CHESS Magazine - April 2025


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All the regular features of the UK's best-selling CHESS magazine and more! Regular features include: How Good is Your Chess? by GM Daniel King, Saunders on Chess, Find the Winning Moves, Never Mind the Grandmasters..., Studies, Home & Overseas News, Forthcoming Events Calendar and Book Reviews.   

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In this issue:

Editorial ...................................................................................................................................4

Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game

Awesome Aravindh.............................................................................................................9

Yochanan Afek saw Aravindh Chithambaram triumph at Prague

Mixed Fortunes.................................................................................................................12

Terry Chapman reports as England triumph in the Over-65 World Teams

An Island First ....................................................................................................................14

Jose & Marcos Camacho Collados enjoyed the Isle of Wight International

How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................16

Daniel King pays tribute to the late, great Boris Spassky

How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................19

Paul Littlewood recalls a thrilling Dragon win by a young Jonathan Mestel

60 Seconds... Anthony Mathurin..............................................................................21

We learn a little about the chess coach and Chess Masters expert

A “First Immortal”...........................................................................................................22

Neil Hickman on a remarkable game played in India

The Real Paul Morphy.....................................................................................................24

Stewart Player examines views on Paul Morphy's mental collapse

Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26

Can you do as well as the players at Cheadle and Wijk aan Zee?

The name is Boris, Boris Spassky..............................................................................30

John Henderson recalls Boris Spassky (1937 – 2025), and his 007 link

A Minor Rivalry..................................................................................................................36

David LeMoir takes a look at the history of Norfolk versus Hertfordshire

A Volunteer Crisis?..........................................................................................................39

Asks John White of the London League and Hammersmith Chess Club

Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................40

Carl enjoyed flying alongside Martin Quinn

The Theory of Undevelopment..................................................................................42

Bernard Hare notes that Black doesn’t always have to develop forwards

Overseas News..................................................................................................................44

Caruana, Cumming and Maurizzi have been amongst the winners

Cheddleton Conquer.......................................................................................................47

Wood Green were stunned by Cheddleton at the third 4NCL weekend

Home News.........................................................................................................................50

Success for Cambridge and Nikita Vitiugov, and we remember Kathy Hindle

Awesome Alexakis ...........................................................................................................53

The Wood Green Invitational delivered two very impressive performances

Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54

This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55

Sean Marsh has enjoyed new works by Willy Hendriks and Semko Semkov

Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................57

Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58

John fondly recalls what happened when Boris Spassky visited Gibraltar

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