
cond half a point behind him. The conclusion
of this week long event was a rapid chess tour-
nament, with the points earned in the classical
tournament and those in the rapid chess being
added together, with those from the classical
chess counting double.
Now things became exciting, since Vladi-
mir Kramnik also had his word to say in the
struggle for overall victory. The decisive mo-
ment came in round 4. This time Nakamura
beat Anand and Kramnik lost to Karjakin. At
the end Anand and Nakamura were level on
points. The decision would be reached in an
“Armageddon” game, which Nakamura won
with Black and a minute less thinking time.
That confirmed the American as the victor of
the “Zürich Chess Challenge 2015”.
Swiss metropolis and in the form of the “Savoy
Hotel Baur en Ville” on the Paradeplatz in Zü-
rich, the tournament had found an equally first
class venue.
The event took the form of three tournaments
in three different disciplines. It started with a
blitz tournament the results of which decided
the starting numbers. This was won by Levon
Aronian – but the results of the blitz were not
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