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Sometimes one single move betrays the Eye of the Master. In cases where everybody follows the beaten track, he (or she!) comes up with an original idea that others are unlikely to even consider. The Master's Choice! Special Features of the CD-ROM (Windows 95, 98, NT) version: - 33 NEW database Surveys + all previous surveys (including annotated games) on that same variation: total 71. - 38,000 games: NicBase 3, PGN and NOW CHESSBASE format - Print Option for all games, including annotated games - Use your chess program (Rebel or Fritz) to get an instant second opinion on any possition from the game you are looking at Theoretical article: Sergey Ivanov - French Defence Tarrasch Variation A telling example is the critical position in the theoretical article by Sergey Ivanov, expert par excellence (FR 19.3). Black is a piece up, but that's about the only good thing that can be said about his condition; an insecure king, a great lag in development, in short: stage 1 alarm. Instead of centralising the threatened knight (18...Nd5), the Master's Choice is 18...Nh5!, because he reckons the knight is badly needed at the edge. NiC Forum Topics: Sicilian Gothenburg Variation SI 9.2 Sicilian Dragon 9.0-0-0 SI 17.6 Closed Sicilian SI 44.10 Ruy Lopez RL 7.4 Evans Gambit IG 5.7 Scotch Opening SO 5.14 Max Lange Attack KP 14.3 Slav Defence SL 4.4 Nimzo-Indian Classical Variation NI 23.6 King's Indian/Benoni: Four Pawns BI 7.16 FOUR NOVELTIES IN ONE GO - But Yearbook 52 starts off with no fewer than four novelties in what Bulgarian correspondence chess giant Georgi Sapundjiev calls 'one of the most beautiful variations of the Nimzo-Indian' (NI 23.6). Paul van der Sterren shows a way for Black to play for a win in a drawing line of the Slav (SL 4.4), and this section concludes with yet another Dale Kirton novelty in - you've guessed it! - the Gothenburg Variation (SI 9.2). Surveys: COPYRIGHT SOSONKO In the survey section Genna Sosonko fills