Nic Yearbook 108 - Hardcover Edition

Forum
The Forum has sharp reactions to previous Surveys and hot new developments. Anish Giri analyses his Sämisch King’s Indian with Sergey Karjakin from the Zug Grand Prix, and readers like Marc Schroeder and IM’s Jose Vilela and Richard Palliser share some interesting lines.

Columns

In Benjamin’s Opening Takes, Joel Benjamin shows how top players like Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand avoid Open Sicilians nowadays. Alexey Kuzmin provides an inside view of the Tal Memorial in Kuzmin’s Harvest.

Preview

This Yearbook contains a preview of Sergey Kasparov’s upcoming book Steamrolling the Sicilian for New In Chess, about the line 5.f3.

Reviews

Glenn Flear reviews Evgeny Sveshnikov’s The Grand Prix Attack, Dreev vs the Benoni, John Shaw’s The King’s Gambit and The Complete Albin Counter-Gambit by Luc Henris, and makes a rather surprising discovery.

**Surveys
**The legendary London Candidates’ keeps producing new Surveys, also several in this issue. New authors are Rustam Khusnutdinov, who presents an original way to play the Closed Sicilian, and Piotr Wolochowicz on a bizarre King’s Gambit line

Sicilian Defence - Moscow Variation 3.Bb5 - SI 1.3-4 - Tiviakov
Sicilian Defence - Najdorf Variation 6.Be3 - SI 19.14 - Van der Tak
Sicilian Defence - Rossolimo Variation 3...e5 - SI 31.1 - Illingworth
Sicilian Defence - La Bourdonnais Variation 4...e5 - SI 32.2 - A. Kuzmin
Sicilian Defence - Closed Variation 3.f4 - SI 44.6 - Khusnutdinov
Pirc Defence - Austrian Attack 7.Bc4 - PU 12.9 - Rodi
French Defence - Tarrasch Defence - FR 17.10 - S. Kasparov
Scandinavian Defence - Gubnitsky-Pytel Variation 3...Qd6 - SD 8.11 - S. Kasparov
Ruy Lopez - Early Divergences after 3...a6 4.Ba4 - RL 13.5 - Van der Wiel
King’s Pawn Openings - Philidor Defence 4.Nc3 Nbd7 - KP 4.9+13 - Cabrera Pino
King’s Gambit - Declined 2...Nc6 - KG 5.1 - Wolochowicz
Slav Defence - Chebanenko Variation 6.c5 - SL 3.1 - Lukacs/Hazai Slav Defence - Tolush/Geller Gambit 6.a4 - SL 3.3 - Okhotnik/Appleberry Slav Defence - Schlechter Variation 4...g6 - SL 10.3+8 - Kidambi Queen’s Gambit Accepted - Alekhine Variation 4...b5 - QG 5.9 - Antic/Dorfanis Queen’s Indian Defence - Central Variation 4.e3 - QI 3.9 - I. Almasi Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation: Other Lines - GI 3.3 - Karolyi Grünfeld Indian Defence - Exchange Variation 7.Nf3 - GI 4.4 - Gledura/Csonka Grünfeld Indian Defence - 5.h4 Line - GI 7.1 - Olthof King’s Indian Defence - Sämisch Variation 6...c5 - KI 48.12 - Ikonnikov King’s Indian Defence - Fianchetto Variation 6...Nbd7 - KI 65.3 - De Dovitiis Benoni Defence - Volga Gambit 5.cb5 - BI 19.9 - Tay English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 3.d4 - EO 32.4 - Finkel English Opening - Symmetrical Variation 4...g6 - EO 34.3 - Vilela English Opening - Anti-Grünfeld Line 5.Qb3 - EO 52.9 - Fogarasi Rëti Opening - 1...d5 2.c4 dc4 - RE 10.1 - Skatchkov/Frolyanov