Candidates, Endgame Turbo 5 and The Popular Italian

[#6 March/2018](#) ChessBase Newsletter // Dear Chess Friends! What fiery games in the cold Berlin Kühlhaus! [The Candidates Tournament](for the World Chess Championship match against Magnus Carlsen has already delivered a plethora of dramatic games over the last few days and weeks - and things are now coming to a head. Yesterday saw a duel between the two leaders - Fabiano Caruana and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - however, they parted ways with a draw after a hard-fought game. This means that everything is still wide open, as, with four games left to play, Caruana leads by just half a point! Experience the final rounds (from 23 to 27 March) live on the playchess.com server or directly via your browser on our [ChessBase Live page!]( Alternatively, why not let our experts give you an update every evening at 10 p.m. and relive the decisive moments of the day? Coverage is free for all chess fans on the ChessBase news page [ChessBase news page]( and in the [ChessBase Video portal](20candidates2018)! [Get your very own ChessBase account now...]( [read more]( // NEW! Endgame Turbo 5 on a USB stick! [NEW! Endgame Turbo 5 on a USB stick!]( A first for ChessBase - we’re offering the new Endgame Turbo 5 on a USB stick! The new Turbo offers you perfect endgame analyses and an enormous performance increase for your engines when it comes to endgames. Thanks to the lean data format (Syzygy), Endgame Turbo 5 is faster and includes significantly more endgame types than the previous versions. The endgame databases are a total 128 GB in size (on USB stick) - the same as 27 DVDs! For all endgame positions with 3, 4 and 5 pieces, as well as 143 of the most important 6-piece endgames, the new Turbo 5 has the exact position evaluation ready for immediate access. You can use ChessBase 13/14, Fritz 15/16, Komodo 11 and Houdini 6 to determine whether a position is won, lost or drawn in no time at all and which move represents the path to victory. In addition, Komodo Chess 11 and Houdini 6 can tap into Endgame Turbo when analysing more complex endgames. This allows these engines to achieve reliable results even faster and improve their playing strength. Using the Endgame Turbo 5 is child's play: you don't even need to install the databases on your hard disk and can use them directly from the USB stick! Endgame expert Dr. Karsten Müller is a decided fan: "In the past, the correct analysis of complicated endgames often proved a mystery. The advent of computers brought light into many dark corners, but it's the tablebases that bring out all the beauty and incredible depth of the royal game. Endgame Turbo 5 is indispensable for deciphering complex endgames and also for my own analysis” Endgame Turbo 5 can be loaded directly from the USB stick in ChessBase or Fritz. If you have enough free space on your hard disk, you can also install the endgame databases on your computer. [Order "Endgame Turbo 5 USB flash drive" from the shop...]( [read more]( // [NEW! Victor Bologan: The Popular Italian]( It almost looks as if chess theory is returning to the days when 3. Bc4 was more popular than 3.Bb5 - the Italian game is being played up and down the boards at all of the top tournaments. As it turns out, it’s actually much more difficult for Black to reach equality in this system than, for example, in the Marshall Gambit or in the Berlin Defense. The focus of the battle has now shifted from the opening to the middlegame, so both sides need good knowledge of the typical plans and ideas. This calls for a completely different approach to opening preparation, and that is exactly what GM Victor Bologan offers you on this DVD! The DVD covers all of the Black responses to 3.Bc4, in particular 3...Bc5. Let the grandmaster from Moldova present and explain the complex ideas for White so that you can play many a successful games with the Italian system! [Watch trailer...]( [Order now from the ChessBase shop!]( [read more]( // You're a subscriber to the ChessBase newsletter. If you no longer want to receive the chessbase newsletter, [click here.]( © 2018 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