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 A Grand Finish.......................................................................................................................8 Fabiano Caruana prevailed at the Grand Chess Tour Finals in Brazil Candidates Crowned.......................................................................................................10 Giri, Blübaum, Vaishali and Lagno starred at the FIDE Grand Swiss 60 Seconds with... GM Julen Arizmendi................................................................17 We learn a little about the author of Practical Chess Strategy How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18 Daniel King examines the powerful play of Matthias Blübaum Artistic Licence.................................................................................................................21 Julian Way on the chess legacy of Gerald Abrahams A Tricky Anti-French: Part Two.................................................................................23 Junior Tay completes his coverage of the Anton Smirnov queen sally Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26 Can you do as well as the players in the Grand Chess Tour? Nimzowitsch: Genius or Madman?...........................................................................30 Ben Graff looks back at the controversial player and writer Cheapo! ................................................................................................................................33 John Henderson went along for a pint and a play based around a chess game Chess Journalism after Darwin..................................................................................34 Adrian Harvey on the no-holds-barred world of Victorian chess journals Let not Ambition mock..................................................................................................36 Neil Hickman recalls 'unknown' Clifford Bridle’s moment of glory Weston-super-Mare 1922: Part Two ....................................................................38 Brian Gosling reveals how J. H. Blake triumphed on the Somerset coast Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................42 Carl explains why the Max Lange Attack put him off defending 1 e4 e5 How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................44 Paul Littlewood looks at an important game from the Northumbria Masters In Defence of Donner’s Distressed Reader ..........................................................45 Geoff Chandler reveals that pawns can move two squares Overseas News..................................................................................................................46 John Nunn won a silver medal at the European Senior Championships Home News.........................................................................................................................50 All the UK Blitz Qualifiers and success for Badacsonyi, Greet and Grieve Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54 This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55 There’s already a detailed volume out on German great Robert Hübner Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................57 Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58 John stumbled upon a bonkers if not atypical Mike Basman game
