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 Brilliant Bjerre ......................................................................................................................9 Jose Vilela reports as Jonas Bjerre dazzled at the Capablanca Memorial A Grand Start.....................................................................................................................12 The 2025 Grand Chess Tour has already seen much fighting chess How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18 Daniel King features the mercurial Vasyl Ivanchuk at his brilliant best Experiments with the Dragondorf...........................................................................22 James Plaskett remains happy to mix it up early and attack with gusto 60 Seconds with... Gene Salomon............................................................................24 The nonagenarian appears in a new chess documentary, El Pequeno Peon Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................25 South Wales, the Scottish, the English and the British are all imminent Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26 Can you do as well as the players at Sigeman and in Sharjah? ‘The Chess Game’.............................................................................................................30 Gary Haines on the dual roles played by chess in The Great War “The Greatest Game since the War”.......................................................................32 Neil Hickman gets to grips with a highly memorable win by Fred Yates Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................36 Carl remembers one of his favourite players, the late Vlastimil Hort How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................38 Paul Littlewood looks at an upset from the English Seniors Absolute Beginners .........................................................................................................40 Jerry Dowlen has a new case for the chess-loving Inspector Gledd Grob Addiction..................................................................................................................42 Could you imagine being addicted to 1 g4? Neither could Steve Firth Overseas News..................................................................................................................44 Success for Aravindh, Giri, Keymer, Theodorou, Zhu and, of course, Carlsen Studies with Stephenson..............................................................................................49 Brian presents two complex, piece-heavy endgame studies England Excels ...................................................................................................................50 Peter Sullivan on the first Continental Online Prisons Chess Championships Home News.........................................................................................................................51 Michael Adams again won the Cambridge International Open Readers’ Letters ...............................................................................................................53 B.H. Wood didn’t win all his games when he gave a simul on the Wirral Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54 This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................54 Sean Marsh reviews a new Korchnoi volume and Chess in the Third Reich Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58 John recalls being caught up in the so-called English chess explosion
