Schachbundesliga, Opening Encyclopedia and Fritztrainer

[#9 April/2018](#) ChessBase Newsletter // Dear Chess Friends! The German Chess Premiere League, the “Bundesliga”, is one of the strongest team competitions in the world, and the current season is coming to an end. From April 29 to May 1, the 16 teams in the league will meet in Berlin to play the last three rounds of the season to crown the new German team champion. The venue is the prestigious Maritim Hotel in the centre of Berlin, and the final rounds promise excitement. The team of the OSG Baden-Baden, which has won no less than eleven times in the last twelve years, and the SG Solingen share the lead – though Baden-Baden has more board points. The organisers from the club of Schachfreunde Berlin advertise this event even in some of the central stations in Germany’s capital! The program is indeed attractive: 16 teams with 70 grandmasters, among them a few top 10 players, will come to Berlin. There is also an attractive accompanying programme, with an international blitz event, live commentary, and much more. The german site of the [organiser]( offer a detailed program. [read more]( // NEW PRODUCTS [NEW! Opening Encyclopaedia 2018]( Always being one step ahead of your opponent – who would not like that? Here, the new Opening Encyclopaedia offers first-class support! For the first time the encyclopaedia contains more than a 1,000 special theoretical articles, and year by year the range of the articles is getting wider and more comprehensive. The new encyclopaedia offers a particularly high number of new articles about the popular Sicilian Defence (e.g. about the Sveshnikov-, Paulsen-, Dragon, or the Najdorf-Variation) but there are also no less than ten new articles about the French. Professionals and amateurs both like to play the London System, and here our authors also did good work and offer valuable repertoire recommendations in their articles! Entirely new are the "trend articles". Here, one of our experts tells you what happened over the last years in an opening complex, why certain lines are no longer popular, what the latest fashion is, and how tomorrow’s theory might look like! The current six articles deal with "Symmetrical English", "Kings Indian Attack", "French Winawer", "Queens Gambit Accepted", "Bogo-Indian", and "Kings Indian with 6.h3”. If you are looking for up-to-date top level opening theory you will also find something. Each articles gives you special knowledge with which you can surprise your opponent! The Opening Encyclopaedia 2018 – the complete presentation of opening complexes: More than 6.3 million games, more of 85,500 of them annotated 1,073 special theoretical articles and 6,450 opening surveys Huge opening book of all games for a quick overview and statistics [Order "Opening Encyclopedia 2018" from the shop...]( [Order "Opening Encyclopedia 2018" as Update from 2017 from the shop...]( [read more]( // [NEW! Daniel King: Powerplay 26 – Checkmate Challenge!]( That fits: On his new “Powerplay”-DVD Daniel King takes a look at the supreme discipline in chess: mating the enemy king! After all, that is what chess is all about. The grandmaster from England is a very popular commentator who regularly commentates from top events and has a huge group of enthusiastic followers. There are many ways to mate the enemy king. However, certain patterns occur again and again. You should know these patterns by heart – it helps to crown one’s games with a successful mating attack! On this DVD 100 puzzles are presented, divided into 10 groups of 10 positions. Naturally, Level 1 is the easiest, and the puzzles increase in difficulty right through to Level 10. From beginner to brain-buster. Master the art of checkmating step by step and interactively with the most popular chess trainer and chess moderator! [Watch trailer...]( [Order now from the ChessBase shop!]( [read more]( // [NEW! Lawrence Trent: The Amazing Albin Counter Gambit]( The Albin Counter-Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5!?) has been a favourite of Grandmasters and amateur players alike since it was popularised by Adolf Albin in the 1890s. This hyper-aggressive system, which immediately sets out to destabilise White’s position, had a renaissance in the mid-2000s when none other than GM Alexander Morozevich revitalised the opening with a number of fresh ideas and excellent results. IM Lawrence Trent had a close and critical look at the various strategies by White to counter Morozevich’s set-up. His conclusion: the opening is not only completely sound, but in some lines it is White who has to be careful not to end up worse after the opening. On his DVD Trent also shows a number of dangerous novelties which put the Albin Counter Gambit back on the map of theoretically sound openings. If you are still looking for a real sharp weapon against 1.d4 will find one here! [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