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CHESS Magazine – September 2020Back to the BoardMagazine, 60 pages 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. In this issue: Editorial

THE Pacific Northwest Chess Center (PNWCC) in Washington, has run a number of major online events in recently including a match in which Jeffrey Xiong was defeated 2.5-1.5 by world number 26, Russia’s Nikita Vitiugov. Xiong enjoyed success in the PNWCC Super Invitational. Top seed Shak Mamedyarov defeated the American

Magnus Wins with White by Zenon FrancoForward by Peter Heine NielsenIn Magnus Wins With White Grandmaster Zenon Franco deeply analyses 32 of Magnus Carlsen’s most instructive games where he wins with the white pieces. This book is written in “move by move” style, a good training tool containing exercises and

THE 99th Irish Championship took place on the south side of Dublin, attracting a field of 32. Just as in the top section at Biel, the players were divided by a perspex screen located just above the middle of the board. Top seed IM Sam Collins was defeated by FM

CHESS Magazine – August 2020The King of LockdownMagazine, 60 pages 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. In this issue: Editorial

MAGNUS Carlsen’s domination of online tournaments continued in the Legends of Chess final online at Chess24. This is the third game of the first set of Carlsen’s semi-final against Peter Svidler. It was interesting to see Carlsen employ a setup against the Colle-Zukertort system that has been played by other

Arkell’s Endings by Grandmaster Keith Arkell With chess booming online and time controls becoming ever faster, mastery of the endgame has never been so important. A few positions can be memorised; most rely on feel. How would you go about converting an extra pawn in a rook endgame and would

THE TOP Chess Engines Competition (TCEC) continues to throw up some amazing games. In the 18th series, Stockfish gained revenge over Leela Chess Zero, regaining its crown with a 23-16 victory (with 61 draws) in the final. Arguably the most impressive win, though, was Leela’s from the 65th game, where

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Playing the Stonewall Dutch by Nikola Sedlak (Paperback)A bold repertoire against 1.d4The Dutch Defence is one of Black’s most combative responses to 1.d4, and the Stonewall is the boldest version of this opening. Black immediately seizes space in the centre and clamps down on the e4-square, laying the foundations for