CHESS Magazine - August 2024


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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.   

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In this issue:

Editorial....................................................................................................................4

Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game

Close-Run Affairs................................................................................................8

Gawain Jones and Elmira Mirzoeva are the 2024 English Champions

60 Seconds with... Elmira Mirzoeva.........................................................12

We learn a little more about the WGM and Harrow-based coach

How Good is Your Chess?..............................................................................14

Daniel King on confidence and the in-form Tan Zhongyi

Syvatoslav Slays................................................................................................17

Roger Williamson reports from an impressive simul by IM Bazakutsa

Favourites Prevail .............................................................................................20

Carlsen triumphed in Stavanger, and Caruana in Bucharest

Going for Gold....................................................................................................24

Terry Chapman won gold with England at the World Senior Teams

Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................26

Or even Find the Drawing Moves in some cases this month

ChessFest 2024 - A picture report .........................................................30

Forgiveness..........................................................................................................32

Keith Arkell reveals more about his infamous loss to Igors Rausis

Readers’ Letters ................................................................................................33

Your thoughts on Only Connect and Kurt Gödel

A Memorable Spider’s Web...........................................................................34

Neil Hickman presents a vintage Michael Adams squeeze

Never Mind the Grandmasters... ................................................................36

Carl on life in Germany and his friendship with Slavko Krneta

David vs Goliath.................................................................................................38

Steve Firth remembers his most unequal battle

The Mystery of the Missing Murder Book ............................................40

Geoff Chandler on his quest to find a certain Agatha Christie novel

Studies with Stephenson...............................................................................41

Brian enjoyed his visit to Holland and Nunspeet

Refreshing Reshevsky: Part III....................................................................42

Aidan Woodger on Samuel Reshevsky’s 1954 simuls in Los Angeles

How to Beat a Grandmaster.........................................................................44

Paul Littlewood presents a fine win by Gary Lane

Overseas News...................................................................................................45

More from Stavanger and the rise of nine-year-old Ethan Pang

Home News..........................................................................................................50

Coventry 13-year-old Elis Dicen has started winning weekenders

Solutions ...............................................................................................................54

This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................55

Sean Marsh takes a detailed look at the new Agdestein biography

Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................57

Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58

John on Queen Sac Fever and two remarkable games

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