CHESS Magazine - December 2013 All the regular features of the UK's best-selling CHESS magazine plus more! Regular features such as: How Good is Your Chess? Saunders on Chess, Studies, Home & Overseas News, Find the Winning Moves, Calendar, Book Reviews. In this issue: Peter the Great ................................................................................................ 8 Steve Giddins on Svidler’s seventh Russian title Youth Prevails.................................................................................................14 Yochanan Afek reports from the Univé tournament in Hoogeveen SOCAR Czechmated in Rhodes................................................................20 David Navara and Jan van de Griendt annotate Opening Trends ..............................................................................................25 The Slav is at no.1, but the Schlechter Slav is not to be feared Anand vs. Carlsen ..........................................................................................26 The latest from the big match as of going to press The Race for the Super Sixteen ..............................................................30 Matt Lunn on an unusual feature at this year’s London Classic League Chess in the 1980s.......................................................................34 John Saunders used to be a London League captain Positional Sacrifices.....................................................................................38 James Coleman supplies further guidance for the club player
