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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
Chess on the Island of Knights .....................................................................................8
Andrew Ledger reports from a highly competitive European Club Cup
Slava Ukraine! ....................................................................................................................13
The European Team Championships were dominated by Ukraine and Poland
Brilliant Blenheim .............................................................................................................16
Alex Longson reports from the UK Chess Challenge Terafinal
How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................20
Daniel King reflects on the remarkable consistency of Fabiano Caruana
Christmas Stocking Fillers............................................................................................23
Let Sean Marsh be your guide for what to get for Christmas!
Readers’ Letters ...............................................................................................................25
Paul Habershon stumbled upon some unusually suitable graffiti
Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26
Can you match the players at the European Club Cup and Grand Swiss?
Chess Fever.........................................................................................................................30
John Henderson looks at the first chess film which appeared 100 years ago
60 Seconds with... Abhimanya Mishra ...................................................................33
We learn a little about the world’s youngest-ever grandmaster
Tall Tales and Moral Metaphors..................................................................................34
Graham Phythian explores some of the alleged early origins of chess
“Possibly The Best Game An English Player Was Ever Involved In” ..........38
Neil Hickman looks at a modern classic: Gormally-Sutovsky
Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................41
Will you be playing at Hastings, London or Sheffield after Christmas?
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................42
Carl has a competition to celebrate his 150th column
How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................44
Paul Littlewood looks at the play of another young English talent
Malcolm in the Middle(game) ....................................................................................45
Our Executive Editor on how dark-square control can outweigh material
Home News.........................................................................................................................47
Success for Jonathan Blackburn, Peter Large and Kathleen Rutherford
Overseas News..................................................................................................................48
Daniel Fernandez won the Commonwealth and Caruana the US Championship
Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54
This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55
Sean enjoyed Practical Chess Strategy and Boris Spassky’s Best Games 2
Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58
John was unsurprisingly a little ring rusty on his return to the board
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