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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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