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 Chess on the Island of Knights .....................................................................................8 Andrew Ledger reports from a highly competitive European Club Cup Slava Ukraine! ....................................................................................................................13 The European Team Championships were dominated by Ukraine and Poland Brilliant Blenheim .............................................................................................................16 Alex Longson reports from the UK Chess Challenge Terafinal How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................20 Daniel King reflects on the remarkable consistency of Fabiano Caruana Christmas Stocking Fillers............................................................................................23 Let Sean Marsh be your guide for what to get for Christmas! Readers’ Letters ...............................................................................................................25 Paul Habershon stumbled upon some unusually suitable graffiti Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26 Can you match the players at the European Club Cup and Grand Swiss? Chess Fever.........................................................................................................................30 John Henderson looks at the first chess film which appeared 100 years ago 60 Seconds with... Abhimanya Mishra ...................................................................33 We learn a little about the world’s youngest-ever grandmaster Tall Tales and Moral Metaphors..................................................................................34 Graham Phythian explores some of the alleged early origins of chess “Possibly The Best Game An English Player Was Ever Involved In” ..........38 Neil Hickman looks at a modern classic: Gormally-Sutovsky Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................41 Will you be playing at Hastings, London or Sheffield after Christmas? Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................42 Carl has a competition to celebrate his 150th column How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................44 Paul Littlewood looks at the play of another young English talent Malcolm in the Middle(game) ....................................................................................45 Our Executive Editor on how dark-square control can outweigh material Home News.........................................................................................................................47 Success for Jonathan Blackburn, Peter Large and Kathleen Rutherford Overseas News..................................................................................................................48 Daniel Fernandez won the Commonwealth and Caruana the US Championship Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54 This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55 Sean enjoyed Practical Chess Strategy and Boris Spassky’s Best Games 2 Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58 John was unsurprisingly a little ring rusty on his return to the board
