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 Reaching 2500!...................................................................................................................8 Matthew Wadsworth explains how he became England’s newest GM The Ginger GM journeyed to Glorious Godinn!..................................................12 Simon Williams enjoyed visiting Iceland for the Godinn Open How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18 Daniel King enjoyed a fine attack with his favourite Sicilian Kalashnikov 60 Seconds... Roger Williamson................................................................................21 We catch up with the Liverpudlian chess coach and expert on chess fiction Nxf7 in the Møller ...........................................................................................................22 A modern reappraisal of a bold gambit by Junior Tay Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26 Can you do as well as the players at the ChessMates International? Through the Looking-Glass .........................................................................................30 A donation of a Lewis Carroll collection caught John Henderson’s eye Remembering Frank Marshall (1877 – 1944)...................................................32 Ben Graff looks back at “The amateur’s friend” How Chess Life Imitates Chess Fiction ..................................................................35 Roger Williamson on how fiction exaggerates the stress of playing Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................38 Carl transports us back 200 years to the time of William Lewis How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................40 Paul Littlewood salutes a superb performance from Raj Bhopal Mighty Manx......................................................................................................................42 Manx Liberty have continued to set the pace in the 4NCL Home News........................................................................................................................46 More success for Peter Large, as well as Danny Gormally and UCL Overseas News..................................................................................................................50 Teodora Injac won nine in a row at the European Women’s Individual Simple Chess ......................................................................................................................51 Malcolm Pein explains how Ju Wenjun retained her world title Studies with Stephenson..............................................................................................52 Brian enjoyed reading One Endgame Study in a Thousand Solutions ..............................................................................................................................53 This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................54 Sean Marsh was fascinated by a volume on Alekhine and his “five wives” Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................57 Will you be playing anywhere either Bank Holiday weekend? Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58 John on the bad and good to the relationship between computers and chess
