ChessBase Magazine 225 Apr 2025

Highlights

From the Prague 2025 Chess Festival to Jan Werle’s opening video on the London System and the ‘Special’ with 27 highly entertaining miniatures and Mihail Marin’s strategy article ‘Outposts on open files” to Dr Karsten Mueller’s video series “Fundamental Endgame Knowledge”.

Over 7 hours of video playing time with Daniel King, Jan Markos, Mihail Marin, Dr. Karsten Mueller, Michael Prusikin, Oliver Reeh, Robert Ris, Dorian Rogozenco and Jan Werle – Prague Chess Festival 2025: Analyses by Aravindh, Giri, Gurel, Navara, Nguyen, Shankland, Wei Yi and others – Dutch vs. London: Yago Santiago counters with 1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 e6 4.e3 Nc6! – ‘My favourite miniature’: Entertaining, instructive, short – 27 games under 20 moves, annotated by CBM authors – ‘Rooks in seventh heaven’: Oliver Reeh’s tactical tests with over 30 current games + four interactive videos – ‘3.Bf4! – Something for the lazy?”: Sam Shankland dissects his victory over Ediz Gurel from the Prague Masters with the London System and much more.