Forum
Readers from all over the world join in discussions on previous surveys. Titled players, correspondence players and club players shed their light on opening developments and search for the truth together. With contributions by Mikhail Golubev, Viktor Moskalenko, Nikolay Ninov, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Nenad Sulava, Atanas Kolev, Jose Vilela and many others.
Sosonko’s Corner
Is it absolutely forbidden to move your king in the opening? Genna Sosonko attends this moot question in his Corner in this issue. Modern play is so concrete that we shouldn’t adhere blindly to general rules, or should we? We learn what Botvinnik, Kortchnoi and Kramnik, but also Mir Sultan Khan and Rybka have to say about this.
Book Reviews
How modern are Garry Kasparov’s books ‘On Modern Chess’? You will know as soon as you have read Glenn Flear’s Reviews section. Of course, Flear hasn’t missed out on other modern opening works either. He investigates how ‘starting out’ a reader should be to grasp Richard Palliser’s ‘starting out: the Trompowsky attack’, celebrates another winner with Sabino Brunello’s ‘Attacking the Spanish’, and compares two different approaches to one opening in Victor Bologan’s ‘The King’s Indian’ and Krzysztof Panczyk and Jacek Ilczuk’s ‘the classical Kings Indian uncovered’. Where would a modern chess player be without such opening books?
Surveys
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Bg5 - SI 4.6 - A. Kuzmin
Sicilian Defence - Perenyi Attack 7.g4 - SI 19.14 - Ninov
Sicilian Defence - Scheveningen Variation 7.g4 - SI 19.16 - Karolyi
Sicilian Defence - Velimirovic Attack 14.Nf5 - SI 26.9 - Van der Tak
Sicilian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 2...Nf6 - SI 43.5 - Panczyk/Ilczuk
Sicilian Defence - Alapin Variation 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 - SI 46.15 - Anka
Pirc Defence - 4.Nge2 Line - PU 5.3 - Pelletier
Pirc Defence - Austrian Attack 8...Rb8 - PU 13.12 - Finkel
French Defence - Exchange Variation 3.ed5 - FR 1.4 - Appleberry/Okhotnik
French Defence - Rubinstein Variation 7.c3 c5 - FR 7.4 - Vilela
Caro-Kann Defence - Early Divergences 2.Ne2 - CK 1.3 - Fogarasi
Alekhine's Defence - Larsen Variation 4...de5 - AL 10.2 - Finkel
Petroff Defence - Jaenisch Variation 8...Bf5 - RG 6.1+3 - Kolev
Ruy Lopez - Exchange Variation 5.0-0 - RL 8.8 - Olthof
Ruy Lopez - Open Variation 9.Nbd2 - RL 27.14 - Mikhalevski
Italian Game - Max Lange Gambit 5.d4 - IG 2.1 - Gutman
King's Gambit - Fischer Variation 3...d6 - KG 2.1 - Jensen
Various Openings - Chigorin Defence 3.Bg5 - VO 14.10 - Moskalenko
Slav Defence - Accepted: Other Moves 4...Be6 - SL 1.1 - Pelletier
Slav Defence - Krause Variation 6.Ne5 - SL 4.5 - Kaufman
Slav Defence - Krause Variation 7...Nb6 - SL 4.5 - Lukacs/Hazai
Slav Defence - Early Divergences 5.g4 - SL 6.10 - Vilela
Slav Defence - Semi-Slav 6...Bd6 - SL 8.4 - A. Kuzmin
Queen's Gambit, Accepted - Central Variation 3.e4 e5 - QG 4.3 - Bosch
Nimzo-Indian Defence - Classical Variation 4...0-0 - NI 20.3 - Ikonnikov
Nimzo-Indian Defence - Ragozin Variation 4...dc4 - NI 27.16 - Lukacs/Hazai
Bogo-Indian Defence - 4.Nbd2 Line - QI 1.11 - Antic
Grünfeld Indian Defence - 4.Bf4 Line - GI 3.13 - Scherbakov
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Stockholm Variation 5.Bg5 - GI 8.9 - Mikhalchishin
King's Indian Defence - Classical Main Line 9.b4 - KI 4.16 - Zakhartsov
King's Indian Defence - Classical Main Line 9.Nd2 Ne8 - KI 7.8 - Anka
Queen's Pawn Openings - Trompowsky Opening 2...e6, 3...c5 - QP 7.7 - De Dovitiis
English Opening - Anti-Grünfeld Line 1...g6 2.e4 e5 - EO 62.1-4 - Stohl
