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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
Brilliant Bjerre ......................................................................................................................9
Jose Vilela reports as Jonas Bjerre dazzled at the Capablanca Memorial
A Grand Start.....................................................................................................................12
The 2025 Grand Chess Tour has already seen much fighting chess
How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18
Daniel King features the mercurial Vasyl Ivanchuk at his brilliant best
Experiments with the Dragondorf...........................................................................22
James Plaskett remains happy to mix it up early and attack with gusto
60 Seconds with... Gene Salomon............................................................................24
The nonagenarian appears in a new chess documentary, El Pequeno Peon
Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................25
South Wales, the Scottish, the English and the British are all imminent
Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26
Can you do as well as the players at Sigeman and in Sharjah?
‘The Chess Game’.............................................................................................................30
Gary Haines on the dual roles played by chess in The Great War
“The Greatest Game since the War”.......................................................................32
Neil Hickman gets to grips with a highly memorable win by Fred Yates
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................36
Carl remembers one of his favourite players, the late Vlastimil Hort
How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................38
Paul Littlewood looks at an upset from the English Seniors
Absolute Beginners .........................................................................................................40
Jerry Dowlen has a new case for the chess-loving Inspector Gledd
Grob Addiction..................................................................................................................42
Could you imagine being addicted to 1 g4? Neither could Steve Firth
Overseas News..................................................................................................................44
Success for Aravindh, Giri, Keymer, Theodorou, Zhu and, of course, Carlsen
Studies with Stephenson..............................................................................................49
Brian presents two complex, piece-heavy endgame studies
England Excels ...................................................................................................................50
Peter Sullivan on the first Continental Online Prisons Chess Championships
Home News.........................................................................................................................51
Michael Adams again won the Cambridge International Open
Readers’ Letters ...............................................................................................................53
B.H. Wood didn’t win all his games when he gave a simul on the Wirral
Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54
This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................54
Sean Marsh reviews a new Korchnoi volume and Chess in the Third Reich
Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58
John recalls being caught up in the so-called English chess explosion
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