It seems to be the right time for comebacks. This year Boris Gelfand surprised us by winning the WCh candidates tournament, Judit Polgar and Alexander Morozevich made their return to top chess in impressive fashion.

And now it is the turn of Peter Svidler who all of a sudden is proceeding from one success to the next. The previous youth world champion won the FIDE World Cup without conceding a single defeat.

Then he and his team from St. Petersburg were successful in the European club championship, the second tournament highlight of this issue. Thanks to a successful tie-break against Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen was able to celebrate victory in this year’s Grand-Slam final.

This strongest tournament of the year is of course a further theme of this issue. Amongst the star authors on the DVD we have Carlsen, Karjakin, Polgar, Eljanov, Caruana, Gashimov, Volokitin, Vitiugov, Sutovsky etc.

In addition to that you will find 12 up-to-the-minute openings articles with extensive analysis and ideas for your repertoire.


TOP TOURNAMENTS
• World Cup
•  European Cup
•Sao Paulo/Bilbao

OPENINGS
•  Marin: Three Knights Game 3...g6
•  a total of 12 opening articles

WORLD CLASS PLAYERS COMMENT
• Magnus Carlsen
• Sergey Karjakin
• Vugar Gashimov
• Nikita Vitiugov
• Le Quang Liem
•  Fabiano Caruana
• Judit Polgar
• Zhao Xue
• Pavel Eljanov
• Vladimir Potkin
• Emil Sutovsky

Opening Articles
Schipkov: Dutch A99
1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 e6 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.Nc3 Qe8 8.b3
 
Prié: Scandinavian B01
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bf5 6.Bc4 c6 7.Bd2 Bb4

Stohl: Pirc Defence B09
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 0-0 6.e5
 
Postny: Caro-Kann B13
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 dxc4 7.Bxc4

Krasenkow: Caro-Kann / Pirc Defence B15
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.f4 d5 5.e5 Qb6
 
Grivas: Sicilian B33
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Nc3 e6 7.a3
 
Moskalenko: French C02
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3

Kritz: French C10
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 (oder 3.Nd2) 3...dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bd7
 
Marin: Three Knights Game C46
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6

Ftacnik: Semi-Slav D31
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Qxd4 7.Bxb4 Qxe4+ 8.Be2 Na6 9.Ba5
 
Breutigam: Tarrasch Defence D34
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 Nc6 7.0-0 Be7
 
Kuzmin: Catalan E04
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 dxc4 5.Bg2 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 c5