Highlights of ChessBase Magazine #201

Expert videos

Jan Werle, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Mihail Marin explain stunning new opening ideas in just 30 minutes

Special: Vassily Ivanchuk - “just a genius!”

22 games of the Ukrainian star, annotated by CBM authors

All in One: Grand Prix Attack á la Grischuk + The Dubov System

Davorin Kuljasevic and Vladimir Fedoseev dissect two topical opening lines

Giri-Nepomniachtchi 1-0!

The winner of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational analyses his Sicilian triumph from the final

Linares 1991 – Strategy

Mihail Marin focusses on games of the main heroes: Ivanchuk, Kasparov, Beliavsky, Jussupow and Salov

Serve and volley: the Belgrade Gambit

Christian Braun hits with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nd5

Carlsen’s Kamikaze king

Peter Heine Nielsen examines the Carlsen's Dragadorf victory vs. Dominguez Perez from the Opera Euro Rapid

No gap in the Stonewall

Dutch vs. the Reti/English – Victor Moskalenko shows how to deal with White’s setups without d2-d4

Magnus Carlsen Invitational and Opera Euro Rapid

Games analyses by Aniish Giri, Wesley So, Jan Krzysztof Duda, Peter Heine Nielsen et al.

A sacrificial attack to remember!

Robert Ris dissects the spectacular game So-Aronian “Move by Move”

The pawn as universal weapon!

Tactics with Oliver Reeh featuring 30 games with exercises + 4 interactive videos

Save the best for last

50 high-class endgames from the Champions Chess Tour 2021 analysed by Karsten Müller