Chessletter #20 October 2017

[Issue #20 October/2017](#) ChessBase Newsletter // Dear Chess Friends! Finally – Magnus Carlsen fans had to wait for a long time but now the World Champion managed to [to win a tournament again, an open!]( It was a convincing win – Carlsen dominated the Isle of Man Open, probably the strongest open in the history of chess, from beginning to end. He won with 7.5/9, playing an Elo-performance of 2903! Carlsen and his colleagues such as Nakamura, Caruana, Anand, and many other top-players, made a case for open tournaments. Every round offered exciting attacking chess, upsets, etc., etc. Maybe the open format suits Magnus Carlsen better than round-robins with only a few select players? It would be nice if the World Champion enjoyed the open format because this would let us hope to see other strong open tournaments which could rival the "IoM"! Hint: you can download the games of the "Isle of Man Open 2017" [from our archive page]( Are you keen on chess and new repertoire ideas, for instance, the "Catalan bishop against the Rubinstein French" or would you like to know how you can counter the Accelerated Dragon strategically? Then you should have a look at the new issue of the ChessBase Magazine! // [New: ChessBase Magazine #180 (October/November 2017)]( The new issue of the ChessBase Magazine offers something for every player: video training with Simon Williams, Karsten Müller, Oliver Reeh, and others. Analyses by top players, a dozen opening surveys with articles for your repertoire and much more. Selected highlights from ChessBase Magazine #180: • Hou Yifan’s temptation: the ex-women’s world champion shows how, cool as ice, she countered Bacrot in the traditional tournament in Biel. • “Simple is good!” Together with GM Simon Williams find the simple but strong winning moves in the game Radjabov-Eljanov. (Video) • Unprejudiced world champion: Peter Heine Nielsen annotates Carlsen’s successful premiere with the Bird Opening (1.f4) on the Grand Chess Tour. • No simple play in the “Double English“: let GM Mihail Marin bring you up to date on the opening after 1.c4 c5. • With the Catalan bishop against the Rubinstein French: Jonas Lampert shows you why you may hope for an advantage with 5.g3! (Video) • Vishy Anand and the Steckner proof: Karsten Müller presents high class technique in a classical rook ending. (Video) • Brakes applied to the Accelerated Dragon: let Renato Quintiliano show you a tricky positional plan for White. [Order "ChessBase Magazine 180" from the shop...]( [read more]( // [NEW: Corr Database 2018]( The last Correspondence Chess Database, the "Corr Database 2015", appeared more than two years ago. Correspondence chess is slow but this is still a lot of time in which a lot of things happened. Active correspondence players need a game collection of high quality. But the Corr Database is also more and more interesting for master players and ambitious amateurs. After all, correspondence players take a very close look at opening novelties, and against an unprepared opponent these novelties might have an even bigger impact in over-the-board play. Continuity, systematic classification and quality are crucial for chess database which grows continually. Corr Database 2018 is an extensive collection of correspondence games, featuring classical correspondence games played by mail as well as email games. The CD contains 1,431,813 games from 1804 until 2017, played by 85,470 players in more than 79,800 tournaments, including all games of the correspondence chess world championships 1-28, correspondence chess olympics 1-18, correspondence chess european championships, national championships (AUS, CSR, DEN, GER, NED, USA). Corr 2018 also features a correspondence chess playerbase, which includes about 522,222 names (from correspondence and over-the-board play). With a current ChessBase program you do have access to the player and tournament index or you can enter a position to search games in the Corr Database. A lot of theme tournaments (e.g. Evans Gambit, Budapest Gambit, Morra-Gambit, Trompowsky, Sicilian Dragon and much more) considerably enrich opening theory. A must for every player of correspondence chess! [Order "Corr 2018" from the shop...]( [Order "Corr 2018 Update" from the shop...]( [read more]( // You're a subscriber to the ChessBase newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the chessbase newsletter, [click here.]( © 2017 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