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 60 Seconds With... Shreyas Royal................................................................7 We discover a little about the 15 year old with two GM norms A Key Moment ......................................................................................................8 Michael Adams annotates his first-round win at the Classic How Good Is Your Chess? .............................................................................10 Daniel King presents another game from London, Adams-Bartel Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................13 Magnificent Mickey.........................................................................................14 Michael Adams became the first British winner of the Classic Hooray for Hastings!.......................................................................................20 The Hastings Masters was another feast of hard-fought chess Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................22 A bumper selection of tactics to solve, from Douglas to Hastings Christmas Quiz...................................................................................................26 Graham Phythian reveals the solutions to last month’s teasers A True Torre Attack..........................................................................................28 A devastating direct attack from the 4NCL, which Wood Green lead Return of the Rookie.......................................................................................30 Stephen Moss is back with the first part of a new monthly series Time Management............................................................................................33 Phil Crocker explores how much time to spend in the middlegame Never Mind the Grandmasters... ................................................................36 Carl has been enjoying Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings How to Beat a Grandmaster.........................................................................38 Paul Littlewood examines a game by Bulgarian IM Nurgul Salimova Refreshing Reshevsky.....................................................................................40 Aidan Woodger on Samuel Reshevsky’s simuls in 1946 and 1949 A Life in Chess: Part Five...............................................................................44 Stewart Reuben recalls the 1993 world championship match The Nottinghamshire Centenary................................................................48 Nick London reports on a special GM norm event in Nottingham Overseas News...................................................................................................50 Magnus Carlsen won his fifth World Rapid and sixth Blitz title Home News..........................................................................................................53 London has hosted GM norm events, weekenders and rapidplays Solutions ...............................................................................................................54 This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................55 Sean Marsh reviews books by Paul van der Sterren and Ben Johnson Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58 John enjoyed his visit and was impressed by the juniors at Hastings