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 From Last to First!.......................................................................................8Praggnanandhaa did the double over Carlsen at Norway Chess How Good is Your Chess?..........................................................................12Daniel King presents a victory by Harry Grieve, England’s newest GM An Amazing Six Days.................................................................................16 Harry Grieve reveals how he obtained his third and final norm in Budapest As Easy as ABC..........................................................................................18Junior Tay on an easy-to-play system, A Blübaum Catalan (ABC) 60 Seconds with...Frederick Waldhausen Gordon......................................21We learn a little about the 15-year-old IM and British Rapidplay Champion Correspondingly Difficult.........................................................................22Neil Hickman tries to get to grips with the theory of corresponding squares How to Beat a Grandmaster.......................................................................24Paul Littlewood looks at some fine attacking play by his England team-mates Find The Winning Moves............................................................................26Can you do as well as the players at the Welsh and the TePe Sigeman? A New Blindfold Record?............................................................................30John Knott reports on the extraordinary achievement of Axel Smith James “Jimmy” Adams...............................................................................35Remembering a popular, long-standing former Editor of these pages Chess Problems as Personal Expression.....................................................36 NM Ilan Vardi explores his interest in problems and endgame studies Bird of Prey...............................................................................................38FM Julian Way on the incredible artistry of Henry Bird (1829–1908) Never Mind the Grandmasters...................................................................40Carl remembers the creative, ingenious and daring play of Mikhail Tal Overseas News.........................................................................................42Anastasiia Hnatyshyn sprang a big surprise at the European Women’s Individual From the Queen’s Building to Queen Street..............................................48Tim Paulden reports on a very special 50th Anniversary East Devon Congress Home News...............................................................................................50Weekend tournament results from the British Rapidplay up until mid-June Forthcoming Events..................................................................................53Will you be playing the Scottish, in South Wales or at the British coming up? Solutions...................................................................................................54 This Month’s New Releases........................................................................55Sean Marsh enjoyed recent publications on the isolani and Max Euwe Saunders on Chess.....................................................................................58John on his relationship with chess books, databases and opening theory
