CHESS Magazine, November 2011

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CHESS Magazine - November 2011

UK's most popular CHESS Magazine

Magazine, 60 pages

UK's most popular CHESS Magazine - established 1935! All the regular features of the UK's best-selling CHESS magazine plus more!

• Sao Paulo / Bilbao Grand Slam - The intercontinental super-tournament saw Ivanchuk dominate in Brazil, but then Magnus Carlsen took over in Spain.
• Sadler Wins in Oslo - Matthew Sadler is on a roll! First, Barcelona, and now Oslo. He annotates his best game while Yochanan Afek covers the action
• London Classic Preview - We ask the pundits what they expect to happen next month
• Interview: Nigel Short - Carl Portman caught up with the English super-GM in Shropshire
• Kasparov - Short Blitz Match - Garry and Nigel re-enacted their 1993 title match at a faster time control in Belgium. It came down to a nail-biting finish...
• European Club Cup, Slovenia - Irish IM Sam Collins was on the spot in Slovenia where Europe’s top club sides (and some more modest ones) slugged it out.
• Memorable Mishaps - Steve Giddins recalls funny things on the way to the tournament

Plus more!

Click here to download a PDF with an extract from the magazine.

Mickey Adams Commits Chuckicide

STOP PRESS... Mickey Adams has committed Chuckicide in the final round of the European Team Championship in Greece, 11 November 2011... this means England currently lead Ukraine 1½-½ with two games still in play.

Michael Adams (left) 1-0 Vassily Ivanchuk

Rachel Reeves vs Stephen Moss, House of Commons, 18 Oct 2011

Today at the House of Commons, Rachel Reeves MP was challenged to a couple of games of 10-minute blitz chess by Guardian journalist Stephen Moss. Rachel and Stephen are both competition players with chess grades not too dissimilar from each other, though Rachel has not played actively for a few years. She was a bit rusty and lost the first game to Stephen. But, as you can see below, she brought in a special adviser to help her with the second game...

Garry Kasparov advises Rachel Reeves, who faces Stephen Moss.
To the left of picture you can see scribe GM Jonathan Speelman,
who kindly noted down the moves for us.

(photo copyright 2011 John Saunders)

The moves of game one...



The second game has notes by GM Jonathan Speelman, to whom I am very grateful for keying in the games.

October 2011 CHESS Magazine

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UK's most popular CHESS Magazine - established 1935! All the regular features of the UK's best-selling CHESS magazine plus more!

• FIDE World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk - Chess in the Wild West East!This year’s World Cup was as entertaining as it was strong, and proved an audio-visual feast for spectators as Peter Svidler triumphed. Enjoy our in-depth coverage!
• Sants for the Memories! - ‘Born-again’ English GM Matthew Sadler annotates his exciting last-round game from Sants against Jan Smeets. Revealing!
• Russian Super-Final - ‘Svidler on the hoof’ again! Richard Palliser annotates
• A Tale of Two Tournaments - GM Keith Arkell annotates games from Coulsdon and Paignton
• Starry, Starry Knights - GM Stuart Conquest at large... he loses a laptop but, after a bit of digging, uncovers a 19th century chess legend
• The Mating Game - James Essinger is writing a novel - on love, friendship and chess!
• Chess in the 1960s - Our look-back takes us to Bled 1961, which was all about Mischa and Bobby... but Bisguier also played some great chess there
• Overseas News / Home News - A round-up of what’s been happening near and far. English teenager Callum Kilpatrick annotates a win against a GM

Plus more!

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Dutch for Chessplayers

Ever wondered how to pronounce 'Euwe'? Or 'Scheveningen'? Or 'Wijk aan Zee'?

Wonder no longer - there is a website which gives guidance on the pronunciation of some chess-related Dutch names and terms...

http://www.heardutchhere.net/duchess.html

Very useful - though I'm not sure I can replicate some of those sounds myself.

August CHESS Magazine

The August CHESS Magazine is out now. Buy it here.

The UK's most popular and comprehensive chess Magazine, established 1935. All the regular features plus the following ... 

• King’s Tournament, Medias - As in 2010, Magnus Carlsen wins... but Sergey Karjakin was right alongside!
• Interview: Boris Gelfand - Part 2 of Boris Gelfand’s exclusive interview with John Saunders
• World Open, Philadelphia - English and American stars Mickey Adams and Gata Kamsky clash in an Armageddon finale
• Commonwealth Championship, South Africa - Nigel Short narrowly failed to keep up with the Jones boy! New Commonwealth champion Gawain Jones annotates his best game.
• County Championship Finals - Steve Giddins reports on a rare success for Surrey against Kent
• Judit Polgar - The best-ever woman player talks candidly to Lars Grahn
• Perfect Preparation - Part 2 of Eddie Dearing’s advice on how to prepare for a game
• Bobby Fischer Comes to London - A look at Nigel Short’s simultaneous display from the film premiere

Plus all the usual features and more besides

To order a copy of the August 2011 CHESS Magazine, click here

New Chess Blogs

I've added a few more chess blogs to the list on the side panel.

FM Steve Giddins is, like me, a former editor of BCM and he has restarted his chess blog, here:

Steve Giddins' Chess Blog

GM Gawain Jones is one of England's top GMs and he has a blog here:

Gawain Jones' Chess Blog

'Full English Breakfast' is not so much a blog as a series of podcasts by GM Stephen Gordon and IM Lawrence Trent and can be found here:

Full English Breakfast

'GingerGM' is GM Simon Williams' chess blog and shop, featuring his popular videos and other other merchandise as well as blog articles.

GingerGM