CHESS Magazine – December 2023

Categories: Chess magazine

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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

Veni, Vici, Vidit .....................................................................................................8

John Saunders saw Vidit Gujrathi conquer the FIDE Grand Swiss

Two World Senior Champions!....................................................................14

Michael Adams and John Nunn triumphed; Terry Chapman reports

Hard-Fought!......................................................................................................18

Sarah & Alex Longson on the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal

How Good Is Your Chess? .............................................................................22

Daniel King admires how the young Uzbek brigade got on in Qatar

60 Seconds With... Steffen Nielsen..........................................................25

We learn a little about the world champion of study composition

Find The Winning Moves................................................................................26

Can you do as well as the likes of Anand and Mamedyarov?

The Sixteenth Game ........................................................................................30

Ben Graff looks back at one of the most famous of all chess games

Christmas Stocking Fillers ............................................................................33

Let Sean Marsh be your guide for Christmas requests or purchases

How To Trap Heffalumps...Quickly!..........................................................36

David LeMoir reveals how you might claim a higher-rated scalp

Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................38

Will you be playing at Hastings or in London over the festive period?

A Life of Chess: Part III ..................................................................................40

Stewart Reuben recalls Londons importance in the 1980s

Never Mind The Grandmasters... ...............................................................44

Carl pays tribute to one of his favourite writers, Savielly Tartakower

How To Beat A Grandmaster........................................................................46

Paul Littlewood features Steven Joness first win against a GM

Overseas News...................................................................................................48

Instructive games from John Emms, Fabiano Caruana and Carissa Yip

Home News..........................................................................................................53

Success for Bodhana Sivanandan, 3Cs and Alan Merry

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

This Months New Releases ..........................................................................55

Sean Marsh revisits a modern classic and looks at Vsevolod Rauzer

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

John discusses the term a won game