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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
He Did It! .................................................................................................................8
Anish Giri dug deep to win the Magnus Carlsen Invitational
How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................12
Daniel King takes a look at a blistering attack by Wesley So
Back at the Board .............................................................................................16
Yochanan Afek reports on the 2021 Israeli Chess Championships
The Counter-Break...........................................................................................20
Some pawn breaks can be met by another, as Jose Vilela explains
But That’s Not Cricket....................................................................................23
Geoff Chandler knows the three main events of 1953
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ................................................................24
Carl Portman didn’t want to raise Lazarus, but to bury him
Remembering Romanovsky..........................................................................26
James Vigus enjoyed reading Romanovsky’s Selected Games
1921, not 2021................................................................................................30
John Saunders rather enjoyed researching the 1921 Varsity match
60 Seconds with...Aga Milewska...............................................................35
We catch up with a key person in both CSC and the ECF
Gillian Moore.......................................................................................................36
Ben Graff wonders if Gillian is Britain’s answer to Beth Harmon
The Two-Move Trap.........................................................................................38
Geoff Chandler caught up with Freddy Gordon after he beat a GM
Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................40
Can you do as well as the players at the Magnus Carlsen Invitational?
Refining Fine: Part II ........................................................................................44
Aidan Woodger on Reuben Fine’s triumph at Hollywood in 1940
Studies with Stephenson...............................................................................48
Brian presents a tricky selfmate in 5 which defeated John Nunn
Home News..........................................................................................................50
Guildford suffered a shock defeat in the 4NCL Online League
Overseas News...................................................................................................52
Success for Gawain Jones and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Solutions ...............................................................................................................54
The full answers to Find the Winning Moves
This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................55
Books on the Caro-Kann and chess training come under the microscope
Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58
John discovered that Sir George Thomas’s blunder wasn’t on
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