CHESS Magazine – December 2019: Wang Hao Wins

CHESS Magazine – December 2019
Wang Hao Wins

Magazine, 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 – Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game
• 60 Seconds with…GM Jonathan Rowson – The leading chess thinker believes we are underselling the game
• Chinese Success – and Hao! – John Saunders reports from the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss
• How Good is Your Chess? – Nikita Vitiugov’s play has made an impression on Daniel King
• Black Sea Bronze – Kanwal Bhatia was part of a successful England squad in Batumi
• Find the Winning Moves – Can you do as well as the players on the Isle of Man?
• The Moves That Matter – Jonathan Rowson’s take on the 4NCL from his new book
• Forthcoming Events – Will you be playing at the Classic or anywhere this December?
• Christmas Stocking Fillers – Let Sean Marsh be your guide for what to get for Christmas
• I Remember – Ben Graff reflects on the past and future for chess in Coventry
• Readers’ Letters – We discover that Howard Staunton did copyright moves
• Never Mind the Grandmasters… – Carl Portman was inspired by seeing chess played at Blenheim
• Is Grabbing Gary Good? – Junior Tay ponders what to do when the g-pawn is dangled
• It is a very Large Board – Amatzia Avni shows why looking at the whole board is useful
• Home News – We reflect on all the good work done by the late David Welch
• Overseas News – Magnus Carlsen was annihilated by Wesley So at Fischer Random
• Solutions – How did you get on with Benko’s Bafflers back in October?
• This Month’s New Releases – Sean Marsh examines the new edition of a ‘Startling’ repertoire
• Saunders on Chess – John continues to wonder if chess is becoming ever faster

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