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. DOWNLOAD A FREE PDF SAMPLE OF THIS ISSUE-> In this issue: Editorial ...................................................................................................................................4 Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game Awesome Aravindh.............................................................................................................9 Yochanan Afek saw Aravindh Chithambaram triumph at Prague Mixed Fortunes.................................................................................................................12 Terry Chapman reports as England triumph in the Over-65 World Teams An Island First ....................................................................................................................14 Jose & Marcos Camacho Collados enjoyed the Isle of Wight International How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................16 Daniel King pays tribute to the late, great Boris Spassky How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................19 Paul Littlewood recalls a thrilling Dragon win by a young Jonathan Mestel 60 Seconds... Anthony Mathurin..............................................................................21 We learn a little about the chess coach and Chess Masters expert A “First Immortal”...........................................................................................................22 Neil Hickman on a remarkable game played in India The Real Paul Morphy.....................................................................................................24 Stewart Player examines views on Paul Morphy's mental collapse Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26 Can you do as well as the players at Cheadle and Wijk aan Zee? The name is Boris, Boris Spassky..............................................................................30 John Henderson recalls Boris Spassky (1937 – 2025), and his 007 link A Minor Rivalry..................................................................................................................36 David LeMoir takes a look at the history of Norfolk versus Hertfordshire A Volunteer Crisis?..........................................................................................................39 Asks John White of the London League and Hammersmith Chess Club Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................40 Carl enjoyed flying alongside Martin Quinn The Theory of Undevelopment..................................................................................42 Bernard Hare notes that Black doesn’t always have to develop forwards Overseas News..................................................................................................................44 Caruana, Cumming and Maurizzi have been amongst the winners Cheddleton Conquer.......................................................................................................47 Wood Green were stunned by Cheddleton at the third 4NCL weekend Home News.........................................................................................................................50 Success for Cambridge and Nikita Vitiugov, and we remember Kathy Hindle Awesome Alexakis ...........................................................................................................53 The Wood Green Invitational delivered two very impressive performances Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54 This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55 Sean Marsh has enjoyed new works by Willy Hendriks and Semko Semkov Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................57 Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58 John fondly recalls what happened when Boris Spassky visited Gibraltar
