CHESS Magazine - October 2024

In this issue:

Editorial ...................................................................................................................................4

Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game

Fabulous Firouzja ................................................................................................................8

Alireza Firouzja dominated the closing events of the Grand Chess Tour

Kingston Kings...................................................................................................................14

John Saunders reports from a hard-fought 3rd Kingston International

A Brilliant British ..............................................................................................................16

We sample some more fine chess from the British Championships

How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................20

Daniel King looks at the play of British Champion, Gawain Jones

How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................23

Paul Littlewood features a game by British runner-up, David Howell

King and Pawn Endings: Part Two ............................................................................24

Mike Read presents a complex queen then king and pawn endgame

Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26

Can you do as well as the players at the World Team Rapid & Blitz?

The Blame Game ...............................................................................................................30

Junliang Chew attended the second Kramnik-Martinez match

60 Seconds with... Renier Castellanos ...................................................................33

We learn about the head of Killer Chess Training who is now an author too

Masters of the Urban Chess Scene..........................................................................34

Vladimir Lionter meets the chess sidehustlers of New York City

Down-Home Chess..........................................................................................................36

David LeMoir on the multi-award-winning magazine, En Passant

A Demolishment of a “Summary Demolishment”.............................................38

Neil Hickman explains that Grimshaw-Steinitz may never have happened

Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................40

Where will you be playing this October?

Never Mind The Grandmasters..................................................................................42

Carl comes to terms with one of his most painful defeats

Rediscovered at Age 94!..............................................................................................44

Gene Salomon on his friendship with Alekhine authority Miguel Nepomuceno

Overseas News..................................................................................................................47

Success for Jonah Willow and Lan Yao, and another win for Daniel Fernandez

Home News.........................................................................................................................50

Success for Finlay Bowcott-Terry, Alex Golding and Aaravamudhan Balaji

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

All the answers to Find the Winning Moves and the latest Studies solution

This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................55

Sean Marsh enjoyed Tiger’s Chaos Theory and The Woodpecker Method 2

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

John on a 272(!)-move marathon which took place at Kingston