CHESS Magazine - May 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

Reaching 2500!...................................................................................................................8

Matthew Wadsworth explains how he became England’s newest GM

The Ginger GM journeyed to Glorious Godinn!..................................................12

Simon Williams enjoyed visiting Iceland for the Godinn Open

How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18

Daniel King enjoyed a fine attack with his favourite Sicilian Kalashnikov

60 Seconds... Roger Williamson................................................................................21

We catch up with the Liverpudlian chess coach and expert on chess fiction

Nxf7 in the Møller ...........................................................................................................22

A modern reappraisal of a bold gambit by Junior Tay

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

Can you do as well as the players at the ChessMates International?

Through the Looking-Glass .........................................................................................30

A donation of a Lewis Carroll collection caught John Henderson’s eye

Remembering Frank Marshall (1877 – 1944)...................................................32

Ben Graff looks back at “The amateur’s friend”

How Chess Life Imitates Chess Fiction ..................................................................35

Roger Williamson on how fiction exaggerates the stress of playing

Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................38

Carl transports us back 200 years to the time of William Lewis

How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................40

Paul Littlewood salutes a superb performance from Raj Bhopal

Mighty Manx......................................................................................................................42

Manx Liberty have continued to set the pace in the 4NCL

Home News........................................................................................................................46

More success for Peter Large, as well as Danny Gormally and UCL

Overseas News..................................................................................................................50

Teodora Injac won nine in a row at the European Women’s Individual

Simple Chess ......................................................................................................................51

Malcolm Pein explains how Ju Wenjun retained her world title

Studies with Stephenson..............................................................................................52

Brian enjoyed reading One Endgame Study in a Thousand

Solutions ..............................................................................................................................53

This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................54

Sean Marsh was fascinated by a volume on Alekhine and his “five wives”

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

Will you be playing anywhere either Bank Holiday weekend?

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

John on the bad and good to the relationship between computers and chess

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