Back to No. 1. Magnus Carlsen won the "Kings Tournament" ahead of Sergey Karjakin thanks to the superior tiebreak score and in doing so moved back into pole position in the world ranking list.

The tournament from Mediasch in Romania with its two young victors constitutes one of the main focal points of this issue. In the candidates matches in Kazan it was anything but a breakthrough for youth.

The winner was the oldest participant Boris Gelfand and he is the one who has the right to challenge World Champion Anand next year. On the DVD Gelfand annotates two of the key games on the way to the greatest triumph of his career so far.

Other highlights: the tournaments in Lublin (Shirov was victorious and demonstrates his wins in video format), Havana (Le Quang Liem annotates) and the Ukrainian individual championship (won by Ponomariov, annotations by Eljanov).

At the same time the DVD offers with its 13 openings articles all sorts of suggestions for your opening repertoire as well as training databases for the sharpening up of your strategic an tactical instincts.

TOP TOURNAMENTS
• Candidates Matches Kazan
• Medias
• Lublin
• Havanna 

OPENINGS
• Kuzmin: Queen‘s Gambit 7.Qb3
• Postny: Schlechter variation
• a total of 13 opening articles 

WORLD CLASS PLAYERS COMMENT
•  Magnus Carlsen
•  Fabiano Caruana
• Pavel Eljanov
• Boris Gelfand
• Sergey Karjakin
• Le Quang Liem
• Dieter-Liviu Nisipeanu
• Krishnan Sasikiran
• Alexei Shirov

Opening Surveys

Schipkov: Dutch Defence A89
1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.d5 Na5

Kritz: Sicilian Defence B30
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 g6
 
Grivas: Sicilian Defence B33
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Nc3 e6 7.Bd3 d6 8.0-0 a6 9.Kh1 Be7 10.f4 Qc7 11.Bd2 b5
    
Karoly: Sicilian Defence B90
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nde2
    
Stohl: Queen's Gambit Accepted D27
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 a6 7.Bb3
    
Breutigam: Semi-Slav D43/D44
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3
    
Schandorff: Queen's Gambit D52
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 Qa5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qd2

Kuzmin: Queen's Gambit D53
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Qb3
  
Avrukh: Grünfeld Defence D90
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qa4+
    
Postny: Slav/Grünfeld Defence D94
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.e3 Bg7 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 e6
  
Marin: Bogo-Indian Defence E11
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 d5 5.Qa4+ Nc6 6.a3
  
Anic: King's Indian E67
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0-0 Nbd7 7.Nc3 e5 8.h3 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nb6 10.b3 d5
    
Kuzmin: King's Indian E73
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Be3 e5 7.d5