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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.
In this issue:
Editorial....................................................................................................................4
Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game
60 Seconds with...Sean Marsh ......................................................................8
We catch up with our star reviewer and leading CSC tutor
A Terrible Commute...........................................................................................9
England struggled at the European Teams, unlike Ukraine and Firouzja
The Christmas Saga..........................................................................................14
John Henderson revisits one of the best chess books of 2021
Off the Shelf.......................................................................................................16
Sean Marsh rounds up the best of the rest from the 2021 releases
Chess in Staffordshire ....................................................................................18
Jonathan Blackburn has had much to muse over of late
What Bobby Fischer means to me... and to us ....................................22
James Essinger delves into the talents and foibles of a chess genius
How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................26
Alexei Shirov’s recent fine form caught Daniel King’s eye
Christmas Chess Quiz .....................................................................................30
Some fun and challenging puzzles, courtesy of Graham Phythian
The Ghost of Christmas Past.......................................................................32
By Ben Graff
All These Christmases.....................................................................................34
By Joel Odom
Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................36
Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................38
Can you do as well as those on the UK circuit and in St. Louis?
How to Beat a Grandmaster.........................................................................41
Paul Littlewood explains how he has beaten a few over the years
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ................................................................42
Carl compares buying new clothes with our chess games
One Good Idea is (frequently) Enough...................................................44
Sometimes we only need one idea, argues Amatzia Avni
Gazumped and Deep Blue .............................................................................48
A gazumped Geoff Chandler had his thunder stolen
Home News..........................................................................................................49
We remember ten-time British Champion Jonathan Penrose
Overseas News...................................................................................................52
18-year-old Indian GM Arjun Erigaisi is a man going places
Solutions ...............................................................................................................53
Answers to Find the Winning Moves and a Studies Competition
This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................54
Exciting new books on Bosboom and from Thinkers and Sadler
Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58
John recalls Penrose and John Taylor, and looks forward to Gibraltar
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