New in Chess Magazine 2013/8

Publisher: New in Chess, 2013, Pages: 114, Magazine

Content

Your Move

NIC's Café

Perfect Ten
Eight days before his 23rd birthday, Magnus Carlsen won 'the last big title' that was still lacking. In Chennai, Vishy Anand's home-town, the Norwegian only needed ten games to prove that he is not only the world's number one, but that he also deserves to be the World Champion.

Interview: Vishy Anand
Dejected and self-critical, the dethroned champion draws his ­conclusions and acknowledges that he lost to a superior challenger.

Résumé
Following his brilliant preview in our previous issue, Sergey Shipov now presents his take on the match in Chennai.

Beware: Brilliancy!

Svidler and Gunina
The Russian championships were held in Nizhny Novgorod. In a museum, of course. Peter Svidler won for the seventh(!) time, Valentina Gunina repeated her success of 2011.

Indonesia
If you didn't know already, our columnist Nigel Short loves to travel.

Maximatism
Eight months in prison made Maxim Dlugy rethink his priorities. One of the results was the development of an art movement.

Colossal Success
David Navara relates how fifth seed Novy Bor snatched the European Club Cup that seemed an easy prey for juggernaut SOCAR.

The Bright Side of 2800
Jan Timman on the wins of Fabiano Caruana and Levon Aronian in Bucharest and Bilbao.

Sadler on Books
Matthew Sadler discovered what a huge struggle the 1963 Botvinnik-Petrosian World Championship match was.

Just Checking
What was the best piece of advice Tania Sachdev ever got?

Did they play your opening?

Sicilian
Topalov-Wojtaszek, by Wojtaszek
Short-Moiseenko, by Short

Caro-Kann
Kosteniuk-Charochkina, by Kosteniuk

Ruy Lopez
Anand-Carlsen, by Giri
Svidler-Andreikin, by Svidler
Anand-Carlsen, by Giri
Navara-Caruana, by Navara

Slav
Carlsen-Anand, by Giri

Nimzo-Indian
Anand-Carlsen, by Giri
Vitiugov-Andreikin, by Vitiugov
Gunina-Kovanova, by Gunina

Grünfeld Indian
Nisipeanu-Caruana, by Timman

English Opening
Vachier-Lagrave-Caruana, by Timman
Morozevich-Laznicka, by Laznicka