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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...Jorden van Foreest.......................................................7
We catch up with the man of the moment after Wijk aan Zee
Dutch Dominance.................................................................................................8
The Tata Steel Masters went ahead. Yochanan Afek reports
How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................18
Daniel King presents one of the games of Wijk,Wojtaszek-Caruana
Up in the Air ........................................................................................................21
There’s been drama aplenty in the Champions Chess Tour
Howell’s Hastings Haul ...................................................................................24
David Howell ran out a clear-cut winner as Hastings went online
Identifying the Goal ........................................................................................26
Amatzvia Avni on defending, manoeuvring and converting
The Windmills of Your Mind .........................................................................30
The Thomas Crown Affair remains a favourite with John Henderson
The Roaring Twenties......................................................................................32
Ben Graff explores the 1920s and the parallels with today
2020: The Year of the Great Clear-Out.................................................35
(And how a plastic record survived it), by Geoff Chandler
Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................36
Can you do as well as the players in the Champions Chess Tour?
Refining Fine: Part One ..................................................................................40
Aidan Woodger updates us with his research into Reuben Fine
Miniature Joy......................................................................................................43
Mike Donnelly on why there is much to learn from miniatures
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ................................................................46
Carl Portman pays tribute to his late friend David Everington
Home News..........................................................................................................48
The 4NCL leads the way online with its leagues and congresses
Overseas News...................................................................................................50
The Czech-American chess titan Lubos Kavalek has passed away
Studies with Stephenson...............................................................................51
Brian examines composition in South America and by John Nunn
Solutions ...............................................................................................................52
This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................54
The latest from Thinkers Publishing and McFarland are reviewed
Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58
John enjoyed following Wijk aan Zee and recalls Lubos Kavalek
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