CHESS Magazine - August 2023

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

A Chess Festivity…………………………………………………………………………………….8

Yochanan Afek reports from Prague where Deac and Robson shone

Hows That? 9/9! …………………………………………………………………………………12

Magnus Carlsen dominated a world-class field at blitz in Zagreb

Perfect Pairs ………………………………………………………………………………………….14

Lorin DCosta explains all about the 1st SPTW Pairs Invitational

The SCCU/London Club Championships ………………………………………….18

Brendan OGormans camera tells the story as David Gilbert reports

60 Seconds With… Andrew Martin ………………………………………………….19

We discover that the ever busy IM is still playing cricket

How Good Is Your Chess? …………………………………………………………………..20

Daniel King looks at Magnus Carlsens approach to chess in 2023

Stavanger Hunt! ……………………………………………………………………………………23

The battle for first at Norway Chess went right down to the wire

Find the Winning Moves………………………………………………………………………26

Can you do as well as the players at the English Championships?

ChessFest ……………………………………………………………………………………………….30

A visual guide to the UKs largest chess event in Trafalgar Square

Fifty Years Ago ……………………………………………………………………………………..32

Douglas Griffin tells the story of the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal

Detective Stories………………………………………………………………………………….36

Ben Graff explores the world of the chess historian

How to Beat a Grandmaster……………………………………………………………….40

Paul Littlewood presents his favourite John Nunn game

Yugoslav Chess ……………………………………………………………………………………..42

Milos Pavlovic rejects the notion of a Yugoslav School of Chess

Never Mind The Grandmasters… ………………………………………………………45

Carl on a second-hand bookshop find and Bobby Fischer

Forthcoming Events……………………………………………………………………………..47

Home News…………………………………………………………………………………………….48

Chatalbashev & Boswell shared first at the South Wales International

Studies with Stephenson…………………………………………………………………….51

Brian reports on the European Chess Solving Championship

Overseas News………………………………………………………………………………………52

Its been a busy summer for chess in Germany, Spain and the USA

Readers Letters ……………………………………………………………………………………53

Solutions …………………………………………………………………………………………………54

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

Sean Marsh reviews major releases on the classics and Boris Spassky

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

John recalls playing county matches at the Royal Festival Hall