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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
What Fanfare!.......................................................................................................................8
Junior Tay was on Sentosa Island, Singapore for Ding vs Gukesh
Golden Gawain...................................................................................................................11
Gawain Jones triumphed at the XTX Markets London Chess Classic
The Cream Rises to the Top.........................................................................................14
Andrew Ledger reports from the first weekend of a new 4NCL season
How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18
Daniel King on the match and revisiting a happier time for Ding Liren
60 Seconds with... Gawain Jones .............................................................................21
We catch up with the man of the moment in UK chess
The Bodyguard Knight ...................................................................................................22
José Vilela on an important defensive mechanism
Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26
Some tricky resources to spot and enjoy over the holiday period
Christmas Chess Quiz ....................................................................................................30
Graham Phythian’s brain-teasers will help you while away the hours
Bon Chance .........................................................................................................................32
A Sherlock Holmes-themed short story from Carl Barlow III
1975 and all that............................................................................................................33
Ben Graff looks back 50 years with Kevin Thurlow and Roger de Coverly
The Legacy of Rossolimo..............................................................................................36
Vladimir Lionter on Chess Forum and Nicolas Rossolimo in New York
Sweden’s Man of Steel...................................................................................................38
Jonathan Manley has been enjoying the monumental Gideon Ståhlberg
Off the Shelf......................................................................................................................40
Sean Marsh presents more of the best chess book publications of 2024
Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................42
Will you be playing the 4NCL, a congress or a rapidplay this January?
Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................44
Carl enjoyed learning about and exploring the games of Pia Cramling
How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................46
Paul Littlewood shows how Nikita Vitiugov overcame the King’s Indian
Chess in the North Atlantic .........................................................................................47
Terry Chapman reports from Porto Santo and the World Seniors
Home News.........................................................................................................................48
All the latest results, and we remember IM Adam Hunt (1980 - 2024)
Overseas News..................................................................................................................51
Gawain Jones warmed up for the Classic at the Kilkenny Masters
Solutions ..............................................................................................................................53
This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................54
The latest reviews and information on the many recent chess publications
Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58
John reflects on the world championship and the need for empathy
