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 Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Viktor Moskalenko, Tibor Karolyi, Bogdan Lalic, Nikolai Ninov, Atanas Kolev and many others.
 
Sosonko’s Corner
Genna Sosonko’s Corner is aimed at players confronted with a theoretical novelty this time. He highlights recent devastating surprises by the likes of Topalov, Svidler and Gashimov and compares them with sensational pre-computer era discoveries by Tal, Polugaevsky and others. The best advice hasn’t changed!
 
Book Reviews
Glenn Flear has more good advice: ‘cherry-pick’ from the piles of theoretical lines. That’s precisely what Christoph Scheerer has done in his original work ‘The Greatest Ever Chess Opening Ideas’. Karsten Müller and Rainer Knaak’s ‘222 Opening Traps after 1.d4’ gets the same treatment as the one ‘after 1.e4’ in Yearbook 87. Three specialist books, ‘Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko’ bij Palliser, Emms, Ward and Jones, New In Chess author Moskalenko’s new tome ‘The Flexible French’ and Yelena Dembo’s ‘fighting the anti-King’s Indians’, all feature amazing stuff. Okay, you were told to cherry-pick, but actually all three of these are cherries!

32 Surveys:
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Bg5 - SI 5.4 - Andriasian
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 7...Qb6 - SI 8.14 - Zakhartsov
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.h3 - SI 14.12 - A.Kuzmin
Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 9.0-0-0 - SI 17.4 - Karolyi
Sicilian Defence - Dragon Variation 9.Bc4 - SI 18.6 - A.Kuzmin
Sicilian Defence - Richter-Rauzer Variation 7...a6 - SI 30.2 - Fogarasi
Sicilian Defence - 2...Àc6 Other Lines - SI 32.16 - Grivas
Sicilian Defence - Alapin Variation 4.g3 - SI 47.2 - De Dovitiis
French Defence - Steinitz Variation 5.f4 - FR 4.4 - Matamoros
Caro-Kann Defence - Classical Variation 4...Bf5 - CK 12.11 - Karolyi
Ruy Lopez - Neo-Arkhangelsk 6...Bc5 - RL 12.6 - Flear
Ruy Lopez - Closed Lines with 9.d4 - RL 20.11 - Van der Wiel
Ruy Lopez - Chigorin Defence 9...Na5 - RL 24.16 - Beckhuis
Scotch Game - Classical Variation 4...Bc5 - SO 5.5 - Tzermiadianos
Various Openings - Budapest Gambit 3...Ng4 - VO 17.1-5 - Moskalenko
Various Openings - Budapest Gambit 3...Ne4 - VO 17.6-11 - Moskalenko
Slav Defence - Noteboom Variation 5...Bb4 - SL 6.15 - Van der Tak
Slav Defence - Botvinnik Variation 16.Tb1 - SL 7.8 - Palliser
Slav Defence - Meran Variation 8.Bd3 - SL 9.2 - Vladimirov
Slav Defence - Meran Variation 8...Bd6 - SL 9.3/4 - Langeweg
Slav Defence - Meran Variation - SL 9.7 - Lukacs/Hazai
Slav Defence - Exchange Variation 5...Qb6 - SL 11.13 - Vilela
Tarrasch Defence - Rubinstein Variation 6.g3 - TD 4.11 - Goossens/Olthof
Queen’s Indian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 4...Ba6 - QI 14.7 - Anka
Queen’s Indian Defence - Nimzowitsch Variation 4...Ba6 - QI 14.13 - Boersma
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Be3 - GI 4.8 - Mchedlishvili
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Bc4 - GI 5.1 - Fogarasi
Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Bc4 - GI 5.9 - Mikhalevski
King's Indian Defence - Classical Main Line 9.Ne1 - KI 2.1 - Finkel
Benoni Defence - The Bd3, h3 System; 9...a6 - BI 8.10 - Finkel
Dutch Defence - Staunton Gambit 4.Bg5 - HD 11.5-11 - Lukacs/Hazai
English Opening - Flohr/Mikenas Variation 3.e4 - EO 54.8 - Panczyk/Ilczuk