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Publisher: ChessBase, 2008
Edition: DVD
Language: English

Sochi, Baku, Plovdiv, Sofia – the last few months have seen the great chess circus more or less far away in the east. Of the four highlights in this issue, two were classical all-play-all tournaments: the FIDE Grand Prix in Baku and the M-Tel in Sofia. The other two highlights were championships, on one hand the European Individual Championships and on the other the Russian Team Championships.

Co-winner Vugar Gashimov has annotated two of his brilliant games from Baku for this issue of  ChessBase Magazine. 

Sofia: as a highlight Radjabov has annotated his game against Bu Xiangzhi, which was chosen as the best game in the tournament.

Plovdiv: the new European champion Sergey Tiviakov has annotated in depth two of his wins, including his instructive last round victory over Sutovsky. In addition, the new vice European champion Sergei Movsesian explains two of his games from Plovdiv on this DVD.

Opening Surveys in this issue of CB Magazine:
- Benoni, Classical System (Marin)
- Dutch Defence, Leningrader Variation  (Karolyi)
- Scandinavian Defence, Main Variation ( Prié)
- Philidor Defence (Langrock)
- Philidor Defence (Ftachnik)
- Ponziani Opening (Kritz)
- Ruy Lopez, Jänisch Gambit (Postny)
- Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence (Marin)  
- Slav, 4.e3 Be6!? (Ftachnik)
- Queen's Gambit Accepted, 4.Na3!? (Grivas)
- Semi Slav (Kuzmin)
- Semi Slav (Schandorff)
- Grünfeld Defence, 4.Bf4 (Krasenkov)

and much more...