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Publisher: ChessBase, 2009
Edition: DVD
Language: English

ChessBase Magazine 129

Ten years ago Linares, the Wimbledon of chess, was still a one-man-show. Then Kasparov won it with a clear lead of 2.5 points. For the moment such dominance appears to be on some distant horizon.

Both the latest tournament highlights in this issue, Wijk an Zee and Linares, were hard fought affairs, right up to the final round and in Karjakin and Grischuk the victors were rather unexpected ones.

One exception might be represented by Topalov, who, after his triumph in Nanjing, also came though his WCh qualification before the final game in his match against Kamsky. Karjakin, Carlsen, van Wely, Radjabov, Caruana, Movsesian – that is the list of the star authors in this issue.

Opening Surveys

- Breutigam: Leningrad Dutch A87
  1.d4 f5 2.g3 f6 3.Bg2 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.0-0 0-0 6.c4 d6 7.Nc3 Qe8 8.Re1 Qf
- Kritz: Skandinavian Defence B01
  1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qe5+
- Marin: Pirc Defence B08
  1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Be2 0-0 6.0-0 Bg4 7.Be3 Nc6 8.d5 Nb8
- Kuzmin: Sicilian Defence B20
  1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 d6 3.g3
- Langrock: French Defence C03
  1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Be7 4.c3
- Neven: French Defence C18
  1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 Qc7 8.Qxg7 Rg8  
  9.Qxh7 cxd4 10.Ne2 Nbc6 11.f4 Bd7 12.Qd3 dxc3
- Marin: Ruy Lopez C69
  1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 h6
  10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.Nf1 Bd7
- Ftacnik: Blackmar-Diemer-Gambit
  1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3
- Ftacnik: Chigorin Defence D07
  1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6
- Postny: Slav Defence D15
  1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 5.a4 e6 6.g3 dxc4 7.Bg2 c5 8.dxc5 Qxd1+ 9.Nxd1
- Krasenkow: Semi-Slav D45
  1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4