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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
Hastings 99 not out ..........................................................................................................8
Tim Wall reports from East Sussex and looks forward to a 100th anniversary
Classy Carlsen ...................................................................................................................13
Magnus did the double for a fifth time at the World Rapid & Blitz
How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................16
Daniel King assesses Hikaru Nakamura’s chances in the 2026 Candidates
The ‘Mysterious’ King Tuck.........................................................................................19
Junior Tay explains why moving the king to the second rank can be wise
Classic Masterclass..........................................................................................................22
In-depth annotations from Michael Adams and Nikita Vitiugov
Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26
Can you do as well as the players at the 99th Hastings Congress?
Jonathan Hawkins ............................................................................................................30
Danny Gormally pays tribute to the two-time British Chess Champion
Poetic Licence.. .................................................................................................................34
Ben Graff explores chess poetry with Graham Chesters and Roger Williamson
How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................36
A Cyrus Lakdawala strategic masterclass is presented by Paul Littlewood
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................38
Carl on exceptions, styles and what happened when Capablanca went 1 b4
Christmas Quiz Solutions .............................................................................................40
All the answers from quizmaster extraordinaire Graham Phythian
Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................41
An English Rose.................................................................................................................42
Julian Way examines the influence of Howard Staunton
Cooking the Books ..........................................................................................................44
Geoff Chandler on a flawed study and the dangers of teaching kids
60 Seconds with... Brian Escalante..........................................................................45
We learn a little about the Peruvian Grandmaster and Coca-Cola employee
Overseas News..................................................................................................................46
Nihal Sarin has been in a rich vein of form of late, as has Faustino Oro
Home News.........................................................................................................................50
All the latest results, including from Hastings and the London Junior
Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54
This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55
Sean Marsh enjoyed works on candidate moves and Moscow 1925
Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58
John remembers the late, great Tony Miles, 25 years since his early death
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