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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
A Grand Finish.......................................................................................................................8
Fabiano Caruana prevailed at the Grand Chess Tour Finals in Brazil
Candidates Crowned.......................................................................................................10
Giri, Blübaum, Vaishali and Lagno starred at the FIDE Grand Swiss
60 Seconds with... GM Julen Arizmendi................................................................17
We learn a little about the author of Practical Chess Strategy
How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18
Daniel King examines the powerful play of Matthias Blübaum
Artistic Licence.................................................................................................................21
Julian Way on the chess legacy of Gerald Abrahams
A Tricky Anti-French: Part Two.................................................................................23
Junior Tay completes his coverage of the Anton Smirnov queen sally
Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26
Can you do as well as the players in the Grand Chess Tour?
Nimzowitsch: Genius or Madman?...........................................................................30
Ben Graff looks back at the controversial player and writer
Cheapo! ................................................................................................................................33
John Henderson went along for a pint and a play based around a chess game
Chess Journalism after Darwin..................................................................................34
Adrian Harvey on the no-holds-barred world of Victorian chess journals
Let not Ambition mock..................................................................................................36
Neil Hickman recalls 'unknown' Clifford Bridle’s moment of glory
Weston-super-Mare 1922: Part Two ....................................................................38
Brian Gosling reveals how J. H. Blake triumphed on the Somerset coast
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................42
Carl explains why the Max Lange Attack put him off defending 1 e4 e5
How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................44
Paul Littlewood looks at an important game from the Northumbria Masters
In Defence of Donner’s Distressed Reader ..........................................................45
Geoff Chandler reveals that pawns can move two squares
Overseas News..................................................................................................................46
John Nunn won a silver medal at the European Senior Championships
Home News.........................................................................................................................50
All the UK Blitz Qualifiers and success for Badacsonyi, Greet and Grieve
Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54
This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55
There’s already a detailed volume out on German great Robert Hübner
Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................57
Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58
John stumbled upon a bonkers if not atypical Mike Basman game
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