New: Mendonca: The Queen's Indian Defence and ChessBase Magazine #219

[#28 /2024](#) ChessBase Newsletter // [New: Leon Mendonca: Rock Solid with the Queen's Indian Defence]( The Queen’s Indian Defence is a well-known opening for black and has remained popular and mainstream at the top level for well over a century. It has the reputation of being solid and was used as a main weapon against 1.d4 by many strong players during the 1970s, including the ex-World Champion Anatoly Karpov. Openings like the Queen’s Indian will never be refuted and can be used throughout one’s chess career. Personally, I have had great results with the Queen’s Indian and I continue to use it often. [1st reading sample in Books format: Intro]( [2nd reading sample in book format: Secondary moves 4.e3/Bg5]( [Jetzt für 36,90€ im Shop bestellen!]( [New: ChessBase Magazine 219 is out!]( ChessBase Magazine offers first-class training material for club players and professionals! CBM is the most comprehensive and sophisticated chess magazine ever. World-class players analyse their brilliant games and explain the ideas behind the moves. Opening specialists present the latest trends in opening theory and exciting ideas for your repertoire. Master trainers in tactics, strategy and endgame show you exactly the tricks and techniques you need to be a successful tournament player! Available as download (incl. booklet as pdf file) or on DVD with accompanying booklet by post. [Full description of the contents]( [Order now for 21.90€ in the shop!]( [Click here for the free sample: “Caro-Kann Advance Variation 3...Bf5 4.h4 h6”]( [New: Queen's Indian Powerbase 2024]( The 80 selected annotated games offer excellent material for study: top players such as Carlsen (2 annotated games), Caruana (1), Anand (4), Aronian (2), Esipenko (1), Giri (6), Gukesh (1), Karjakin (2), Keymer (1), Kramnik (3), Navara (3), Radjabov (1), Vidit (2), Vitiugov (1), Wojtaszek (4) have analysed their games and in addition there are comments from Queen’s Indian experts like Krasenkow (90), Gershon (76), Atalik (45), Marin (35) and Roiz (34). There is a total of 9687 games where the average rating is at least 2600, apart from games with annotations by Queen’s Indian experts Sergei Zhigalko and Sergei Tiviakov (with Black), Loek van Wely (White) and Anatoly Karpov (both colours). [Order now for €9.90 in the shop!]( [New: Queen's Indian Powerbook 2024]( For the Queen’s Indian Powerbook we insisted on an average Elo rating of at least 2300. This meant that 98 000 games from Mega and Correspondence Chess met the threshold for inclusion in the Powerbook, supplemented by over 465 000 games from the engine room of playchess.com – a total of 563 000 games. [Order now for €9.90 in the shop!]( ChessBase bestseller [Opening Encyclopaedia 2024]( [Fritz 19]( [Order from the ChessBase shop now!]( [jetzt vorbestellen]( [Order from the ChessBase shop now!]( [jetzt vorbestellen]( // [ChessBase 17]( [Mega Database 2024]( [Order from the ChessBase shop now!]( [jetzt vorbestellen]( [Order from the ChessBase shop now!]( [jetzt vorbestellen]( // [ChessBase Magazine Extra 218]( [Premium annual membership]( [Order from the ChessBase shop now!]( [jetzt vorbestellen]( [Order from the ChessBase shop now!]( [jetzt vorbestellen]( // You're a subscriber to the ChessBase newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the chessbase newsletter, [click here.]( © 2023 ChessBase Schachprogramme Schachdatenbank Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Registered: Osterbekstr. 90a, 22083 Hamburg Telephone: 040-63 90 60 0 - Fax: 040 630 12 82 Directors: Matthias Wüllenweber and Rainer Woisin HR Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 40336 Value added tax identification number DE 118644875 Local tax office tax number 49/711/00031ChessBase, All rights reserved