CHESS Magazine – May 2025

CHESS Magazine – May 2025

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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

Reaching 2500!…………………………………………………………………………………………………….8

Matthew Wadsworth explains how he became Englands newest GM

The Ginger GM journeyed to Glorious Godinn!…………………………………………..12

Simon Williams enjoyed visiting Iceland for the Godinn Open

How Good is Your Chess?…………………………………………………………………………………18

Daniel King enjoyed a fine attack with his favourite Sicilian Kalashnikov

60 Seconds… Roger Williamson……………………………………………………………………..21

We catch up with the Liverpudlian chess coach and expert on chess fiction

Nxf7 in the Mller ……………………………………………………………………………………………..22

A modern reappraisal of a bold gambit by Junior Tay

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

Can you do as well as the players at the ChessMates International?

Through the Looking-Glass ……………………………………………………………………………..30

A donation of a Lewis Carroll collection caught John Hendersons eye

Remembering Frank Marshall (1877 1944)……………………………………………32

Ben Graff looks back at The amateurs friend

How Chess Life Imitates Chess Fiction …………………………………………………………35

Roger Williamson on how fiction exaggerates the stress of playing

Never Mind the Grandmasters… …………………………………………………………………….38

Carl transports us back 200 years to the time of William Lewis

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

Paul Littlewood salutes a superb performance from Raj Bhopal

Mighty Manx……………………………………………………………………………………………………….42

Manx Liberty have continued to set the pace in the 4NCL

Home News…………………………………………………………………………………………………………46

More success for Peter Large, as well as Danny Gormally and UCL

Overseas News……………………………………………………………………………………………………50

Teodora Injac won nine in a row at the European Womens Individual

Simple Chess ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….51

Malcolm Pein explains how Ju Wenjun retained her world title

Studies with Stephenson………………………………………………………………………………….52

Brian enjoyed reading One Endgame Study in a Thousand

Solutions ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………53

This Months New Releases………………………………………………………………………………54

Sean Marsh was fascinated by a volume on Alekhine and his five wives

Forthcoming Events…………………………………………………………………………………………..57

Will you be playing anywhere either Bank Holiday weekend?

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

John on the bad and good to the relationship between computers and chess

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