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The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 took place in Wijk aan Zee (The Netherlands) January 14th - 29th.
1. Levon Aronian - 9; 2-4. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Teimour Radjabov - 8; 5-6. Vassily Ivanchuk, Hikaru Nakamura - 7.5; 7. Gata Kamsky - 7; 8. Sergey Karjakin - 6.5; 9. Loek van Wely - 5.5; 10-12. Vugar Gashimov, Boris Gelfand, Veselin Topalov - 5; 13-14. Anish Giri, David Navara - 4.5.
Site: http://www.tatasteelchess.com/

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012 took place in Gibraltar 24th January - 2nd February.
1-2. Nigel Short, Hou Yifan - 8/10; 3-6. Michael Adams, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Viktor Bologan, Emil Sutovsky - 7.5. Tie-break (10 minutes + 5 seconds per move): Nigel Short - Hou Yifan 1.5-0.5.
Site: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/

The Reggio Emilia tournament took place in Italy December 27th 2011 - January 6th 2012.
1. Anish Giri - 16 (6/10). 2-4. Alexander Morozevich, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana - 15 (5.5), 5. Vassily Ivanchuk - 12 (4.5), 6. Nikita Vitiugov - 8 (3).
Site: http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/

ChessBase Magazine 146
My new article: Dutch Defence A99 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.Nc3 Qe8 8.Qc2 by Boris Schipkov.
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Openings Clubs

New ideas in various openings.
Shirov, Alexei (2723) - Carlsen, Magnus (2810) [B33], Wijk aan Zee (8) 2010 (Notes by Boris Schipkov, 17.01.2012)

Polgar, Judit (2677) - Kasparov, Garry (2838) [B33], Eurotel Trophy, Prague (2.1) 2002 (Notes by Boris Schipkov, 23.12.2011)

The Siberian trap in the Smith-Morra Gambit
Alekseev, A - Schipkov, Boris [B21], Burevestnik Russian Championship, Krasnodar 1983 (Notes by Boris Schipkov, 21.04.2011)

Best Players And Games Of Month 2000-2004

Philosophy And Psychology Of Chess Struggle

How To Play Against A Novelty (by Boris Schipkov, 17.11.2005)

Enlightenment (My precious)
A Marvellous Combination Of The XX Century (by Boris Schipkov, 21.05.2005)

Time trouble?! Zeitnot!
Paehtz, Thomas Sr (2450) - Schipkov, Boris [D36], Miskolc open 1989 (Notes by Boris Schipkov, 21.12.2003)

Peter I, Napoleon I, Ivan IV the Terrible, Tamerlan, Frederick II, Philip II, Henry I did not play golf, tennis, football or hockey. They played chess, enjoying their rest time, developing the abilities and joining the world culture.
The Game of Kings. Chaining the times (by Boris Schipkov, 5.05.2003)

Nabokov's Luzhin and his prototypes. Disclosing the mystery

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